Q 01/05

Which Alfred Hitchcock thriller used chocolate syrup as blood in its black-and-white murder scene?

A) Notorious

B) Psycho

C) Spellbound

D) Suspicion

Answer · why

B) Psycho

Psycho used Hershey's syrup because it photographed better in black and white than stage blood. The stabbing sound was a melon being punctured.

Q 02/05

What nickname did the Jaws crew give their mechanical shark, after Steven Spielberg's lawyer?

A) Frank

B) Marty

C) Bruce

D) Larry

Answer · why

C) Bruce

Bruce broke down so often in salt water that Spielberg mostly suggested the shark's presence instead, using John Williams's ominous theme.

Q 03/05

Which actor won an Oscar as cannibal psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs?

A) Brian Cox

B) Christopher Walken

C) Gary Oldman

D) Anthony Hopkins

Answer · why

D) Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor as the film became only the third to sweep the five top Academy Awards. Brian Cox had played Lecter first, in Manhunter...

Q 04/05

Which South Korean thriller became the first non-English-language film to win the Best Picture Oscar?

A) Parasite

B) Oldboy

C) Burning

D) The Wailing

Answer · why

A) Parasite

Parasite, Bong Joon Ho's story of a poor family working its way into a rich household, also won Best Director, Original Screenplay and International F...

Q 05/05

Which 1987 thriller starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas inspired the slang term bunny boiler?

A) Jagged Edge

B) Basic Instinct

C) Fatal Attraction

D) Dangerous Liaisons

Answer · why

C) Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction gave rise to the term through the scene where a spurned lover boils the family's pet rabbit. It grew out of writer James Dearden's sh...