Q 01/05

Which of these is NOT one of the 'Big Five' Oscars first swept by It Happened One Night?

A) Best Director

B) Best Adapted Screenplay

C) Best Cinematography

D) Best Actress

Answer · why

C) Best Cinematography

Only two films have matched it since: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs. Clark Gable's bare chest in the film supposedly de...

Q 02/05

In It Happened One Night, what does Clark Gable's character call the blanket hung between the beds?

A) The Great Wall of China

B) The walls of Jericho

C) The Iron Curtain

D) The Mason-Dixon line

Answer · why

B) The walls of Jericho

The joke pays off in the final shot when the 'walls' come tumbling down. Animator Friz Freleng later said the film helped inspire Bugs Bunny.

Q 03/05

Katharine Hepburn bought the rights to The Philadelphia Story after a 1938 list branded her what?

A) Too tall for leading men

B) Difficult to light

C) Box office poison

D) Unfit for talkies

Answer · why

C) Box office poison

The gamble worked: it was her first hit in years, and James Stewart won his only Oscar for it. MGM remade it as the musical High Society in 1956.

Q 04/05

Which blacklisted screenwriter wrote the story for Audrey Hepburn's 1953 Rome romance, uncredited?

A) Ring Lardner Jr.

B) Dalton Trumbo

C) Ben Hecht

D) Waldo Salt

Answer · why

B) Dalton Trumbo

Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him and collected the Oscar. Trumbo's widow finally received the statuette in 1993, and his credit was restored on the...

Q 05/05

Audrey Hepburn won her only Academy Award for which romantic comedy, her first major Hollywood role?

A) Roman Holiday

B) Sabrina

C) Funny Face

D) Breakfast at Tiffany's

Answer · why

A) Roman Holiday

She plays a runaway princess who tours Rome on a Vespa with Gregory Peck's reporter. Peck insisted her name go above the title alongside his.