Q 01/05

The 1933 King Kong brought its giant ape to life with what technique?

A) A man in a suit

B) Hand-drawn animation

C) Stop-motion animation

D) A trained gorilla

Answer · why

C) Stop-motion animation

Stop-motion animation: the models' rabbit fur shifted whenever the animators handled them, so Kong's coat seems to ripple from shot to shot.

Q 02/05

Which New York landmark does Kong climb in the finale of the 1933 King Kong?

A) The Empire State Building

B) The Chrysler Building

C) The Brooklyn Bridge

D) The Woolworth Building

Answer · why

A) The Empire State Building

The Empire State Building: when Dino De Laurentiis remade the film in 1976, Kong climbed the twin towers of the World Trade Center instead.

Q 03/05

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

A) Jean Harlow

B) Myrna Loy

C) Claudette Colbert

D) Fay Wray

Answer · why

D) Fay Wray

Fay Wray: Merian C. Cooper promised her the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood, and he meant the giant ape.

Q 04/05

Before settling on a dinosaur-like creature, effects director Eiji Tsuburaya proposed Godzilla be a giant what?

A) An octopus

B) A giant ape

C) A blue whale

D) A hermit crab

Answer · why

A) An octopus

The 1954 film pioneered 'suitmation', with Haruo Nakajima in the suit stomping through miniature sets.

Q 05/05

Which American actor was spliced into the 1956 US re-edit, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!?

A) James Arness

B) Raymond Burr

C) Kenneth Tobey

D) Richard Carlson

Answer · why

B) Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr: nearly 30 years later he returned as the same reporter in Godzilla 1985, the US version of The Return of Godzilla.