Favorite Movies of 1964 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Zulu

Set during the 1879 Zulu War in Southern Africa, "Zulu" details the British defense of Rorke's Drift, a hospital and supply depot. In the battle, some 150 British soldiers held off a force of some 4,000 Zulu warriors. The film stars Michael Caine, Stanley Baker, Nigel Green, and Jack Hawkins.

Answer: Dr. Strangelove

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb", is a black comedy showing the madness of the Cold War. Peter Sellers plays three roles, the President, Dr. Strangelove, and an RAF Major. The film also stars George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens.

Answer: The Fall of the Roman Empire

A sprawling epic film starring Stephen Boyd, Sophia Loren, Alec Guinness, James Mason, and Christopher Plummer, the movie tells the story of the succession of Commodus as Emperor after his father, Marcus Aurelius, is poisoned. Commodus is unfit to rule and is soon murdered, leaving the Senate to bicker over the next Emperor. This film was remade as "Gladiator" in 2000.

Answer: The Incredible Mr. Limpet

Don Knotts stars as Henry Limpet, a bookkeeper unfit for military service. Limpet is obsessed with fish and secretly wants to be one. During an outing to Coney Island with his wife and a Navy friend, Limpet falls into the ocean and transforms into a fish. He then helps the US Navy win the Battle of the Atlantic.

Answer: What a Way to Go!

Poor Shirley MacLaine! She marries three poor men, who then become obsessed with success until it literally kills them. Her one rich husband returns to a simpler lifestyle and also dies accidentally. The film also features Dean Martin, Paul Newman, Gene Kelly, Robert Mitchum, and Dick Van Dyke.

Answer: Father Goose

Cary Grant stars as the man who, while searching for a comrade on a nearby Pacific island, finds seven schoolgirls and their French teacher marooned after escaping from the Japanese. Hating each other at first, the beach bum and the teacher fall in love and get married before trying to escape the island.

Answer: A Shot in the Dark

Peter Sellers stars as Inspector Clouseau in this comedy about murder at a country house. A housemaid, played by Elke Sommer, is suspected in a series of killings, but Clouseau believes her to be innocent. This drives Clouseau's superior(Herbert Lom) to the brink of insanity.

Answer: Fail-Safe

When a malfunction in a US control system sends bombers to attack the Soviet Union, the President (Henry Fonda) contacts the Soviet Premier and orders US personnel to assist the Soviets in shooting down any planes not answering the recall order. Tensions mount as U.S. personnel resist helping those they regard as the enemy.

Answer: The Train

A German colonel confiscates priceless artworks from Paris and loads them on a train bound for Germany during the retreat from France in the summer of 1944. French railroad workers, many who are members of the Resistance, try and stop the train by any means.

Answer: Ensign Pulver

A sequel to the 1955 film "Mister Roberts" with a different cast, "Ensign Pulver" continues the saga of a Navy cargo ship with a by-the-book captain and a misfit crew. The movie stars Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Millie Perkins, and Jack Nicholson.