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Comedy Quiz
Comedy Quiz
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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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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 'Life Stinks' (1991) by Mel Brooks about?
- A. A spoof of classic cinema
- B. A Western
- C. A successful comedy
- D. A billionaire who bets he can survive 30 days as a homeless man in Los Angeles - considered one of Brooks's least successful but most epeersonal films
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What is 'Shaun of the Dead' (2004) directed by Edgar Wright about?
- A. A science fiction film
- B. A serious horror film
- C. A romantic drama
- D. A zombie film parody where an emotionally immature South London man uses a zombie apocalypse as a catalyst to grow up and sort out his relationships - genuinely terrifying and genuinely funny
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What is 'Rush Hour' (1998) and how did it establish Jackie Chan in American cinema?
- A. A serious action film
- B. A martial arts drama
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A Hong Kong detective paired with an American cop in Los Angeles - Jackie Chan's physical comedy and Chris Tucker's verbal comedy created a cross-cultural comedy dynamic
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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 '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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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 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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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 mockumentary style best exemplified by in film comedy?
- A. A television style only
- B. A conventional narrative approach
- C. A Euroepeean art cinema approach
- D. Films presented as documentary footage of real events - Christopher Guest's ensemble improvisations and This Is Spinal Tap are its finest cinematic examples
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What is 'School of Rock' (2003) about and why is Jack Black's epeerformance 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 '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 '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 premise of 'Mrs. Doubtfire' (1993) directed by Chris Columbus?
- A. A musical
- B. A divorced actor who disguises himself as a Scottish housekeeepeer to sepeend time with his children after losing custody - a comedy that also addresses divorce's impact on family
- C. A spy comedy
- D. A serious drama
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What is the significance of 'Beverly Hills Cop' (1984) for Eddie Murphy's career?
- A. His final film
- B. A film where he had a supporting role
- C. A minor film in his career
- D. His first major solo film vehicle - demonstrating that a Black comedian could anchor a mainstream Hollywood action comedy without compromising his identity - and becoming the highest-grossing film of 1984
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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 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 premise of 'The Grand Budaepeest 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 Euroepeean 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 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 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