125 Fun Movie Trivia Questions (With Answers) To Stump All Your Film-Loving Friends!
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Are you looking to show off your showbiz savvy at your next virtual game night or Netflix party? Or perhaps you're searching for the perfect pre-game entertainment for your next Oscars party? No matter what, we've got you covered!
Here are 125 classic movie trivia questions, ranging from easy to obscure, to challenge and maybe even stump you and all of your movie-loving buddies.
125 Movie Trivia Questions
1. Question: What are the dying words of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane?
Answer: "Rosebud"
2. Question: Who played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?
Answer: Anne Bancroft
3. Question: What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
4. Question: In The Matrix, does Neo take the blue pill or the red pill?
Answer: Red
5. Question: For what movie did Tom Hanks score his first Academy Award nomination?
Answer: Big
6. Question: What 1927 musical was the first "talkie"?
Answer: The Jazz Singer
7. Question: What's the name of the skyscraper in Die Hard?
Answer: Nakatomi Plaza
8. Question: What flavor of Pop Tarts does Buddy the Elf use in his spaghetti in Elf?
Answer: Chocolate
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9. Question: What shocking Wes Craven horror movie carried the marketing tagline, "To avoid fainting, keep repeating, 'It's only a movie...'"?
Answer: The Last House on the Left
10. Question: What pop vocal group performs at the wedding in Bridesmaids?
Answer: Wilson Phillips
11. Question: What real-life on-again off-again Hollywood power couple starred in the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
12. Question: What American writer/director starred in several iconic European-produced "Spaghetti Westerns"?
Answer: Clint Eastwood
13. Question: Who played Juror Number 8 in 12 Angry Men?
Answer: Henry Fonda
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14. Question: The head of what kind of animal is front-and-center in an infamous scene from The Godfather?
Answer: A horse
15. Question: What TV show was Jack Nicholson referencing when he ad-libbed "Here's Johnny!" in The Shining?
Answer: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
16. Question: What critically panned 1984 country-musical comedy starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone eventually became a cult classic?
Answer: Rhinestone
17. Question: Who played park owner John Hammond in Jurassic Park?
Answer: Richard Attenborough
18. Question: In what 1976 thriller does Robert De Niro famously say "You talkin' to me?"
Answer: Taxi Driver
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19. Question: What's the name of the anthemic dance near the beginning of The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Answer: "The Time Warp"
20. Question: For what movie did Steven Spielberg win his first Oscar for Best Director?
Answer: Schindler's List
21. Question: What is the name of the courtesan played by Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge!
Answer: Satine
22. Question: In what 1950 drama does Bette Davis say, "Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy night"?
Answer: All About Eve
23. Question: The theme from The Third Man (also called "The Harry Lime Theme" was performed on what instrument?
Answer: Zither
24. Question: Marlon Brando "could have been a contender" in what iconic 1954 crime drama?
Answer: On the Waterfront
25. Question: What famous L.A. landmark is heavily featured in Rebel Without a Cause?
Answer: Griffith Observatory
26. Question: Who played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 biopic Selma?
Answer: David Oyelowo
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27. Question: Who directed Boris Karloff in the classics Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein?
Answer: James Whale
28. Question: What infamous 1980 box-office bomb ruined the career of The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino?
Answer: Heaven's Gate
29. Question: What words are written on the knuckles of "Reverend" Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) in The Night of the Hunter?
Answer: "Love" and "hate."
30. Question: What Hollywood movie star plays himself in Zombieland?
Answer: Bill Murray
31. Question: In Risky Business, what song did Tom Cruise famously lip-sync to in his underwear?
Answer: "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger
32. Question: Who is the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in a Lord of the Rings movie?
Answer: Ian McKellen
33. Question: Who took over the role of Bruce Wayne's love interest Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, following Katie Holmes's exit after Batman Begins?
Answer: Maggie Gyllenhaal
34. Question: What song plays over the opening credits of Guardians of the Galaxy?
Answer: "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone
35. Question: For which 1964 musical blockbuster did Julie Andrews win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
Answer: Mary Poppins
36. Question: What is the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time?
Answer: Joker
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37. Question: What 1994 crime film revitalized John Travolta's career?
Answer: Pulp Fiction
38. Question: Who voiced the sultry Jessica Rabbit in Who's Afraid of Roger Rabbit?
Answer: Kathleen Turner
39. Question: Which movie was incorrectly announced as the winner of Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards, during the greatest Oscars flub of all time?
Answer: La La Land
40. Question: Which 1948 Alfred Hitchcock movie starred James Stewart and was shot to look like one continuous take?
Answer: Rope
41. Question: "Well, nobody's perfect" is the final line (and punchline) from what classic 1959 comedy starring Marilyn Monroe?
Answer: Some Like it Hot
42. Question: The stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's was adapted for the screen to become what 1942 Best Picture winner?
Answer: Casablanca
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43. Question: In what 1979 James Bond movie does the famous spy go to outer space?
Answer: Moonraker
44. Question: Who wrote the famous, scary theme music from Halloween?
Answer: John Carpenter
45. Question: What animated classic was the first film of the late-twentieth-century "Disney Renaissance?"
Answer: The Little Mermaid
46. Question: In Apocalypse Now, Robert Duvall says, "I love the smell of _____ in the morning."
Answer: Napalm
47. Question: What is the name of Quint's shark-hunting boat in Jaws?
Answer: The Orca
48. Question: What's the name of Charlie Chaplin's most famous, recurring character?
Answer: "The Tramp"
49. Question: Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for writing what 2010 drama about the creation of Facebook?
Answer:The Social Network
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50. Question: Who played iconic femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson in classic 1946 film noir Double Indemnity?
Answer: Barbara Stanwyck
51. Question: What is the model of revolver made famous by Clint Eastwood's "Dirty" Harry Callahan?
Answer: Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum
52. Question: Which 1927 war drama was the first movie to ever win Best Picture?
Answer: Wings
53. Question: Who is the first actor to play Jack Ryan on screen?
Answer: Alec Baldwin
54. Question: What was Audrey Hepburn's birth name?
Answer: Audrey Kathleen Ruston
55. Question: Joaquin Phoenix received his first Oscar nomination for playing Roman emperor Commodus in what 2000 Oscar-winning epic?
Answer: Gladiator
56. Question: Who played the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown in Titanic?
Answer: Kathy Bates
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57. Question: In the action thriller Speed, why is Annie (Sandra Bullock)'s driver's license suspended?
Answer: She was speeding
58. Question: Jennifer Lawrence won a Best Actress Academy Award for what 2012 romantic comedy/drama?
Answer: Silver Linings Playbook
59. Question: The Battle of Thermopylae served as the basis of what highly stylized 2006 smash hit swords-and-sandals action flick?
Answer: 300
60. Question: Which famous film composer wrote the music for Tim Burton's 1989 Batman?
Answer: Danny Elfman
61. Question: Which Alfred Hitchcock thriller is notorious for its shocking "shower scene"?
Answer: Psycho
62. Question: What is the highest-grossing foreign-language film at the U.S. box office?
Answer: The Passion of the Christ
63. Question: Who wrote the screenplay for Rocky?
Answer: Sylvester Stallone
64. Question: What national monument does Cary Grant climb in the heart-pounding final moments of North by Northwest?
Answer: Mount Rushmore
65. Question: What was Quentin Tarantino's first feature as writer/director?
Answer: Reservoir Dogs
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66. Question: Which Oscar-winning blonde bombshell played James Stewart's love interest Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window?
Answer: Grace Kelly
67. Question: Who is the only person ever to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in a Star Wars movie?
Answer: Alec Guinness
68. Question: What actress' name, who voices Princess Elsa in the Frozen films, did John Travolta botch at the 2014 Oscars?
Answer: Idina Menzel
69. Question: What is the real name of Uma Thurman's "The Bride" character from Kill Bill?
Answer: Beatrix Kiddo
70. Question: What prominent American director won an Oscar for helming Forrest Gump?
Answer: Robert Zemeckis
71. Question: Three of Jim Carrey's blockbusters—The Mask, Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective—were all released in what year?
Answer: 1994
72. Question: How many suns does Luke's home planet of Tatooine have in Star Wars?
Answer: Two
73. Question: What movie holds the record for most Oscar wins without winning Best Picture (eight wins total)?
Answer: Cabaret
74. Question: In what 1969 James Bond thriller does the famous spy fall in love and get married?
Answer: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
75. Question: What 1970 movie marked the feature debut of Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: Hercules in New York
76. Question: What is the first movie ever to be rated PG-13?
Answer: Red Dawn (1984)
77. Question: What is the highest-grossing movie of all time when taking inflation into account?
Answer: Gone With the Wind
78. Question: What is the highest-grossing movie of all time when not taking inflation into account?
Answer: Avatar
79. Question: What's the Los Angeles hotel prominently featured in Pretty Woman?
Answer: The Beverly Wilshire by Four Seasons
80. Question: What is the only 'X'-rated film to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Answer: Midnight Cowboy
81. Question: Who played detective Rick Deckard in Blade Runner?
Answer: Harrison Ford
82. Question: What is the name of the spaceship in Alien?
Answer: USCSS Nostromo
83. Question: This acclaimed, Oscar-winning filmmaker directed Happy Feet, Babe: Pig in the City and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Answer: George Miller
84. Question: Who is the first and only woman of color to win the Oscar for Best Actress?
Answer: Halle Berry
85. Question: What's the fictional brand of cigarettes in Quentin Tarantino's movies?
Answer: Red Apple cigarettes
86. Question: Who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Margaret Hamilton
87. Question: Which movie star is killed off in the opening scene of Scream?
Answer: Drew Barrymore
88. Question: What's the name of John Wayne's character in True Grit (played by Jeff Bridges in the remake)?
Answer: Rooster Cogburn
89. Question: What is the highest-grossing war movie of all time and Clint Eastwood's highest-grossing movie ever?
Answer: American Sniper
90. Question: How many Oscars has Meryl Streep won?
Answer: Three
91. Question: How many Oscars has Meryl Streep been nominated for?
Answer: 21
92. Question: Who played Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde?
Answer: Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
93. Question: What Martin Scorsese movie holds the all-time record for F-bombs?
Answer: The Wolf of Wall Street
94. Question: What is the name of the extended ballet sequence near the end of Singin' in the Rain?
Answer: "Broadway Melody"
95. Question: What is the name of Riley's imaginary friend in Inside Out?
Answer: Bing Bong
96. Question: Who played the Green Goblin in 2002 box-office smash Spider-Man?
Answer: Willem Dafoe
97. Question: For what movie did George Clooney win his sole acting Oscar to date?
Answer: Syriana
98. Question: Near the end of Vertigo, when Judy transforms into Madeline, she is bathed in what color light?
Answer: Green
99. Question: Who played Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist?
Answer: Linda Blair
100. Question: Only three movies in history have won the "big five" at the Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress). Name them.
Answer: It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs.
101. Question: What was the first pandemic era movie to gross over $1 billion at the box office?
Answer: Spider-Man: No Way Home
102. Question: Who is the only actor to appear in Robert Wise’s 1961 West Side Story movie and the 2021 remake?
Answer: Rita Moreno
103. Question: In the 1932 pre-Code film Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich famously appears in a nightclub dressed as what animal?
Answer: A gorilla
104. Question: What internationally esteemed Malaysian actress has starred in a Bond film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and more?
Answer: Michelle Yeoh
105. Question: Who won his second Best Actor Oscar in 2021, in the ceremony’s biggest upset?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins
106. Question: What indie horror movie boogeyman became an unexpected LGBTQ+ icon of the 21st century?
Answer: The Babadook
107. Question: What kind of bug is on the back of Ryan Gosling’s silk jacket in Drive?
Answer: Scorpion
108. Question: What actress was the queen of 1970s “Blaxploitation” cinema?
Answer: Pam Grier
109. Question: What is the first fantasy movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Answer: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
110. Question: What is the second (and last) fantasy movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars?
Answer: The Shape of Water
111. Question: What famous heartthrob is unrecognizable under layers of makeup as The Penguin in 2021’s The Batman?
Answer: Colin Farrell
112. Question: In Clueless, what character said, “You’re a virgin who can’t drive?”
Answer: Tai (Brittany Murphy)
113. Question: What is the name of the love interest whose “hair looks sexy pushed back” in Mean Girls?
Answer: Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett)
114. Question: What highly acclaimed Richard Linklater drama was filmed over and produced over 12 years?
Answer: Boyhood
115. Question: What is the name of Humperdinck’s kingdom in The Princess Bride?
Answer: Florin
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116. Question: How many screenwriting Oscars has Quentin Tarantino won?
Answer: Two
117. Question: What actress exited the set of apocalyptic comedy This is the End over objections to appearing in a scene that involved cannibalism?
Answer: Emma Watson
118. Question: Who won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for both Moonlight and Green Book?
Answer: Mahershala Ali
119. Question: What critically maligned 2004 superhero film co-stars Sharon Stone as an evil cosmetics executive?
Answer: Catwoman
120. Question: Which actress replaced Rachel Weisz as Evelyn O’Connor in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor?
Answer: Maria Bello
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121. Question: What is the name of the fictional boy band in Pixar's Turning Red?
Answer: 4*Town
122. Question: Who plays Duncan Idaho in Dune (2021)?
Answer: Jason Momoa
123. Question: Dakota Johnson dropped out of Olivia Wilde’s sophomore feature Don’t Worry Darling to appear in what critically acclaimed 2021 drama?
Answer: The Lost Daughter
124. Question: What legendary pop star judges a fashion “walk-off” between Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in Zoolander?
Answer: David Bowie
125. Question: What is the first foreign-language movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Parasite
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