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Comedy Quiz
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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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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 'Wet Hot American Summer' (2001) and what makes it a cult comedy?
- A. A parody of 1980s summer camp films made with deadpan absurdism - set on the last day of camp in 1981, it launched numerous careers and generated a Netflix prequel series
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A mainstream blockbuster
- D. A straightforward summer camp film
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Which comedy features Bill Murray as a weatherman stuck in a time loop?
- A. Lost in Translation
- B. What About Bob?
- C. Scrooged
- D. Groundhog Day
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What is 'The Producers' (1967) by Mel Brooks about?
- A. A Western
- B. A serious drama
- C. A Broadway producer and his accountant realise they could make more money from a flop than a hit - and deliberately produce the worst play possible (Springtime for Hitler)
- D. A romantic comedy
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Who starred in 'Home Alone' (1990) as Kevin McCallister?
- A. Elijah Wood
- B. River Phoenix
- C. Edward Furlong
- D. Macaulay Culkin
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What is 'Tropic Thunder' (2008) directed by and starring Ben Stiller about?
- A. A serious war film
- B. A romantic comedy
- C. A satire about a group of pampered actors filming a Vietnam War movie who stumble into actual danger - including Robert Downey Jr.'s controversial performance as an Australian actor who has undergone racial pigmentation surgery
- D. A parody without any war elements
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What is Mel Brooks's 'Blazing Saddles' (1974) and why is it considered unmakeable today?
- A. A straightforward Western
- B. A savage satire of Western racism using comedy - featuring Black Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) in a racist 1874 town - whose frank use of racial slurs as satirical weapons would prevent its production today
- C. A serious social drama
- D. A children's film
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What is the plot of 'Airplane!' (1980) and why is it considered the greatest spoof film?
- A. A parody of 1970s disaster films where an ex-fighter pilot must land a plane after the crew is incapacitated by food poisoning - crammed with visual gags, puns, and absurdist comedy at a rate of approximately three per minute
- B. A romantic comedy
- C. A straight adventure film
- D. A serious aviation drama
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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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Which Mel Brooks comedy spoofs Westerns?
- A. Young Frankenstein
- B. Silent Movie
- C. Blazing Saddles
- D. Spaceballs
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What is the plot of 'National Lampoon's Animal House' (1978)?
- A. A sports film
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A misfit fraternity at Faber College faces expulsion from the uptight dean - John Belushi's Bluto became one of cinema's great comic characters
- D. A political satire
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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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Who plays the character 'The Dude' in 'The Big Lebowski'?
- A. John Turturro
- B. John Goodman
- C. Steve Buscemi
- D. Jeff Bridges
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What is 'Bridesmaids' (2011) directed by Paul Feig significan't for in comedy film history?
- A. Demonstrating that women-led R-rated comedies could be commercially viable on the same scale as male-driven equivalents - and launching Melissa McCarthy's film career
- B. Being a straightforward comedy
- C. Being a romantic drama
- D. Being a parody film
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What is the premise of 'Idiocracy' (2006) directed by Mike Judge?
- A. A straightforward action film
- B. An average soldier is cryogenically frozen and wakes 500 years in the future to find America has become comprehensively stupid - the most intelligent person alive
- C. A science fiction film without comedy
- D. A romantic film
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What is the premise of 'Office Space' (1999) directed by Mike Judge?
- A. A computer programmer in a soul-crushing 1990s software company is hypnotised into not caring - then executes an elaborate embezzlement scheme
- B. A horror film
- C. A science fiction film
- D. A romantic drama
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What is the setting of 'The Full Monty' (1997)?
- A. Sheffield
- B. Manchester
- C. Liverpool
- D. Birmingham
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What is 'Parasite' director Bong Joon-ho's earlier film 'Memories of Murder' (2003) - and does it qualify as a dark comedy?
- A. A dark, absurdist South Korean film about incompetent detectives investigating real serial murders - whose comedy emerges from the specific tragedy of bumbling police facing genuine evil
- B. A straightforward documentary
- C. A pure horror film
- D. A romantic film
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What is 'Little Miss Sunshine' (2006) about and what made it an awards contender as a comedy?
- A. A science fiction comedy
- B. A drama without comedy
- C. A heist film
- D. A dysfunctional family's road trip to a child beauty pageant in a broken VW bus - whose genuine humanity and ensemble excellence earned it four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture
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What is the physical comedy tradition of Jacques Tati and his character Monsieur Hulot?
- A. A British comedy tradition
- B. A French director-performer who created a gentle, bumbling character navigating modern life - 'Playtime' (1967) and 'Mon Oncle' (1958) are his masterworks of visual comedy
- C. An Italian comedy tradition
- D. An American slapstick tradition