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  1. What was the source of the sand for the concrete that John Wayne left his hand prints in at Grauman's Chinese Theatre? {Iwo Jima}
  2. Who did French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre once call "the hottest actress alive"? {Marilyn Monroe}
  3. What's been described as "Sodom-by-the-Sea" and "72 suburbs in search of a city"? {Los Angeles}
  4. Who was the first woman nominated for the best director Oscar? {Lina Wertmuller}
  5. Who came into this world as Bela Blasko? {Bela Lugosi}
  6. What film was reviewed by one critic with the observation: "Loved Ben. Hated Hur"? {Ben-Hur}
  7. Who's the only actress listed in a standard dictionary? {Mae West}
  8. What child star once quipped: "I remember when I was three and unknown"? {Shirley Temple}
  9. What character did Humphrey Bogart appear as on the June 7, 1954, cover of Time? {Captain Queeg}
  10. Who made the cover of Life in 1971 after announcing his retirement "from the entertainment world and public life"? {Frank Sinatra}
  11. What film were Marlon Brando and Tarita making when they hooked up? {Mutiny on the Bounty}
  12. What's the largest movie theater in the U.S., with 5,882 seats? {Radio City Music Hall}
  13. What actress known as The Love Goddess eloped to Europe in 1949 with Prince Aly Khan? {Rita Hayworth}
  14. What song did Roy Rogers record in 1974 about Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry and himself? {Hoppy, Gene and Me}
  15. Who did ddirector John Huston mean when he said: "She'll be dead or in an institution within three years"? {Marilyn Monroe}
  16. Who did Oscar Levant mean when he said he knew a certain actress "before she was a virgin"? {Debbie Reynolds}
  17. Who sat in seat 11 at the world premiere of Gone with the Wind? {Margaret Mitchell}
  18. Who did Life call "Sweden's most promising export since Greta Garbo"? {Ingrid Bergman}
  19. What actress's biography was titled Mother Goddam? {Bette Davis's}
  20. What were movie dancing partners Virginia Katherine McMath and Frederick Austerlitz better known as? {Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire}
  21. What two Julies competed for the best actress Oscar in 1965? {Andrews and Christie}
  22. Who went from a box display for Ivory Snow to quite a display in Behind the Green Door? {Marilyn Chambers}
  23. What was the only Arab state to allow the screening of Lawrence of Arabia when it was first released? {Egypt}
  24. What did artist George Stanley sculpt for a fee of $500? {Oscar}
  25. Who was Pat Buttrum referring to when he observed: "For three decades, Gene used to ride off into the sunset. Now he owns it"? {Gene Autry}
  26. Who married Helen Mencken, Mary Phillips and Mayo Methot? {Humphrey Bogart}
  27. What, according to many of his co-stars, was Clark Gable's great shortcoming in cozy closeups? {Halitosis}
  28. What dashing leading man was the first film star to reside in Beverly Hills? {Douglas Fairbanks}
  29. What singer-actress superstar graduated from New York City's Erasmus High School with an average of 93? {Barbra Streisand}
  30. What Robert Redford film sparked a trend to mustaches? {Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid}
  31. What actor's face appeared on the covers of Life and Newsweek less than a week before The Godfather's premiere? {Marlon Brando's}
  32. What sex symbol observed: "I wish I had invented sex. Sex is No. 1"? {Brigitte Bardot}
  33. What country did director John Huston become a citizen of in 1964? {Ireland}
  34. Who came into the world in 1940 as Raquel Tejada? {Raquel Welch}
  35. Who was Doctor George Nichopoulos's most famous patient? {Elvis Presley}
  36. What was contracted by more than 90 of the 220 cast and crew members of The Conqueror, shot in 1954 near a Utah nuclear test site? {Cancer}
  37. What year did filmmakers first move to sunny California? {1907}
  38. What director, asked what frightened him, replied: "I'm terrified of policemen"? {Alfred Hitchcock}
  39. What leading man was Jean Harlow engaged to when she died? {William Powell}
  40. What was Jane Russell's bust measurement in the fullness of her career? {Thirty-eight inches}
  41. What former Miss San Diego and Maid of California did makeup artist George Masters describe as "silicone from the knees up"? {Raquel Welch}
  42. Who once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest in Monte Carlo and placed third? {Charlie Chaplin}
  43. Who said: "I saw a Road picture so cut to make room for 45 commercials that Bing and I weren't even in it"? {Bob Hope}
  44. What was the average price of a U.S. movie ticket in 1962? {Seventy cents}
  45. Who received his nickname because of his fondness as an eight-year-old for a comic strip called The Bingville Bugle? {Bing Crosby}
  46. What actress who co-starred with William Holden in The Seventh Dawn received $25,000 when his will was read? {Capucine}
  47. Who said: "This 'King' stuff is pure bull. I eat and drink and go to the bathroom just like anybody else"? {Clark Gable}
  48. Who was dubbed The Face of a Century? {Greta Garbo}
  49. What awards are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? {The Golden Globes}
  50. How old was Judy Garland when she made The Wizard of Oz? {Seventeen}
  51. Which of his co-stars did Howard Duff marry? {Ida Lupino}
  52. What British screen comedian did Liza Minnelli carry on an open affair with? {Peter Sellers}
  53. What television premiere prompted Variety to headline: "1st Major Pix-TV Wedding Big Click"? {The Academy Awards ceremonies}
  54. What star of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly owned a restaurant in Carmel, California, called The Hog's Breath Inn? {Clint Eastwood}
  55. What kind of movie does Variety call a "They-went-that-awayer"? {A western}
  56. Who was called The First of the Mexican Mamas? {Dolores Del Rio}
  57. What two Bogie films appeared in the 1977 American Film Institute listing of the 10 greatest American films? {The African Queen and Casablanca}
  58. What drilling magnate did Elizabeth Taylor date at 17? {Howard Hughes}
  59. Who was a newspaper referring to in 1942 when it headlined: "Robin Hood Charged With Rape"? {Errol Flynn}
  60. Has Katharine Hepburn ever shown up at an Academy Awards ceremony to pick up an Oscar? {No}
  61. Who was rapped in an editorial: "When will we be rid of all these effeminate youths...in the image of Rudy--that painted pansy?"? {Rudolph Valentino}
  62. What distinction did the otherwise-forgotten 1925 film Police Patrol earn on April 6, 1931? {It was the first feature-length film shown on television}
  63. Which Presidential candidate did Humphrey Bogart endorse, Dwight Eisenhower or Adlai Stevenson? {Adlai Stevenson}
  64. What did Barbra Streisand exclaim upon picking up her Oscar for Funny Girl? {Hello, gorgeous}
  65. What actor suffered a massive heart attack during the last two weeks of filming 1966's The Fortune Cookie? {Walter Matthau}
  66. Where was Bob Hope born? {Eltham, England}
  67. What Hollywood gossip columnist observed: "Our town worships success, the bitch goddess whose smile hides a taste for blood"? {Hedda Hopper}
  68. What composer was married to Angie Dickinson? {Burt Bacharach}
  69. What wild and crazy couple first hooked up at a Las Vegas softball game? {Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters}
  70. What's Jack Nicholson's shoe size? {Nine}
  71. What color is Arlene Dahl's hair? {Red}
  72. What actor was elected U.S. Senator from California in 1964? {George Murphy}
  73. Who is Anne Bancroft's husband? {Mel Brooks}
  74. Who revealed that he was suffering from alcoholism at the time of filming Days of Wine and Roses? {Jack Lemmon}
  75. Who said: "When I was nine, I played the demon king in Cinderella, and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster"? {Boris Karloff}
  76. What actress was nicknamed The Clothes Horse? {Joan Crawford}
  77. What was the only western to cop best picture? {Cimarron}
  78. What did George Raft never see? {One of his own films}
  79. Who came into this world as Walter Matuschanskavasky? {Walter Matthau}
  80. What 1921 film caused a surge in Arab motifs in fashion and interior design? {The Sheik}