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

The Big Five are Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay; Best Cinematography is not among them. It Happened One Night (1934) was the fi...

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

Peter Warne (Clark Gable) dubs the blanket 'the walls of Jericho'; in the final shot a toy trumpet sounds and the blanket falls, echoing the biblical ...

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 Independent Theatre Owners of America's 1938 list called her 'box office poison'; she starred in Philip Barry's play, secured the film rights, and...

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 competitive Oscar for which romantic comedy?

A) Roman Holiday

B) Sabrina

C) Funny Face

D) Breakfast at Tiffany's

Answer · why

A) Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday (1953) won Hepburn the Best Actress Oscar in her first starring Hollywood role, as a runaway princess touring Rome with Gregory Peck's r...