Top Films of the 1970s - II Trivia Quiz

Answer: Grease

The plot of the movie is as follows: Danny (John Travolta), the coolest member of the Thunderbirds, meets a beautiful woman named Sandy (Olivia Newton John), over the summer holidays. After she ends up at the same high school, she has trouble fitting in with Danny's crowd, but does fine as a cheerleader.

A rival gang, called The Scorpions, want to challenge Danny and the rest of the Thunderbirds, to a street race. Danny and Greased Lightning, as the car is named, eventually beat their rivals. After the event, their high-school throws a huge carnival for the recently graduated students of Rydell High. Danny and Sandy get together and the movie ends with a cheerful song and dance number, while Danny and Sandy fly away in their flying car. The movie is one of the highest grossing musicals of all time.

Answer: Saturday Night Fever

"Saturday Night Fever" is among the most famous dance films of all time. The story of a nobody becoming a somebody in a dance club is very inspirational and, as a result, people have found this to be an entertaining film. For the filming of the movie John Travolta ran two miles a day and danced for three hours to get in shape. In the end, Travolta dropped 20 pounds.

Answer: Robert DeNiro

Al Pacino plays Michael Corleone, Marlon Brando plays Don Vito Corleone, and James Caan plays Santino 'Sonny' Corleone. The plot of the film is as follows: Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone Mafia Family. His son Michael, upon returning from World War 2, arrives to see the wedding of his sister to another Mafia man, named Carlo Rizzi. Michael's entire family has involvements with the Mafia, but he wants to stay away from crime and live the life of a regular person.

A drug-dealer, named Virgil Sollozzo, approaches Don Vito Corleone and offers him a cut of the drug money if Vito offers protection. Vito refuses and is shot down by some of Virgil's hit men.

The Don survives, but Michael begins a full-out mob war against Sollozzo.

Answer: Pig's

After the mean students drop the pig's blood on her, Carrie becomes pure evil. She locks everybody in the school gym and burns down the gym with the power of her mind. After that event, Carries goes home and has a violent confrontation with her mother, one that will take both of them to the grave. In 1977 the film received an award for being the best horror film.

Answer: Western

The story of the movie is simple, but is well executed by the actors cast for this film. Cleavon Little, plays Bart, an African-American who becomes sheriff in an 1800's era mining town. The purpose of putting in Bart, is to destroy any livable aspect of the town. That means that by putting in an African, as sheriff, people will move away, feeling their safety is in jeopardy. With everyone gone, a railroad could be built through the town.

Interestingly enough, Bart slowly begins to win over the people with the help of Jim, played by Gene Wilder.

Answer: James T. Kirk

Admiral/Captain James T. Kirk is asked to take command of the Enterprise. After he gathers up the old members of his crew and some new members as well, he is sent on a mission to destroy an alien space-ship. Apparently there is no need for negotiations, as all it does is destroy everything in its path.

The journey will end in a single dramatic showdown, but there's more to the alien craft than just destruction.

Answer: 5

The five kids who end up finding the golden tickets are named: Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teevee, Augustus Gloop, and Charlie Bucket. A series of whacky and imaginative adventures occur inside Willy's factory. The first one eliminated from the tour is Augustus.

He falls into the chocolate river and gets sucked out, via a tube that sucks him out of the chocolate. The next one eliminated is Violet. She eats Willy Wonka's experimental gum, even after he warns against it. The girl ends up turning into a giant blueberry.

She is rolled away by the Oompa Loompas. The next child eliminated from the tour is Veruca. After desperately trying to acquire one of Willy Wonka's golden egg-laying geese, she falls into a furnace, where the discarded eggs go as well. Next, eliminated is Mike. Willy Wonka shrinks him to micro-size.

After that he is removed from the factory. The last one left is the protagonist, Charlie Bucket. After returning the Everlasting Gobstopper to Willy, he acquires a life time supply of chocolate, ownership of the factory after Willy Wonka dies, and a ride in a flying elevator.

Answer: Mel Gibson

After attempting to protect post-apocalyptic, Australian society by killing the leader of a thug-ridden biker gang, 'Mad Max' becomes the target of all thugs, and criminals from one end of the nation to the next. Mel Gibson gives a striking performance as a rogue law enforcer, charged to protect whatever decency and good there is left in the world, with only the help of his car, and a few willing citizens.

Answer: Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve's date of birth is September 25, 1952 and his date of death is October 10, 2004. He stars in all four of the 'Superman' movies. He was paralyzed from the neck-down on May 27, 1995, after falling off of a horse. He still appeared in movies, and did some commercials.

More than nine years after his accident he suffered heart failure while being treated for a severely infected pressure wound (which are common among paralyzed people).

Answer: Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg is the director of the film, and the creative mind behind the story, as well. The plot of the movie is this: cable man Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss), is one of several people who witness a UFO flying through the sky. Inexplicably, he has an image of a mountain in his head, and becomes obsessed about finding its purpose to him, thus endangering his marriage. Government officials have an encounter of the second kind, meaning that they discover physical evidence of the visiting beings.

The evidence is having military vehicles, that went missing many years ago, suddenly reappear all over the place. Eventually, they uncover clues to lead them to a close encounter of the third kind, meaning physical contact with other-worldly beings.