2017 Movies
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50 free 2017 Movies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
2017 was a crowded year at the cinema. A killer clown turned a Stephen King novel into a box-office phenomenon, a low-budget thriller from a first-time director became an awards contender, and superheroes, space sagas and animated families filled the multiplexes in between. This quiz covers the films released that year: It and Get Out, Wonder Woman and Thor: Ragnarok, Coco and Dunkirk, plus the comedies, sequels and prestige dramas that people argued about on the way home. Expect questions on casts, characters, plots, directors, songs and the stories behind the camera. It is written for film fans, quiz hosts and anyone who spent that year in a cinema seat. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through or print the questions for a group.
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Q 01Which actress played Belle in Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast, 2017's second-biggest hit?
Emma Watson
Emma Watson was the Disney studio chairman's first and only choice. He had run Warner Bros. while she was playing Hermione Granger there.
Q 02Which wide-eyed seabirds nest on Luke Skywalker's island hideaway in Star Wars: The Last Jedi?
Porgs
Porgs exist because real puffins crowded the Irish filming location. Rather than erase the birds from every shot, the film-makers turned them into creatures.
Q 03Which One Direction singer made his feature film debut as a soldier in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk?
Harry Styles
Harry Styles beat hundreds of candidates at audition. Nolan said he cast him for his "old fashioned face", unaware of how famous the singer was.
Q 04Which Swedish actor played Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 film of Stephen King's It?
Bill Skarsgård
Bill Skarsgård got the part only after Will Poulter, the first actor cast, dropped out over a scheduling conflict. Tim Curry wore the greasepaint in the 1990 miniseries.
Q 05What form does Jumanji take to trap four teenagers in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
A video game
A video game cartridge is what the old board game becomes overnight, after a teenager who only cares about consoles sets it aside.
Q 06Which Mexican holiday is the backdrop to Pixar's Coco, in which young Miguel defies his family's music ban?
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead inspired the whole film. Pixar deliberately kept Miguel's home town muted so the afterlife he visits would look more colourful.
Q 07Which former Batman actor played the winged villain Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming?
Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton plays Adrian Toomes, a salvage boss driven out of business who builds his flying suit from scavenged alien technology.
Q 08Which Avenger does Thor unexpectedly face in the Grandmaster's gladiator arena in Thor: Ragnarok?
Hulk
Hulk wins the bout only because the Grandmaster rigs it when Thor gets the upper hand. The plot borrows from the comic storyline "Planet Hulk".
Q 09Which Best Picture winner follows a mute cleaner who falls for a creature held in a government lab?
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water was inspired by Creature from the Black Lagoon. It led that year's Oscars with thirteen nominations and won four, Best Director among them.
Q 10Which rock legend played Jack Sparrow's uncle in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales?
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney stepped in because Keith Richards, who had played Sparrow's father, was unavailable. The character is named after the singer's own uncle Jack.
Q 11Which British prime minister did Gary Oldman play in Darkest Hour after over 200 hours in make-up?
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill won Oldman his first Oscar. The film shows him ordering civilian boats to Dunkirk, the rescue Christopher Nolan put on screen that same year.
Q 12Which real-life circus founder does Hugh Jackman play in the musical The Greatest Showman?
P. T. Barnum
P. T. Barnum gets a heavily fictionalised life story in the film, whose anthem "This Is Me" won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
Q 13Which famous detective did Kenneth Branagh both direct and play in Murder on the Orient Express?
Hercule Poirot
Q 21Which Knives Out film-maker wrote and directed the 2017 blockbuster Star Wars: The Last Jedi?
Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson's space saga took over $1 billion, his largest project by far. He went back to the mystery genre afterwards and earned screenplay Oscar nominations for it.
Q 22Which director's Wonder Woman became the highest-grossing film yet made by a solo female director?
Patty Jenkins
Patty Jenkins was hired after the lead had been cast, which disappointed her at first. She came to think Gal Gadot was the perfect choice for Diana.
Q 23Which New Zealand director of Thor: Ragnarok also played Korg, the soft-spoken gladiator made of rocks?
Taika Waititi
Hercule Poirot proved worth repeating: Branagh returned as Agatha Christie's sleuth in Death on the Nile and A Haunting in Venice.
Q 14Which conflict does Diana leave her hidden island to stop in the 2017 film Wonder Woman?
World War I
World War I was a deliberate break from the comics, where she fights in the 1940s. In the film she is convinced that Ares, the god of war, is behind the slaughter.
Q 15Which little brother of Bill Denbrough chases a paper boat to a storm drain as 2017's It begins?
Georgie
Georgie is seven when he meets the clown in the drain. His disappearance is what sends Bill hunting through Derry's sewers the following summer.
Q 16In which US state is Derry, the fictional town haunted by Pennywise in Stephen King's It?
Maine
Maine's city of Bangor was scouted for the 2017 film, but Derry's streets were shot in Ontario towns such as Port Hope, chosen for looking idyllic.
Q 17Which sketch comedian made his directorial debut with Get Out, winning a screenplay Oscar?
Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele became the first African-American winner of the Best Original Screenplay award. He has said comedy and horror run on the same timing and surprise.
Q 18In Get Out, what does Missy call the void where Chris's mind falls when she hypnotises him?
The Sunken Place
The Sunken Place leaves Chris paralysed while his mind drops away. It is also where the family's victims stay trapped once their bodies have been taken over.
Q 19Which actor does vain teenager Bethany find herself turned into in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle?
Jack Black
Jack Black plays her as Professor Shelly Oberon, an overweight male map expert. He also suggested naming the film after the song "Welcome to the Jungle".
Q 20Which actor plays Ego, Peter Quill's long-lost father, in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell plays the human face of a living planet. Making Ego the hero's father was a departure from the comics, where Quill has a different dad.
Taika Waititi based the rock creature's gentle voice on Polynesian bouncers. He also performed the fire demon Surtur in motion capture.
Q 24Which actress won an Oscar as the grieving mother in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri?
Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand plays Mildred Hayes, who rents the signs to shame the police over her daughter's unsolved murder. Co-star Sam Rockwell won an Oscar too.
Q 25Which actress made her solo directing debut with Lady Bird, a coming-of-age story set in Sacramento?
Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig was born in the city and gave her cast her old yearbooks, photos and journals to prepare. She insists nothing in the film literally happened to her.
Q 26Which actor earned a Best Actor nomination at 22 for playing Elio in Call Me by Your Name?
Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet was then the youngest nominee in that category since 1939. He also turned up in Lady Bird, another of the year's Best Picture contenders.
Q 27Which actor plays K, the replicant-hunting officer at the centre of Blade Runner 2049?
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling had the part tailored for him by the screenwriters. It was his first lead in a blockbuster, opposite a returning Harrison Ford.
Q 28Which Stranger Things actor played foul-mouthed Richie Tozier in the 2017 film of Stephen King's It?
Finn Wolfhard
Finn Wolfhard lost the part when the first director quit, which freed him to make the Netflix series. He then had to audition for Richie all over again.
Q 29What do Bill Denbrough and his six outcast friends call their gang in the 2017 film It?
The Losers' Club
The Losers' Club is the name seven bullied children give themselves once they realise the same creature is stalking every one of them.
Q 30Which actor plays Farrier, the Spitfire pilot who fights on with his fuel running out in Dunkirk?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy's pilot glides down onto the beach with an empty tank, burns his Spitfire so the enemy cannot have it, and is taken prisoner.