Movie Trivia Questions & Answers About Rain Man, Warren Beatty, Sean Connery, and More!

 

 

Movie trivia questions and answers.

Which is the only airline "Rain Man" Dustin Hoffman says he would be willing to fly in the 1998 Academy Award-winning film?
A: Quantas, because of its safety record.

Under what pseudonym did strongman Arnold Schwarzenegger make his screen debut?
A: Arnold Strong. He starred in the 1970 Italian-TV film Hercules in New York.

Who wrote the 1975 Academy Award-winning song "I'm Easy" for the movie Nashville?
A: Actor Keith Carradine, who sang the song in the film and at the Oscar ceremonies.

What is comedian Chevy Chase's real first name?
A: Cornelius.

What movie star's trademark telephone greeting became the title of a popular 1965 movie comedy?
A: Warren Beatty's line "What's new, pussycat."

What Cecil B. DeMille film was the first movie to include screen credits?
A: His 1913 silent version of Squaw Man--the first of three versions DeMille made of the story.

By what name do we know the play and cult movie that was originally going to be called They Came From Denton High?
A: The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

What were the names of mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown's dogs in Back to the Future and Back to the Future II?
A: Einstein and Copernicus.

Who wrote and directed the 1984 "rockumentary" satire This Is Spinal Tap and the 1986 hit Stand By Me?
A: Rob Reiner, who once played Mike "Meathead" Stivic on TV's All in the Family.

In 1953 film Mogambo, what did lark Gable reply when =Grace Kelly asked, "Who is this man Thomson that gazelles should be called after him?"
A: Gable said: "He's a third baseman for the Giants who got a home run against the Dodgers once." Actually the Thomson's gazelle is name for nineteenth-centullry Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson, who was the first European to visit many regions of East Africa.

When Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928, who won for Best Actor?
A: Emil Jannings.

What actor has to cover his arm with make-up when he performs in order to mask tattoos proclaiming his love for Mom and Dad and Scotland?
A: Sean Connery, best know for his James Bond portrayal.

Where was Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now filmed?
A: In the Philippines.

Who played Humpty Dumpty in the 1933 movie Alice in Wonderland?
A: W.C. Fields.

In what 1968 film did Marlon Brando play a long-haired Jewish guru; Ringo Starr, a Mexican gardener; Charles ?Aznovour, a hunchback; and Richard Burton, an alcoholic Welsh poet?
A: Candy, based on Terry Southern's novel.

What famous comedian played the Tin Woodsman in the 1925 silent-movie version to The Wizard of Oz?
A: Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy fame.

Who was the first black performer signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio?
A: Singer Lena Horne, in 1942. The studio was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Where did the Warner Brothers--Jack, Harry, Sam and Albert--get the 99 chairs they used in the first theater they opened in 1903 in New Castle, Pennsylvania?
A: From the local undertaker. The chairs had to be returned whenever there was a funeral.