Movie Night Trivia Quiz

Answer: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr

Perhaps the Beatles' most successful film, "A Hard Day's Night" features the song of the same name released on the album of the same name. A sort of "few days in the life of" movie, it tells the story of the Beatles traveling from Liverpool to London and putting on a concert there, with all manner of adventures intervening.

Answer: The Night They Raided Minsky's

This movie is an all-singing all-dancing show with an all-star cast including Jason Robards, Forrest Tucker, Jack Burns and Bert Lahr. It was produced by Norman Lear, the producer of "All in the Family", "Sanford and Son", "One Day at a Time", "The Jeffersons", "Good Times", and "Maude" on television.

Answer: Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier

This film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won five including Best Picture. Rod Steiger won both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Actor. The racial issues raised by this movie were provocative and controversial in 1967.

Answer: rabbits

This film has a cult following despite being so bad that it is good. It was (loosely) based on a novel published in 1964 by Australian author Russell Braddon called "The Year of the Angry Rabbit". In the novel, a deranged Australian prime minister seeks to use giant rabbits to his political advantage. Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, and DeForest Kelley struggle to keep a straight face all the way through the American movie.

Answer: Carmen Miranda

Carmen Miranda had two careers: from 1929-1939 she was a popular singer in Brazil; from 1940 until her death in 1955, she was a movie star in the United States, appearing in fourteen films. American media dubbed her "The Brazilian Bombshell."

Answer: Night of the Living Dead

Romero directed, wrote, edited and appeared in "Night of the Living Dead" which cost less than $150,000 to produce and which earned about $30-million internationally. While not a milestone in cinematic production, the movie is preserved in the National Film Registry because of its significance to the genre.

Answer: It Happened One Night

The other two films to win "the Big Five" Academy Awards were "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1975 and "The Silence of the Lambs" in 1991. Neither Colbert nor Gable were Columbia Pictures' first choices for the leading roles.

Answer: Saturday Night Fever

The soundtrack for "Saturday Night Fever", which featured primarily the music of the Bee Gees, was an international success, sold over 15 million albums, and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

Answer: The sinking of the Titanic

Numerous actors, who would go on to become well known, appear in minor roles in this film, e.g. David McCallum, Sean Connery, Honor Blackman. There is also an odd connection between this cast and the James Bond movies. In addition to Connery and Blackman (Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger"), Geoffrey Bayldon played Q in "Casino Royale", and Desmond Llewelyn played Q in a dozen Bond films.

Answer: A Night at the Opera

"A Night at the Opera" revolved around New York opera and afforded Miss Carlisle (who was a classically trained singer) an opportunity to demonstrate her beautiful voice. Some film critics find "A Night at the Opera" to be the best of the Marx Brothers' thirteen movies.

This claim is supported by what may well be the funniest scene in any Marx Brothers film: the stateroom scene in which fifteen people end up wedged into Groucho's tiny cabin.