Q 01/05

Who directed Metropolis (1927), the first sci-fi film on UNESCO's Memory of the World register?

A) Fritz Lang

B) Georg Wilhelm Pabst

C) Robert Wiene

D) F. W. Murnau

Answer · why

A) Fritz Lang

The film's budget ballooned to 5.3 million Reichsmarks, more than three and a half times what was planned, and nearly bankrupted the UFA studio.

Q 02/05

A near-complete 16 mm print of Metropolis, restoring lost footage, was found in 2008 in which country?

A) Mexico

B) Argentina

C) Australia

D) New Zealand

Answer · why

B) Argentina

The reduction negative had sat in the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires; its rediscovery let restorers put back roughly 25 minutes of the original cut.

Q 03/05

What is the giant robot accompanying Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) called?

A) Robby

B) Tobor

C) Gort

D) Kronos

Answer · why

C) Gort

The phrase Helen must say to stop it, 'Klaatu barada nikto', has been quoted and parodied everywhere from Army of Darkness to Toy Story.

Q 04/05

Bernard Herrmann's score for The Day the Earth Stood Still featured two of which electronic instrument?

A) Moog synthesizer

B) Hammond organ

C) Ondes Martenot

D) Theremin

Answer · why

D) Theremin

Herrmann paired the instruments with electric violin, cello and bass, and the sound became shorthand for flying saucers for a generation.

Q 05/05

Which 1956 film set on Altair IV was the first movie with an entirely electronic score?

A) Forbidden Planet

B) This Island Earth

C) Invaders from Mars

D) The Blob

Answer · why

A) Forbidden Planet

Bebe and Louis Barron built the circuits themselves; the musicians' union kept them from a composing credit, so it was billed as 'electronic tonalitie...