Q 01/05

Which invented language, condemned by Hitler as a Jewish plot, appears on ghetto shop signs in The Great Dictator?

A) Volapük

B) Esperanto

C) Interlingua

D) Ido

Answer · why

B) Esperanto

Esperanto was devised by a Polish Jew as a language for every nation, and Hitler attacked it as a scheme to destroy his country's culture.

Q 02/05

In a famous scene of The Great Dictator, what does Hynkel dance with to music by Wagner?

A) An enormous flag

B) A marble bust

C) A balloon globe

D) His own shadow

Answer · why

C) A balloon globe

A balloon globe is tossed, kicked and bounced off his head as Hynkel dreams of owning the world, until it bursts. The film's composer said the choice ...

Q 03/05

Until The Great Dictator, every Charlie Chaplin feature had done without which staple of 1930s Hollywood films?

A) Spoken dialogue

B) An orchestral score

C) A leading lady

D) A happy ending

Answer · why

A) Spoken dialogue

Spoken dialogue had been standard for a decade, but Chaplin held out until he decided that talking was the best way to deliver a political message.

Q 04/05

Which comedy team released a Hitler parody nine months before Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator reached cinemas?

A) The Marx Brothers

B) Laurel and Hardy

C) The Three Stooges

D) Abbott and Costello

Answer · why

C) The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges put Moe Howard on screen as a Hitler-like dictator named Moe Hailstone in the short You Nazty Spy!, released in January 1940.

Q 05/05

Hannah, the heroine of The Great Dictator, was named after which person in Charlie Chaplin's own life?

A) His eldest daughter

B) His grandmother

C) His first wife

D) His mother

Answer · why

D) His mother

His mother, Hannah Chaplin, was a music-hall singer whose voice and career failed when he was a boy. He gave her name to the brave young woman of the ...