FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!
Quiz about Dying to Be a Star 6
Quiz about Dying to Be a Star 6

Dying to Be a Star 6 Trivia Quiz


All of these deaths are important, although some of them occur outside of the movie. They either set the stage, tie up the ending, or have an effect on the way the movie unfolds. All you have to do is tell me what movie they're from.

A multiple-choice quiz by skunkee. Estimated time: 9 mins.
  1. Home
  2. »
  3. Quizzes
  4. »
  5. Movie Trivia
  6. »
  7. Something in Common
  8. »
  9. Death in Movies

Author
skunkee
Time
9 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
197,076
Updated
Sep 23 22
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
12 / 15
Plays
5620
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
Last 3 plays: Guest 136 (10/15), Guest 66 (12/15), Guest 175 (10/15).
- -
Question 1 of 15
1. (2004) I have been living in the Paris Opera House since my father died. The Angel of Music has been my teacher for so long, but now he is getting more demanding. To further complicate things, my childhood sweetheart, Raoul, is back and we are in love - a fact which has angered the Angel enormously. You learn about my death at the very end of the movie, after the main conflict is already resolved. Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. (1983) My name is Alex, and although you never really see much of me onscreen, because I killed myself before the movie begins, I am the driving force which has brought all my college friends back together for my funeral. They spend the weekend together, getting to know each other all over again, and learning that life has not turned out the way that any of them had expected. Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. (2001) My rape and murder at the hands of a psychopath caused my husband to lose control and kill the man responsible. Years later a man going by the name of Prot manages to convince the patients in a psychiatric ward that he is from another planet. His claim that he will be soon returning there is so convincing that the patients are all on their best behaviour, because he has promised to take one of them back with him. His psychiatrist does a little research and determines that he is indeed my husband, who is still tortured by those events from when I was murdered...or is he really who he claims to be? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. (2004) While our deaths occurred long before the story told in this film, it was our betrayal by one of our friends that is central to the entire plot. Falsely accused of orchestrating that betrayal, and of murdering innocent bystanders, our friend Sirius was imprisoned. After years in that horrible jail, he learned that the man actually responsible for those crimes was alive, despite all evidence to the contrary. He managed to escape so that he could track the real culprit down. However because the real rogue was hiding at Hogwarts, everyone thought that Sirius was trying to murder our son. Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. (1974) My name is Ratchett, and I was drugged, and then murdered in my sleep while travelling across Europe on a very luxurious train. I was stabbed a number of times, each wound seemingly delivered by a different hand. Fortunately for me, the amazing detective Hercule Poirot was also a passenger on the train, and it did not take long for him to discover that my real name was Cassetti, and that I was once involved in the kidnapping and murder of young Daisy Armstrong. I can't say that I was very pleased about how Poirot resolved my murder though. Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. (1991) I lived in the deep south in the 1920s, which was not a place to be if you were interested in women's rights. So when my mother passed on and I learned that I was pregnant, I didn't have many places to turn to for help, to escape my abusive husband. Fortunately my friend Idgie Threadgoode was there to help me out, and she and I started a café together, and together we raised my son. I never knew with any certainty that Idgie didn't kill my husband when he came around looking to reclaim his son, and quite honestly, I didn't care. Idgie was a true friend though, and when I passed on from stomach cancer, I knew that my boy would never be allowed to forget me. Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. (2004) When my ex-husband first started telling me about a man who had accused him of 'stealing his story', I wasn't unduly alarmed. However as Mort started acting more and more strangely, I began to get concerned. The stranger wanted Mort to rewrite the ending of his published work, to make it more like the one he claimed to have written. Unfortunately for me, that meant that I, and my new lover had to die, so that Mort could satisfy the demands of the stranger that lived in his head. Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. (2000) I began haunting Claire Spencer, because I needed her to know that her husband had had an affair with me, and had also murdered me when I became too needy. Luckily Claire soon figured things out, despite the protestations of her lying husband. It was touch and go for a while, when he tried to kill her too. He would rather see her dead than take responsibility for what he'd done to me. Fortunately she prevailed, and now my spirit can finally rest. Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. (2003) My name is Jacob Wood, and I was shot and killed when some man with an axe to grind and easy access to a firearm came blasting through my office on a Monday morning. The trial that ensued when my widow was convinced to bring action against the gun manufacturer was a very important one, because it could set precedent across the country. Fortunately for my wife's sake, one of the jurors and his girlfriend had their own personal agenda, and succeeded in manipulating the jury to rule in our favour. Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. (2003) When highway prostitute Aileen Wuornos is beaten and raped by one of her customers, she kills him in self-defense. Unfortunately she finds that she prefers killing her Johns to actually having sex with them, and we are the luckless six (seven counting the first one who abused her) who she killed and robbed before she was eventually caught, sentenced and put to death in this fact based movie.

Answer: (One Word - 7 letters)
Question 11 of 15
11. (1996) My name is Cynthia Swan Griffin, and it was my suicide that inspired my long-lost college friends to join together to seek revenge against the husbands who had abandoned them for younger women. Half-way through their revenge, they realized that their priorities were in the wrong place, and they turned their efforts to helping other women in similar, or worse circumstances. Oh their former husbands still had to pay, but at least it was for a worthy cause. Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. (2003) After being injured in the American Civil War, I found that I didn't want to fight anymore. So I discharged myself from both the hospital and the army, and made my way back to my home. It was a long journey, and I had to be very careful to avoid falling into the hands of the vigilante groups who were out looking to kill deserters. However I was driven by my love for a woman back home, to whom I had barely expressed my feelings, before being called off to fight. Well I made it home, but wasn't there long before I was killed by one of the vigilantes that I had managed to avoid on my long odyssey home. Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. (1995) My name is Matthew Poncelet, and I spend pretty much all of the movie on Death Row, where I await execution for my part murdering two people. When I first reached out to Sister Helen Prejean, I was hoping that she could find a way to stop me from being executed, because I was still claiming that I was innocent of the murders. She was not able to do this, but she did teach me about responsibility and repentance, and hers was the last face that I saw before I died. Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. (1999) My name is Dickie Greenleaf, and I was the victim of a con man who killed me and tried to assume my life. This guy managed to convince my parents that we'd been to school together, so they paid him to come to Europe to try and persuade me to return to the U.S. Once he got here, he attached himself to my girlfriend and me, allowing me to foot the bill for his newfound wealthy lifestyle. It was when we began to tire of him and asked him to leave, that he decided he couldn't go back to his former life of poverty, and tried to assume mine. Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. (1975) As I was just a historian, speaking to the audience about events that happened hundreds of years ago in the Court of King Arthur, I didn't feel that I was in any danger. So imagine my surprise when a knight, in full armour, came galloping by on horseback and slit my throat. It killed me of course, but I at least had the satisfaction of knowing that my murder messed up the end of their quest for the cup of Christ, when the police descended to look for my killer. Hint



(Optional) Create a Free FunTrivia ID to save the points you are about to earn:

arrow Select a User ID:
arrow Choose a Password:
arrow Your Email:




Most Recent Scores
Oct 30 2024 : Guest 136: 10/15
Oct 26 2024 : Guest 66: 12/15
Oct 26 2024 : Guest 175: 10/15
Oct 24 2024 : scottm: 14/15
Sep 29 2024 : FrappMaster: 12/15
Sep 25 2024 : Guest 24: 13/15
Sep 24 2024 : SleepyPete: 14/15
Sep 08 2024 : jeltje1: 13/15
Sep 04 2024 : xxFruitcakexx: 8/15

Score Distribution

quiz
Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. (2004) I have been living in the Paris Opera House since my father died. The Angel of Music has been my teacher for so long, but now he is getting more demanding. To further complicate things, my childhood sweetheart, Raoul, is back and we are in love - a fact which has angered the Angel enormously. You learn about my death at the very end of the movie, after the main conflict is already resolved.

Answer: The Phantom of the Opera

Emmy Rossum plays the young Christine Daae, with a presence and composure that belies her young age. She alone makes this film worth seeing. Gerard Butler, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson and Minnie Driver also star in Joel Schumacher's interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterpiece.
2. (1983) My name is Alex, and although you never really see much of me onscreen, because I killed myself before the movie begins, I am the driving force which has brought all my college friends back together for my funeral. They spend the weekend together, getting to know each other all over again, and learning that life has not turned out the way that any of them had expected.

Answer: The Big Chill

A then unknown Kevin Costner was hired to play Alex for several flashbacks, but all of his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor. Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly and JoBeth Williams made up the wonderful ensemble cast, drawn together under Lawrence Kasdan's direction.
3. (2001) My rape and murder at the hands of a psychopath caused my husband to lose control and kill the man responsible. Years later a man going by the name of Prot manages to convince the patients in a psychiatric ward that he is from another planet. His claim that he will be soon returning there is so convincing that the patients are all on their best behaviour, because he has promised to take one of them back with him. His psychiatrist does a little research and determines that he is indeed my husband, who is still tortured by those events from when I was murdered...or is he really who he claims to be?

Answer: K-Pax

Kevin Spacey delivers an amazing performance as Prot, whose real identity is never completely resolved. Jeff Bridges stars as the psychiatrist, under Iain Softley's direction.
4. (2004) While our deaths occurred long before the story told in this film, it was our betrayal by one of our friends that is central to the entire plot. Falsely accused of orchestrating that betrayal, and of murdering innocent bystanders, our friend Sirius was imprisoned. After years in that horrible jail, he learned that the man actually responsible for those crimes was alive, despite all evidence to the contrary. He managed to escape so that he could track the real culprit down. However because the real rogue was hiding at Hogwarts, everyone thought that Sirius was trying to murder our son.

Answer: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Alfonso Cuaron directed this third, and slightly darker, offering in the ongoing "Harry Potter" saga. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman and Robbie Coltrane starred, to name but a few.
5. (1974) My name is Ratchett, and I was drugged, and then murdered in my sleep while travelling across Europe on a very luxurious train. I was stabbed a number of times, each wound seemingly delivered by a different hand. Fortunately for me, the amazing detective Hercule Poirot was also a passenger on the train, and it did not take long for him to discover that my real name was Cassetti, and that I was once involved in the kidnapping and murder of young Daisy Armstrong. I can't say that I was very pleased about how Poirot resolved my murder though.

Answer: Murder on the Orient Express

Sidney Lumet directed this wonderful period film that offered the amazing talents of Richard Widmark, Albert Finney, Martin Balsam, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bissett, Sean Connery, John Gielgud and Anthony Perkins.
6. (1991) I lived in the deep south in the 1920s, which was not a place to be if you were interested in women's rights. So when my mother passed on and I learned that I was pregnant, I didn't have many places to turn to for help, to escape my abusive husband. Fortunately my friend Idgie Threadgoode was there to help me out, and she and I started a café together, and together we raised my son. I never knew with any certainty that Idgie didn't kill my husband when he came around looking to reclaim his son, and quite honestly, I didn't care. Idgie was a true friend though, and when I passed on from stomach cancer, I knew that my boy would never be allowed to forget me.

Answer: Fried Green Tomatoes

Jon Avnet directed this great movie that starred Mary Louise Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy and Cicely Tyson.
7. (2004) When my ex-husband first started telling me about a man who had accused him of 'stealing his story', I wasn't unduly alarmed. However as Mort started acting more and more strangely, I began to get concerned. The stranger wanted Mort to rewrite the ending of his published work, to make it more like the one he claimed to have written. Unfortunately for me, that meant that I, and my new lover had to die, so that Mort could satisfy the demands of the stranger that lived in his head.

Answer: Secret Window

David Koepp directed this adaptation of the Stephen King story, that starred Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton and Charles Dutton. The interplay between Depp and Turturro is worth a watch, although the movie itself is a tad disappointing.
8. (2000) I began haunting Claire Spencer, because I needed her to know that her husband had had an affair with me, and had also murdered me when I became too needy. Luckily Claire soon figured things out, despite the protestations of her lying husband. It was touch and go for a while, when he tried to kill her too. He would rather see her dead than take responsibility for what he'd done to me. Fortunately she prevailed, and now my spirit can finally rest.

Answer: What Lies Beneath

Frequently cast as an action hero, Harrison Ford is given a rare opportunity to play the bad guy, under Robert Zemeckis' direction. Michelle Pfeiffer delivered her usual excellent performance.
9. (2003) My name is Jacob Wood, and I was shot and killed when some man with an axe to grind and easy access to a firearm came blasting through my office on a Monday morning. The trial that ensued when my widow was convinced to bring action against the gun manufacturer was a very important one, because it could set precedent across the country. Fortunately for my wife's sake, one of the jurors and his girlfriend had their own personal agenda, and succeeded in manipulating the jury to rule in our favour.

Answer: Runaway Jury

John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackmen star under Gary Fleder's direction. The movie is loosely based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham, but in the novel, the suit was brought against a tobacco company.
10. (2003) When highway prostitute Aileen Wuornos is beaten and raped by one of her customers, she kills him in self-defense. Unfortunately she finds that she prefers killing her Johns to actually having sex with them, and we are the luckless six (seven counting the first one who abused her) who she killed and robbed before she was eventually caught, sentenced and put to death in this fact based movie.

Answer: Monster

The beautiful Charlize Theron gained 30 lbs. and let herself be made ugly to deliver an Oscar winning performance as Aileen, under Patty Jenkins' direction. Christina Ricci gained 10 lbs. to play Aileen's younger girlfriend.
11. (1996) My name is Cynthia Swan Griffin, and it was my suicide that inspired my long-lost college friends to join together to seek revenge against the husbands who had abandoned them for younger women. Half-way through their revenge, they realized that their priorities were in the wrong place, and they turned their efforts to helping other women in similar, or worse circumstances. Oh their former husbands still had to pay, but at least it was for a worthy cause.

Answer: The First Wives Club

Hugh Wilson directed this delightful movie that starred Stockard Channing, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Dan Hedaya, Victor Garber, Stephen Collins and Maggie Smith.
12. (2003) After being injured in the American Civil War, I found that I didn't want to fight anymore. So I discharged myself from both the hospital and the army, and made my way back to my home. It was a long journey, and I had to be very careful to avoid falling into the hands of the vigilante groups who were out looking to kill deserters. However I was driven by my love for a woman back home, to whom I had barely expressed my feelings, before being called off to fight. Well I made it home, but wasn't there long before I was killed by one of the vigilantes that I had managed to avoid on my long odyssey home.

Answer: Cold Mountain

Anthony Minghella directed Renee Zellweger to an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Nicole Kidman and Jude Law also starred.
13. (1995) My name is Matthew Poncelet, and I spend pretty much all of the movie on Death Row, where I await execution for my part murdering two people. When I first reached out to Sister Helen Prejean, I was hoping that she could find a way to stop me from being executed, because I was still claiming that I was innocent of the murders. She was not able to do this, but she did teach me about responsibility and repentance, and hers was the last face that I saw before I died.

Answer: Dead Man Walking

Susan Sarandon won an Oscar for her portrayal of real life Sister Helen Prejean, upon whose experiences with Death Row inmates the movie is based. Tim Robbins both directed and wrote the screenplay, and Sean Penn starred as the condemned man.
14. (1999) My name is Dickie Greenleaf, and I was the victim of a con man who killed me and tried to assume my life. This guy managed to convince my parents that we'd been to school together, so they paid him to come to Europe to try and persuade me to return to the U.S. Once he got here, he attached himself to my girlfriend and me, allowing me to foot the bill for his newfound wealthy lifestyle. It was when we began to tire of him and asked him to leave, that he decided he couldn't go back to his former life of poverty, and tried to assume mine.

Answer: The Talented Mr. Ripley

Anthony Minghella directed this interesting film that starred Matt Damon, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett and Gwyneth Paltrow.
15. (1975) As I was just a historian, speaking to the audience about events that happened hundreds of years ago in the Court of King Arthur, I didn't feel that I was in any danger. So imagine my surprise when a knight, in full armour, came galloping by on horseback and slit my throat. It killed me of course, but I at least had the satisfaction of knowing that my murder messed up the end of their quest for the cup of Christ, when the police descended to look for my killer.

Answer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python delivered a ridiculous, irreverent, and totally hysterical look at the quest of King Arthur and his knights to find the Holy Grail. The usual Monty Python crew of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin appeared under Terry Gilliam's direction.
Source: Author skunkee

This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor linkan before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.
10/31/2024, Copyright 2024 FunTrivia, Inc. - Report an Error / Contact Us