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50 free Gangster Movies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mob movies have given cinema many of its most quoted scenes and most argued-over endings. From the bootleggers of the early talkies to the crime families of the 1970s and the undercover thrillers that followed, the gangster film keeps coming back because audiences cannot look away from people who make their own rules. This quiz covers the genre from end to end: The Godfather saga, Goodfellas, Scarface, Casino, The Untouchables and The Departed, along with British crime capers, world cinema and the 1930s classics that started it all. Expect questions on plots, casts, directors, awards, the real criminals behind the characters and what went on behind the camera. It is written for film fans, pub quiz hosts and anyone planning a mob-themed movie night. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play it straight through or print it for a group.
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Q 01In The Godfather, film producer Jack Woltz wakes to find the severed head of which animal in his bed?
A horse
A horse named Khartoum, a racehorse Woltz valued at $600,000, pays the price for his refusal to cast singer Johnny Fontane.
Q 02The Departed remade the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs but moved the story to which American city?
Boston
Boston gave the remake an Irish mob in place of the original's triad, and the relocated story went on to win four Academy Awards.
Q 03Which actor declined his Oscar for playing Vito Corleone, sending activist Sacheen Littlefeather in his place?
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando was only the second man to turn down the Best Actor award, after George C. Scott refused his for Patton two years earlier.
Q 04In Scarface, Tony Montana reaches Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift as a refugee from which country?
Cuba
Cuba's Mariel boatlift brought about 125,000 people to Florida in 1980; the film, though set in Miami, was shot mostly in Los Angeles after requests to film in Miami were declined.
Q 05Which actor won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing the volatile gangster Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas?
Joe Pesci
Joe Pesci's Tommy was based on real mobster Thomas DeSimone, and in the same year, 1990, he played a bumbling burglar in Home Alone.
Q 06In The Untouchables, Eliot Ness and his team finally convict which Chicago crime boss of tax evasion?
Al Capone
Al Capone gets 11 years in the film, but in reality Ness's squad had very little to do with the tax case that jailed him.
Q 07Which Corleone family member betrays Michael in The Godfather Part II and is later shot on a lake?
Fredo
Fredo was played by John Cazale, who appeared in only five feature films before his death at 42.
Q 08Which 1967 film stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as Depression-era bank robbers who die in a police ambush?
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde is counted among the first films of the New Hollywood era, and it won Oscars for supporting actress Estelle Parsons and for its cinematography.
Q 09Which director finally won his first Oscar for The Departed after losing five earlier Best Director races?
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese had earlier lost the directing prize for Goodfellas to a first-timer, Kevin Costner, for Dances with Wolves.
Q 10In The Irishman, hitman Frank Sheeran shoots which Teamsters union boss, a man who really vanished in 1975?
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa ran the Teamsters from 1957 to 1971 and was declared legally dead in 1982, seven years after he disappeared.
Q 11Which actor played Miami drug lord Tony Montana in the 1983 remake of Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma?
Al Pacino
Al Pacino pushed for the remake himself after watching the 1932 original in a Los Angeles cinema.
Q 12Which actor won an Oscar for a mostly Italian-language performance as young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II?
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro had auditioned for the first film but left it for a comedy, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight.
Q 13Which director co-wrote The Godfather's screenplay with novelist Mario Puzo and went on to make both sequels?
Francis Ford Coppola
Q 21The Godfather Part II made Oscar history as the first sequel ever to win which Academy Award?
Best Picture
Best Picture was one of six Oscars from eleven nominations for the sequel, repeating the first film's win in the top category.
Q 22In The Godfather, lawyer Tom Hagen holds which post as chief adviser to Vito Corleone?
Consigliere
Consigliere Tom Hagen is an informally adopted son of German-Irish ancestry, and Vito at first hesitates to give him the post because he is not Sicilian.
Q 23Which actress played Tony Montana's wife Elvira in Scarface and a mobster's widow in Married to the Mob?
Michelle Pfeiffer
Francis Ford Coppola cast his sister Talia Shire as Connie Corleone, and his father Carmine wrote extra music for the wedding scene.
Q 14In The Godfather, where does Michael Corleone hide after shooting Sollozzo and a police captain in a restaurant?
Sicily
Sicily is where Michael marries a local woman, Apollonia, who is then killed by a car bomb meant for him.
Q 15Which actor won an Oscar as the veteran Chicago beat cop who mentors Eliot Ness in The Untouchables?
Sean Connery
Sean Connery won despite an accent so plainly Scottish that a 2003 Empire poll named it the worst film accent.
Q 16Which 1994 film follows hitmen Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield as they work for crime boss Marsellus Wallace?
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and earned John Travolta an Oscar nomination for playing Vincent.
Q 17Which actor plays Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas opposite Russell Crowe's detective in American Gangster?
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington had 64 costume changes as Lucas, who smuggled drugs home on military planes returning from the Vietnam War.
Q 18Which actor plays Irish mob boss Frank Costello, who plants a mole inside the state police, in The Departed?
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson's Costello plants Colin Sullivan, played by Matt Damon, in the force while the police slip their own undercover man into his crew.
Q 19Goodfellas tells the true story of which Mafia associate, who entered witness protection after informing on his crew?
Henry Hill
Henry Hill was paid $480,000 two weeks before filming began, and Ray Liotta played him on screen.
Q 20The Godfather's climax cuts between the murders of rival bosses and Michael Corleone attending which family ceremony?
A baptism
A baptism makes Michael godfather to his nephew at the very moment his hitmen kill the heads of the other New York families.
Michelle Pfeiffer was a near-unknown best known for Grease 2 when she was cast as Elvira, over the objections of both her director and her co-star.
Q 24Which actress earned an Oscar nomination as Ginger McKenna, the hustler who marries Ace Rothstein in Casino?
Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone won a Golden Globe for the part, which was based on Geri McGee, a former dancer and socialite.
Q 25Which actor played Bill the Butcher, the nativist gang leader who rules the Five Points in Gangs of New York?
Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis earned one of the film's 10 Oscar nominations, though it went home from the ceremony without a single win.
Q 26Which comedian plays the psychiatrist treating anxious mob boss Paul Vitti in the 1999 comedy Analyze This?
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal's comedy topped the US box office on its opening weekend and led to a sequel, Analyze That, in 2002.
Q 27In Michael Mann's Public Enemies, Johnny Depp plays which Depression-era bank robber hunted by agent Melvin Purvis?
John Dillinger
John Dillinger was shot dead in July 1934 outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, where he had gone to see the crime drama Manhattan Melodrama.
Q 28Which actor played both of London's notorious Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, in the 2015 film Legend?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy played both brothers himself, whereas the 1990 film The Krays cast real-life brothers Gary and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet.
Q 29Which actor played hot-headed Sonny Corleone, ambushed and shot at a tollbooth in The Godfather?
James Caan
James Caan was first given the part of Michael, and only became Sonny once the studio agreed on another actor for the youngest brother.
Q 30Which 1997 film stars Johnny Depp as Joseph Pistone, an FBI agent undercover in the Bonanno crime family?
Donnie Brasco
Donnie Brasco was the alias Pistone used in the 1970s, when he posed as a jewel thief from Florida to win the trust of an ageing hitman.