Pauls 50s Film Quiz 1

Posted in television and movies quizzes

Film Quiz1. A mysterious cloud of pesticide and radiation causes a disturbing reversal for Scott Carey in which classic 50s film ?

2. Which 1950s films took place in  
    a. Hawaii 1941  
    b. Burma 1943  
    c.  Chicago and Miami 1929  
    d. Altair-4 2280

3. Which 'following' word did Frederico Fellini coin and use for the first time in his film La dolce vita ?

4. Messala was the bad guy in which 50s blockbuster ?

5. Strawberries are the undoing of an unhinged man in which 50s film ?

6. Godzilla first made his mark so to say in 1954. What do the Japanese call Godzilla ?

7. In which popular 1950s film is a character played by Audrey Hepburn given 24 hours to do as she pleases in the eternal city ?

8. The following lines are from which 1950s films ?  
    a. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop  
    b. This is war. This is not a game of cricket.  
    c. I'll follow him around the Horn, and around the Norway Maelstrom, and around perditions flames  
    d. Tomorrow you'll be one of us  
    e. We've become a race of peeping toms  
    f. Hey Stella !

9. Name James Dean's three films.

10. What time does the train arrive in Hadleyville ?  Clue. "A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do"

ANSWERS

1. The Incredible Shrinking Man

2. Four Answers
    a. From Here to Eternity  
    b. The Bridge on the River Kwai  
    c. Some Like it Hot  
    d. The Forbidden Planet

3. Paparazzi

4. Ben Hur

5. The Caine Mutiny

6. Gojira

7. Roman Holiday

8. Six Answers
    a. Some Like it Hot  
    b. The Bridge on the River Kwai  
    c. Moby Dick  
    d. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers  
    e. Rear Window  
    f. A Streetcar Named Desire

9. A Rebel without a cause, East of Eden and Giant.

10. High Noon.