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150 free Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
65 free movie trivia questions with answers, running from easy movie trivia almost everyone gets to a few that will split a room of film buffs. The pool covers Oscar-winning dramas and summer blockbusters, famous quotes and the stars who said them, directors, sequels, animated favourites and the odd piece of Hollywood history. Start with the easy movie trivia questions if you are playing with a mixed group or a family, then keep going: the set is written so a casual viewer scores well early and a movie nerd still has something to prove by the end. Every question is movie trivia multiple choice: four options, instant scoring and a one-line explanation after every answer. Every answer has been checked against a reference page, shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a movie night warm-up, a pub quiz round or a long car ride.
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Q 01Which film was the first to pass $1 billion at the worldwide box office?
Titanic
Titanic went so far over budget that James Cameron gave up his $8 million salary and his share of the profits; it then became the first film to pass $1 billion.
Q 02Who directed the 1975 thriller Jaws?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg insisted on shooting Jaws at sea off Martha's Vineyard rather than in a studio tank, so the 55-day shoot stretched to 159 days.
Q 03In The Wizard of Oz (1939), what color are Dorothy's iconic slippers?
Red
Dorothy's ruby slippers are red. In L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel they were Silver Shoes; MGM changed them to red in 1939 to show off three-strip Technicolor.
Q 04Which actor played the title role in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990)?
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp won the role; Tom Cruise, the studio's favourite, had wanted a happier ending than the film's bittersweet one.
Q 05What is the name of the fictional African country in Marvel's Black Panther?
Wakanda
Wakanda poses as an underdeveloped country to hide the vibranium that made it one of the world's most technologically advanced nations.
Q 06Which film features the famous line "Here's looking at you, kid"?
Casablanca
Casablanca was rushed into release weeks after the Allies landed in North Africa, so the studio could cash in on headlines about the real city.
Q 07Which actor plays Captain John Miller in Saving Private Ryan?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks played Miller; Matt Damon, cast as Ryan, was kept out of the cast's boot camp so the squad's bitterness towards Ryan would feel real.
Q 08Which Frozen character began as a villain until "Let It Go" changed the story?
Elsa
Elsa: "Let It Go" turned her from a straightforward villain into a sympathetic character, and director Jennifer Lee had to rewrite the film to match.
Q 09In The Shawshank Redemption, what is Andy Dufresne's profession before prison?
Banker
A banker, Andy Dufresne launders Warden Norton's money under a fake identity, then withdraws over $370,000 of it after his escape.
Q 10Which film franchise features a character named Ethan Hunt?
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible's Ethan Hunt is played by Tom Cruise, who broke his ankle leaping between buildings for Fallout, halting filming for about eight weeks.
Q 11Which film won Best Picture in 2020, the first non-English language film to do so?
Parasite
Parasite's Bong Joon-ho, accepting Best Director, quoted Martin Scorsese's saying 'The most personal is the most creative', and the audience broke into applause for Scorsese.
Q 12Which film was the first to pass $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office?
Avatar
Avatar sat on hold for years until CGI characters such as Gollum and King Kong convinced James Cameron the technology could finally deliver it.
Q 13Which ageing patriarch of the Corleone crime family did Marlon Brando play?
Vito
Vito Corleone won Marlon Brando the Best Actor Oscar, which he refused, sending Sacheen Littlefeather to protest Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans.
Q 21Which film studio produced the Toy Story franchise?
Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios nearly lost Toy Story 2 when a stray command deleted most of its files; a backup on technical director Galyn Susman's home computer saved it.
Q 22What is the name of the hobbit played by Elijah Wood in the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Frodo Baggins
Elijah Wood played Frodo Baggins, and Peter Jackson later gave him one of the One Ring props and Frodo's sword, Sting, as keepsakes.
Q 23As of 2025, which actor has played James Bond in the most official EON films?
Roger Moore
Roger Moore made seven, then quit, saying his leading ladies had become young enough to be his granddaughter.
Q 14Which director made Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino shot Kill Bill as one film; producer Harvey Weinstein suggested splitting it into two volumes so no scenes had to be cut.
Q 15What is Rosebud in the 1941 film Citizen Kane?
A sled
A sled: workers toss Kane's childhood sled into a furnace, so no one in the film learns what his last word meant; only the audience sees 'Rosebud' burn.
Q 16Which Disney animated film's story drew consciously on Shakespeare's Hamlet?
The Lion King
The Lion King: when Michael Eisner suggested King Lear as a model, a producer countered that the story was really Hamlet, because the uncle kills the father.
Q 17Who directed the Dark Knight trilogy (2005-2012)?
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan avoided computer effects where he could, flipping a real 18-wheel truck end over end on a Chicago street for The Dark Knight.
Q 18For which film did Leonardo DiCaprio finally win the Academy Award for Best Actor?
The Revenant
The Revenant's brutal shoot had DiCaprio eat a real slab of raw bison liver after he decided the jelly prop didn't look right.
Q 19As of 2025, which actress has won the most Academy Awards for acting?
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn won her second of four Oscars for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, made after she had paused her career to care for an ailing Spencer Tracy.
Q 20Who provided the voice of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars?
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones dubbed Vader's lines after filming, replacing the voice of David Prowse, the former bodybuilder from Bristol who wore the suit on set.
Q 24In which film does Keanu Reeves play a computer hacker named Neo?
The Matrix
The Matrix shoot worked around Keanu Reeves's recent spinal surgery, which left him unable to kick, so its fight scenes were rechoreographed.
Q 25Which 1952 musical, co-directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, spoofs Hollywood's switch to talkies?
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain pushed Debbie Reynolds so hard that her feet bled after shooting the 'Good Morning' number; she later called it as hard as childbirth.
Q 26Which Martin Scorsese film stars Robert De Niro as unstable Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle?
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver's young co-star had to pass a mental-health evaluation under California's child-welfare rules before she could be cast, so the role wouldn't harm her.
Q 27What was Walt Disney's first feature-length animated film?
Snow White
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was mocked in Hollywood as 'Disney's Folly' while in production; Walt's wife and brother had tried to talk him out of it.
Q 28Who composed the scores for Star Wars, Jaws and the Indiana Jones films?
John Williams
John Williams scored all three; when he first played the two-note Jaws theme on a piano, the director didn't get it and thought it was a joke.
Q 29Which 2017 Jordan Peele horror film explores racial tensions through a thriller lens?
Get Out
Get Out first ended with Chris arrested for the killings, but after test audiences recoiled from that bleak ending, Jordan Peele changed it to a rescue.
Q 30Which dinosaur attacks the stranded tour vehicles during the storm in Jurassic Park (1993)?
Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus: rain soaked the life-size animatronic's skin during the storm scene and made it shake, so the crew had to towel it dry between takes.