Q 01/05

Which 1960 Hitchcock film cost under $1 million, was shot by his TV crew, and earned $50 million?

A) Psycho

B) Vertigo

C) Rear Window

D) North by Northwest

Answer · why

A) Psycho

Its shower scene became one of the best-known sequences in cinema and it is often called an early slasher film.

Q 02/05

Jack Lemmon lends his flat to philandering bosses in which Billy Wilder film, Best Picture for 1960?

A) The Fortune Cookie

B) Irma la Douce

C) Some Like It Hot

D) The Apartment

Answer · why

D) The Apartment

Shirley MacLaine plays the elevator operator; the film later inspired the Broadway musical Promises, Promises.

Q 03/05

Kirk Douglas removed director Anthony Mann from which 1960 epic and replaced him with Stanley Kubrick?

A) El Cid

B) The Vikings

C) Ben-Hur

D) Spartacus

Answer · why

D) Spartacus

It was the only Kubrick film where he lacked full artistic control, and its credit for blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo helped end the blacklist.

Q 04/05

Which Oscar-winning song from Breakfast at Tiffany's was written by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer?

A) Dear Heart

B) Charade

C) Days of Wine and Roses

D) Moon River

Answer · why

D) Moon River

Marilyn Monroe was among the actresses considered for Holly Golightly before Audrey Hepburn.

Q 05/05

Which 1961 musical won 10 Academy Awards, still the record for a musical?

A) West Side Story

B) My Fair Lady

C) Gigi

D) The Sound of Music

Answer · why

A) West Side Story

Co-director Jerome Robbins also received a special award; Spielberg remade it in 2021.