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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}