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Q 01Which 1960 Hitchcock film cost under $1 million, was shot by his TV crew, and earned $50 million?
Psycho
Its shower scene became one of the best-known sequences in cinema and it is often called an early slasher film.
Q 02Jack Lemmon lends his flat to philandering bosses in which Billy Wilder film, Best Picture for 1960?
The Apartment
Shirley MacLaine plays the elevator operator; the film later inspired the Broadway musical Promises, Promises.
Q 03Kirk Douglas removed director Anthony Mann from which 1960 epic and replaced him with Stanley Kubrick?
Spartacus
It was the only Kubrick film where he lacked full artistic control, and its credit for blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo helped end the blacklist.
Q 04Which Oscar-winning song from Breakfast at Tiffany's was written by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer?
Moon River
Marilyn Monroe was among the actresses considered for Holly Golightly before Audrey Hepburn.
Q 05Which 1961 musical won 10 Academy Awards, still the record for a musical?
West Side Story
Co-director Jerome Robbins also received a special award; Spielberg remade it in 2021.
Q 06Who directed Lawrence of Arabia?
David Lean
It introduced Peter O'Toole and won seven Oscars including Best Picture; the AFI later ranked it among the five greatest American films.
Q 07Which character, played by Gregory Peck, did the AFI name the greatest movie hero of the 20th century?
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird earned more than six times its budget and won Peck the Best Actor Oscar.
Q 08Which 1962 film was the first in the James Bond series?
Dr. No
It was the sixth of Fleming's novels but the first filmed, and Maurice Binder's gun-barrel opening debuted here.
Q 09Hitchcock's The Birds unleashes its attacks on which California town?
Bodega Bay
Tippi Hedren made her film debut and won a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year.
Q 10Julie Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for her feature film debut in which 1964 film?
Mary Poppins
The film earned 13 nominations, still a Disney record, and was shot entirely in Burbank with painted London backdrops.
Q 11How many different characters does Peter Sellers play in Dr. Strangelove?
Three
He is the President, the title scientist and an RAF exchange officer; George C. Scott plays the general.
Q 12Who plays Professor Henry Higgins in the 1964 film of My Fair Lady?
Rex Harrison
Harrison reprised his stage role, while Audrey Hepburn replaced Broadway's Eliza, Julie Andrews.
Q 13A Corgi toy of which car became the biggest-selling toy of 1964 thanks to Goldfinger?
Aston Martin DB5
Goldfinger was also the first Bond film to win an Oscar, for Sound Editing, and the first to top $100 million.
Q 21Stanley Kubrick's only competitive Academy Award came for which film?
2001: A Space Odyssey
He won for directing the visual effects; the film's soundtrack is built from existing classical pieces.
Q 22Who won Best Supporting Actress for Rosemary's Baby?
Ruth Gordon
Though set in Manhattan, most of the film was shot in Los Angeles in late 1967.
Q 23The desert sequences of Planet of the Apes were shot around which lake?
Powell
Makeup artist John Chambers received an honorary Oscar for the ape prosthetics.
Why did Night of the Living Dead fall into the public domain on release?
Q 14By November 1966, which musical had overtaken Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film in history?
The Sound of Music
It held the record for five years and sold an estimated 283 million admissions worldwide.
Q 15Doctor Zhivago could not be shot in the Soviet Union, so it was filmed mostly in which country?
Spain
Pasternak's novel was banned in the USSR for decades; the film won five Oscars from ten nominations.
Q 16Who plays "the Ugly" in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
Eli Wallach
Clint Eastwood is 'the Good' and Lee Van Cleef 'the Bad'; the film was shot in Spain with a score by Ennio Morricone.
Q 17Who plays Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?
Anne Bancroft
Simon & Garfunkel's soundtrack song 'Mrs. Robinson' became a hit and the film topped the 1967 box office.
Q 18Which actress plays Bonnie Parker opposite Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde?
Faye Dunaway
Its bloody ending broke taboos and helped launch New Hollywood; Estelle Parsons won the Supporting Actress Oscar.
Q 19In the Heat of the Night sends Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs into a small town in which state?
Mississippi
Rod Steiger won Best Actor and the film took Best Picture; 'They call me Mister Tibbs!' is AFI's 16th greatest quote.
Q 20Which 1967 film was the last animated feature Walt Disney personally produced before his death?
The Jungle Book
Disney rejected an early darker script closer to Kipling; 'The Bare Necessities' was written by Terry Gilkyson.
It was released without a copyright notice
Made for about $100,000 in Evans City, Pennsylvania, it earned more than 250 times its budget.
Q 25Which British musical won Best Picture at the Academy Awards for 1968?
Oliver!
Choreographer Onna White received an Honorary Award; Ron Moody won a Golden Globe for playing Fagin.
Q 26To which country do Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid flee from the posse?
Bolivia
William Goldman's script pairs Paul Newman and Robert Redford, with Katharine Ross as Etta Place.
Q 27Which 1969 film is the only X-rated movie ever to win Best Picture?
Midnight Cowboy
Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman play the two hustlers; the X is roughly today's NC-17.
Q 28Easy Rider's two bikers ride across America carrying money made from what?
A cocaine deal
Shot for $400,000, it earned $60 million and gave Jack Nicholson an Oscar nomination.
Q 29John Wayne won his only Academy Award for which 1969 Western?
True Grit
He plays Marshal Rooster Cogburn, thought to be modelled on real deputy marshal Heck Thomas.
Q 30Elizabeth Taylor signed on to Cleopatra for a record-setting salary of how much?
$1M
Production costs hit $31 million, making it the most expensive film ever at the time and nearly bankrupting Fox.