Q 01/05

Who produced, co-wrote and directed Some Like It Hot?

A) Billy Wilder

B) Howard Hawks

C) George Cukor

D) Preston Sturges

Answer · why

A) Billy Wilder

Wilder also co-wrote the script with I. A. L. Diamond, the start of a run that continued with The Apartment.

Q 02/05

Which actress played the band singer Sugar Kane?

A) Jayne Mansfield

B) Marilyn Monroe

C) Kim Novak

D) Shirley MacLaine

Answer · why

B) Marilyn Monroe

Monroe thought Sugar was another dumb blonde but took the part for a share of the profits.

Q 03/05

Which pair of actors played the musicians Joe and Jerry?

A) Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

B) Frank Sinatra and Danny Kaye

C) Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon

D) Walter Matthau and Jack Carson

Answer · why

C) Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon

Lemmon spent about 80 percent of the role in drag and based his Daphne partly on his own mother.

Q 04/05

In which year was the film released?

A) 1951

B) 1954

C) 1957

D) 1959

Answer · why

D) 1959

It opened in March and spent weeks at number one at the US box office that spring.

Q 05/05

In which era of American history is the film set?

A) The Gilded Age

B) The Great Depression

C) The Second World War

D) Prohibition

Answer · why

D) Prohibition

The speakeasy raid and the garage massacre both draw on 1920s Chicago gangland.