Modern Movie Quiz
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100 free Modern Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
50 free Modern Movie trivia questions with answers. Think you are a movie buff? This quiz covers modern cinema from 2000 to today in 100 questions: the 2000s movie trivia everyone argues about (Gladiator, The Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Pan's Labyrinth, The Dark Knight, Up), then the 2010s and 2020s, from Inception and The Social Network to Parasite, Oppenheimer and Barbie. Questions start with blockbusters and Best Picture winners that any regular moviegoer can answer and climb to directors, studios and awards records that will test real film fans. Every answer has been checked against a reliable source and each question shows its citation and a short explanation after you answer, so use it solo or as a ready-made movie round for a trivia night.
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Q 01Which film became the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho's Parasite (2019) made history at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020 as the first non-English language film to win Best Picture, beating frontrunner 1917.
Q 02Which film was the first to gross over $2 billion at the worldwide box office?
Avatar
Avatar (2009) was the first film to pass $2 billion worldwide, reaching the mark in early 2010 on the way to about $2.7 billion in its original run.
Q 03Which actor won a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing the Joker in The Dark Knight?
Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor posthumously for his iconic portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight (2008). Ledger passed away in January 2008, months before the film's release.
Q 04Which Pixar film became the highest-grossing animated movie of all time in 2024?
Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2 finished on about $1.7 billion worldwide, passing Frozen II to become the highest-grossing animated film ever in 2024; China's Ne Zha 2 overtook it in February 2025.
Q 05Robert Downey Jr. won an Oscar for Oppenheimer playing which Atomic Energy Commission figure?
Lewis Strauss
The film's 1959 framing story follows Strauss's Senate confirmation hearing for Commerce Secretary; it won seven Oscars from thirteen nominations.
Q 06Which 2017 horror film, Jordan Peele's directorial debut, won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay?
Get Out
Get Out, made for $4.5 million, grossed over $250 million, and in 2021 the Writers Guild of America West ranked its screenplay the greatest of the 21st century so far.
Q 07Which 2019 film became the first R-rated movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide?
Joker
Joker became the first R-rated film to pass $1 billion worldwide in 2019; it also won the Golden Lion at Venice, and Deadpool & Wolverine took the R-rated record in 2024.
Q 08In the film Inception (2010), what object does Cobb use to determine whether he is in a dream or reality?
A spinning top
It was originally his wife Mal's totem; in the final shot he walks away without checking it, and the script's last line reads that the top 'is STILL SPINNING'.
Q 09Which actress became the first Asian to win the Best Actress Oscar, for Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh was also the first Malaysian to win any Oscar; the film took seven awards from eleven nominations that night.
Q 10How many Oscar nominations did Mad Max: Fury Road receive at the 88th Academy Awards?
10
Mad Max: Fury Road earned 10 nominations at the 88th Academy Awards and won six, the most of any film that night, all in craft categories from editing to sound.
Q 11Which actor's comeback won Best Supporting Actor for Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan, the former child star of Indiana Jones and The Goonies, returned after about 19 years away to win Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Oscar.
Q 12What fictional African nation is the setting of the Marvel film Black Panther?
Wakanda
Black Panther (2018) is set in Wakanda, a fictional technologically advanced African nation that hides its true capabilities from the outside world. The film grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide.
Q 13Which 2010 film, directed by David Fincher, tells the story of the founding of Facebook?
The Social Network
Q 21In which year was the first Iron Man film released, launching the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
2008
Iron Man was released in 2008, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. It was the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and launched what would become the highest-grossing film franchise in history.
Q 22Which Denis Villeneuve film features massive sandworms on the desert planet Arrakis?
Dune
Titled Dune: Part One on screen, it won six of its ten Oscar nominations; Villeneuve had signed on in February 2017 after Legendary bought the rights.
Q 23Who directed 1917 (2019), edited to appear as two continuous shots and inspired partly by his grandfather's war stories?
Sam Mendes
The Social Network (2010), directed by David Fincher with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, dramatizes the founding of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg. It won three Oscars.
Q 14Which animated film's boy hero stumbles into the Land of the Dead on Día de los Muertos?
Coco
In Coco, twelve-year-old Miguel seeks out his musician great-great-grandfather to lift the family ban on music; the film won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for 'Remember Me'.
Q 15In the Lord of the Rings trilogy, how many Academy Awards did The Return of the King win?
11
The Return of the King won all 11 of its nominations at the 76th Academy Awards, tying Ben-Hur and Titanic for the most wins ever and becoming the first fantasy film to take Best Picture.
Q 16Which director is known for the films Hereditary and Midsommar?
Ari Aster
Ari Aster made Hereditary (2018) as his feature debut, after the AFI short The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, and followed it with Midsommar in 2019.
Q 17Which 2014 Michael Keaton film is about a washed-up actor famous for playing a superhero?
Birdman
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) stars Michael Keaton as a faded actor trying to mount a Broadway play. Directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu, it won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography at the Oscars.
Q 18In Pixar's WALL-E, what is the name of the sleek robot from the Axiom whom the title character falls for?
EVE
EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) is the probe sent from the Axiom to search Earth for plant life; WALL-E follows her back to the ship 700 years after humans left.
Q 19Which Marvel Cinematic Universe film features the snap that eliminates half of all life in the universe?
Avengers: Infinity War
In Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Thor wounds Thanos with Stormbreaker, but Thanos completes the Gauntlet and snaps his fingers, wiping out half of all life before teleporting away.
Q 20Which Roman epic starring Russell Crowe won Best Picture at the Oscars held in 2001?
Gladiator
Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, won at the 73rd Academy Awards, the first Best Picture winner of the 21st century; Crowe's A Beautiful Mind also took the prize.
Sam Mendes co-wrote it with Krysty Wilson-Cairns; Roger Deakins won Best Cinematography for the long takes.
Q 24Which streaming service distributed Alfonso Cuarón's 2018 film Roma?
Netflix
Netflix acquired Roma and released it in December 2018 after a limited theatrical run; Mexico's biggest cinema chains, Cinépolis and Cinemex, refused to show it over the short exclusivity window.
Q 25Which actor plays the lead role of Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron plays Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Her character became so iconic that a prequel film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), was made about the character's origin, with Anya Taylor-Joy taking over the role.
Q 26Which 2003 film features Bill Murray as a fading American actor filming a whiskey commercial in Tokyo?
Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation stars Murray as Bob Harris shooting a Suntory whisky ad; Sofia Coppola wrote the part for him, spent months recruiting him, and won Best Original Screenplay.
Q 27After Richard Harris died in 2002, which actor took over as Dumbledore from the third Harry Potter film onward?
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon played Dumbledore from 2004 to 2011; oddly, Harris had also played TV detective Maigret four years before Gambon took over that role too.
Q 28Which 2014 film stars Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave, concierge of a resort in a fictional European republic?
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) stars Ralph Fiennes as Gustave H., the devoted concierge at a famous European hotel. It earned nine Oscar nominations and won four.
Q 29Which franchise rebooted its timeline in 2009, with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto facing a villain from their own future?
Star Trek
Star Trek's eleventh film pits the new Enterprise crew against Nero, a Romulan from the future, in an alternate reality that even changes Kirk's birthplace.
Q 30Which 2016 Laika film has a one-eyed boy defeating his evil grandfather with origami magic?
Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo animates origami with his magical shamisen; the Moon King is the grandfather who stole his left eye, and Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey voice his companions.