Motion Picture Trivia

Motion Picture trivia questions and answers.

How many purebred Large White piglets appeared in the title role of Babe, the 1995 movie about a piglet that yearns to be a sheepdog?
A: 48--all 11 weeks old. It was necessary to change piglets regularly because pigs grow fast and the film took 5 months to shoot. The film also used one "animatronic" robot pig.

In what two films did Peter O' Tool portray England's King Henry II?
A: Becket, in 1964, and The Lion in Winter, in 1968.

What popular actor did poet Carl Sandburg describe as "one of the most beloved illiterates this country has ever known"?
A: Gary Cooper.

Who dubbed the voice of Draco, the dragon hero, in the 1996 film Dragonheart?
A: Sean Connery.

What is writer-director-actor Woody Allen's legal name?
A: Heywood Allen. He changed it from i=his birth name, Allen Stewart Konigsberg.

What are the names of actor River Phoenix's four siblings?
A: Summer, Rainbow, Liberty and Joaquin (once known as Leaf)

What two-time Academy Award-winning actress announced her retirement from the movies in 1992 after she was elected to Parliament in England?
A: Glenda Jackson. She won Best Actress Oscars for Women in Love in 1970 and A Touch of Class in 1973.

What disclaimer appears with the opening credits of the 1954 film The Caine Mutiny, which featured Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg?
A: "There has never been a mutiny in the history of the United States Navy."

What actor, in describing his craggy appearance, once said, "I resemble a rock quarry that got dynamited"?
A: Charles Bronson

What Oscar-winning movie role was turned down by TV newscasters Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor before it was given to an actor?
A: The role of the crazed anchorman in Network, the 1976 film that starred Peter Finch and gave us the line, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

Why did filmmaker George Lucas file suit against President Ronald Reagan?
A: To get him to stop using the term Star Wars to describe his Strategic Defense Initiative, the outer space computer-controlled defense system.

By what professional name do we know the actor who was born Walter Palanuik?
A: Jack Palance.

In what film besides Yankee Doodle Dandy did James Cagney play the legendary George M. Cohan?
A: The Seven Little Foys.

What is the closing line in the credits for the 1974 film The taking of Pelham One, Two, Three, about a hijacked New York City Subway train?
A: "Made without any help whatsoever from the New York Transit Authority.

For which of Jimmy Stewart's films did his father publicly chastise the actor for making a "dirty picture"?
A: Anatomy of a Murder. The actors father found the 1959 film's frank treatment of rape offensive and took out an ad in his hometown paper urging people not to see it.

What movie starring Robert Redford was an adaptation of a Broadway play in which he also appeared?
A: Barefoot in the Park. Redford's co-star in the 1964 stage production of the Neil Simon play was Elizabeth Ashley; in the 1967 movie, Jane Fonda.

Motion Picture Trivia Questions and Answers

Motion Picture trivia questions and answers.