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100 free Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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 1997 film was the first to pass $1 billion at the worldwide box office?
Titanic
Titanic (1997), directed by James Cameron, was the first film to pass $1 billion at the worldwide box office, finishing its original run at about $1.84 billion.
Q 02Who directed the 1975 thriller Jaws?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg directed Jaws, which is often credited as the first summer blockbuster and changed the movie industry forever.
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 character in the original 1990 film Edward Scissorhands?
Johnny Depp
Tim Burton had never seen Depp's hit TV show 21 Jump Street, but he was always Burton's first choice; it began a partnership that ran to eight films.
Q 05What is the name of the fictional African country in Marvel's Black Panther?
Wakanda
Wakanda is the hidden, vibranium-rich African nation ruled by T'Challa in Black Panther (2018); in the comics it debuted with the character in Fantastic Four #52 in 1966.
Q 06Which film features the famous line "Here's looking at you, kid"?
Casablanca
The line is from Casablanca (1942). Humphrey Bogart says it four times to Ingrid Bergman, and it was not in the script — reportedly born while he taught her poker between takes.
Q 07Who played Forrest Gump in the 1994 film of the same name?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Forrest Gump, marking his second consecutive Best Actor win.
Q 08Which animated Disney film features the song "Let It Go"?
Frozen
"Let It Go" is sung by Idina Menzel as Elsa in Disney's Frozen (2013). The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Q 09In The Shawshank Redemption, what is Andy Dufresne's profession before prison?
Banker
Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, was a banker before being wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover.
Q 10Which film franchise features a character named Ethan Hunt?
Mission: Impossible
Ethan Hunt is the main character of the Mission: Impossible franchise, played by Tom Cruise since the first film in 1996.
Q 11Which film won Best Picture in 2020, the first non-English language film to do so?
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho's Parasite (2019) became the first non-English language film to win Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020.
Q 12Which film was the first to pass $2.5 billion at the worldwide box office?
Avatar
Avatar (2009), directed by James Cameron, was the first film past $2.5 billion worldwide, reaching about $2.7 billion in its original run; a 2022 re-release later pushed it beyond $2.9 billion.
Q 13Which ageing patriarch of the Corleone crime family did Marlon Brando play?
Vito
Marlon Brando played Vito Corleone, the aging patriarch of the Corleone crime family, winning the Best Actor Oscar for the role (which he famously declined).
Q 21Which film studio produced the Toy Story franchise?
Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios produced all Toy Story films. Toy Story (1995) was the first feature-length computer-animated film ever made.
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, the hobbit who carries the One Ring to Mount Doom in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Q 23Which actor has played James Bond the most times in official EON Productions films?
Roger Moore
Roger Moore made seven EON Bond films, from Live and Let Die (1973) to A View to a Kill (1985); Sean Connery made six for EON and Daniel Craig five.
Q 14Which director is known for films such as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Django Unchained?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino directed all three films and is known for his distinctive dialogue, nonlinear storylines, and stylized violence.
Q 15What is Rosebud in the 1941 film Citizen Kane?
A sled
Only the audience ever learns the answer: the staff toss the sled into a furnace unread, and Welles had a working furnace built on stage to film the word burning.
Q 16Which 1994 animated film features the song "Circle of Life"?
The Lion King
"Circle of Life" opens Disney's The Lion King (1994), composed by Elton John with lyrics by Tim Rice.
Q 17Who directed the Dark Knight trilogy (2005-2012)?
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan directed Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), casting Christian Bale in a grittier, more realistic Batman than the Burton and Schumacher films.
Q 18For which film did Leonardo DiCaprio finally win the Academy Award for Best Actor?
The Revenant
DiCaprio won Best Actor for The Revenant (2015) at the 2016 Oscars, on his fifth acting nomination, after a brutal sub-zero shoot in which he ate a real raw bison liver on camera.
Q 19Which actress has won the most Academy Awards for acting?
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn won four Best Actress Oscars, from Morning Glory (1933) to On Golden Pond (1981), and never attended a ceremony to collect one; Meryl Streep and Frances McDormand have three acting wins each.
Q 20What year was the first Star Wars film (Episode IV: A New Hope) released?
1977
Star Wars opened on 25 May 1977 in only about three dozen US cinemas and was rushed into wide release when it became a surprise blockbuster; its budget was about $11 million.
Q 24In which 1999 film does Keanu Reeves play a hacker named Neo?
The Matrix
Keanu Reeves stars as Neo in The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowskis. The film revolutionized visual effects, particularly the "bullet time" technique.
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 (1952), co-directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, is set as Hollywood switches from silents to talkies; Kelly's title number, splashing through puddles, is its most famous sequence.
Q 26Which Martin Scorsese film stars Robert De Niro as unstable Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle?
Taxi Driver
Robert De Niro starred as the mentally unstable Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976).
Q 27What was Walt Disney's first feature-length animated film?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was Walt Disney's first animated feature and the first full-length cel-animated film; it earned Disney an honorary Oscar presented with seven miniature statuettes.
Q 28Who composed the scores for Star Wars, Jaws and the Indiana Jones films?
John Williams
John Williams composed all three, winning Oscars for Jaws and Star Wars among his five wins; his more than 50 nominations trail only Walt Disney's total.
Q 29Which 2017 Jordan Peele horror film explores racial tensions through a thriller lens?
Get Out
Get Out was Jordan Peele's directorial debut and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Q 30In Jurassic Park (1993), what type of dinosaur is the primary large predator that terrorizes the park?
Tyrannosaurus
The Tyrannosaurus rex, which breaks out when the electric fences fail, is the film's centrepiece; Stan Winston's animatronic weighed around five tonnes and malfunctioned when soaked by the rain machines.