This week’s film quiz has a taste for the theatrical. 30 movie-related questions, some of them about movies based on stage musicals…
Don’t tell anyone, but the 2024 versions of Mean Girls and The Color Purple are musicals. We’ve written elsewhere on the site about the odd marketing tactics that hide this, but full disclosure, this week’s film quiz has questions about both musical and non-musical films. Since the enormous success of original musicals La La Land and The Greatest Showman a few years ago, Hollywood has gone back to adaptations, and so have we, in Round 2.
Once you’ve completed all three rounds, you’ll find a link to a separate post with the correct answers at the bottom of this post. As always, this is all just for fun, but please let us know how you did in the comments (scores out of 31 this week!) and give us any other lovely feedback. Here we go, once more with feeling…!
ROUND ONE – This Week In Movie History
This round is about UK cinema releases and general film history from this week in years past – we’ve given you the year at the start of each question to help out!
1. 1997 – In which film do Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart play the same character at different ages?
2. 1981 – Born this week, which singer duetted with Jack White on “Another Way To Die”, the theme song from Quantum Of Solace?
3. 2022 – Which Hollywood drama connects Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Tobey Maguire?
4. 1985 – Who plays teenage werewolf Scott Howard in Teen Wolf?
5. 2000 – In the news! Which British gangster movie has a streaming prequel series on Paramount+ this week?
6. 1958 – What is the name of the fish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres (also born this week) in Finding Nemo and its sequel?
7. 2015 – In which film does Alicia Vikander play an android called Ava?
8. 1993 – Which western connects Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, and Bill Paxton?
9. 2003 – Who directed Big Fish?
10. 1988 – “When he pours, he reigns.” Which film has this frankly unimprovable tagline?
ROUND TWO – Film Quiz Friday! The Musical
Next, can you tell your South Pacific from your West Side Story? Here’s a round covering movies based on stage musicals.
11. Complete the title of the 2007 movie: Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of… where?
12. Which 2019 movie musical connects pop stars Jason Derulo, Jennifer Hudson, and Taylor Swift?
13. Who plays Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and its sequel? And for a bonus point, what is the title of the sequel? (2 points)
14. Donna Sheridan is a major character in which stage musical, later a 2008 movie?
15. With eight wins, which 1972 movie musical won the most Oscars without also winning Best Picture?
16. Who plays Inspector Javert in 2012’s Les Misérables?
17. In Grease, Sandy Olsson moves to America from which country?
18. Nathan Detroit is a major character in which stage musical, later a 1955 movie?
19. Which action movie star plays the Phantom in 2004’s The Phantom Of The Opera?
20. “96,000”, “Blackout”, and “Carnaval del Barrio” are songs from which 2021 movie musical?
ROUND THREE – Pot Luck
Let’s finish with a random selection of pot luck movie questions – these could come from any era, any genre, or any level of difficulty. Enjoy!
21. Who plays Billy Elliot in Billy Elliot?
22. Which movie’s soundtrack features “Can You Picture That?” by Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem?
23. What word goes after Horror, Midnight, and Pineapple to make the names of three different movies?
24. Which Avenger and current Oscar nominee was born earliest: Robert Downey Jr or Mark Ruffalo?
25. In which English city is 1971’s Get Carter set?
26. Who comes next in this sequence: Noomi Rapace > Rooney Mara > … ?
27. Operation Kino is a major plot point in which war movie?
28. In 1969’s Easy Rider, what is the name of Peter Fonda’s motorcycle: Iron Man or Captain America?
29. Who connects the 2010s sci-fi films Attack The Block, Pacific Rim: Uprising, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi?
30. And finally, following the success of The Producers, which 1974 comedy did Mel Brooks adapt into a 2007 Broadway musical: Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein?
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Ready for the answers?
That’s the end of this week’s film quiz – when you’re ready to check your answers, click here to get them (it’ll take you to another page) and let us know your scores in the comments below.
We’ll be back next Friday with another film quiz, but until then, check out Issue 47 of Film Stories Magazine, which features 50 all-new questions about 2023 at the movies. You can also listen to our suitably named film quiz podcast, The Film Quiz Podcast, which features Nick Helm asking movie questions and occasionally berating contestants for getting them wrong.
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