Modern Movie Quiz
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150 free Modern Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Modern Movie trivia questions with answers. Think you are a movie buff? This quiz covers modern cinema from 2000 to today in 150 questions: the 2000s movie trivia everyone argues about (Gladiator, The Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Pan's Labyrinth, The Dark Knight, Up), then the 2010s and 2020s, from Inception and The Social Network to Parasite, Oppenheimer and Barbie. Questions start with blockbusters and Best Picture winners that any regular moviegoer can answer and climb to directors, studios and awards records that will test real film fans. Every answer has been checked against a reliable source and each question shows its citation and a short explanation after you answer, so use it solo or as a ready-made movie round for a trivia night.
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Q 01Which film became the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
Parasite
Parasite won four Oscars in 2020; accepting Best Director, Bong Joon-ho quoted fellow nominee Martin Scorsese, 'The most personal is the most creative', and the audience applauded Scorsese.
Q 02Which film was the first to gross over $2 billion at the worldwide box office?
Avatar
Avatar overtook Titanic in January 2010 and went on past $2 billion, so director James Cameron broke his own record for the highest-grossing film ever made.
Q 03Which actor won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Dark Knight?
Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger died nearly six months before The Dark Knight opened; his father, mother and sister accepted the Oscar together on behalf of his three-year-old daughter, Matilda.
Q 04Which 2024 sequel became the highest-grossing animated film in history, a record it held until 2025?
Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2 finished on about $1.7 billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing animated film ever, until China's Ne Zha 2 overtook it in February 2025.
Q 05Robert Downey Jr. won an Oscar for Oppenheimer playing which Atomic Energy Commission figure?
Lewis Strauss
Lewis Strauss's 1959 hearing to become Commerce Secretary frames the film, and it ended in defeat: the Senate rejected him by 49 votes to 46.
Q 06Which 2017 horror film, Jordan Peele's directorial debut, won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay?
Get Out
Get Out cost $4.5 million and grossed over $250 million; Jordan Peele first shot a bleaker ending in which police arrest Chris, then replaced it after test screenings.
Q 07Which 2019 film became the first R-rated movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide?
Joker
Joker became the first R-rated film to pass $1 billion worldwide in 2019; it also won the Golden Lion at Venice, and Deadpool & Wolverine took the R-rated record in 2024.
Q 08In the film Inception (2010), what object does Cobb use to determine whether he is in a dream or reality?
A spinning top
A spinning top is Cobb's test: it only spins forever inside a dream, and in the final scene he sets it going, then walks off to his children before seeing whether it falls.
Q 09Which actress became the first Asian to win the Best Actress Oscar, for Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh trained as a ballet dancer in England until a spinal injury ended that path; she made her name instead doing her own stunts in Hong Kong action films.
Q 10Which director created the Mad Max franchise in 1979 and returned to it with Fury Road in 2015?
George Miller
George Miller was an emergency-room doctor in Sydney who saw the kind of road injuries his first Mad Max depicts; Fury Road won six Oscars, the most of any film that night.
Q 11Which actor's comeback won Best Supporting Actor for Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan, the former child star of Indiana Jones and The Goonies, returned after about 19 years away to win Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Oscar.
Q 12What fictional African nation is the setting of the Marvel film Black Panther?
Wakanda
Wakanda hides its advanced technology from the world; the film's conflict begins when Killmonger challenges T'Challa for the throne to end that isolation and arm a global revolution.
Q 13In The Social Network (2010), which actor plays Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg?
Jesse Eisenberg
Q 21Which 2008 superhero film launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Iron Man
Iron Man was shot with much of its dialogue improvised, because the script wasn't finished when filming began; Robert Downey Jr. ad-libbed the closing line, 'I am Iron Man'.
Q 22Which Denis Villeneuve film is set on Arrakis, the only source of a drug called spice?
Dune
Dune is titled Dune: Part One on screen, yet the studio only approved Part Two in October 2021, after it opened, so the film was made with no guarantee the story would be finished.
Q 23Who directed 1917 (2019), a First World War film edited to appear as two continuous shots?
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes drew on war stories told by his grandfather Alfred, who enlisted at 17 and fought in the First World War; the film follows a messenger carrying an order across the front.
Jesse Eisenberg earned a Best Actor nomination as Zuckerberg; the opening breakup scene alone took director David Fincher 99 takes to finish.
Q 14Which animated film's boy hero stumbles into the Land of the Dead on Día de los Muertos?
Coco
In Coco, twelve-year-old Miguel seeks out his musician great-great-grandfather to lift the family ban on music; the film won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for 'Remember Me'.
Q 15Which fantasy film won all 11 of its Oscar nominations, tying the record for most wins?
The Return of the King
The Return of the King went 11 for 11, matching Ben-Hur and Titanic; Peter Jackson had shot all three Lord of the Rings films at the same time in New Zealand, over 14 months.
Q 16Which director is known for the films Hereditary and Midsommar?
Ari Aster
Ari Aster built Midsommar around a painful breakup of his own, calling it 'a breakup movie dressed in the clothes of a folk horror film'; Hereditary had been his feature debut.
Q 17Which 2014 Best Picture winner stars Michael Keaton as a faded film star staging a Broadway play?
Birdman
Birdman is staged to look like one continuous take; Michael Keaton, once Batman himself, plays an actor haunted by the superhero role that made him famous.
Q 18In Pixar's WALL-E, what is the name of the sleek robot from the Axiom whom the title character falls for?
EVE
EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) is the probe sent from the Axiom to search Earth for plant life; WALL-E follows her back to the ship 700 years after humans left.
Q 19Which Marvel Cinematic Universe film features the snap that eliminates half of all life in the universe?
Avengers: Infinity War
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thor severely wounds Thanos with his new axe Stormbreaker, but Thanos still snaps his fingers with the completed Gauntlet and teleports away.
Q 20Which Ridley Scott epic won Best Picture and brought Russell Crowe the Best Actor Oscar?
Gladiator
Gladiator won five Oscars; Oliver Reed died before filming ended, so his last scenes as Proximo were finished with a body double and his face added digitally.
Q 24Which streaming service distributed Alfonso Cuarón's 2018 film Roma?
Netflix
Netflix acquired Roma and released it in December 2018 after a limited theatrical run; Mexico's biggest cinema chains, Cinépolis and Cinemex, refused to show it over the short exclusivity window.
Q 25Which actor plays the lead role of Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron plays Imperator Furiosa, who later got a prequel of her own, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), with Anya Taylor-Joy taking over as the younger character.
Q 26Which 2003 film features Bill Murray as a fading American actor filming a whiskey commercial in Tokyo?
Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation stars Murray as Bob Harris shooting a Suntory whisky ad; Sofia Coppola wrote the part for him, spent months recruiting him, and won Best Original Screenplay.
Q 27After Richard Harris died in 2002, which actor took over as Dumbledore from the third Harry Potter film onward?
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon played Dumbledore from 2004 to 2011; oddly, Harris had also played TV detective Maigret four years before Gambon took over that role too.
Q 28Which 2014 film stars Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave, framed for a wealthy dowager's murder in a fictional European republic?
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel's lobby was built inside a vacant department store in Görlitz, Germany, while its pink exterior was a scale model; the film won four Oscars.
Q 29Which franchise rebooted its timeline in 2009, with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto facing a villain from their own future?
Star Trek
Star Trek sends Leonard Nimoy's original Spock back in time along with the Romulan villain Nero, creating an altered timeline in which the young crew's story could start afresh.
Q 30Which 2016 animated film follows a one-eyed boy whose magic brings origami figures to life?
Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings pits Kubo against his grandfather, the Moon King, who took one of his eyes when he was a baby and now hunts him for the other.