Q 01/05

The Motion Picture Production Code of 1934–1968 is popularly named after which industry president?

A) Joseph Breen

B) Will H. Hays

C) Eric Johnston

D) Jack Valenti

Answer · why

B) Will H. Hays

Will H. Hays was hired in 1922 to polish Hollywood's scandal-hit image; his 1930 code had no teeth until 1934, when Catholic pressure and the threat o...

Q 02/05

What replaced the Production Code in 1968?

A) Federal censorship boards

B) The Academy's content review

C) The MPAA film rating system

D) The Legion of Decency seal

Answer · why

C) The MPAA film rating system

The MPAA film rating system classified films by audience instead of censoring them, and within two years the X-rated Midnight Cowboy had won Best Pict...

Q 03/05

Which administrator enforced Hollywood's Production Code from 1934 to 1954?

A) Joseph Breen

B) Geoffrey Shurlock

C) Daniel Lord

D) Martin Quigley

Answer · why

A) Joseph Breen

Joseph Breen's office could demand script changes on any film, and releasing one without its seal of approval meant a $25,000 fine.

Q 04/05

What was Marilyn Monroe's birth name?

A) Betty Joan Perske

B) Harlean Carpenter

C) Frances Ethel Gumm

D) Norma Jeane Mortenson

Answer · why

D) Norma Jeane Mortenson

Norma Jeane Mortenson took the screen name in 1946 for her first Twentieth Century-Fox contract: 'Marilyn' came from Broadway star Marilyn Miller and ...

Q 05/05

Marilyn Monroe was on the cover of which magazine's first issue, published in December 1953?

A) Photoplay

B) Esquire

C) Playboy

D) Confidential

Answer · why

C) Playboy

Playboy never photographed her: Hugh Hefner bought a nude shot from an old calendar session, taken before her career took off, and ran it inside the i...