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

Willis O'Brien's models were combined with live actors via rear-screen projection; Fay Wray recorded all her screams in one session.

Q 02/05

Which New York landmark does Kong climb in the 1933 film's finale?

A) The Empire State Building

B) The Chrysler Building

C) The Brooklyn Bridge

D) The Statue of Liberty

Answer · why

A) The Empire State Building

The building had opened only two years earlier; the 1976 remake moved the climb to the World Trade Center.

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

The film's novelisation accidentally fell into the public domain, so the characters and story are free to use even though the film isn't until 2029.

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) Steve McQueen

Answer · why

B) Raymond Burr

Body doubles and trick editing made it look as if the future Perry Mason had been in Tokyo all along, while the anti-nuclear themes were toned down.