Film Quiz #1 - Sunday Quiz

Welcome to your Film Quiz #1

Round 1: Global Box Office Takings

Based on highest-grossing films as of 2019 adjusted for inflation.

What 1956 epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, features spectacular scenes filmed on location in Egypt and Sinai?

What 1982 science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison was the highest grossing film of all time for 11 years?

What 2009 epic science fiction film was directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron?

What 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt was based on a novel by Boris Pasternak?

What 1977 epic space opera film was written and directed by George Lucas?

What 1939 epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara?

What 1997 epic romance and disaster film which was directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by the same person?

Which 2015 epic space opera film was produced, co-written and directed by J. J. Abrams?

What 2019 superhero film, was the 22nd film in the MCU?

What 1965 musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise was set in Austria?

Round 2: Breakthrough Roles Not Debut Roles

Identify the actor/actress from their "Breakthrough Role", not their debut. Obviously this is subjective but you should get the idea.

Which actor got his breakthrough in 1967 playing a clueless 21yr old called Benjamin Braddock?

Which actress, who shares a name with William Shakespeare's wife, had her breakthrough in ‘The Princess Diaries’?

Which actor arguably had his breakthrough when he received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Godfather, Part II?

Which actress was propelled into the public consciousness by a Garry Marshall romantic comedy from 1990 where she plays a hustler on Hollywood Boulevard?

Which actors on-screen persona seems like it was largely shaped by his role in “Four Weddings and a Funeral”?

Which actor had a breakthrough playing a mathematical genius with no ambition in a 1997 Gus Van Sant film?

Which actress had her breakthrough in her debut as a 12-year-old sidekick to a deadly assassin in a 1995 film featuring Jean Reno and Gary Oldman?

Which actor made his breakthrough in Joe Cornish’s "Attack the Block"?

Many terrific character actors were assembled for Bryan Singer’s 1995 heist mystery The Usual Suspects, but which actor did everyone end up talking about?

Which carpenter couldn’t seem to break through into the mainstream until he got a role as a likeable rogue in a 1977 George Lucas film?

Round 3: Picture Round - Film Stills

Identify the 10 films from the stills provided

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Round 4: Music Intros - Film Soundtracks

There are ten songs, each with a gap of around five seconds between them.

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Round 5: Cult Classics

10 questions all about films which are considered to be "Cult Classics".

In the film Withnail and I. Who plays I?

Most famous for an incredible solo dance, what film stars Jon Heder in the role of the title character, for which he was paid $1,000?

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1966 American exploitation film directed by who?

Which film is a tale of redemption for paroled convict Jake and his blood brother Elwood?

What 1977 experimental body horror film was written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch?

Which film features "The Dude", a middle-aged bachelor with a penchant for cannabis and bowling?

Which film was shot for $27,575 in the convenience and video stores where the director worked?

Which film is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

What is the name of the 2003 film often considered to be the worst ever made - "the Citizen Kane of bad movies."?

In which film does a rabbit called Frank say the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds?

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