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Films truly are the best source of entertainment, especially when you are with your family as it's fun to discuss movies and have a debate about them with your friends and family. A movie often teaches us about the different kinds of people present in this world, bonds between us, love, family, friends, and much more.
While watching a movie, there are certain characters that we have become die-hard fans of and other characters that we love to hate! So here we have some easy movie trivia questions and answers all about the movies! From family trivia questions and classic movies trivia, to, entertainment trivia questions, and much more, you can even include these trivia questions and answers as one of the games in your family games night.
Can anyone ever run out of words or topics while discussing a movie? We definitely can't! The idea of trivia about movies in itself is so much fun, so now we are going to discuss some easy trivia questions and answers, covering film trivia and movie trivia, perfect for the whole family! Are you ready to answer these movie trivia quiz questions?
1. Question: What was the name of the first film in the 'Harry Potter' series?
Answer: 'Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone'.
2. Question: Which film's makeup and hairstyling won an Oscar despite the makeup budget being only $250?
Answer: 'Dallas Buyers Club'.
3. Question: In which movie did Keanu Reeves learn Judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, marksmanship and driving, and performed about 95% of the fight scenes himself?
Answer: 'John Wick: Chapter 2'.
4. Question: In which movie was the iconic DeLorean time machine originally a refrigerator?
Answer: 'Back To The Future'.
5. Question: When adjusted for inflation, which is the highest-grossing movie of all time?
Answer: 'Gone With The Wind'.
6. Question: Which movie depicted the battle scenes of D-Day so realistically that it caused Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in combat Veterans when they watched it?
Answer: 'Saving Private Ryan'.
7. Question: Which movie has a Starbucks cup in every single scene in the movie?
Answer: 'Fight Club'.
8. Question: Which is the First US film to Feature a toilet flushing?
Answer: 'Psycho'.
9. Question: After which movie did the sale of pet rats increase rapidly?
Answer:' Ratatouille'.
10. Question: In which movie, was the sound of a Russian train's toilet flushing used as the sound of automatic doors opening?
Answer: 'Star Trek'.
11. Question: In which movie did Leonardo DiCaprio have to devour a raw slab of bison's liver, despite being a vegetarian?
Answer:' The Revenant'.
12. Question: How many 'Star Wars' movies are there?
Answer: 12.
13. Question: Which movie has a scene of two seconds of footage that took months to create?
Answer: 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen'.
14. Question: Which movie's director was arrested for murder and had to prove himself innocent by calling in the actors that were "murdered"?
Answer: 'Cannibal Holocaust'.
15. Question: Which movie is the most death-packed film ever made with an average of five people dying every minute?
Answer: '300'.
16. Question: Steven Callahan, a real shipwreck survivor, helped film which movie as a technical advisor?
Answer: 'Life Of Pi'.
17. Question: The roar made by a famous sci-fi creature was created by rubbing leather gloves on the strings of a musical instrument. Which sci-fi movie was this iconic roar from?
Answer: 'Godzilla' (1954).
18. Question: Which movies have over 24 minutes of just staring in them?
Answer: 'Twilight' series.
19. Question: For which movie did Tim Burton train 40 squirrels to crack nuts for, rather than use CGI?
Answer: 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory'.
20. Question: The directors of which movie wrote a new language, that the minions speak throughout the movie?
Answer: 'Despicable Me'
21. Question: Which Disney movie features the "You Can Fly" song?
Answer: 'Peter Pan'
22. Question: Which actor has voiced the character of Genie in Aladdin?
Answer: Robin Williams
23. Question: What power is possessed by Violet in "The Incredibles"?
Answer: Invisibility
24. Question: Which actor has received an Oscar nomination for acting in Lord of the Rings?
Answer: Ian McKellen
25. Question: What song is played in the title sequence of 'Guardian of Galaxy'?
Answer: "Come and Get Your Love"
26. Which movie was announced as the Best picture in 2017 incorrectly?
Answer: La La Land
27. Question: In 1948 which movie by Alfred Hitchcock was shot to give an outlook that it was shot continuously?
Answer: Rope
28. Question: Which comedy film starring Marilyn Monroe ends with the punchline "Well, nobody is perfect"?
Answer: "Some Like it Hot"
29. Question: Name the film composer that composed the music for Batman in 1989?
Answer: Danny Elfman
30. Question: Arnold Schwarzenegger debuted in 1970 with which film?
Answer: Hercules in New York
31. Question: During inflation which movie has the highest-grossing?
Answer: Gone With the Wind
32. Question: Who is the first black woman to win the best actress Oscar?
Answer: Halle Berry
33. Question: Which movie is written in just 2 weeks?
Answer: Taxi Driver
34. Question: Which Carin Terrier earned more than the movie cast in Wizard of Oz?
Answer: Terry playing the role of Toto.
35. Question: Which serial killer inspired three famous horror movies?
Answer: Ed Gein
36. Question: The movie breaking the norms of not flushing toilets on the TV screen was broken in which year?
Answer: In 1960.
37. Question: What's the time span of the first narrative movie?
Answer: 12 minutes
38. Question: Which famous fiction was filmed in reverse?
Answer: ' Pulp Fiction'
39. Question: When was the first drive-in theatre opened?
Answer: In 1993.
In this modern (easy) movie trivia quiz, we will be covering any movies released after 2010. Here are some interesting and easy movie trivia quiz questions, let's see how many answers you get right.
40. Question: Richard Kind portrayed the character of Bing Bong in which movie?
Answer: 'Inside Out' (2015).
41. Question: Which animated film’s art design is intended to reflect a '50s Broadway musical?
Answer: 'Inside Out' (2015).
42. Question: Which film is about a jazz pianist Sebastian and actress Mia who fall in love with each other in Los Angeles?
Answer: 'La La Land'.
43. Question: Which movie devised a new technology called '12-wire rig' for its making?
Answer: 'Gravity'.
44. Question: What is the name of the fourth film of the 'Mad Max' series, set in the year 2060?
Answer: 'Mad Max: Fury Road'.
45. Question: In which movie did Captain America lift Thor's hammer (mjölnir)?
Answer: 'Avengers: Endgame'.
46. Question: In which movie does Frida Kahlo’s spirit call Dante 'Yolo'?
Answer: 'Coco'.
47. Question: In which movie was the paradoxical stairs inspired by the art of M.C Escher?
Answer: 'Inception'.
48. Question: Which movie was based on Jordan Belfort, the former stockbroker, and a convicted felon?
Answer: 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'.
49. Question: In which movie did all the infinity stones first appear in the Marvel cinematic universe?
Answer: 'Guardians Of The Galaxy'.
50. Question: Which was the first comic book and superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
Answer: 'Black Panther'.
51. Question: In which movie was Thor's new weapon (the Stormbreaker) first seen?
Answer: 'Avengers: Infinity War'.
52. Question: Which movie won the Academy Award for the Best Animated Feature Film in 2019?
Answer: 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse'.
53. Question: In which movie did the Avengers break up, "like the band"?
Answer: 'Captain America: Civil War'.
54. Question: Which was the first Marvel movie where all six Avengers came together?
Answer: 'The Avengers'.
55. Question: At the end of which movie were humans seen colonizing the orbit of Saturn near the wormhole?
Answer:' Interstellar'.
56. Question: Which movie was the last movie of the 'Harry Potter' series?
Answer: 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2'.
57. Question: Which movie, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, was based on Mark Zuckerberg's, Facebook?
Answer: 'The Social Network'.
58. Question: Which movie won the first Academy Award for Best Picture?
Answer: 'Wings' (1927).
59. Question: Which movie won the Critic's Choice Movie Award for the Best Sci-Fi/ Horror film in 2018?
Answer: 'Get Out'.
60. Question: What's the most expensive film ever made?
Answer: "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strangers Tides"
61. Question: Which animation movie has shown the influence of six forms of martial arts?
Answer: Raya and the Last Dragon.
62. Question: Which author has the most number of films based on his books?
Answer: Stephen King
63. Question: Which movie used cursed words for the first time in the history of cinema?
Answer: The Wolf of Wall Street
64. Question: Who is the only woman to get nominated for an Oscar in Cinematography?
Answer: Rachel Morrison
65. Question: 'Four weddings and Funeral' portrayed the death of which character?
Answer: Gareth played by Simon Callow.
66. Question: Which film has John Travolta and Uma Thurman in a famous dance sequence?
Answer: Pulp Fiction
67. Question: Who played the character of Neil Armstrong in 'First Man'?
Answer: Ryan Gosling
68. Question: Who among the female actresses has won the most Academy Awards?
Answer: Edith
69. Question: Who is the famous director and owns the credits for directing Aquaman, Furious, and Saw?
Answer: James Wan
70. Question: Which fruit represented tragic news or mishappening in 'The Godfather'?
Answer: Oranges
71. Question: Which was the first film to be shot in 8k resolution?
Answer: Guardians of Galaxy Vol.2
72. Question: Which movie refers to Adolf Hitler as 'Worst Boy'?
Answer: Airplane!
73. Question: Which male artist has been credited for receiving the most number of Academy Awards?
Answer: Walt Disney
74. Question: Which movie has owned the position of the only international movie to receive Best Picture at the Oscars?
Answer: Parasite
75. Question: Which country has earned the position of Best Foreign Films with the most nominations and awards?
Answer: France
76. Question: Which independently established movie takes the place of most expenditure?
Answer: Cloud Atlas
77. Question: Which movie in 2016 featured Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling?
Answer: La La Land
78. Question: Which famous NBA player was featured in 'John Wick 3'?
Answer: Boban Marjanovic
79. Question: Which actor accepted that he didn't read the script of Spider 'No Way Home' to get astounded?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch
Are you a classic movie cinephile who has the details of every major classic movie at their fingertips? Well here are some famous movie trivia questions (classic films are included too!) that you are definitely going to love. Answer them and test your movie knowledge!
80. Question: Which was the first film of Francis Ford Coppola's epic 'Mafia' trilogy?
Answer: 'Godfather'.
81. Question: Which Quentin Tarantino movie was the third biggest rated earner of 1994?
Answer: 'Pulp Fiction'.
82. Question: Which 1966 musical won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Answer: 'The Sound Of Music'.
83. Question: Which movie includes the musical number, 'If I Only Had The Nerve'?
Answer: 'Wizard Of Oz'.
84. Question: Which Tom Hanks movie was nominated for Hollywood in the year 1994?
Answer: 'Forrest Gump'.
85. Question: Which Robert Zemeckis movie starring Tom Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Actor In A Leading Role in 1995?
Answer: 'Forrest Gump'.
86. Question: Which Brian De Palma movie is a loose remake of the 1932 movie of the same name?
Answer: 'Scarface'.
87. Question: Which was the first movie to go to VHS while still being in theatres, winning 11 Academy Awards?
Answer:' Titanic'.
88. Question: Which is the highest IMDB-rated movie of all time?
Answer: 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
89. Question: Which is one of the best rock movies ever made, starring Bob Dylan?
Answer: 'The Last Waltz'.
90. Question: Which 1976 classic movie was just shot in 28 days?
Answer: 'Rocky'.
91. Question: What is the top movie of all time in terms of box office rankings?
Answer: 'Avengers: Endgame'.
92. Question: Which Disney movie (animated) was remade after 25 years, with Simba as the lead role?
Answer: 'The Lion King'.
93. Question: The famous shot featured in which the film franchise's introduction was actually filmed through the barrel of a gun.
Answer: 'James Bond'.
94. Question: What is the most popular Christmas film ever?
Answer: 'The Grinch' (it is the highest f=grossing Christmas film).
95. Question: When was the first motion film released?
Answer: 1890
96. Question: Who Created the real sketch of Rose in the well-known classic Titanic?
Answer: James Cameron
97. Question: Who wore Michael Myer's mask during the Halloween scene?
Answer: William Shatner
98. Question: Which was the first movie to be adapted from Stephen King's novel?
Answer: Carrie
99. Question: Jack Nicholson won Oscar for Best actor in 1998 for which movie?
Answer: As Good as It Gets
100. Question: In the movie 'The Ring' how many days a person can survive after watching the cursed video?
Answer: Seven days
101. Question: Who voiced Mufasa in 1994's The Lion King?
Answer: Earl Jones
102. Question: Who played the role of Wendy in the movie 'The Shinning'?
Answer: Shelley Duvall
103. Question: When the first Mission Impossible was released?
Answer: 1996
Question: How many remakes of the original 1993 'A Star is Born' are made?
Answer: 4
105. Question: Which movie was directed in 1987 and was the start of Sandra Bullock's career as an actress?
Answer: Hangmen
106. Question: What was the movie that received the highest revenue in 1985?
Answer: "Back to the Future"
107. Question: Which film has a sequel released in the same year of release?
Answer: King Kong
108. Question: Which detective character was played in three of the 70s movies by Richard Roundtree?
Answer: John Shaft
109. Question: Which was the first audio film released of Charlie Chaplin and when was it released?
Answer: The Great Dictator was released in 1940.
110. Question: In 1965 who won the Best Actor at the Oscars for 'Cat Ballou'?
Answer: Lee Marvin
111. Question: Jane Hustons debuted with which film?
Answer: The Maltese Falcon
112. Question: In 1989 which company produced Batman?
Answer: Warner bros
113. Question: Which song track was the most appreciated and sold album of 1992?
Answer: 'The Bodyguard'
There are so many movies that are based on books. Let's have a look at the list we have got here for you. Can you name which book each of these films is based on and who wrote them? As many books and films share similar titles, naming the author is the real test in these trivia questions about movies!
114. Question: The movie 'Alice In Wonderland', is based on?
Answer: Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'.
115. Question: The movie 'Little Women', is based on?
Answer: Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel 'Little Women'.
116. Question: The movie 'Forrest Gump', is based on?
Answer: Winston Groom's 1986 novel 'Forrest Gump'.
117. Question: The 'Harry Potter' movie series is based on?
Answer: J.K Rowling's 'Harry Potter' novel series.
118. Question: The movie 'The Devil Wears Prada' is based on?
Answer: Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel 'The Devil Wears Prada'.
119. Question: 'The Lord Of The Rings' is based on?
Answer: J.R.R Tolkien's 1954 novel 'The Lord Of The Rings'.
120. Question: The movie 'Fight Club' is based on?
Answer: Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel 'Fight Club'.
121. Question: The movie 'The Social Network' (2010) is based on?
Answer: Ben Mezrich's 2009 novel 'The Accidental Billionaires'.
122. Question: The movie 'Room' (2015) is based on?
Answer: Emma Donoghue's 2010 novel 'Room'.
123. Question: The movie 'L. A Confidential' is based on?
Answer: James Ellroy's 1990 novel 'L. A Confidential'.
124. Question: The movie 'Psycho', is based on?
Answer: Robert Bloch's 1959 novel 'Psycho House'.
125. Question: The movie 'Metropolis', is based on?
Answer: Thea Von Harbou's 1925 novel 'Metropolis'.
126. Question: The movie 'Crazy Rich Asians', is based on?
Answer: Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel 'Crazy Rich Asians'.
127. Question: The movie 'American Psycho', is based on?
Answer: Bret Easton Ellis' 1991 novel 'American Psycho'.
128. Question: The movie 'Pride And Prejudice', is based on?
Answer: Jane Austen's 1813 novel 'Pride And Prejudice'.
129. Question: What is the first movie to be produced based on Dan Brown's novel?
Answer: The Da Vinci Code
130. Question: The distress and suffering of the people in Ireland were shown in which movie based on a book?
Answer: Angela's Ashes
131. Question: Which graphic book was later turned into a movie starring Robert Downey Junior?
Answer: Iron Man
132. Question: Which recent novel by J.R.R Tolkien was produced as a movie?
Answer: Hobbit
133. Question: Which character in the book 'First Blood' is played on reel life by Sylvester Stallone?
Answer: John Rambo
134. Question: Saroo Brierly's autobiography was produced in which movie?
Answer: Lion
135. Question: Two Spike Lee books that were later turned into films?
Answer: Clockers and Black Klansman
136. Question: Which book showed the friendship of 2 girls running a café which was later made into a movie?
Answer: 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café'.
137. Question: In the "The Secret Life of Bees" film adaptation, who portrayed Lily?
Answer: Dakota Fanning
138. Question: Which Disney movie was based on the life of a child who was kidnapped and later returns to his family at 14?
Answer: The Light in the Forest.
Question: Ulia Stiles has appeared in a number of movies with Shakespearean themes. What Shakespearean film did she not appear in?
Answer: She's the Man
140. Question: Who wrote the novel that was produced as the movie 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'?
Answer: Ian Fleming
141. Question: What role did Colin play in the film Fever Pitch, which was based on the best-selling novel by Nick Hornby?
Answer: Colin played the role of a teacher who is a sports fan.
142. Question: To coincide with Christmas, "The Virtue of Rags" is produced in America. This movie is an adaptation of which Dicken's book?
Answer: A Christmas carol
143. Question: Which film and book are based on the true account of a film stuntman who becomes a getaway driver and has a disastrous career?
Answer: Drive
Question: Which famous animation film was actually created from a 32-page graphic book and was launched in 2001?
Answer: Shrek
145. Question: Which well-known movie received an Oscar nomination, and is based on Shelby's novel about a drug addict?
Answer: Requiem for a Dream
146. Question: Die Hard is based on which novel by Roderick Thorp?
Answer: Nothing Lasts Forever
147. Question: Which autobiographical book was adapted into a film in 2007 and tells the tale of a girl who grew up during the Iranian revolution?
Answer: Persepolis
Question: Who voiced Mr. Wolf in the animation 'The Bad Guys' which was a bestseller author book series adaptation?
Answer: Sam Rockwell
149. Question: When did the phenomenal Coraline movie, which was a fantastic adaptation of Neil Gaiman's book and also led the book to reach the audience's eyes, came out?
Answer: 2009
150. Question: Which streaming platform featured Jenny Han's New York Times best-seller "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," as a film that explores sensuality, femininity, and the pressures of adolescence?
Answer: Netflix
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