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Comedy Quiz
Comedy · Horror 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 'Paddington' (2014) and how does it achieve both children's and adult appeal?
- A. A parody film
- B. A serious drama
- C. A dark horror film
- D. A CGI bear from Peru adjusts to London life in a story that is simultaneously charming for children and emotionally intelligent for adults - Paul King's direction created one of British cinema's finest family films
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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 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 '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 'School of Rock' (2003) about and why is Jack Black's performance central to it?
- A. A serious music biopic
- B. A failed rock musician who pretends to be a substitute teacher and converts his students into a rock band - Jack Black's genuine musical ability and manic energy made the comedy credibly musical
- C. A horror film
- D. A romantic drama
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What is the premise of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' (1986)?
- A. A serious drama
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A horror film
- D. A popular high school senior fakes illness to take a day off school in Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend - and directly addresses the camera throughout
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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 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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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 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 'Elf' (2003) starring Will Ferrell about?
- A. A Christmas horror
- B. A political satire
- C. A human raised among elves at the North Pole who travels to New York City to find his biological father - a Christmas comedy whose Will Ferrell character became one of cinema's great innocents
- D. A romantic drama
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What is 'Sister Act' (1992) about and what made Whoopi Goldberg's performance distinctive?
- A. A horror film
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A thriller
- D. A Reno lounge singer who witnesses a mob murder and hides in a convent - revitalising it with soul music despite the nuns' discomfort
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What is 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (2022) and how does it use comedy alongside its other genres?
- A. A pure science fiction film
- B. A horror film
- C. A laundromat owner discovers she can access parallel universe versions of herself - a film that uses absurdist comedy (hot dog fingers, raccoon chefs) alongside genuine emotional meditation on failure and regret
- D. A romantic comedy
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What is 'This Is Spinal Tap' (1984) and what filmmaking innovation did it popularise?
- A. A horror film
- B. A Rob Reiner mockumentary following a fictional British heavy metal band on their disastrous American tour - popularising the mockumentary format that became ubiquitous in comedy
- C. A real rockumentary
- D. A romantic comedy
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What is the British romantic comedy 'Notting Hill' (1999) about?
- A. A historical drama
- B. A London bookshop owner who meets a famous American actress - a Richard Curtis script that was the UK's highest-grossing film of the decade
- C. A thriller
- D. A horror comedy
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What is 'Palm Springs' (2020) on Hulu and what it does with the time loop comedy genre?
- A. A serious drama
- B. A Groundhog Day-influenced comedy where multiple characters are trapped in the same repeating wedding day - creating a more philosophically complex and emotionally genuine variation on the time loop structure
- C. A conventional romantic film
- D. A horror film
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What is the comedy 'Knives Out' (2019) and what does director Rian Johnson do with the whodunit genre?
- A. A conventional mystery
- B. A horror film
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A comedy-mystery that reveals who committed the murder early then asks how the story ends - a formal inversion of genre expectations starring Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc
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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 'Superbad' (2007) about and how did it influence the coming-of-age comedy genre?
- A. A horror comedy
- B. A fantasy adventure
- C. A romantic film
- D. Two high school best friends attempt to attend a party on their last night together before college - a raunchy comedy that brought unexpected emotional depth to adolescent male friendship
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What is 'Get Out' director Jordan Peele's comedy background and how does it inform his horror?
- A. Peele came from the sketch comedy duo Key & Peele - his comedy training in building and subverting audience expectations directly informs his horror films' structure
- B. He was a dramatic actor
- C. He was a director of romantic comedies
- D. He had no comedy background