Miscellaneous Cinema Trivia.

Cinema trivia questions and answers.

Where was King Kong's home?
A: Skull Island.

Gangster Al Capone enjoyed the 1932 film Scarface so much that he gave director howard Hawkes a gift . What was it?
A: A miniature machine gun.

In what movie did long-time Superman George Reeves make his screen debut?
A: gone With the Wind. He played Brent Tarleton, one of the redheaded twins who wooed Scarlett O'Hara.

In the saucy 1953 comedy The Moon is Blue, starring William Holden, David Niven and Maggie McNamara, what word made its movie debut and caused the film to be banned in several parts of the country?
A: "Virgin."

To whom did actor Ryan O'Neal mail a live tarantula?
A: Gossip commentator Rona Barrett.

What was the name of the general played by sterling Hayden in the movie Dr. Strangelove?
A: Gen. Jack D. Ripper.

Who played the title role in Marty when it ws presented as a TV movie in 1953--three years before the Oscar-winning film staring Ernest Borgnine?
A: Rod Steiger.

Who starred in: The Black Camel, Black Dragons, Black Friday, The Black Sheep, and two films entitled The Black Cat?
A: Bela Lugosi.

In the movie Bananas, who did the play-by-play on Woody Allen's wedding night with Louise Lasser?
A: Sportscaster Howard Cosell.

A: What British actress made her stage debut at age 33, when she appeared as a fairy with a long nose in a pantomime play called Little Jack Horner?
A: Margaret Rutherford, who was 71 when she made her first Miss Marple movie and 80 when she died.

What was the name of the sewer worker attacked by a 36-foot alligator in the 1980 monster movie, Alligator?
A: Ed Norton, undoubtedly in deference to the character created by Art Carney in TV's The Honeymooners.

Where did John Wayne get his nickname duke?
A: From his favorite childhood dog, an Airedale called Duke.

Who portrayed the dying sea captain who delivered the Maltese Falcon in the 1941 John Huston film classic?
A: John Huston's actor-father, Walter.

What actor started his career on Broadway in 1922 as one of the robots in Karel Capek's R.U.R.?
A: Spencer Tracy.

Who won a Best Actor Oscar for a role he also played on Broadway and in a weekly TV series?
A: Yul Brynner. The role, of course, was the King of Siam, whom Brynner portrayed on Broadway in the musical The King and I in 1951, in the bit movie of the same name in 1956, and in an unsuccessful TV version called Anna and the King in 1972. He continued to play the role in a series of revivals until his death in 1985.

For what role did actress Jodie Foster have to undergo psychiatric evaluation by the Califrnia labor Board?
A: Iris, the teen prostitute in the 1976 film Taxi Driver. Because she was a minor, the board had to determine whether she was emotionally capable of handling the controversial role.

Cinema Trivia Questions and Answers

Cinema trivia questions and answers.