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
- Question: What are the dying words of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane?Answer: “Rosebud”
- Question: Who played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?Answer: Anne Bancroft
- Question: What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Question: In The Matrix, does Neo take the blue pill or the red pill?Answer: Red
- Question: For what movie did Tom Hanks score his first Academy Award nomination?Answer: Big
- Question: What 1927 musical was the first “talkie”? Answer: The Jazz Singer
- Question: What’s the name of the skyscraper in Die Hard?Answer: Nakatomi Plaza
- Question: What flavor of Pop Tarts does Buddy the Elf use in his spaghetti in Elf? Answer: Chocolate
- 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
- Question: What pop vocal group performs at the wedding in Bridesmaids?Answer: Wilson Phillips
- 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
- Question: What American writer/director starred in several iconic European-produced “Spaghetti Westerns”?Answer: Clint Eastwood
- Question: Who played Juror Number 8 in 12 Angry Men?Answer: Henry Fonda
- Question: The head of what kind of animal is front-and-center in an infamous scene from The Godfather?Answer: A horse
- 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
- Question: What critically panned 1984 country-musical comedy starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone eventually became a cult classic?Answer: Rhinestone
- Question: Who played park owner John Hammond in Jurassic Park?Answer: Richard Attenborough
- Question: In what 1976 thriller does Robert De Niro famously say “You talkin’ to me?“Answer: Taxi Driver
- Question: What’s the name of the anthemic dance near the beginning of The Rocky Horror Picture Show?Answer: “The Time Warp”
- Question: For what movie did Steven Spielberg win his first Oscar for Best Director?Answer: Schindler’s List
- Question: What is the name of the courtesan played by Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! Answer: Satine
- Question: In what 1950 drama does Bette Davis say, “Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be a bumpy night”?Answer: All About Eve
- Question: The theme from The Third Man (also called “The Harry Lime Theme” was performed on what instrument?Answer: Zither
- Question: Marlon Brando “could have been a contender” in what iconic 1954 crime drama?Answer: On the Waterfront
- Question: What famous L.A. landmark is heavily featured in Rebel Without a Cause?Answer: Griffith Observatory
- Question: Who played Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 biopic Selma?Answer: David Oyelowo
- Question: Who directed Boris Karloff in the classics Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein?Answer: James Whale
- Question: What infamous 1980 box-office bomb ruined the career of The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino?Answer: Heaven’s Gate
- Question: What words are written on the knuckles of “Reverend” Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) in The Night of the Hunter?Answer: “Love” and “hate.”
- Question: What Hollywood movie star plays himself in Zombieland?Answer: Bill Murray
- 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
- Question: Who is the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in a Lord of the Rings movie?Answer: Ian McKellen
- 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
- Question: What song plays over the opening credits of Guardians of the Galaxy?Answer: “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone
- Question: For which 1964 musical blockbuster did Julie Andrews win the Academy Award for Best Actress?Answer: Mary Poppins
- Question: What is the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time?Answer: Joker
- Question: What 1994 crime film revitalized John Travolta’s career?Answer: Pulp Fiction
- Question: Who voiced the sultry Jessica Rabbit in Who’s Afraid of Roger Rabbit? Answer: Kathleen Turner
- 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
- Question: Which 1948 Alfred Hitchcock movie starred James Stewart and was shot to look like one continuous take?Answer: Rope
- Question: “Well, nobody’s perfect” is the final line (and punchline) from what classic 1959 comedy starring Marilyn Monroe?Answer: Some Like it Hot
- Question: The stage play Everybody Comes to Rick’s was adapted for the screen to become what 1942 Best Picture winner?Answer: Casablanca
- Question: In what 1979 James Bond movie does the famous spy go to outer space?Answer: Moonraker
- Question: Who wrote the famous, scary theme music from Halloween?Answer: John Carpenter
- Question: What animated classic was the first film of the late-twentieth-century “Disney Renaissance?“Answer: The Little Mermaid
- Question: In Apocalypse Now, Robert Duvall says, “I love the smell of _____ in the morning.“Answer: Napalm
- Question: What is the name of Quint’s shark-hunting boat in Jaws?Answer: The Orca
- Question: What’s the name of Charlie Chaplin’s most famous, recurring character?Answer: “The Tramp”
- Question: Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for writing what 2010 drama about the creation of Facebook?Answer:The Social Network
- Question: Who played iconic femme fatale Phyllis Dietrichson in classic 1946 film noir Double Indemnity?Answer: Barbara Stanwyck
- Question: What is the model of revolver made famous by Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty” Harry Callahan?Answer: Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum
- Question: Which 1927 war drama was the first movie to ever win Best Picture?Answer: Wings
- Question: Who is the first actor to play Jack Ryan on screen?Answer: Alec Baldwin
- Question: What was Audrey Hepburn’s birth name?Answer: Audrey Kathleen Ruston
- Question: Joaquin Phoenix received his first Oscar nomination for playing Roman emperor Commodus in what 2000 Oscar-winning epic?Answer: Gladiator
- Question: Who played the “Unsinkable” Molly Brown in Titanic?Answer: Kathy Bates
- Question: In the action thriller Speed, why is Annie (Sandra Bullock)’s driver’s license suspended?Answer: She was speeding
- Question: Jennifer Lawrence won a Best Actress Academy Award for what 2012 romantic comedy/drama?Answer: Silver Linings Playbook
- Question: The Battle of Thermopylae served as the basis of what highly stylized 2006 smash hit swords-and-sandals action flick?Answer: 300
- Question: Which famous film composer wrote the music for Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman?Answer: Danny Elfman
- Question: Which Alfred Hitchcock thriller is notorious for its shocking “shower scene”?Answer: Psycho
- Question: What is the highest-grossing foreign-language film at the U.S. box office?Answer: The Passion of the Christ
- Question: Who wrote the screenplay for Rocky?Answer: Sylvester Stallone
- Question: What national monument does Cary Grant climb in the heart-pounding final moments of North by Northwest?Answer: Mount Rushmore
- Question: What was Quentin Tarantino’s first feature as writer/director?Answer: Reservoir Dogs
- Question: Which Oscar-winning blonde bombshell played James Stewart’s love interest Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window?Answer: Grace Kelly
- Question: Who is the only person ever to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in a Star Wars movie?Answer: Alec Guinness
- Question: What actress’ name, who voices Princess Elsa in the Frozen films, did John Travolta botch at the 2014 Oscars?Answer: Idina Menzel
- Question: What is the real name of Uma Thurman’s “The Bride” character from Kill Bill?Answer: Beatrix Kiddo
- Question: What prominent American director won an Oscar for helming Forrest Gump?Answer: Robert Zemeckis
- 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
- Question: How many suns does Luke’s home planet of Tatooine have in Star Wars?Answer: Two
- Question: What movie holds the record for most Oscar wins without winning Best Picture (eight wins total)?Answer: Cabaret
- Question: In what 1969 James Bond thriller does the famous spy fall in love and get married?Answer: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Question: What 1970 movie marked the feature debut of Arnold Schwarzenegger?Answer: Hercules in New York
- Question: What is the first movie ever to be rated PG-13?Answer: Red Dawn (1984)
- Question: What is the highest-grossing movie of all time when taking inflation into account?Answer: Gone With the Wind
- Question: What is the highest-grossing movie of all time when not taking inflation into account?Answer: Avatar
- Question: What’s the Los Angeles hotel prominently featured in Pretty Woman?Answer: The Beverly Wilshire by Four Seasons
- Question: What is the only ‘X’-rated film to win Best Picture at the Oscars?Answer: Midnight Cowboy
- Question: Who played detective Rick Deckard in Blade Runner?Answer: Harrison Ford
- Question: What is the name of the spaceship in Alien?Answer: USCSS Nostromo
- Question: This acclaimed, Oscar-winning filmmaker directed Happy Feet, Babe: Pig in the City and Mad Max: Fury Road.Answer: George Miller
- Question: Who is the first and only woman of color to win the Oscar for Best Actress?Answer: Halle Berry
- Question: What’s the fictional brand of cigarettes in Quentin Tarantino’s movies?Answer: Red Apple cigarettes
- Question: Who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz?Answer: Margaret Hamilton
- Question: Which movie star is killed off in the opening scene of Scream?Answer: Drew Barrymore
- Question: What’s the name of John Wayne’s character in True Grit (played by Jeff Bridges in the remake)?Answer: Rooster Cogburn
- Question: What is the highest-grossing war movie of all time and Clint Eastwood’s highest-grossing movie ever?Answer: American Sniper
- Question: How many Oscars has Meryl Streep won?Answer: Three
- Question: How many Oscars has Meryl Streep been nominated for?Answer: 21
- Question: Who played Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde?Answer: Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
- Question: What Martin Scorsese movie holds the all-time record for F-bombs?Answer: The Wolf of Wall Street
- Question: What is the name of the extended ballet sequence near the end of Singin’ in the Rain?Answer: “Broadway Melody”
- Question: What is the name of Riley’s imaginary friend in Inside Out?Answer: Bing Bong
- Question: Who played the Green Goblin in 2002 box-office smash Spider-Man?Answer: Willem Dafoe
- Question: For what movie did George Clooney win his sole acting Oscar to date?Answer: Syriana
- Question: Near the end of Vertigo, when Judy transforms into Madeline, she is bathed in what color light?Answer: Green
- Question: Who played Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist?Answer: Linda Blair
- 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.
- Question: What was the first pandemic era movie to gross over $1 billion at the box office?Answer: Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Question: Who is the only actor to appear in Robert Wise’s 1961 West Side Story movie and the 2021 remake?Answer: Rita Moreno
- Question: In the 1932 pre-Code film Blonde Venus, Marlene Dietrich famously appears in a nightclub dressed as what animal?Answer: A gorilla
- 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
- Question: Who won his second Best Actor Oscar in 2021, in the ceremony’s biggest upset?Answer: Anthony Hopkins
- Question: What indie horror movie boogeyman became an unexpected LGBTQ+ icon of the 21st century?Answer: The Babadook
- Question: What kind of bug is on the back of Ryan Gosling’s silk jacket in Drive?Answer: Scorpion
- Question: What actress was the queen of 1970s “Blaxploitation” cinema?Answer: Pam Grier
- 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
- Question: What is the second (and last) fantasy movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars?Answer: The Shape of Water
- Question: What famous heartthrob is unrecognizable under layers of makeup as The Penguin in 2021’s The Batman?Answer: Colin Farrell
- Question: In Clueless, what character said, “You’re a virgin who can’t drive?”Answer: Tai (Brittany Murphy)
- Question: What is the name of the love interest whose “hair looks sexy pushed back” in Mean Girls?Answer: Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett)
- Question: What highly acclaimed Richard Linklater drama was filmed over and produced over 12 years?Answer: Boyhood
- Question: What is the name of Humperdinck’s kingdom in The Princess Bride?Answer: Florin
- Question: How many screenwriting Oscars has Quentin Tarantino won?Answer: Two
- 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
- Question: Who won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for both Moonlight and Green Book?Answer: Mahershala Ali
- Question: What critically maligned 2004 superhero film co-stars Sharon Stone as an evil cosmetics executive?Answer: Catwoman
- Question: Which actress replaced Rachel Weisz as Evelyn O’Connor in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor?Answer: Maria Bello
- Question: What is the name of the fictional boy band in Pixar’s Turning Red?Answer: 4*Town
- Question: Who plays Duncan Idaho in Dune (2021)?Answer: Jason Momoa
- 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
- Question: What legendary pop star judges a fashion “walk-off” between Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in Zoolander?Answer: David Bowie
- Question: What is the first foreign-language movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?Answer: Parasite Want more trivia questions? Try our Pop Culture Trivia and The Office trivia.
