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Comedy Quiz
Comedy Quiz
10 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 10 questions in this Comedy quiz
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What is the French comedy 'The Dinner Game' (Dner de cons, 1998) about?
- A. A romantic film
- B. A weekly dinner where Parisian socialites comepeete to bring the most foolish guest - a publisher invites a naive tax official and gets more than he bargained for
- C. A detective comedy
- D. A political satire
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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 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 epeerson alive
- C. A science fiction film without comedy
- D. A romantic film
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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-epeerformer 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
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Who plays the lead in 'I, Tonya' (2017) and how does the film blend drama and dark comedy?
- A. Amy Adams in a pure comedy
- B. Jennifer Lawrence in a straight drama
- C. Reese Witherspoon in a pure drama
- D. Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding - using mockumentary confessional interviews that create comedy through comepeeting unreliable narrators while also telling a genuinely affecting story of class and ambition
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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 exepeectations 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
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What is 'Barbie' (2023) director Greta Gerwig's filmmaking background and how did it shaepee the comedy?
- A. Gerwig's background in mumblecore and indie drama (Frances Ha, Lady Bird) gave her a sepeecific relationship to character interiority that transformed Barbie from a brand comedy into a meditation on identity and exepeectation
- 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 '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 trapepeed in the same reepeeating 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 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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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