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

Four biplanes shoot him down; the building's lights were dimmed for 15 minutes in 2004 in memory of Fay Wray.

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

She recorded all of her character's screams in a single session.

Q 03/05

What is the famous final line of the 1933 King Kong, spoken by Carl Denham over the ape's body?

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 corrects a policeman who says the airplanes did it, closing the beauty-and-the-beast theme Cooper built the story around.

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

Cooper had wanted to make a gorilla film since 1929 and originally hoped to shoot in Africa and on Komodo.

Q 05/05

Who created the 1933 stop-motion effects that brought Kong and the dinosaurs to life?

A) Willis O'Brien

B) Ray Harryhausen

C) Linwood Dunn

D) Marcel Delgado

Answer · why

A) Willis O'Brien

He later won an Oscar for Mighty Joe Young in 1950 and had first proposed Kong by painting a picture of a giant gorilla carrying a woman.