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1. What comic actor directed himself in the 1976 film The Last Remake of Beau Geste? {Marty Feldman}
2. What 12-year-old copped an Oscar nomination for her role in The Exorcist? {Linda Blair}
3. What movie starred Bruce I, Bruce II and Bruce III? {Jaws}
4. What film put director Lina Wertmuller on the map? {Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August}
5. What TV series had shows expanded for cinema release as One Spy Too Many and The Spy with My Face? {The Man from U.N.C.L.E.}
6. What was Spencer Tracy's last film? {Guess Who's Coming to Dinner}
7. What Dickens novel is the most-often filmed? {A Christmas Carol}
8. Who first attracted attention in 1963 with a three-hour film of a man sleeping, cleverly titled Sleep? {Andy Warhol}
9. What film did comedian Steve Martin spend 11 months learning to tap dance for? {Pennies From Heaven}
10. Who begged Columbia Pictures for the role of Maggio in From Here to Eternity and landed it for a paltry $8,000? {Frank Sinatra}
11. What was the first Arthur Hailey best-seller put on celluloid? {Hotel}
12. What Olivia Newton-John movie was touted as "a fantasy, a musical, a place where dreams come true"? {Xanadu}
13. What rock and roll number was the theme song for The Blackboard Jungle? {Rock Around the Clock}
14. Who dubbed the voice of Dorothy in the 1962 animated film Journey Back to Oz? {Liza Minnelli}
15. What was the last film Vivien Leigh made? {Ship of Fools}
16. What film teamed Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn and Peggy? {Bedtime for Bonzo}
17. What song was played over the closing credits in the Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory? {This Land is Your Land}
18. What 1939 film required the screentesting of 143 dogs? {The Hound of the Baskervilles}
19. Who directed Dr. Strangelove? {Stanley Kubrick}
20. What actress is widely considered to be the last example of a studio-created star? {Kim Novak}
21. What play was West Side Story drawn from? {Romeo and Juliet}
22. Who did Jack Warner blatantly not hire to play the part of Eliza in My Fair Lady? {Julie Andrews}
23. What 1952 3-D actioner was pushed with the slogan: "A lion in your lap"? {Bwana Devil}
24. What John Huston film required the construction of 20 fake whales? {Moby Dick}
25. Whose directorial efforts included Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, The Passion of Anna and Autumn Sonata? {Ingmar Bergman's}
26. Who was the star of Steamboat Willie? {Mickey Mouse}
27. What Arthur Miller novelette appeared in Esquire in 1957 and went before the cameras three years later? {The Misfits}
28. What Strauss tune accompanied the initial space sequences in 2001: A Space Odyssey? {On the Beautiful Danube}
29. What 1926 extravaganza boasted a cast of 125,000? {Ben-Hur}
30. Which role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid did Steve McQueen turn down? {The Sundance Kid}
31. What Hitchcock film took seven days and 45 camera setups to shoot 45 seconds of bloodletting? {Psycho}
32. Whose play was the 1946 David Lean film Blithe Spirit based on? {Noel Coward's}
33. What 1955 William Holden film was a modern-day Madam Butterfly tale based on Han Suyin's autobiographical novel? {Love is a Many-Splendored Thing}
34. What 1979 James Brolin-Margot Kidder chiller was hyped with the line: "For God's sake, get out!"? {The Amityville Horror}
35. What 1967 Peter Fonda flic was advertised as being in "Psychedelic Color"? {The Trip}
36. What did the Vitaphone and Movietone systems provide for the movies? {Sound}
37. What 1927 movie did Eddie Cantor turn down? {The Jazz Singer}
38. Who was Charles Boyer's leading lady in Algiers? {Hedy Lamarr}
39. What Howard was depicted in 1979's Melvin and Howard? {Howard Hughes}
40. What 1973 George Lucas film was a cinematic recreation of his adolescence? {American Graffiti}
41. What was the 1960 sequel to 1958's The Fly? {Return of the Fly}
42. What Paris landmark was used in advertising The Longest Day in September, 1962? {The Eiffel Tower}
43. What was the sequel to 1973's The Three Musketeers? {The Four Musketeers}
44. What group sang the theme song for Goodbye Columbus? {The Association}
45. What was the theme song for The Grapes of Wrath? {Red River Valley}
46. What film marked Steve Martin's first starring role? {The Jerk}
47. What was Elvis Presley's first film? {Love Me Tender}
48. What does a movie sound man place his "cans" over? {His ears}
49. What film was released six months early to capitalize on Sandra Day O'Connor's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court? {First Monday in October}
50. What Albert Finney film marked Liza Minnelli's first starring role? {Charlie Bubbles}
51. Which of the Road pictures was originally titled Road to Mandalay? {Road to Singapore}
52. What film introduced Inspector Clouseau to the world? {The Pink Panther}
53. Who replaced George Raft in High Sierra because of Raft's superstitious aversion to dying in the last scene? {Humphrey Bogart}
54. Who cabled Great Gatsby producer Robert Evans from London, asking: "May I be your Daisy?"? {Mia Farrow}
55. What 1952 movie was promoted with the timely line: "When the hands point straight up...the excitement starts"? {High Noon}
56. What 1963 flic was billed as "the hot line suspense comedy"? {Dr. Strangelove}
57. What 1934 Dashiell Hammett-inspired film was shot in 16 days by director W.S. Van Dyke, known as One-Take Woody? {The Thin Man}
58. Who produced the 1973 shocker The Exorcist for Warner Bros.? {William Peter Blatty}
59. What 1956 Fred Astaire film was a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story? {High Society}
60. What courtroom melodrama won Billy Wilder a best director Oscar? {Witness for the Prosecution}
61. What dancer directed the 1969 musical Hello Dolly? {Gene Kelly}
62. What country's first western was 1978's Armed and Extremely Dangerous? {The Soviet Union's}
63. What former Dutch dictationer-taker was 1975's The Happy Hooker about? {Xaviera Hollander}
64. What movie mogul was as renowned for his memos as he was for his movie-making? {David O. Selznick}
65. What 1974 spectacular introduced the theater-rattling Sensurround? {Earthquake}
66. Who directed Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet? {Franco Zeffirelli}
67. What director noted: "If I made Cinderella, the audience would start looking for a body in the coach"? {Alfred Hitchcock}
68. What 1958 musical was partly based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant? {Damn Yankees}
69. Who served even as a hairdresser for the filming of The Great Dictator? {Charlie Chaplin}
70. What film was D.W. Griffith making when he ordered: "Move those 10,000 horses a little to the right"? {The Birth of a Nation}
71. What 1972 film marked Diana Ross's movie debut? {Lady Sings the Blues}
72. What MGM figure has been played by Slats, Jackie, Tanner and Jackie II? {Leo the MGM Lion}
73. Who wrote the screenplay for Being There, as well as the novel of the same name? {Jerzy Kosinski}
74. What 1956 film marked Ingrid Bergman's return to American films after a seven-year absence? {Anastasia}
75. What film project forced Paramount to insure 2,000 snakes and 150 tarantulas? {Raiders of the Lost Ark}
76. What actress's unavailability led to the casting of Judy Garland for The Wizard of Oz? {Shirley Temple's}
77. What studio gained recognition for turning out musicals in the '40s and '50s? {MGM}
78. What Robert Altman film included 27 songs? {Nashville}
79. What Jaws performer turned down the lead in All That Jazz because he couldn't get along with Bob Fosse? {Richard Dreyfuss}
80. What was the first of the four Matt Helm flics? {The Silencers}
81. What star of The Thomas Crown Affair appeared as a $19-a-day extra in Somebody Up There Likes Me? {Steve McQueen}
82. What 1976 biopic cast Valerie Perrine as Carlotta and Rod Steiger as her Bill? {W.C. Fields and Me}
83. What member of The Beverly Hillbillies TV cast directed Ode to Billy Joe? {Max Baer Jr.}
84. What Agatha Christie-inspired movie was hyped: "The only thing that could follow 'Murder' is 'Death'"? {Death on the Nile}
85. What 1955 adventure was put together from three one-hour Frontierland episodes from Walt Disney's TV show? {Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier}
86. Who received second billing in Psycho? {Vera Miles}
87. What 1956 film created a star of Brigitte Bardot? {And God Created Woman}
88. Who directed the 1962 western Ride the High Country? {Sam Peckinpah}
89. Who starred in the 1971 movies Doctors' Wives, Cisco Pike, The French Connection and The Hunting Party? {Gene Hackman}
90. Who got $700,000 for her work in the 1966 epic Hawaii? {Julie Andrews}
91. What book was The Wizard of Oz based on? {The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}
92. What movie was hyped with the line: "Harry Palmer didn't know whose funeral it would be. He just hoped it wouldn't be his"? {Funeral in Berlin}
93. Who got $350,000 and nine per cent of the profits for The Bad News Bears? {Tatum O'Neal}
94. What film marked Tatum O'Neal's screen debut? {Paper Moon}
95. What film marked Woody Allen's first "straight" role? {The Front}
96. What was Peter Seller's only Clouseau film without "Pink Panther" in the title? {A Shot in the Dark}
97. Who created Woody Woodpecker? {Walter Lantz}
98. What Stanley Kubrick film was based on a William Makepeace Thackeray novel? {Barry Lyndon}
99. What was the third Bond picture? {Goldfinger}
100. What actor wrote, directed and co-starred in the 1969 film Husbands? {John Cassavetes}
101. What's the standard width of celluloid used for feature films? {Thirty-five millimeters}
102. What 1962 epic shot the crucifixion of Christ near Nice, France, to include in the film an actual total solar eclipse? {Barabbas}
103. What Cary Grant facial feature was Columbia's ideal for its casting of Golden Boy? {His chin}
104. What portly baritone narrated Swiss Family Robinson? {Orson Welles}
105. What film did Mike Nichols win the best director Oscar for? {The Graduate}
106. What British comic bashed his ukelele to screen immortality? {George Formby}
107. What's the term for the day's shooting that returns from the lab for viewing by the powers that be? {Rushes}
108. What, in movie jargon, is a series of frames taken by a single camera from one setup? {A take}
109. What two Oscar nominations did Sylvester Stallone receive for Rocky? {Best actor and best original screenplay}
110. Who produced and directed almost 500 movies and was the first director to make a film longer than 1,000 feet? {D.W. Griffith}
111. What Oscar-winning song was introduced in Dr. Dolittle? {Talk to the Animals}
112. Who made a rare screen appearance as James Cagney's sister in Yankee Doodle Dandy? {Jeanne Cagney}
113. Who's Woody Allen's most frequent collaborator on screenplays? {Marshall Brickman}
114. What cartoon character debuted in Porky's Duck Hunt? {Daffy Duck}
115. What actress received top billing for Myra Breckinridge? {Mae West}
116. What 1967 Swedish movie's theme was less popularly known as Mozart's Piano Concerto 21? {Elvira Madigan's}
117. What ornery cartoon character debuted in 1944's Hare Trigger? {Yosemite Sam}
118. What movie-making studio did Harry, Jack, Albert and Sam establish? {Warner Bros.}
119. What substance was used in the place of blood in the shower scene for Psycho? {Chocolate sauce}
120. Who bought the screen rights to All the President's Men before the book was finished? {Robert Redford}
121. What Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright wrote the 1956 movie Baby Doll? {Tennessee Williams}
122. What actor drove a wedge into Hollywood blacklisting by openly hiring Dalton Trumbo to write the screenplay for Spartacus? {Kirk Douglas}
123. What queen's head was lopped off in 1905 in the first use of trick photography? {Mary, Queen of Scots's}
124. What was the original 20-page treatment of The Godfather titled? {Mafia}
125. What Hollywood actor co-produced Cool Hand Luke with Jack Lemmon? {Paul Newman}
126. What Raquel Welch vehicle was hyped with the line: "This is the way it was"? {One Million Years B.C.}
127. What director's film's were likely to have what he called a "MacGuffin"? {Alfred Hitchcock's}
128. What child star was kept intact with false front teeth after her baby ones fell out? {Shirley Temple}
129. What was Dolly Parton's first film? {9 to 5}
130. Who made her screen debut at the age of three in 1933's The Red-Haired Alibi? {Shirley Temple}
131. What country produced Son of Hercules in the Land of Darkness and Son of Hercules in the Land of Fire? {Italy}
132. Who would have shot and killed Casper Gutman if The Maltese Falcon had followed the book? {Wilmer Cook}
133. What 1965 George Segal film was billed as "Not a story of escape but a story of survival"? {King Rat}
134. What comedy team starred in the movies Towed in a Hole, Twice Two and Me and My Pal? {Laurel and Hardy}
135. Who directed the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter? {Michael Cimino}
136. Who was being addressed in the famous phrase: "Ready whenever you are, C.B."? {Cecil B. DeMille}
137. Whose son produced The Green Berets? {John Wayne's}
138. What movie studio was also known as Radio-Keith-Orpheum? {RKO}
139. What instruction from director Michael Curtiz in filming The Charge of the Light Brigade did David Niven use as a book title? {Bring on the empty horses}
140. Who did Roger Vadim try to make "the unattainable dream of every married man"? {Brigitte Bardot}
141. Who produced, wrote, directed and starred in The World's Greatest Lover? {Gene Wilder}
142. What studio did Harry Cohn run from 1920 to 1958? {Columbia}
143. What's the name of the hinged board that's snapped shut to mark the start of a take? {The clapperboard}
144. What was the sequel to Planet of the Apes? {Beneath the Planet of the Apes}
145. Who received top billing for The Graduate? {Anne Bancroft}
146. What loving screen team worked in 1929's The Taming of the Shrew? {Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford}
147. Who marked her American film debut in Intermezzo? {Ingrid Bergman}
148. What caped crusader debuted in the 1943 cartoon Super Mouse in Pandora's Box? {Mighty Mouse}
149. What posthumously-published Ernest Hemingway work was released in 1977 with George C. Scott as the star? {Islands in the Stream}
150. What comedy team paired as Holmes and Watson in the 1978 sleuth spoof The Hound of the Baskervilles? {Peter Cook and Dudley Moore}