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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