Classic Movies Quiz

1. Which of these actors has not won the best actor Oscar twice?

Marlon Brando

Gary Cooper

Tom Hanks

Dustin Hoffman

Spencer Tracy

Clark Gable

2. What year were the following films released?

3. Which is a accurate description of a hard-boiled detective character portrayed by Humphrey Bogart?

Raymond Chandler's Sam Spade in the Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett's Phillip Marlowe in the Maltese Falcon

Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe in the Big Sleep

Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade in the Big Sleep

4. What is the title of a 1963 film featuring Paul Newman as a beer drinkin', bar fightin', womanizin' rancher?

5. What was the first year the Oscar was awarded?

7. What was the name of the Thin Man's dog?

8. Who directed The Philadelphia Story?

Gorge Cukor
Frank Capra
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Billy Wilder

9. What actor catapulted to the top of the charts in his 1958 Crooning album "You're My Girl"?

10. Who did not star in a film adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play?

Paul Newman

Marlon Brando

Montgomery Clift

Rock Hudson

11. Who played opposite of William Holden in the 1955 film "Picnic"?

12. Which film is not a John Ford Western?

Stagecoach

High Noon

The Searchers

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

13. Which 1974 film starred Jack Nicholson as Jake Gettis, a no-nonsense LA private eye?

14. "Witness for the Prosecution" is a 1957 courtroom drama based on a play by whom?

15. What year were the following films released?

16. Who played Atticus Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill A Mockingbird"?

Cary Grant
Gregory Peck
Kirk Douglas
Peter Ustinov