2019 Movies Trivia
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60 free 2019 Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
2019 was the year Endgame became the biggest film ever, Joker cracked a billion dollars with an R rating, and Parasite became the first non-English Best Picture. These trivia questions about movies of 2019 cover the blockbusters, the Oscar winners, the Disney remakes, the horror hits and the streaming breakouts. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Which film was the highest-grossing of 2019 and held the all-time box-office record from 2019 to 2021?
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame took the all-time record from Avatar in July 2019 and lost it in March 2021, when a re-release of Avatar in China added the few million dollars it needed to go back on top.
Q 02Joker grossed over $1 billion worldwide in 2019, a first for films with which American rating?
R
R means under-17s need an adult with them, which shrinks the audience, yet Joker passed $1 billion just over a month after opening, something no R-rated film had done before.
Q 03Which festival prize did Joker win in September 2019, a month before it reached cinemas?
The Golden Lion
The Golden Lion went to Joker from a jury chaired by Argentine director Lucrecia Martel; the film had premiered at the festival a week earlier to an eight-minute standing ovation.
Q 04Who won the Best Actor Oscar for playing Arthur Fleck in Joker?
Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix lost 52 pounds to play Arthur Fleck and said the daily weigh-ins turned into an obsession; Joker's only other Oscar, from eleven nominations, went to its score.
Q 05Who directed Joker?
Todd Phillips
Todd Phillips had made his name with comedies such as Old School and The Hangover; he pitched Joker to Warner Bros. as an anti-superhero film, dark and realistic, and co-wrote it with Scott Silver.
Q 06Joker's talk-show storyline, with Robert De Niro as the host, nods to which Martin Scorsese film?
The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy. There De Niro played an obsessed would-be comic fixated on a TV host; in Joker he switches sides, a casting he confirmed was a nod to the earlier role.
Q 07Which film became the first non-English-language winner of the Best Picture Oscar?
Parasite
Parasite. The thriller upset the favorite, the war epic 1917, whose Oscars that night all came in technical categories.
Q 08Who directed the 2019 Best Picture winner about the Kim and Park families?
Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho. Accepting Best Director, he paused to thank fellow nominee Martin Scorsese, and the audience rose to give Scorsese a standing ovation.
Q 09The 2019 Palme d'Or winner was the first film from which country to take the prize?
South Korea
South Korea. Jury president Alejandro González Iñárritu told the director that the whole jury had agreed, a rare unanimous vote for the festival's top prize.
Q 10In the 2019 Best Picture winner, the Kims exploit the housekeeper's allergy to which fruit?
Peaches
Peaches. The director gave the housekeeper a college friend's real allergy, and the Kims use it to persuade her employer that she has tuberculosis; the film won four Oscars.
Q 11In the 2019 Best Picture winner, the Kim family lives in what kind of home?
A semi-basement flat
A semi-basement flat. Known as banjiha, such homes began as emergency bunkers built under apartment blocks in the 1970s and were only later rented out as cheap housing.
Q 12Brad Pitt won his first acting Oscar for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood playing whom?
Cliff Booth
Cliff Booth. Pitt already had an Oscar at home, but as a producer: his company made 12 Years a Slave, the Best Picture winner six years earlier.
Q 13In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Rick Dalton fends off an intruder with which prop?
Flamethrower
Q 21In Toy Story 4, which new toy does Bonnie make herself at kindergarten orientation?
Forky
Forky. Made from a spork and craft scraps, he is sure he is trash rather than a toy, so Woody spends much of the film stopping him from throwing himself away.
Q 22Which actor voiced Duke Caboom, Toy Story 4's Canadian stuntman toy?
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves. His 1970s daredevil toy is haunted by never managing the stunts in his own TV commercial, in a Josh Cooley film that won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
Q 23Who directed the photorealistic 2019 remake of The Lion King?
Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau. He shot it inside a virtual-reality set as if it were live action, yet only the opening sunrise is a real photograph; all the rest was made on a computer.
Flamethrower. Earlier the film shows him firing the same weapon at Nazis in his war movie The 14 Fists of McCluskey, a setup for an ending that rewrites Hollywood history.
Q 14Margot Robbie played which real-life actress in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Sharon Tate
Sharon Tate. Her sister Debra first opposed the film, then read the script, visited the set and lent Robbie some of Sharon's own jewelry to wear on screen.
Q 15In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt's stuntman loses work after an on-set fight with whom?
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee. His daughter Shannon Lee called the scene disheartening, saying it turned her father into an arrogant blowhard who was full of hot air.
Q 16Who directed the World War I film 1917?
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes. His grandfather Alfred carried messages for the British on the Western Front and, late in life, told him of one run across no man's land that inspired the film.
Q 17In the film 1917, which actor plays General Erinmore, who sends the young soldiers on their mission?
Colin Firth
Colin Firth. He gives the order in the opening minutes of a film built to look like one unbroken take, though it hides a fade to black when Schofield is knocked out.
Q 18Which cinematographer won an Oscar for 1917?
Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins. He had lost on 13 Oscar nominations before Blade Runner 2049 finally won him one, and 1917 quickly brought him a second.
Q 19In the film 1917, young British soldiers cross no man's land to deliver a message that will do what?
Call off a doomed attack
Call off a doomed attack. The German retreat is really a planned withdrawal to stronger lines, and 1,600 men, including one messenger's brother, are about to charge the guns.
Q 20In Frozen 2, Elsa and Anna travel to what place to learn the origin of Elsa's powers?
An enchanted forest
An enchanted forest. Its Northuldra people were inspired by the Sámi, so the studio signed an agreement with Sámi parliaments and worked with a team of Sámi experts on the depiction.
Q 24Beyoncé wrote and performed which new song for the 2019 Lion King?
Spirit
Spirit. Beyoncé delivered it at the last moment for the end credits, but composer Hans Zimmer moved it into the film itself, over Simba's return home.
Q 25Which actor reprised his voice role from the 1994 Lion King in the 2019 remake?
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones. Back as Mufasa 25 years on, he sounded different, and the director felt the changed voice suited a king who had ruled for a long time.
Q 26In Captain Marvel, set in 1995, Carol Danvers crash-lands in which chain's store?
Blockbuster
Blockbuster. The 1990s setting also meant digitally de-aging Samuel L. Jackson to play a younger, two-eyed Nick Fury.
Q 27In Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers is captured by Talos, commander of which shape-shifting aliens?
Skrulls
Skrulls. The film flips their villainous comic-book image: Talos and his people turn out to be refugees on the run from the Kree.
Q 28Who played Mysterio in Spider-Man: Far From Home?
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal. His Mysterio first appears as a heroic mentor to Peter, then is exposed as a con man who has been staging the monster battles himself.
Q 29In Far From Home, an Elemental first attacks Peter's class in which city?
Venice
Venice. The crew built a massive Venice set on a studio backlot outside London for the battle, as well as filming on location.
Q 30In The Rise of Skywalker, the resurrected Emperor Palpatine hides on which planet?
Exegol
Exegol. One of the oldest Sith worlds, it lies hidden deep in the Unknown Regions, so simply finding the Emperor's lair drives much of the film's plot.