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Film & TV for Old and Young Trivia Quiz

A mix of film and TV trivia from both sides of the Atlantic.

A multiple-choice quiz by EnglishJedi. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
EnglishJedi

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
390,301

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. Nominated seven times for a Best Actor Oscar, whose only win in that category was for his performance as executive Harry Stoner in the 1973 drama "Save the Tiger"? Hint

Peter O'Toole

Steve McQueen

Jack Lemmon

James Mason

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Question 2 of 10

2. The characters Denise, Jim, Barbara and Anthony are better known by what collective title on UK TV? Hint

The Wombles

The Bash Street Kids

The Royle Family

Birds of a Feather

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which English actress guest-starred as the evil Siren in the 1960s US TV series "Batman"? Hint

Maggie Smith

Anne Baxter

Joan Collins

Elizabeth Taylor

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Question 4 of 10

4. When "Chicago" won the 2003 Best Picture Oscar, it was the first musical to do so since which film more than 30 years earlier? Hint

Fiddler on the Roof

West Side Story

Oliver!

The Sound of Music

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Question 5 of 10

5. A poll in the American 'TV Guide' named Archie Bunker, star of the long-running "All in the Family", as TV's greatest character. On which UK TV character was he based? Hint

Alf Garnett

Victor Meldrew

Captain Mainwaring

George Roper

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who was a regular cast member in two great US TV sitcoms, "Taxi" from 1979 until 1982 and "Cheers" from 1982 until 1993? Hint

Danny De Vito

Kirstie Alley

Rhea Perlman

Ted Danson

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which English comedy legend played Friar Tuck in the 1976 romantic adventure film "Robin and Marian"? Hint

John Cleese

Ronnie Barker

Ernie Wise

Bennie Hill

8. Awarded an Honorary Oscar in 1996, which actor's film credits include boxer 'Midge' Kelly in "Champion" in 1949, artist Vincent van Gogh in the 1956 biopic "Lust for Life", Doc Holliday in the classic 1957 Western "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" and the title role in "Spartacus" in 1960? Hint

Kirk Douglas

Edward G. Robinson

Alec Guinness

Gregory Peck

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which star of a 1960s UK TV series returned to prime-time TV in 2013 and earned three Emmy nominations for her performance as Olenna Tyrell in the US TV blockbuster series "Game of Thrones"? Hint

Dame Diana Rigg

Dame Thora Hird

Dame Julie Walters

Dame Margaret Rutherford

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Question 10 of 10

10. It is common for the last episode of a long-running US TV series to attract a huge audience. Which was the first series finale to attract a U.S. audience in excess of 100 million? Hint

M*A*S*H

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Nominated seven times for a Best Actor Oscar, whose only win in that category was for his performance as executive Harry Stoner in the 1973 drama "Save the Tiger"?

Answer: Jack Lemmon

Born John Uhler Lemmon III in Newton, Massachusetts in 1925, Lemmon also won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 1955 John Ford comedy-drama "Mister Roberts".

2. The characters Denise, Jim, Barbara and Anthony are better known by what collective title on UK TV?

Answer: The Royle Family

Created and written by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, who also co-starred, "The Royle Family" is a kitchen-sink drama with almost all of the action taking place in the low-income family's front room. Although highly rated, it ran for just 25 episodes between 1998 and 2000.

3. Which English actress guest-starred as the evil Siren in the 1960s US TV series "Batman"?

Answer: Joan Collins

Early TV appearances by Collins also include "Mission: Impossible" and the original "Star Trek". Other familiar names who also played villains in the original "Batman" TV series include Carolyn Jones (as Marsha, Queen of Diamonds), Eartha Kitt (as Catwoman) and Anne Baxter (as Olga, Queen of the Cossacks).

4. When "Chicago" won the 2003 Best Picture Oscar, it was the first musical to do so since which film more than 30 years earlier?

Answer: Oliver!

Directed by Rob Marshall and starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ren�e Zellweger and Richard Gere, "Chicago" won six Oscars in 2003. So, too, did "Oliver!" in 1969. Directed by Carol Reed, it starred Ron Moody, Oliver Reed and Harry Secombe, with 10-year old Mark Lester as Oliver.
"The Sound of Music" won Best Picture in 1966 and "West Side Story" in 1962. "Fiddler on the Roof" was nominated in 1972.

5. A poll in the American 'TV Guide' named Archie Bunker, star of the long-running "All in the Family", as TV's greatest character. On which UK TV character was he based?

Answer: Alf Garnett

"All in the Family" debuted on CBS in 1971 and ran nine seasons (205 episodes) until 1979. It was followed by "Archie Bunker's Place" and produced numerous spin-off series including "Maude" (starring Bea Arthur), "The Jeffersons" and "Gloria" (starring Sally Struthers).

The character of Archie was based on Alf Garnett (played by Warren Mitchell) from the 1960s UK sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part".

6. Who was a regular cast member in two great US TV sitcoms, "Taxi" from 1979 until 1982 and "Cheers" from 1982 until 1993?

Answer: Rhea Perlman

Born in Coney Island NY in 1948, in "Taxi" she played Zena Sherman, a love-interest of Louie (Danny DeVito, Perlman's real-life husband). In "Cheers" she was waitress Carla Tortelli.

7. Which English comedy legend played Friar Tuck in the 1976 romantic adventure film "Robin and Marian"?

Answer: Ronnie Barker

Directed by Richard Lester, the cast included Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Lady Marian, Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Richard Harris as King Richard I.
Barker appeared in more than a dozen films, and this was the penultimate. His only later film appearance was as Norman Stanley Fletcher in the 1979 film sequel to his hit TV series "Porridge".

Answer: Kirk Douglas

Born Issur Danielovitch in Amsterdam, New York in 1916, Douglas was nominated three times for a Best Actor Oscar, for "Champion", "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1953) and "Lust for Life". He is the father of Michael Douglas, an Oscar winner as both an actor ("Wall Street" and producer ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest").

9. Which star of a 1960s UK TV series returned to prime-time TV in 2013 and earned three Emmy nominations for her performance as Olenna Tyrell in the US TV blockbuster series "Game of Thrones"?

Answer: Dame Diana Rigg

Born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire in 1935, Rigg starred in "The Avengers" from 1965-68. Once married to the Laird of Keir, Archie Stirling, the actress Rachael Stirling is their daughter.

10. It is common for the last episode of a long-running US TV series to attract a huge audience. Which was the first series finale to attract a U.S. audience in excess of 100 million?

Answer: M*A*S*H

The 251st and last episode of "M*A*S*H", in 1983, attracted a US audience of 105 million, more than any other television series finale that had aired at that time. Other big finales include "Cheers" (80.4m), "Seinfeld" (76.2m) and "Friends" (52.5m). Remarkably, the audience for the final episode of "ER" was only a mere 25m.

Source: Author EnglishJedi

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