Movies Trivia Quiz
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Movies Trivia Quiz
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1. Both filmed and set in Sacramento, a 2017 coming-of-age film earned five Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. What is this two-word film that is not about a former U.S. First Lady?

2. In 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' what magical country does the White Witch put a spell on so that it is always winter but never Christmas?

3. What star of 'Love & Mercy' and the 'Hunger Games' movies paraded through Harvard Square in January 2020, as the recipient of its Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award?

4. In Spike Lee's 1989 Academy Award-nominated film 'Do The Right Thing,' a scuffed pair of Jordan sneakers incites a tense, racially-driven interaction in what Brooklyn neighborhood?

5. What single-word five-lettered 1927 film was the winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture?

6. Porg flock around Luke's island home in The Last Jedi, but they are actually only in the movie because the VFX team decided it would be easier to animate over the very prolific animals rather than remove them in post. What is this pesky animal?

7. Nicolas Cage made his film debut as 'Brad's Bud' in what 1982 Amy Heckerling teen classic about Jeff Spicoli smoking a lot of weed, among other overlapping stories?

8. Lee Strasberg, the founder of the Actors Studio known for teaching method acting, earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in what film, a role he accepted at the behest of his student, Al Pacino?

9. What alliterative actor came to fame as Hawkeye Pierce in MASH and more recently had a supporting role in Noah Baumbach's Netflix-produced film 'Marriage Story'?

10. What Star Wars movie was the first to be released in the 1980s?

11. After playing the title character in three 'Karate Kid' movies, what actor went on to play Billy Gambini, the college student falsely accused of murder, in 'My Cousin Vinny?'

12. As of June 2020, there is one movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that features Washington DC as a prominent setting in the film. On-site filming took place at the National Mall, the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, the Willard Hotel, and Dupont Circle. What is this 2014 film?

13. Walt Disney received eight honorary Oscar awards for what 1937 film, the first full-length animated movie released by his studio?

14. What 1992 film depicts the lives of 4 real estate salesmen after their corporate owner sends Alec Baldwin's character to tell them all but the top two salesman will be fired at the end of the week? Always be closing.

15. An Algonquin or Ojibwe word meaning 'where the river narrows' became the name of what province where the Saint Lawrence does actually narrow?

16. Six Flags Great Adventure is able to offer big roller coasters to residents of what US state? Among other things, this state is the center of Kevin Smith's movie universe, in films such as 'Clerks.'

17. The 1988 film Stand and Deliver is based on the true story of educator Jaime Escalante's efforts to teach high school students what branch of mathematics, whose development has been attributed to both Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz?

18. Only four years separate the two Oscar Best Picture winners with 'million' in their titles. Name the film which won the award FIRST.

19. What actor, whose film roles include Jackie Robinson and James Brown, died tragically of cancer at age 43 in August 2020?

20. A family going on a rafting vacation in Montana are taken hostage by a pair of dangerous fugitives in what 1994 film starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon?

21. What beloved American film star, who announced his COVID-19 diagnosis on Instagram on March 11, 2020, was the most-searched actor of 2020, according to Google Trends?

22. 'Drugstore Cowboy,' 'Paranoid Park,' and 'Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot' are Portland-set indies from what local filmmaker?

23. What classic literary villain, described as a 'Machiavellian schemer and manipulator' shares his name with an avian sidekick in the Disney film 'Aladdin?'

24. 'The Cowboy and The Spaceman' was a rejected title for what movie that eventually won an Academy Award for Special Achievement?

25. What 1982 movie, directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, is about a group of research scientists in Antarctica being attacked by a shape shifting alien?