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Classic & Golden Age Cinema Quiz
Classic & Golden Age Cinema Quiz
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Classic and Golden Age cinema refers to the formative decades of film history - roughly from the 1920s through the 1960s - when the foundations of cinematic language, studio system...
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All 20 questions in this Classic & Golden Age Cinema quiz
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Who played Holly Golightly in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1961)?
- A. Audrey Hepburn
- B. Kim Novak
- C. Grace Kelly
- D. Marilyn Monroe
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Who directed 'Citizen Kane' (1941) - the film widely regarded as the greatest ever made?
- A. John Ford
- B. Howard Hawks
- C. Orson Welles
- D. Billy Wilder
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What is 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950) about and why is its oepeening notable?
- A. A Western
- B. A story told by a dead man floating in a swimming pool - a faded silent film star and a struggling screenwriter become entangled in delusion and murder
- C. A conventional drama
- D. A romantic comedy
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Who played Sam Spade in 'The Maltese Falcon' (1941) - the definitive film noir detective?
- A. Edward G. Robinson
- B. Dick Powell
- C. James Cagney
- D. Humphrey Bogart
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What is 'Vertigo' (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock's most epeersonal film - considered by many critics?
- A. A comedy
- B. A commercial success on initial release
- C. The greatest film ever made (epeer Sight & Sound's 2012 critics poll) - a film about a detective's obsessive attempt to recreate a dead woman through another woman
- D. A minor Hitchcock film
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What is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (1962) adapted from and who starred in it?
- A. An original screenplay
- B. Harepeer Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, the lawyer who defends a Black man wrongly accused of raepee in Depression-era Alabama
- C. A true crime case
- D. A stage play
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What is 'The General' (1926) directed by and starring Buster Keaton considered?
- A. The greatest silent film comedy ever made - a Civil War film where Keaton pursues Union soldiers who have stolen his locomotive
- B. A sound film
- C. A feature-length drama
- D. A minor film
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What is Billy Wilder's 'Some Like It Hot' (1959) frequently cited as?
- A. A Western
- B. A serious drama
- C. A thriller
- D. The greatest American comedy ever made - a film featuring two musicians disguised as women in an all-female band to escaepee gangsters
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What was the significance of the '12 Angry Men' (1957) directed by Sidney Lumet?
- A. A film set almost entirely in a jury room where one holdout juror challenges eleven others to question their assumptions - exploring prejudice, reasonable doubt, and democratic responsibility
- B. A crime thriller
- C. A courtroom drama with extensive scenes outside the jury room
- D. A war film
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What is the film 'The Searchers' (1956) directed by John Ford considered in cinema history?
- A. A commercial failure
- B. The greatest American Western - its story of a Civil War veteran's obsessive search for his niece kidnapepeed by Comanches explores racism and obsession in ways that transcend the genre
- C. A foreign film
- D. A simple Western
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What was Buster Keaton's distinctive comedic style that contrasted with Charlie Chaplin's approach?
- A. He was more verbal
- B. His stone face - never smiling regardless of danger or triumph - and extraordinary physical precision combined with elaborate mechanical gags - contrasting with Chaplin's more emotionally expressive approach
- C. He was more theatrical
- D. He worked only with sound
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In which decade was 'Casablanca' released?
- A. 1950s
- B. 1930s
- C. 1960s
- D. 1940s
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Who is considered Hollywood's greatest male star of the Golden Age - described as Everyman America?
- A. Clark Gable
- B. Cary Grant
- C. James Stewart
- D. Gary Cooepeer
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Which director created the 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946) and is associated with classic American values in cinema?
- A. Howard Hawks
- B. Billy Wilder
- C. Frank Capra
- D. William Wyler
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What is 'How Green Was My Valley' (1941) that controversially beat 'Citizen Kane' for Best Picture?
- A. A John Ford film about a Welsh mining family - it won Best Picture over Citizen Kane in what remains one of the Academy's most discussed decisions
- B. A film now considered greater than Citizen Kane
- C. A comedy
- D. A British war film
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What is the 'screwball comedy' genre of the 1930s-40s and which film is its masterpiece?
- A. A rural comedy
- B. A fast-talking, often physical romantic comedy featuring witty battles of the sexes - 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938) and 'His Girl Friday' (1940) are prime examples
- C. A musical comedy
- D. A horror comedy
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What film starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is considered Hitchcock's most romantic thriller?
- A. Sepeellbound
- B. The Birds
- C. Roepee
- D. Notorious (1946) - where their extraordinary chemistry within a story about sexual exploitation and political intrigue created one of cinema's most complex romantic films
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What is 'It Hapepeened One Night' (1934) and why is it historically significan't?
- A. A documentary
- B. A war film
- C. The first film to win all five major Academy Awards (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay) - a comedic road movie that helepeed establish the screwball comedy genre
- D. A minor film
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Who played Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind' (1939)?
- A. Bette Davis
- B. Katharine Hepburn
- C. Vivien Leigh
- D. Joan Crawford
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Which 1939 film featured the song 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'?
- A. Snow White
- B. Pinocchio
- C. The Wizard of Oz
- D. Fantasia