Q 01/05

In which Italian city was Federico Fellini born in 1920?

A) Naples

B) Bari

C) Genoa

D) Rimini

Answer · why

D) Rimini

Rimini runs through his films, yet he barely shot a frame there: for Amarcord, his portrait of the town in the 1930s, he had its streets rebuilt on a ...

Q 02/05

Which Canadian actor played the title role in Fellini's Casanova in 1976?

A) Christopher Plummer

B) Donald Sutherland

C) William Shatner

D) Leslie Nielsen

Answer · why

B) Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland got the part only after Fellini fell out with a producer who wanted Robert Redford; the director then had the actor's face rebuilt w...

Q 03/05

Which Rome street, where photographers stalked visiting film stars, is the hub of the nightlife in La Dolce Vita?

A) Via Appia

B) Via del Corso

C) Via Condotti

D) Via Veneto

Answer · why

D) Via Veneto

Via Veneto was where real photographers chased the stars in the 1950s; the film's own snapper, Paparazzo, left his surname to every celebrity-hunting ...

Q 04/05

Giulietta Masina's Gelsomina in La Strada was widely compared to the work of which silent-film star?

A) Charlie Chaplin

B) Harold Lloyd

C) Buster Keaton

D) Stan Laurel

Answer · why

A) Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin returned the compliment, calling Masina the actress who moved him most; one French critic wrote that her Gelsomina drew on the best of...

Q 05/05

Which Hollywood star played the brutish strongman Zampanò in La Strada?

A) Anthony Quinn

B) Kirk Douglas

C) Burt Lancaster

D) Charlton Heston

Answer · why

A) Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn was playing Attila the Hun for the same producers that year and, by his own account, shot both at once: Zampanò at dawn, the Hun in the ...