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Exploring the World of Film: A Quiz

Test your knowledge about films and their cultural significance with this engaging quiz. From prominent actors to industry terminology, this quiz covers a range of topics related to the art of filmmaking.

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1 "________” or "Moving pictures" are films and movies.

2 Who played Rebecca in the movie Film?

3 Who played 4 in the movie Film?

4 Films are cultural artifacts created by specific ________, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them.

5 What role did Nell Harrison play in the movie Film?

6 What role did Naike Rivelli play in the movie Film?

7 What role did Monica Scattini play in the movie Film?

8 "________" refers to tickets sold at a theater, or more currently, rights sold for individual showings.

9 Who played Ágnes in the movie Film?

10 While motion picture films have been around for more than a century, film is still a relative newcomer in the pantheon of ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California.
  • every film which actor John Cazale starred in received an Academy Award nomination for best picture.
  • in the 1977 film That Obscure Object of Desire directed by Luis Buñuel, the leading role of Conchita is played by two actresses and voiced by a third.
  • prolific designer Adrian created costumes for over 200 films during his career at MGM.
  • short leading men often stand on apple boxes to make themselves look taller on film.
  • release of the award-winning film Lost in Beijing was delayed in part because censors insisted on removing a scene of a Mercedes-Benz driving through a puddle-filled pothole.
  • although she was born in Argentina, Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career in theater, film and telenovelas in the neighboring country of Brazil.
  • after limited success in film, actor Patrick McVey won starring roles in three television series: Big Town, Boots and Saddles, and Manhunt.
  • Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat writes his scripts in English and then translates them to the Thai language.
  • Zentropa is the name of both Lars von Trier's production company and his third theatrical feature film, released in 1991.
  • a fire that broke out a few days before Hiralal Sen (pictured) died destroyed all his films including India's first political film.
  • a total of 4156 films were submitted to the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and 349 of those, from 55 countries, were selected.
  • after his final Tarzan film, Johnny Weissmuller starred in the 1955–1956 TV series Jungle Jim, which features stories about a hunter, guide, and explorer.
  • the 1932 comedy Pojkarna på Storholmen, starring Fridolf Rhudin, is one of the most successful Swedish films in history.
  • the 1964 film Man in the 5th Dimension was shown in the 70mm Todd-AO widescreen process exclusively at the Billy Graham Pavilion during the 1964 New York World's Fair.
  • the character of Betts, played by Andrew Paul, was the only inmate seen to be released from the borstal–albeit temporarily–during the controversial British film Scum.
  • the award-winning Chinese film Cell Phone, with its box office profit of over ¥50 million, was the highest-grossing film made in China in 2003.
  • the first comprehensive campaign of unionized labor was the subject of the 1979 Academy Award-winning film Norma Rae.
  • the former actor Adam Kennedy wrote the screenplay for the Gene Hackman film, The Domino Principle, about a convict turned assassin.
  • the primarily western television actor Chris Alcaide came out of retirement in 1987 to appear as the Chief Justice in Charles Bronson's film Assassination.
  • the film Dangerous Minds was based on the true story by the high school teacher Louanne Johnson, My Posse Don't Do Homework.
  • the donkey that inspired the novel and film Brighty of the Grand Canyon is memorialized at Grand Canyon National Park by a statue and an historic landmark.
  • the 1957 film La Anam was selected as one of the best Egyptian films in history by the Egyptian Film Association in 1996.
  • the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films, as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical, Where's Charley.
  • the actor Tyler MacDuff played Billy the Kid in the 1954 film The Boy from Oklahoma, which inspired the Sugarfoot television series.
  • the actor-stuntman Paul Stader broke both heels when he fell from the second floor of a burning building in the filming of the 1949 movie Mighty Joe Young.
  • the British film It Happened Here is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the film's eight years production schedule as the longest ever.
  • Red Road is the first of three films in the Advance Party trilogy, each of which are to be set in Scotland using the same characters and cast, and directed by a different first-time director each time.
  • Chemmeen, a popular Malayalam novel, was made into a colour Cinemascope film, one of the first in Malayalam film industry.
  • American film director Keith Gordon decided to adapt the novel of obsessive passion, Waking the Dead, into a movie before he finished reading it.
  • make-up artist Howard Smit led efforts to establish the Academy Award for Best Makeup and require film studios to credit make-up artists in a film's screen credits.
  • Bodega Bay in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds.
  • Brad Johnson, the deputy Lofty Craig on the western TV series Annie Oakley, portrayed one of six unnamed students in Ronald Reagan's 1951 film Bedtime for Bonzo.
  • Carmelita González, who earned $21 for her first film appearance, became a leading actress during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
  • Ken Loach's 1995 film Land and Freedom tells the story of a British volunteer who joins the POUM militia and fights for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
  • Jack Womack's novel Let's Put the Future Behind Us emerged from a failed Soviet-American film project of William Gibson that was to star the late rockstar Victor Tsoi.
  • Brazilian director Humberto Mauro first became interested in film after buying a Kodak camera in 1923, and won the Brazilian film of the year award only 4 years later.
  • actor Buck Taylor, though he still appears in mostly Western films, is also a prolific artist of the American West.
  • character actor I. Stanford Jolley performed some 500 times on film or television but reportedly never received more than $100 for each screen appearance.
  • film art director Jeannine Oppewall was so heavily influenced by designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames, she had her house built based completely around her Eames-designed furniture.
  • film and television producer Alan Mruvka, founder of E! Entertainment, is now a real estate developer in Southern California.
  • Jack Agnew, a PFC member of the Filthy Thirteen World War II parachute regiment, loosely inspired the novel and film The Dirty Dozen.
  • Jeopardy!'s impact on culture has earned it references or parodies in no less than 64 feature films, and appearances on more than 10 television show episodes.
  • Victor Gauntlett supplied his personal pre-production Aston Martin Vantage for use in the filming of the James Bond film The Living Daylights.
  • The Dove, an American film released in 1974, is based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham, a 16-year-old who spent five years sailing around the world alone.
  • William Fawcett, a character actor in B-films and television from 1946 to the early 1970s, held a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a drama professor at Michigan State University prior to the start of his acting career.
  • Heaven Can Wait, a play by Harry Segall, has been filmed at least four times.
  • Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour is a computer-generated film that presents in 3-D a theoretical reconstruction of the ancient Khirbet Qumran site.
  • Saint Jack, a 1979 fiction film about a prostitute in Singapore and the only Hollywood film about Singapore to be shot on location, was banned in the country until 2006.
  • Robert Bray (forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS's Lassie), turned down a role in director Joshua Logan's 1958 hit film South Pacific, much to Bray's longstanding regret.
  • Marguerite Clark left school at age 16, debuted on Broadway a year later, and then quickly became one of the major stage and film stars of the first two decades of the 20th century.
  • Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
  • Mildred Dunnock played the role of Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman in three mediums — on Broadway, and for both film and television.
  • Naseeruddin Shah could not bag the title role in Gandhi, but later had opportunities to portray the Mahatma in a play and in a film.
  • Peter Bennett appeared in more than 200 films and television productions.
  • 1940's The Mark of Zorro is often considered the best of the Zorro movies.
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