10 free Alfred Hitchcock Films trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Alfred Hitchcock pioneered the psychological thriller—and he did it by making audiences uncomfortable on purpose. His obsession with camera angles, suspense timing, and morally gray characters changed cinema forever. Ready to prove you actually understand his masterpieces? Let's go.
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Q 01In Psycho (1960), what crime has Marion Crane committed before her fateful stop at the Bates Motel?
Embezzlement
Shot cheaply in black-and-white by the crew of Hitchcock's TV series for under $810,000, the film went on to earn about $50 million worldwide.
Q 02In which film is a retired detective hired to follow a woman and then becomes obsessed with her?
Vertigo
It was the first film to use the dolly zoom, the in-camera effect that warps perspective to convey Scottie's fear of heights, a trick still nicknamed after the film.
Q 03In which film does a photographer with a broken leg believe he witnesses a murder in the apartment opposite?
Rear Window
Shot almost entirely from a single room, it cost $1 million and grossed $27 million on first release; Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr co-star with James Stewart.
Q 04In which film is a man mistaken for a government agent, pursued across the country and chased over Mount Rushmore?
North by Northwest
Ernest Lehman wrote it as 'the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures', and Saul Bass's opening credits were the first to make extended use of kinetic typography.
Q 05In which 1963 film, based on a du Maurier story, is Bodega Bay attacked from the sky?
The Birds
It marked Tippi Hedren's screen debut, and Ub Iwerks, the animator who co-created Mickey Mouse, was Oscar-nominated for its special effects.
Q 06Which of Hitchcock's films won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Rebecca
Rebecca herself, the first Mrs de Winter, is never seen on screen, and Joan Fontaine's heroine is never given a name.
Q 07In which 1951 film do two men who have just met agree, in theory, to swap murders?
Strangers on a Train
Raymond Chandler co-wrote the screenplay from Patricia Highsmith's debut novel; Hitchcock's cameo has him wrestling a double bass aboard.
Q 08In which 1954 3D film does a former tennis pro plot to kill his wealthy wife, played by Grace Kelly?
Dial M for Murder
Frederick Knott's play was first seen on BBC Television in 1952; the film mostly played in ordinary 2D because cinemas had already tired of the fiddly 3D process.
Q 09Which film stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman as agents uncovering a post-war Nazi conspiracy in Brazil?
Notorious
Claude Rains plays the IG Farben executive Bergman must seduce; the film was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, months after the war ended.
Q 10Which instrument does Hitchcock wrestle aboard in his cameo at the start of Strangers on a Train?
A double bass
He told Truffaut the gag had become 'troublesome' because audiences were distracted hunting for him, so he took to getting his cameo done in the first five minutes.