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Quiz about Planes Trains Boats Disaster Movies

Planes, Trains, Boats: Disaster Movies Quiz

If you like the older disaster movies, you will like this quiz. There are a few recent movies as well. It is all multiple choice, so give it a try, and have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by califredrose. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
califredrose

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
25,294

Updated
Sep 25 24

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
11 / 15

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Question 1 of 15

1. Dean Martin and Burt Lancaster try to land this damaged plane in this 1970 disaster movie. Can you name the movie? Hint

Airplane (1970)

Airport (1970)

The flight of 1970

Airplane

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Question 2 of 15

2. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty star in this 1980's spoof of disaster plane movies. Can you name it? Hint

Runaway Plane

Airport

Airplane!

Flight 412

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Question 3 of 15

3. George Kennedy and James Stewart survive after their plane crashes in the Arabian Desert. Can you name this 1965 movie? Hint

Airplane II

Airport 3

The Flight of the Phoenix

Alive

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Question 4 of 15

4. Lou Diamond Phillips dies when his plane crashes along with other musical stars in this 1987 movie. Can you name it? Hint

Donna

Sweet Dreams

Buddy Holly Story

La Bamba

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Question 5 of 15

5. Glenn Ford and Bradford Dilman star in a movie about missing airplanes and possible UFOs. Can you name this 1974 movie? Hint

Disappearance of Flight 412

Missing

Disaster on Flight 101

SOS Airline

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Question 6 of 15

6. Gary Busey starred in this 1978 movie about three rock-n-roll stars who die in a plane crash. Can you name it? Hint

The Ricky Nelson Story

Sweet Dreams

The Buddy Holly Story

La Bamba

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Question 7 of 15

7. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor star in this 1976 movie about forgery and murder on a runaway train. Can you name this movie? Hint

The Runaway Train

Silver Streak

Terror Train

Silver Speed

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Question 8 of 15

8. Lloyd Bridges and Raymond Burr star in this 1979 movie about a man who tries to revenge the death of his family by colliding two trains together. Can you name the movie? Hint

Runaway Train

Disaster on the Grand Pacific

Silver Streak

Disaster on the Coastliner

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Question 9 of 15

9. Jon Voight stars in this 1985 movie where the engineer dies and two escaped convicts are aboard a train. Can you name the movie? Hint

Silver Streak

Runaway Train

The Disaster on Track Nine

Prisoners Aboard!

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Question 10 of 15

10. Glenn Ford starred in this 1953 western about a bomb on a train filled with explosives. Can you name this movie? Hint

Railway Express

Westward Ho

Terror on a Train

TNT

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Question 11 of 15

11. Gene Hackman and Shelley Winters star in this 1972 movie about a New Year's Eve disaster on a luxury liner. Can you name this movie? Hint

Lusitania

Titanic

Poseidon Adventure

Lifeboat

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Question 12 of 15

12. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star in this recent version of the sinking of a ship on its maiden voyage. Can you name the movie? Hint

Poseidon Adventure

Titanic

Speed 2

Lifeboat

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Question 13 of 15

13. Marlon Brando stars in the 1962 classic of the take-over on a sailing ship by its crew. Can you name the movie? Hint

Treasure Island

Swiss Family Robinson

Castaways

Mutiny on the Bounty

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Question 14 of 15

14. Sandra Bullock starred in this 1997 movie about a couple whose oceanliner goes out of control. Can you name the movie? Hint

Disaster on a Oceanliner

Speed 2

Shipwreck

Runaway!

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Question 15 of 15

15. This Alfred Hitchcock film starring Tallulah Bankhead was about a sinking freighter and its eight survivors. Can you name this very old film? Hint

Survivors

Lifeboat

Land of the Lost

Island of Doctor Moreau

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Dean Martin and Burt Lancaster try to land this damaged plane in this 1970 disaster movie. Can you name the movie?

Answer: Airport (1970)

2. Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty star in this 1980's spoof of disaster plane movies. Can you name it?

Answer: Airplane!

3. George Kennedy and James Stewart survive after their plane crashes in the Arabian Desert. Can you name this 1965 movie?

Answer: The Flight of the Phoenix

4. Lou Diamond Phillips dies when his plane crashes along with other musical stars in this 1987 movie. Can you name it?

Answer: La Bamba

5. Glenn Ford and Bradford Dilman star in a movie about missing airplanes and possible UFOs. Can you name this 1974 movie?

Answer: Disappearance of Flight 412

6. Gary Busey starred in this 1978 movie about three rock-n-roll stars who die in a plane crash. Can you name it?

Answer: The Buddy Holly Story

7. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor star in this 1976 movie about forgery and murder on a runaway train. Can you name this movie?

Answer: Silver Streak

8. Lloyd Bridges and Raymond Burr star in this 1979 movie about a man who tries to revenge the death of his family by colliding two trains together. Can you name the movie?

Answer: Disaster on the Coastliner

9. Jon Voight stars in this 1985 movie where the engineer dies and two escaped convicts are aboard a train. Can you name the movie?

Answer: Runaway Train

10. Glenn Ford starred in this 1953 western about a bomb on a train filled with explosives. Can you name this movie?

Answer: Terror on a Train

11. Gene Hackman and Shelley Winters star in this 1972 movie about a New Year's Eve disaster on a luxury liner. Can you name this movie?

Answer: Poseidon Adventure

12. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star in this recent version of the sinking of a ship on its maiden voyage. Can you name the movie?

Answer: Titanic

13. Marlon Brando stars in the 1962 classic of the take-over on a sailing ship by its crew. Can you name the movie?

Answer: Mutiny on the Bounty

14. Sandra Bullock starred in this 1997 movie about a couple whose oceanliner goes out of control. Can you name the movie?

Answer: Speed 2

15. This Alfred Hitchcock film starring Tallulah Bankhead was about a sinking freighter and its eight survivors. Can you name this very old film?

Answer: Lifeboat

Source: Author califredrose

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