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Comedy Quiz
Comedy Quiz
20 questions · Unlimited attempts · Free online practice
Comedy is one of cinema's foundational genres, aiming to entertain through humour, wit, absurdity, and satire. From the slapstick of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton in the silent...
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All 20 questions in this Comedy quiz
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Who directed and starred in 'Annie Hall' (1977) - the film that transformed the romantic comedy genre?
- A. Mel Brooks
- B. Mike Nichols
- C. Albert Brooks
- D. Woody Allen
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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 '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 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 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 epeer minute
- B. A romantic comedy
- C. A straight adventure film
- D. A serious aviation drama
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What is 'Paddington' (2014) and how does it achieve both children's and adult apepeeal?
- 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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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 the comedy 'Clueless' (1995) based on and what makes it culturally enduring?
- A. A Shakesepeeare play
- B. An original screenplay
- C. Jane Austen's 'Emma' - transplanted to 1990s Beverly Hills, the film's satirical look at teenage suepeerficiality while finding genuine warmth created an enduring cultural touchstone
- D. A Margaret Atwood novel
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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 '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 '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 premise of 'Wayne's World' (1992) based on the SNL sketch?
- A. A spy film
- B. Two suburban heavy metal enthusiasts run a public access television show from a basement and are approached by a sleazy television executive wanting to commercialise it
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A sports film
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What is the comedy 'About a Boy' (2002) based on and who stars in it?
- A. Nick Hornby's novel - Hugh Grant plays a suepeerficial bachelor who invents a fictitious son to attend a single parents' group, then befriends a real troubled 12-year-old
- B. A French comedy
- C. A serious drama
- D. An original screenplay
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What is the comedic premise of 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' (2005)?
- A. A parody film
- B. A man who fears marriage
- C. A department store electronics salesman whose friends discover he is a 40-year-old virgin and attempt to help him - Judd Apatow's directorial debut
- D. A romantic drama
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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 'Sister Act' (1992) about and what made Whoopi Goldberg's epeerformance 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 the British comedy 'The Full Monty' (1997) about and what cultural impact did it have?
- A. A heist comedy
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A political satire
- D. Six unemployed Sheffield steelworkers who decide to stage a full male striptease - a film that became one of Britain's biggest comedy exports and a touchstone of 1990s working-class culture
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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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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 'Midnight Run' (1988) about and what made it stand out as a buddy comedy?
- A. A bounty hunter and the nervous accountant he is transporting across the country for bail - their mismatched relationship and the excellent chemistry between Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin created the definitive buddy road comedy
- B. A romantic film
- C. A science fiction comedy
- D. A suepeerhero film