Film trivia questions and answers
30 film trivia questions with the answers and a fact for each: classic movies and modern blockbusters, actors, soundtracks, sci-fi, Bond, Pixar and the quotes everyone gets slightly wrong. Read them as a movie quiz for yourself, use them for a pub quiz round, or press the button and play a Film round live with everyone answering on their own phone.
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The 30 film quiz questions
- 180s films
The Cobra Kai dojo is the villains' home turf in which 1984 film?
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CThe Karate Kid
Pat Morita earned an Oscar nomination for playing the wise Mr Miyagi.
- 2
Which actress played Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games films?
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BJennifer Lawrence
She won her Best Actress Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook at 22, then famously tripped on the stairs going up to collect it.
- 3Origins
Wonder Woman hails from which hidden island of the Amazons?
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AThemyscira
Her creator, William Moulton Marston, helped invent the lie detector — hence the Lasso of Truth.
- 4Cartoons
Which Looney Tunes character exclaims 'Sufferin' succotash!'?
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ASylvester
Sylvester's full name, used in the cartoons, is Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr.
- 5Pixar
Pixar's 1986 short Luxo Jr. — the source of its logo — stars a pair of…?
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ADesk lamps
The little lamp still hops onto the 'I' of Pixar's logo before every film.
- 6
'In space no one can hear you scream' was the tagline for which 1979 film?
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AAlien
The line is scientifically accurate: sound needs air or another medium to travel through, and space is a near-perfect vacuum.
- 7Actors
Who wore the cowl in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy?
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AChristian Bale
Gotham's gravel-voiced protector was born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
- 8
In Dirty Dancing, who says the line 'Nobody puts Baby in a corner'?
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BJohnny
Patrick Swayze reportedly hated the line and thought it was corny. The film was made for about $5 million and took over $200 million.
- 9Theme songs
Carly Simon's 'Nobody Does It Better' was the theme to which Bond film?
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AThe Spy Who Loved Me
It was the first Bond theme not to share its film's title, though the title still sneaks into the lyrics.
- 10
Which film features the line 'I'll be back'?
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CThe Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to say 'I will be back' because he found 'I'll' hard to pronounce. Director James Cameron overruled him.
- 11Bond
Judi Dench first played M opposite which Bond actor?
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BPierce Brosnan
Dench played M in seven films, bridging the Brosnan and Craig eras from GoldenEye to Skyfall.
- 12Robots
In The Terminator, the AI that triggers nuclear war is called…?
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CSkynet
Schwarzenegger was first considered for the hero, Kyle Reese, before Cameron cast him as the killer.
- 13Aliens
Who directed the 1986 sequel Aliens?
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AJames Cameron
The first four Alien films had four different directors; Alien 3 was David Fincher's debut feature.
- 14Soundtracks
The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" soundtracks the pottery-wheel scene in which 1990 film?
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BGhost
Whoopi Goldberg won an Oscar for playing the reluctant psychic Oda Mae Brown.
- 15Spies
Who wrote the novels that introduced amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne?
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CRobert Ludlum
The Bourne Identity was published in 1980, and Bourne's real name turns out to be David Webb.
- 16Quotes
"I'll have what she's having" is a deli scene punchline from which 1989 rom-com?
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BWhen Harry Met Sally
The woman who delivers the line is Estelle Reiner, mother of the film's director Rob Reiner.
- 1790s films
Fight Club is based on a novel by which author?
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DChuck Palahniuk
Brad Pitt and Edward Norton took lessons in boxing, taekwondo and even soap-making to prepare.
- 18Actors
Who played Carol Danvers in 2019's Captain Marvel?
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BBrie Larson
Larson already had a Best Actress Oscar, for the 2015 film Room, before she suited up.
- 19
Which 1997 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet won 11 Oscars?
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ATitanic
Its 11 wins tie the record with Ben-Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
- 20
Which 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English-language film to win the Best Picture Oscar?
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DParasite
It took four Oscars that night. Director Bong Joon-ho joked that the one-inch barrier of subtitles opens up so many more amazing films.
- 21Action
In the first John Wick film, what breed was the puppy whose death sets him off?
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DBeagle
The puppy, Daisy, was a final gift from his late wife; in the sequels he adopts a pit bull instead.
- 22Sci-fi
In The Empire Strikes Back, Lando's Cloud City floats above which planet?
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DBespin
Cloud City's suave administrator later got his own origin film, Solo, with Donald Glover in the cape.
- 23Sci-fi
Which 2016 film tells how the Rebels stole the Death Star plans?
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CRogue One
It ends just minutes before A New Hope begins, with Princess Leia's ship already being chased.
- 24Sci-fi
Stranger Things is set in the town of Hawkins, in which US state?
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CIndiana
Despite the setting, the show is filmed mostly in Georgia, around Atlanta.
- 25
Pixar's film Coco is set during the Day of the Dead celebrations in which country?
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CMexico
Disney originally tried to trademark the phrase 'Día de los Muertos' for merchandise, and dropped the idea after a public backlash.
- 26Noir
Who played Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's 2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
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BRooney Mara
Noomi Rapace played Salander in the Swedish original and Claire Foy took over for The Girl in the Spider's Web.
- 27Noir
In The Bridge, a body is found on the Øresund Bridge linking Denmark with which country?
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BSweden
The real Øresund Bridge carries both a motorway and a railway between Copenhagen and Malmö.
- 28Techniques
The transparent sheets characters were traditionally painted on are called…?
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BCels
The name is short for celluloid, though most were later made from cellulose acetate.
- 29Soundtracks
Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" was written for which film?
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BRocky III
Stallone asked Survivor after he failed to get the rights to Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust".
- 30DC
Superman's Kryptonian birth name is…?
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BKal-El
Jor-El is his dad — Marlon Brando bagged a huge fee for barely 20 minutes of screen time as him in 1978.
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Film quiz FAQ
Can I use these film trivia questions for my own quiz night?
That is what the page is for. Read them out at a pub quiz, paste them into a work quiz or a family quiz night, and keep the answers hidden until the table has committed. If you would rather not keep score by hand, the button on this page runs a Film round on everyone's phones.
Are the answers on the page?
Yes. Every question has a "Show the answer" toggle with the right option and a one-line fact, so you can quiz yourself first or read straight through with the answers open.
How do I play a Film quiz round live?
Press "Play a Film round". It opens the host page with the Film category already picked. The room shows a join code, everyone else opens huddlequiz.com/join on their phone and types it, and ten questions later there is a winner on the board. No accounts and nothing to install.
Will the live game ask the same questions?
Some of them. The game draws at random from a bigger Film pool, of which this page is a sample, so a live round mixes questions you have read here with ones you have not.
How hard are they?
Mixed. They are written for adults and teenagers at pub-quiz level, so a table of four should get most of them between them and argue about the rest.