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David Cronenberg Trivia Quiz

Coming up: taglines, actors/actresses, characters and more of David Cronenberg movies which you have to match with the right title, so have fun!

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

Author
revolle

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
91,384

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. The tagline of which Cronenberg film is: "The only thing worse than losing your mind ... is finding it again"? Hint

Stereo

Scanners

Spiders

Shivers

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Question 2 of 10

2. Debbie Harry starred in which of these Cronenberg films? Hint

Crash

Videodrome

eXistenZ

The Brood

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Question 3 of 10

3. Jeremy Irons plays a man falling in love with another man unknowingly, believing he's a Chinese woman, in which film? Hint

Dead Ringers

Spiders

The Dead Zone

M. Butterfly

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which film is based on a William S. Burroughs novel? Hint

The Fly

eXistenZ

Naked Lunch

The Dead Zone

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which movie matches with the tagline saying "Be afraid. Be very afraid."? Hint

The Brood

Dead Ringers

The Fly

Rabid

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Question 6 of 10

6. Does David Cronenberg himself play the gynecologist in "The Fly"?

Yes

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Question 7 of 10

7. Johnny Smith is a character in which of these movies? Hint

Scanners

Naked Lunch

Spiders

The Dead Zone

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Question 8 of 10

8. David Cronenberg was set to direct which of the following movies? Hint

Total Recall

The Thing

The Terminator

Darkman

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Question 9 of 10

9. The tagline "love in the dying moments of the twentieth century" belongs to which movie?

Answer: (Odd love interests)

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which film starred Jennifer Jason Leigh? Hint

Crash

Dead Ringers

eXistenZ

Spiders

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The tagline of which Cronenberg film is: "The only thing worse than losing your mind ... is finding it again"?

Answer: Spiders

In his flick made in August 2002 Cronenberg focused on schizophrenic reality transformation.

2. Debbie Harry starred in which of these Cronenberg films?

Answer: Videodrome

Debbie Harry aka Blondie plays Nicki Brand in "Videodrome" (1983), a film about snuff conserved on hardcore videos.

3. Jeremy Irons plays a man falling in love with another man unknowingly, believing he's a Chinese woman, in which film?

Answer: M. Butterfly

Iron's white face - red blood, very (melo)dramatic. Cronenberg made this film in 1993. Giacomo Puccini's opera, from which the movie's motive is taken, is called "Madame Butterfly".

4. Which film is based on a William S. Burroughs novel?

Answer: Naked Lunch

Of course it's the Peter Weller-starring "Naked Lunch" (1991). It's a film on the novel also called "Naked Lunch" by Burroughs, a beatnik poet, and developed on life-time (ab)use of heroin. The typewriter has a major role in this film.

5. Which movie matches with the tagline saying "Be afraid. Be very afraid."?

Answer: The Fly

Jeff Goldblum plays the not-really-mad scientist Seth Brundle turning himself into a creature half-fly half-human in the nearly creature-feature "The Fly" (1986).

6. Does David Cronenberg himself play the gynecologist in "The Fly"?

Answer: yes

That's right. Geena Davis plays Ronnie Quaife, the woman Brundle-Fly impregnated against her will.

7. Johnny Smith is a character in which of these movies?

Answer: The Dead Zone

Christoper Walken plays Johnny Smith, the man with outraging psychic abilities helping police find a murderer. The movie based on the Stephen King novel "The Dead Zone" was made in 1983.

8. David Cronenberg was set to direct which of the following movies?

Answer: Total Recall

He even wrote a few drafts of the script before Paul Verhoeven took over "Total Recall" in 1990.

9. The tagline "love in the dying moments of the twentieth century" belongs to which movie?

Answer: Crash

"Crash" starred Holly Hunter and James Spader as amputee fetishists. Cronenberg made this controversial film in 1996.

10. Which film starred Jennifer Jason Leigh?

Answer: eXistenZ

"eXistenZ" (1999) also has Jude Law, strange consoles, constructivist questions about reality, addiction and Daniel Dafoe.

Source: Author revolle

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