My Favorite Movies of 1978 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Go Tell the Spartans

Burt Lancaster stars as an American officer leading a team of advisors to the South Vietnamese Army who is ordered to occupy an indefensible hamlet. Lacking the men, weapons, and supplies to hold the village, they are worn down by continuous enemy attacks.

Answer: The Boys from Brazil

In this fictional story, a Nazi hunter learns that a group of Nazi fugitives living in South America have cloned Hitler. They send the children to different Western countries, placing the boys in circumstances resembling Hitler's upbringing. The film stars Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck.

Answer: The Wild Geese

In "The Wild Geese" a London banker hires a group of mercenaries, led by Richard Burton, to break a deposed African president out of prison. The men complete the mission, but are betrayed by the banker and suffer heavy casualties. The film also stars Roger Moore, Richard Harris, and Hardy Kruger.

Answer: The Deer Hunter

The Vietnam War experiences of three friends from a small Pennsylvania town are examined in "The Deer Hunter". One man comes home as an invalid, another deserts and stays in Saigon, while the third man finds that life at home is not what it once was. The film stars Robert DeNiro, John Savage, and Christopher Walken.

Answer: Foul Play

Librarian Goldie Hawn is given microfilm hidden in a cigarette pack by a man she dates and becomes the target of assassins planning to kill the Pope. Chevy Chase is one of two detectives assigned to protect her, and the couple end up falling in love.

Answer: The End

Burt Reynolds plays a man who is told that he has very little time left due to a blood disease. He attempts suicide and ends up in a mental hospital. There he meets Dom Deluise, a fellow patient who tries to help Reynolds end it all, even after Reynolds decides that he wants to live.

Answer: Revenge of the Pink Panther

In Peter Seller's last appearance as Inspector Jacques Clouseau, a drug smuggler targets him for death, but Clouseau and his bodyguard, Cato, fight off the assassins. It is rumored, however, that he is dead. His old boss, Dreyfus, now in a mental hospital, is delighted by the news. Clouseau ends up solving the case in his own way.

Answer: An Enemy of the People

An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play, Steve McQueen stars as a doctor in a small Norwegian town who announces that a local therapeutic spring is polluted, costing the town profits from tourism.

Answer: Rabbit Test

Billy Crystal plays a man who begins feeling strange shortly after a one-night stand. His doctor's diagnosis and the publicity surrounding the news leads to different reactions from society.

Answer: Every Which Way but Loose

Clint Eastwood stars as Philo Beddoe, a truck driver who is an accomplished bare knuckle fighter. He falls for a pretty country singer and follows her to Colorado, clashing with a pair of LA cops as well as an inept motorcycle gang.

Answer: National Lampoon's Animal House

At the fictional Faber College in 1962 Pennsylvania, the Delta House fraternity, consisting of fun-loving, heavy drinking party boys, has angered the Dean with their behavior. With the help of the rival Omega House, the Dean attempts to expel the Deltas, but the Deltas get the last laugh.

Answer: FM

In "FM", the program director for a rock and roll radio station is fired for refusing to air ads for the U.S. Army. This leads to a "sit-in" at the station by his fellow DJs, leading the police to intervene. The owner of the station eventually sides with the DJs.

Answer: Midnight Express

Based on a true story, "Midnight Express" is a harrowing film about an American who is convicted of drug smuggling in 1970 Turkey. He is at first sentenced to five years, but the prosecution later gets his sentence increased to 30 years. He escaped in 1975.

Answer: F.I.S.T

Sylvester Stallone plays a fired, Cleveland, Ohio, warehouse worker who is hired by a fledgling union to recruit truck drivers. In order to help fight the companies' private police forces, the union turns to local gangsters for help.

Answer: Magic

Anthony Hopkins plays Corky, a ventriloquist who is a bit too attached to his dummies. He rekindles a romance with a former girlfriend, played by Ann-Margaret, who is stuck in a loveless marriage. Corky's mental problems soon lead to murder.