Color or Monochrome Trivia Quiz

Answer: Monochrome

"Much Ado About Nothing" is a movie based on the comedy play of the same name written by William Shakespeare.

This version was directed by Joss Whedon. The movie was filmed in only twelve days at his house in Santa Monica, and he just felt it was the perfect film to make in black and white.

"Much Ado About Nothing" is about two different sets of couples, this version is set in the modern day. The first couple is Beatrice (Amy Acker) and Benedick (Alexis Denisof). They have a very strong love/hate relationship. The other couple is Claudio (Fran Kranz) and Hero (Jillian Morgese). Their relationship is threatened by Don John (Sean Maher) who has spread rumors about Hero being disloyal because Don Juan wants Hero for himself and wants to break her and Claudio up.

Answer: Monochrome

"Belfast" tells the story of Buddy (Jude Hill) and his family. It takes place in August of 1969, when riots were happening in Northern Ireland. Jude is only nine and finds himself dealing with these riots that lead to "The Troubles" mainly between Catholics and Protestants.

The movie was written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. The story is based on Branagh's own experiences growing up in Belfast during that time as a little boy.

Answer: Color

"Jesus Christ Superstar" is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, that stars Ted Neeley as Jesus and Carl Anderson as Judas Iscariot. The movie tells the story of the last week of Jesus' life, set in the modern time at time of the stage production (the 1960s).

Answer: Color

"Superman" stars Christopher Reeve as the title character. Planet Krypton is being destroyed, and Jor-El (Marlon Brando) sends his son Kal-El (Superman's name on Krypton), to Earth in a spaceship to keep him safe. He is raised on a farm by Jonathan (Glenn Ford) and Martha Kent (Phyllis Thaxter) under the name Clark Kent.

He grows up, and moves to the big city of Metropolis, having learned from experience and his parents that he has abilities others do not have. He becomes a reporter at the "Daily Planet". It is there he meets Lois Lane (Margot Kidder).

While Lois loves Superman, at first she is not overly fond of Clark. She has no clue it is the same person. Superman needs to save the world from the schemes of a man named Lex Luther (Gene Hackman). He also needs to save Lois who has a knack for getting herself in trouble rather frequently. He has speed that is literally out of this world, and almost nothing can stop him. He cannot see through lead, and Kryptonite can kill him.

Answer: Monochrome

"Paper Moon" is a 1973 dramedy directed by Peter Bogdanovich. It stars Ryan O'Neal as Moses Pray, a con man in Kansas in the late 1930s. He meets an orphaned girl, Addie Loggins, played by O'Neal's real-life daughter, Tatum O'Neal, who is visiting her mother's grave. He agrees to take her to her aunt's home in Missouri, but neighbors think Moses is really her father.

Moses gets $200 from the man who accidentally killed Addie's mother but spends it. She demands the money, so he agrees to let her travel with him (he was going to send her on the train) until he can raise the money to pay her back. He starts scamming widows, and soon Addie becomes a con artist as well.

Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance making her at that time the youngest actress to win the award, at ten years old.

Answer: Monochrome

Truman Capote wrote the book "In Cold Blood" in 1966 about the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. All four members were brutally killed. In 1967, Richard Brooks wrote, produced, and directed the film based on the movie.

The movie is told in flashbacks and stars Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Dick Hickock the two cold-blooded killers. It tells of how their plot to rob the wealthy Clutter family but, not finding a safe and not wanting to leave witnesses, slit the father's throat, then take a shotgun and kill the wife and two teenage children. Then the movie deals with the captured separately. They are tried and hanged.

The real latrines that the real Hickock and Smith used are on the actual set of the movie.

Answer: Color

"Rock of Ages" is a 2012 movie musical starring Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta.

The movie takes place in LA, California in 1987. Sherrie Christian (Hough) has just arrived in LA from Oklahoma with dreams of making it big as a singer. Drew Boley (Boneta), a bartender's assistant, gets her a job as a waitress at the Bourbon Room. Drew also dreams of making it big in the music industry as a rock star, but he has stage fright. Soon the two start dating.

The movie also features many well-known stars such as Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mary J. Blige, and Alec Baldwin.

Answer: Color

"Barefoot in the Park" is a 1967 comedy based on the 1963 Neil Simon play of the same name.
Paul (Robert Redford) and Corie (Jane Fonda) are newlyweds living in a cramped apartment in New York City. Paul is a conservative lawyer, and Corie is a free-spirited person. She finds the apartment which is up six flights, with no elevator.

They befriend the man who lives upstairs in the attic, Victor Velasco (Charles Boyer). He comes in through their window to visit them and is a bit eccentric. Corie tries to set her mother, Ethel Banks (Mildred Natwick) with Velasco so her mother won't be alone in New Jersey. Paul is angry. When they are alone, Paul tells Corie he is angry and this angers Corie. She tells him she wants a divorce because he doesn't walk barefoot in the park, and therefore she realizes they have nothing in common.

Paul leaves and gets drunk, but eventually returns and climbs up on the roof. He makes Corie loudly announce, "My husband, Paul Bratter, is a lousy stinking drunk." They realize that, despite their differences, they really love each other.

Answer: Color

"Werewolves Within" is a mystery-comedy-horror film. It is based on a video game of the same name. Finn Wheeler (Sam Richardson) is a forest ranger working in Beaverfield. The town is divided over a pipeline proposition that businessman Sam Parker (Wayne Duvall) has made. Finn and the residents are forced to stay at a lodge owned by Jeanine Sherman (Catherine Curtain) after a blizzard hits and knocks the power out in the town.

This happens right before the town resident's, Trisha Anderson (Michaela Watkins), dog is mysteriously killed.

There is a lot of tension in the town, which only increases when Finn discovers Jeanine's missing husband, Dave (Patrick M. Walsh), under the porch, and that all the generators in town have been destroyed.

Answer: Monochrome

"Young Frankenstein" is a comedy by Mel Brooks, parodying the horror movie genre. Gene Wilder plays Dr. Frederick Frankenstein the grandson of the famous Victor Frankenstein (a character from Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" and movies based on it). He thinks his grandfather was an nutcase and does not want to be linked to him so he changes the way his name is pronounced to Fronchensteen.

He inherits property from his great-grandfather Baron Beaufort von Frankenstein in Transylvania. He goes to see the property and meats Igor (Marty Feldman), a servant, whose grandfather worked for Frederick's grandfather, and Inga (Teri Garr), an assistant. He also meets the housekeeper Frau Blucher (Cloris Leachman), who is so scary that even the horses freak out at the mere mention of her name.

Frederick discovers his grandfather's journals and starts to think perhaps it is possible to bring someone to life and begins his own experiments with bringing someone dead to life. He sends Igor to get the brain of Hans Delbruck, but Igor accidentally drops the brain and grabs a brain labeled "Abnormal". He tells Frankenstein the name was "Abby Normal". And so Frankenstein has brought to life a giant creature (Peter Boyle) with an abnormal brain.