My Favorite Movies of 1975 Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Stepford Wives

After moving from New York City to an exclusive Connecticut suburb, a couple notices that all of their neighbor's wives are excessively submissive to their husbands and obsessed with housework. The men all belong to a local club, which the new guy is soon asked to join. The film stars Katherine Ross, Paula Prentiss, and Tina Louise.

Answer: Jaws

Roy Schneider plays a small town New England police chief who has to deal with a killer shark preying on swimmers. The chief, a shark hunter, and an oceanographer attempt to catch the beast and end the killings. The film also stars Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfus.

Answer: The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Jack Lemmon plays a middle-aged New Yorker who loses his job after 22 years. A fruitless search for a new job, coupled with intense summer heat and a prolonged strike by garbage workers, causes him to suffer a nervous breakdown. The film also stars Anne Bancroft as Lemmon's loyal wife.

Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Jack Nicholson plays Randall McMurphy, a state prison inmate who finagles his way into a mental hospital. Once there, he clashes with a sadistic head nurse and leads the other patients in a rebellion against the rules. The film also stars Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Lloyd.

Answer: Tommy

"Tommy", written and performed by the English group "The Who", is a story about a deaf-mute teen whose parents try everything to snap him out of his catatonic state. He is cured when his mother throws him through a mirror and he becomes a cult leader.

Answer: The Man Who Would be King

Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in this adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story. Two British sergeants, late of the Indian Army, go to Kafiristan with some rifles in order to form their own army and become rulers of the native tribes, all with the intent of getting rich.

Answer: Death Race 2000

In a futuristic, totalitarian United States, the main entertainment is a cross country auto race with no rules, in which pedestrians are run over for points. A resistance group plots to have one of the racers kill the President and topple the government. The film stars Peter Fonda and Sylvester Stallone.

Answer: Barry Lyndon

Based on the novel by W. M. Thackeray, "Barry Lyndon" stars Ryan O'Neal as a poor Irish rogue who becomes first a soldier, then a gambler, and then marries the widow of an English lord in order to be granted a title of nobility. The film was directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Answer: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

In this sendup of the King Arthur legend, the comedy troop Monty Python has vulgar French knights, a castle full of amorous young women, horse sounds made by banging coconuts together, and a killer rabbit. The king and his knights brave these and other perils as they search for the Holy Grail.

Answer: Three Days of the Condor

Robert Redford plays Joe Turner, an employee of the C.I.A. whose job is to read printed material from all over the world looking for correlations with operations or new ideas. He stumbles on to a rogue faction within the Agency that is preparing contingency plans to take over the world's oil fields. The film also stars Faye Dunaway and Max Von Sydow.

Answer: The Wind and the Lion

Sean Connery stars as the Raisuli, a Berber warlord who kidnaps an American woman and her children in order to embarrass the Moroccan ruler in 1904. He seeks to end what he feels is undue European influence in the country. American President Teddy Roosevelt soon sends the Marines in to rescue the hostages.

Answer: Dog Day Afternoon

Al Pacino and John Cazale star in this film about two inept crooks who try to rob a bank to pay for a sex change operation for one's boyfriend. They end up taking the bank employees hostage and then demand to be driven to the airport.

Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

A couple seeking help after having car problems come upon an old country house, in which they discover a group of aliens having a party. The couple also finds a doctor who has created a muscular man in his laboratory. The film is based on Richard O' Brien's 1973 stage play.

Answer: Rollerball

James Caan stars as Jonathan E, a star of the game of Rollerball. In this time, the world is ruled by corporations, which use violent sports like Rollerball to satisfy the people's blood lust. Jonathan E, however, is a threat as he shows the people that an individual can still have great achievements on his own, which goes against the corporate norm of teamwork.

Answer: Love and Death

Woody Allen plays a cowardly Russian named Boris who, after reluctantly joining the Russian Army, becomes an accidental hero. His wife Sonja, played by Diane Keaton, persuades Boris into attempting to assassinate Napoleon. Throughout the film, Boris wrestles with questions about death and its meaning.