Q 01/05

In the original 1933 film, Kong makes his last stand on top of which New York skyscraper?

A) Rockefeller Center

B) The Empire State Building

C) The Chrysler Building

D) The Woolworth Building

Answer · why

B) The Empire State Building

The Empire State Building. Kong was scaled up by a third for the climb, because the filmmakers feared that at his jungle size he would look like a bug...

Q 02/05

Which actress played Ann Darrow, the 'golden woman' offered to Kong, in the 1933 film?

A) Myrna Loy

B) Jean Harlow

C) Fay Wray

D) Ginger Rogers

Answer · why

C) Fay Wray

Fay Wray. She spent 22 hours straight on a fake tree limb, reacting to the already filmed fight between Kong and a dinosaur projected beside her.

Q 03/05

What is Carl Denham's famous last line in the 1933 King Kong?

A) 'He was a king in his world.'

B) 'It was Beauty killed the Beast.'

C) 'The planes got him.'

D) 'We should never have brought him here.'

Answer · why

B) 'It was Beauty killed the Beast.'

Denham's closing line, 'It was Beauty killed the Beast.', answers a policeman who credits the airplanes and caps the beauty-and-the-beast theme the fi...

Q 04/05

The 1933 King Kong was directed and produced by Ernest B. Schoedsack and which other filmmaker?

A) Cecil B. DeMille

B) Merian C. Cooper

C) David O. Selznick

D) Howard Hawks

Answer · why

B) Merian C. Cooper

Merian C. Cooper. He told the screenwriter to 'put us in it', and the showman Carl Denham is generally taken to be modelled on Cooper himself.

Q 05/05

Which stop-motion pioneer, later Ray Harryhausen's mentor, animated Kong and the dinosaurs for the 1933 film?

A) George Pal

B) Phil Tippett

C) Willis O'Brien

D) Art Clokey

Answer · why

C) Willis O'Brien

Willis O'Brien. The studio had just scrapped his dinosaur film Creation, so its leftover models were put to work on Skull Island instead.