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

Hays adopted the code in 1930 but it was only rigidly enforced from 1934, after pressure from the Catholic Legion of Decency.

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

By then the code had barely been enforced for years, after films like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won approval despite banned language.

Q 03/05

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

A) Joseph Breen

B) Will H. Hays

C) Daniel Lord

D) Martin Quigley

Answer · why

A) Joseph Breen

Breen's office read every script and could demand cuts before a film received its seal of approval.

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

'Marilyn' was borrowed from Broadway star Marilyn Miller and 'Monroe' was her mother's maiden name.

Q 05/05

Marilyn Monroe's nude photos were the centerfold and cover of which magazine's first issue in 1953?

A) Photoplay

B) Esquire

C) Playboy

D) Confidential

Answer · why

C) Playboy

The same year she starred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, the films that fixed her 'dumb blonde' image.