Q 01/05

Which shocker tops AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills at number one, ahead of Jaws and The Exorcist?

A) Vertigo

B) Psycho

C) Alien

D) Halloween

Answer · why

B) Psycho

Psycho came out on top after 1,800 film-industry jurors were sent a ballot of 400 nominated titles and asked which thrilled them most.

Q 02/05

Which director has the most films on AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, with nine of the hundred?

A) Steven Spielberg

B) Stanley Kubrick

C) James Cameron

D) Alfred Hitchcock

Answer · why

D) Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock is also the list's most-seen face: his walk-on cameos put him on screen in eight of the nine films, and in a photograph on a wall in ...

Q 03/05

Which Star Trek actor's face was the basis for the mask Michael Myers wears in Halloween?

A) William Shatner

B) Leonard Nimoy

C) DeForest Kelley

D) James Doohan

Answer · why

A) William Shatner

William Shatner's face reached the screen through a Captain Kirk mask bought for under two dollars, its eye holes widened and its skin sprayed a bluis...

Q 04/05

What nickname did the Jaws film crew give their mechanical sharks, after Steven Spielberg's lawyer?

A) Murray

B) Stanley

C) Bruce

D) Walter

Answer · why

C) Bruce

Bruce broke down so often in salt water that the director chose mostly to suggest the shark with music rather than show it.

Q 05/05

Which actor was cast as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark until his Magnum, P.I. contract intervened?

A) Nick Nolte

B) Jeff Bridges

C) Tom Selleck

D) Bill Murray

Answer · why

C) Tom Selleck

Tom Selleck had to drop out only weeks before filming, when the network ordered his detective show as a full series.