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My Favorite Movies of 1974 Trivia Quiz

Ever since I can remember I have enjoyed movies more than most other forms of entertainment. In my opinion, the 1970s were one of the most exciting eras in movie production. Here are my favorites from the year 1974, how many can you name?

A multiple-choice quiz by Reamar42. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
Reamar42

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
408,770

Updated
Apr 11 22

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
12 / 15

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680

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 15

1. A greedy politician schemes to steal the land occupied by an Old West town in this comedy. What is the film called? Hint

Boot Hill

Blazing Saddles

Evil Roy Slade

Battle of Rock Ridge

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Question 2 of 15

2. What is this film called, in which a reporter discovers evidence of a political assassination conspiracy? Hint

The Parallax View

Shadow Play

All the President's Men

The Unseen Army

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Question 3 of 15

3. In this mystery film, a surveillance expert is disturbed by the content of the tapes he had recorded for his client. What is it called? Hint

The Seven Minutes

The Confessions of a Killer

The Conversation

In Secret

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Question 4 of 15

4. In this comedy film, a Brooklyn housewife borrows money from a loan shark to help her husband. What is it called? Hint

For Pete's Sake

Payable in Full

The Debt

The Broker

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Question 5 of 15

5. This film is a comedy about a pair of CIA agents that must run from their own colleagues. What is it called? Hint

S*P*Y*S

Agent Nine-Nine

Run for your Life

The Company Men

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Question 6 of 15

6. What is the name of this movie, where a woman seeks revenge when her boyfriend is killed by a drug gang? Hint

Foxy Brown

Uptown Saturday Night

Cleopatra Jones

The Revenge of Pinky

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Question 7 of 15

7. Do you know the name of this movie, the saga of a Mafia Don's rise to power interspersed with the story of his son's life some forty years later? Hint

The Don is Dead

Mob Boss

Family Ties

The Godfather Part II

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Question 8 of 15

8. Can you name this movie, which shows a segment of a day's broadcasting on a low-budget "underground" TV station? Hint

The Boob Tube

Brain Damage

The Groove Tube

The Kentucky Fried Movie

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Question 9 of 15

9. In this comedy, the grandson of a famous scientist moves to the family's old European home and takes up where his grandfather left off. What is it called? Hint

It's Alive!

Sigmund the Third

Young Frankenstein

The Curse of Dr. Faraday

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Question 10 of 15

10. Can you name this film, where an ex-NFL quarterback forms a football team from an unlikely source to play a game against a semi-pro squad? Hint

Winners Never Quit

Play by Play

The Longest Yard

Touchdown!

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Question 11 of 15

11. Do you know the name of this movie, a comedy about a pair of San Francisco detectives out to take down a mob boss? Hint

Two Can Play That Game

Bay City Blue

Freebie and the Bean

Running Away

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Question 12 of 15

12. This film is a look at the life of a controversial American stand-up comedian. Can you name it? Hint

The Life of "Fatty" Arbuckle

W. C. Fields and Me

Lenny

The Jack Benny Story

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Question 13 of 15

13. In this film, a Chicago reporter quits his job to get married just as an important story unfolds. What is it called? Hint

What's the Story?

Dewey defeats Truman

Page One

The Front Page

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Question 14 of 15

14. This film is a story about a freelance German journalist in 1963 who comes into possession of a Jewish Holocaust survivor's diary. What is it called? Hint

The Odessa File

The Ultimate Secret

Holocaust Diary

Stormtroopers

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Question 15 of 15

15. Can you name this movie? Four men take over a New York subway train and hold the passengers for ransom. This 1974 film was remade in 2009. Hint

Ransom

Terror Train

The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3

Bad Day on the Track

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. A greedy politician schemes to steal the land occupied by an Old West town in this comedy. What is the film called?

Answer: Blazing Saddles

A railroad crew has to route the line through the town of Rock Ridge to avoid quicksand. In order to destabilize the town, corrupt politician Hedley Lamar appoints a black sheriff to the all-white town. This film is Mel Brooks' hilarious spoof of Western movies.

2. What is this film called, in which a reporter discovers evidence of a political assassination conspiracy?

Answer: The Parallax View

Warren Beatty plays a reporter who stumbles upon a corporation that is recruiting assassins. He gets hired by the company under an alias, but realizes that he has been set up as a scapegoat when a prominent politician is killed. The film also features Paula Prentiss and Hume Cronyn.

3. In this mystery film, a surveillance expert is disturbed by the content of the tapes he had recorded for his client. What is it called?

Answer: The Conversation

Gene Hackman plays a surveillance experts whose desire for privacy borders on paranoia. He is disturbed by the recording he made for his latest client, which may have led to a murder. The film also stars Robert Duvall and Harrison Ford.

4. In this comedy film, a Brooklyn housewife borrows money from a loan shark to help her husband. What is it called?

Answer: For Pete's Sake

Barbara Streisand plays a Brooklyn housewife who borrows money from a loan shark to finance her cabbie husband's get rich quick scheme. When she can't pay in time, her contract is sold, over and over, with the debt increasing.

5. This film is a comedy about a pair of CIA agents that must run from their own colleagues. What is it called?

Answer: S*P*Y*S

After two KGB agents are accidentally killed trying to prevent the defection of a Soviet athlete, a CIA chief and his KGB counterpart agree to kill two CIA agents to avoid retaliation. When the two CIA men learn of the plot, they seek help from a French anarchist group. The film stars Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould.

6. What is the name of this movie, where a woman seeks revenge when her boyfriend is killed by a drug gang?

Answer: Foxy Brown

Pam Grier stars in this "blaxploitation" film in which a woman infiltrates the white drug gang that killed her boyfriend, a government agent. With help from the Black Panthers, she destroys the gang and frees a woman who was being held hostage.

7. Do you know the name of this movie, the saga of a Mafia Don's rise to power interspersed with the story of his son's life some forty years later?

Answer: The Godfather Part II

In this sequel to 1972's "The Godfather", Michael Corleone is now head of the family and has to deal with threats to his power and a traitor in his own family. The parallel story, shown in flashbacks, details the arrival in America and rise to power of Michael's father, Vito Corleone. The cast includes Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keaton.

8. Can you name this movie, which shows a segment of a day's broadcasting on a low-budget "underground" TV station?

Answer: The Groove Tube

Comedians Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer are featured in this movie, which consists of a series of sketches and comedy vignettes which satirize both the programming available to non-network television stations and the 1970's counterculture.

9. In this comedy, the grandson of a famous scientist moves to the family's old European home and takes up where his grandfather left off. What is it called?

Answer: Young Frankenstein

Gene Wilder plays Victor Frankenstein, a surgeon who rejects his family heritage. When he inherits the family's European home and discovers his grandfather's notes, he creates his own monster, with comic results. The film also stars Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, and Kenneth Mars.

10. Can you name this film, where an ex-NFL quarterback forms a football team from an unlikely source to play a game against a semi-pro squad?

Answer: The Longest Yard

Burt Reynolds plays Paul Crewe, an ex NFL quarterback who is jailed for auto theft. The warden coaches a semi-pro team made up of prison guards, and has Crewe form an inmate team to play against them. The film was re-made in 2005.

11. Do you know the name of this movie, a comedy about a pair of San Francisco detectives out to take down a mob boss?

Answer: Freebie and the Bean

"Freebie and the Bean" stars James Caan and Alan Arkin as a pair of mismatched San Francisco police detectives, one who wants to supplement his retirement funds and the other who wants to be promoted. They foil repeated attempts on a mob boss's life, the target of a long investigation, only to have him die of a heart attack before they can arrest him.

12. This film is a look at the life of a controversial American stand-up comedian. Can you name it?

Answer: Lenny

This film stars Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce, an outspoken American comedian from the late 1950s and early 1960s whose routines regularly got him in trouble with the law for obscenity. Valerie Perrine co-stars as Bruce's exotic dancer wife, Honey.

13. In this film, a Chicago reporter quits his job to get married just as an important story unfolds. What is it called?

Answer: The Front Page

Jack Lemmon stars as a reporter who quits his job at a Chicago newspaper to marry his girlfriend. He is lured back to work by his unscrupulous editor to cover a story about an escaped prisoner. The film also features Walter Matthau and Susan Sarandon.

14. This film is a story about a freelance German journalist in 1963 who comes into possession of a Jewish Holocaust survivor's diary. What is it called?

Answer: The Odessa File

A freelance German reporter comes upon the diary of a Holocaust survivor while doing a story about the JFK assassination. The book leads him to an organization of former SS officers whose influence reaches into all sectors of German society. The film stars Jon Voight and Maximilian Schell.

15. Can you name this movie? Four men take over a New York subway train and hold the passengers for ransom. This 1974 film was remade in 2009.

Answer: The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3

Four men hijack a subway train in New York City and demand a million dollars in ransom. One of the hostages is an undercover police officer. The hijackers have a falling out after getting the money, leaving only one alive, who is then recognized by the officer who had been held hostage. The film was remade in 2009.

Source: Author Reamar42

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