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Comedy Quiz
Comedy · Animation Quiz
20 questions · Unlimited attempts · Free online practice
Comedy is one of the oldest and most beloved genres in cinema, bringing laughter, joy, and unforgettable characters to audiences of all ages. Whether through clever dialogue, physi...
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All 20 questions in this Comedy quiz
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What is 'Superbad' director Greg Mottola's other notable comedy and what connects both films?
- A. No other comedy
- B. Adventureland (2009) - a coming-of-age summer job film that shares Superbad's emotional intelligence about male friendship and adolescent transition but at a slower, more melancholic register
- C. A horror film
- D. A political satire
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What is the significance of 'Trading Places' (1983) starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd?
- A. A comedy that exposed class and racial disparity in America - two wealthy brokers make a bet that nature matters over nurture by ruining one man's life and elevating a street hustler
- B. A pure slapstick comedy
- C. A minor comedy
- D. A romantic comedy
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Who played Austin Powers in the comedy spy franchise and also played the villain?
- A. Jim Carrey
- B. Will Ferrell
- C. Mike Myers
- D. Adam Sandler
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Who directed 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' (1975) and what makes it distinctive?
- A. Eric Idle
- B. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones - the film's low budget became part of its comedy through coconut shells replacing horses and self-aware jokes about its own limitations
- C. Steven Spielberg
- D. John Cleese
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What is 'Napoleon Dynamite' (2004) about and what cultural impact did it have?
- A. A historical epic
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A deadpan comedy about a socially awkward Idaho teenager, his llama, and his unusual family - whose bizarre non-sequitur dialogue became a national phenomenon
- D. A fantasy adventure
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What is 'Hot Fuzz' (2007) directed by Edgar Wright about?
- A. A romantic comedy
- B. A highly competent London police officer is transferred to a quiet English village where he discovers a disturbing secret behind the crime-free facade - a spoof that also delivers genuine action
- C. A horror film
- D. A straightforward action film
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What is the 2000s romantic comedy 'Mean Girls' (2004) and what cultural legacy did it create?
- A. A Tina Fey script about a girl raised in Africa who joins a US high school and becomes entangled with the Plastics clique - creating a vocabulary of social dynamics that lasted decades
- B. A sports comedy
- C. A serious high school drama
- D. A horror film
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What is 'Barbie' (2023) director Greta Gerwig's filmmaking background and how did it shape the comedy?
- A. Gerwig's background in mumblecore and indie drama (Frances Ha, Lady Bird) gave her a specific relationship to character interiority that transformed Barbie from a brand comedy into a meditation on identity and expectation
- B. She was a documentary filmmaker
- C. She was previously a TV director only
- D. She had no previous films
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What is 'The Italian Job' (1969) starring Michael Caine famous for?
- A. The first heist film
- B. A Western
- C. Its Mini Cooper chase through Turin's streets - a heist comedy that has been endlessly referenced and remade and whose traffic jam climax remains unresolved
- D. A romantic film
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What is the comedy 'Galaxy Quest' (1999) about and what makes it unique?
- A. A serious science fiction film
- B. A romantic comedy
- C. A parody about the cast of a cancelled Star Trek-like TV show who are enlisted by actual aliens who believe the show was real - a comedy that is also one of the finest science fiction films
- D. A horror film
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Who wrote and directed 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964)?
- A. Mel Brooks
- B. Stanley Kubrick - considered the greatest political satire in cinema history
- C. Billy Wilder
- D. Sidney Lumet
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Who directed 'Ghostbusters' (1984) and what made it an unprecedented commercial success?
- A. John Landis
- B. Ivan Reitman - combining horror and comedy with original characters and a memorable Bill Murray performance in a way that created one of the era's most beloved films
- C. Joe Dante
- D. Steven Spielberg - combining horror and comedy
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What is 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' (2004) about?
- A. A musical
- B. A pompous 1970s San Diego television anchorman whose male-dominated newsroom is disrupted by the arrival of a talented female reporter
- C. A news thriller
- D. A Western parody
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What is 'The Hangover' (2009) about and why was it a breakthrough?
- A. Three men wake up from a forgotten bachelor party in Las Vegas and must reconstruct the night to find the missing groom before his wedding
- B. A thriller
- C. A sports comedy
- D. A romantic film
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What is the romantic comedy 'When Harry Met Sally...' (1989) most famous for?
- A. A dramatic climax
- B. The fake orgasm scene in Katz's Deli where Meg Ryan demonstrates to Billy Crystal that women can convincingly fake orgasms - ending with the line I'll have what she's having
- C. A musical number
- D. A car chase
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What is Mel Brooks's 'Young Frankenstein' (1974) and why is it considered his masterpiece?
- A. A loving parody of Universal's Frankenstein films shot in black-and-white with actual props from the original - Gene Wilder plays Frederick Frankenstein
- B. A romantic comedy
- C. A horror film
- D. A parody without affection for the original
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What is the British comedy 'Four Lions' (2010) about - and why is it controversial?
- A. A sports film
- B. A dark comedy about four inept would-be jihadis in Sheffield planning a terrorist attack - satirising radicalisation and the gap between terrorist ideology and its incompetent practitioners
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A heist comedy
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What is the plot of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' (1994) that made Hugh Grant an international star?
- A. A war film
- B. A crime thriller
- C. A horror comedy
- D. A charming but commitment-phobic Englishman attends a series of friends' weddings while falling for an American woman who keeps appearing at the same events
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What is the premise of 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' (2014) and what makes Wes Anderson's visual style distinctive?
- A. A realistic drama
- B. A straightforward biopic
- C. A fantastical comedy set in a fictional European alpine republic - Anderson's precise symmetrical compositions, pastel palette, and deadpan delivery create a uniquely artificial cinematic world
- D. A documentary
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Which Mel Brooks comedy spoofs Westerns?
- A. Young Frankenstein
- B. Silent Movie
- C. Blazing Saddles
- D. Spaceballs