Are you showbiz na showbiz?

My friend Raoul Tidalgo knew what gift to give me last Christmas. It’s a little book called Trivia of the Silver Screen (by Lester Gordon) which is absolutely interesting and informative. I thought I was showbiz na showbiz (read: knowledgeable in things showbiz particularly Hollywood) until I started scanning the little book.

Okay then, are you showbiz na showbiz?

Find out how you score in the following quiz (from the chapter titled Test Your Movie Trivia Knowledge):

1. Name all the actors who played James Bond in the movies.

2. Who wrote, directed, produced and starred in the legendary movie Citizen Kane?

3. In what film does Marlon Brando utter his famous phrase, “Stella! Stella!”?

4. What was the first film to feature a dialogue soundtrack?

5. Who invented the movie camera?

6. Who appeared in every one of Alfred Hitchcock’s films?

7. What famous Humphrey Bogart role was almost given to Pres. Ronald Reagan?

8. What is the name of the French detective played by Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther movies?

9. What was the first animated movie ever to be nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award?

10. Which actor turned down an Academy Award in order to protest Hollywood’s negative stereotypes of Native American people?

11. What was Pres. John Kennedy’s favorite movie?

12. What was the last movie in which Natalie Wood appeared?

13. What is the last thing we see in the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho?

14. Can you name the seven dwarfs?

15. Did Marilyn Monroe ever have plastic surgery?

16. What two characters did Charlton Heston play in The Ten Commandments?

17. What movie featured Dudley Moore as a rich, alcoholic race car driver?

18. What is the only movie in which Henry Fonda starred as the bad guy?

19. What film features Robin Williams as a jazz-loving Russian saxophonist who defects to America?

20. How many times does Dustin Hoffman cry out “Elaine!” at the end of The Graduate?

21. What is the debut movie directed by ex-video store clerk Quentin Tarantino?

22. What is “the stuff that dreams are made of”?

23. What were the three movies that James Dean completed before his untimely death?

24. When was the first Oscars held?

25. Who is the youngest actress ever to win the Academy Award?

I hope you did not look this way while answering the questions. That would be, ehem, “cheating.” Anyway, here are the answers to the little quiz:

1. Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, David Niven and Daniel Craig. Peter Sellers played a man masquerading as James Bond and Woody Allen once played 007’s insane nephew Jimmy Bond.

2. Orson Welles

3. A Streetcar Named Desire

4. The Jazz Singer

5. There are many conflicting reports on who actually invented the device, but Thomas Edison held the first patent for a movie camera in the USA.

6. Alfred Hitchcock

7. Rick Blaine in Casablanca

8.Inspector Clouseau

9. Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

10. Marlon Brando

11. The Manchurian Candidate

12. Brainstorm

13. Blood running down the drain

14. Sleepy, Dopey, Happy, Bashful, Grumpy, Sneezy and Doc

15. Yes, when she was 23 years old

16. Moses and the voice of God

17. Arthur

18. Once Upon a Time in the West. He plays Frank, a character so evil that he actually shoots an unarmed child for no reason whatsoever!

19. Moscow on the Hudson

20. Twenty-seven

21. Reservoir Dogs

22. The Maltese Falcon

23. Rebel Without a Cause, Giant and East of Eden

24. 1929

25. Tatum O’Neil (Paper Moon)

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