Film Quiz Friday: Let’s Make A Movie

This week’s film quiz offers up 30 movie questions on subjects including villains, geography, furniture, and most of all, filmmakers.

There’s a Black Panther sequel in cinemas this week and we’re sure you’re aware of that, but here at Film Stories Tower, we’d love to point you towards A Bunch Of Amateurs, a delightful new documentary about Bradford Movie Makers, one of the oldest amateur filmmaking clubs in the world. We’ve done a few quiz questions featuring movies about making movies too.

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 just for fun, but please let us know how you did in the comments (scores out of 30 this week!) and give us any other lovely feedback. Lights, camera, action…

 

ROUND ONE – This Week In Movie History

This round is about new 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. 2013 – “Life in space is impossible” is the tagline for which Sandra Bullock movie?
2. 1982 – Complete the title of the British film that’s back in cinemas for its 40th anniversary – The Draughtsman’s…
3. 1974 – Born this week! Who plays Calvin Candie in Django Unchained?
4. 1998 – Castor Troy is the villain in which action movie?
5. 2004 – Which horror remake is based on a 2002 Japanese film, also directed by Takashi Shimizu?
6. 1989 – In Heathers, Winona Ryder plays a character called Heather – true or false?
7. 2017 – Who plays actor Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2?
8. 1962 – Also born this week! Who connects the 1990s films Indecent Proposal, Disclosure, and Striptease?
9. 2001 – In which supernatural horror film does Nicole Kidman play mother-of-two Grace Stewart?
10. 1999 – In Fight Club, what is the second rule of Fight Club?

 

ROUND TWO – Movies About Making Movies

Next, 10 questions themed around films within films and the characters who make them, and do go and see A Bunch Of Amateurs if you’re able!

11. Which B-movie director is the subject of Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic of the same name?
12. In Son Of Rambow, Bill Milner and Will Poulter make an unofficial sequel to which 1982 action movie?
13. How many Psychopaths feature in screenwriter Colin Farrell’s next film, in the 2012 comedy of the same name?
14. Who plays director Bobby Bowfinger in 1999’s Bowfinger?
15. “Make ‘Em Laugh” is a song from which 1952 MGM musical?
16. Released in 2011, what was the most recent black-and-white film to win a Best Picture Oscar?
17. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is the seventh film in which horror movie series?
18. Who plays infamous movie director Tommy Wiseau in 2017’s The Disaster Artist?
19. “Would that it were so simple” is a repeated quote from which 2016 Coen brothers movie?
20. In which 2011 film do a group of young filmmakers create a zombie film called The Case?

 

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. Nibia, Wakanda, and Zamunda are all fictional countries on what continent?
22. Luke Jackson is the title character in which 1967 prison movie?
23. Who connects the 1990s films Desperado, Dogma, and From Dusk Til Dawn?
24. In which 2006 comedy do Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, James McAvoy, and Elaine Tan make up a University Challenge team?
25. What piece of furniture comes next in this sequence – Liam Neeson > Tilda Swinton > …?
26. In the news! Which The Suicide Squad director has started his new role as CEO for Creative Development at DC Studios?
27. Which Australian star plays Queen Elizabeth I in 1998’s Elizabeth and its sequel?
28. What connects the title characters of the films Balto, Cujo, and Shiloh?
29. Who directed 2021’s Last Night In Soho?
30. And finally, which of the three Iron Man movies features a cameo from Phoney Stark himself, Elon Musk?

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Ready for the answers?

That’s the end of this week’s quiz – when you’re ready to check your answers, click here to get them (it’ll take you to another page). We’ll have another quiz for you next Friday, but until then, let us know your scores in the comments below.

We’ll be back next Friday with another quiz, but until then, catch up with Season 1 of our suitably named film quiz podcast, The Film Quiz Podcast – in every episode, quizmasters Nick Helm and Huge Davies bombard three contestants with our movie trivia questions and only occasionally berate them for getting the answers wrong. If you’ve already listened to the lot, watch this space for new episodes soon!

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