Q 01/05

Which silent film about First World War fighter pilots won the first Academy Award for Best Picture?

A) Sunrise

B) Hell's Angels

C) Wings

D) The Dawn Patrol

Answer · why

C) Wings

Wings won the top prize, then called Outstanding Picture, in 1929; it was long thought a lost film until a print turned up in the Cinémathèque Françai...

Q 02/05

Which film lost the box-office record to Avengers: Endgame in 2019, then won it back with a 2021 re-release?

A) Star Wars: The Force Awakens

B) Titanic

C) Avatar

D) Jurassic World

Answer · why

C) Avatar

Avatar took the record back in March 2021, when a re-release in China lifted its total past that of Avengers: Endgame; it had first claimed the title ...

Q 03/05

Which actor has won the most Academy Awards for Best Actor?

A) Jack Nicholson

B) Marlon Brando

C) Tom Hanks

D) Daniel Day-Lewis

Answer · why

D) Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis is the only man with three Best Actor Oscars, for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood and Lincoln; around 1999 he left acting for a tim...

Q 04/05

What was the first feature-length film to use synchronized dialogue throughout?

A) The Jazz Singer

B) Don Juan

C) The Singing Fool

D) Lights of New York

Answer · why

D) Lights of New York

Lights of New York (1928) was the first all-talking feature; the famous 1927 part-talkie that preceded it had only a handful of synchronized dialogue ...

Q 05/05

Which film was Hollywood's first full-length cel-animated feature?

A) One Hundred and One Dalmatians

B) Alice in Wonderland

C) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

D) Lady and the Tramp

Answer · why

C) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs cost about $1.5 million, some six times its first estimate; its honorary Oscar came as one full-size statuette and sev...