Question: What Oscar nominated 2010 movie was adapted from the book The Accidental Billionaires and advertised with the tagline "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"?
Answer: The Social Network

Question: Commenting about which 1942 film that portrays the life of an ideal British couple in WWII did Winston Churchill tell Louis B. Mayer "... it is propaganda worth a hundred battleships ..."?
Answer: Mrs. Miniver starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon

Question: The 1996 movie The Evening Star starring Shirley MacLaine who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway is a sequel to which Oscar-winning movie of the 1980s?
Answer: Terms of Endearment

Question: In 2003, when he was honored with an Academy Award for lifelong contribution to film, which charming actor hesitated (before accepting) saying that he was "enchanted ... but still in the game" and would like more time to "win the lovely bugger outright"?
Answer: Peter O'Toole

Question: Hammer Film Productions, the British company which made a series films from the mid-1950s until the 1970s is best known for which genre?
Answer: Horror

Question: Which 1979 Russian movie that tells the story of three women who come to the titular city was watched by Ronald Reagan prior to his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev in order for him to gain a better understanding of the 'Russian soul'?
Answer: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Question: The 2009 biographical film The Last Station starring Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren is about the last year in the life of which literary figure who died in 1910 at Astapovo train station?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Question: Roger Corman, the American producer nicknamed 'King of the B-movies' once joked that he could make a film about the fall of what entity with two extras and a sagebrush?
Answer: Roman Empire!

Question: Which Brazilian bombshell was known for her habit of wearing exotic headdresses adorned with fruit and inspired the logo of Chiquita bananas?
Answer: Carmen Miranda (1909-1955)

Question: If anyone ever thought that life as was depicted in the black-and-white sitcoms Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best was perfect, which 'amiable' 1998 movie is likely to change their opinion?
Answer: Pleasantville

Question: What 1997 science fiction drama that deals with eugenics takes its title from a combination of the initial letters of the four DNA bases of Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine?
Answer: Gattaca

Question: Which 2001 film is based on the story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss that deals with the age of machines where child creation is controlled?
Answer: A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Question: If you are given the words - City Slickers and push-ups, can you name the person?
Answer: Jack Palance

Question: """Lara's Theme"" which remains to this day one of the most recognizable music themes for a movie was written for which film by the composer Maurice Jarre?"
Answer: Doctor Zhivago (1965); Lara is the film's heroine

Question: The title of what classic 1959 French film that details the life of a troubled adolescent named Antoine Doinel refers to an expression 'faire les quatre cents coups' which means 'to raise hell'?
Answer: The 400 Blows

Question: What word that refers to a rite of passage among aborigines is also the title of an acclaimed 1971 British film that features an urban brother and sister in the Australian outback?
Answer: Walkabout

Question: Directed by Baz Luhrmann, the three films Strictly Ballroom (1992), William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! are called as what type of trilogy referring to their theatrical motifs?
Answer: Red Curtain trilogy

Question: Which unforgettable 80s film character is claimed to be partially based on an arbitrageur called Ivan Boesky who gave a speech on greed at the University of California, Berkeley in 1986?
Answer: Gordon Gecko from Wall Street

Question: The landmark 1960s films I Am Curious (Yellow) and I Am Curious (Blue) were named after the colors of the flag of which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: In what 1949 classic English comedy from Ealing Studios does Alec Guinness play 8 roles?
Answer: Kind Hearts and Coronets

Question: With 11 wins and 34 nominations, which country holds the record for most honors in the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars (as of 2009)?
Answer: France

Question: Which French comedian is best known for his portrayal of an irascible Italian village priest at war with the town's Communist mayor in the Don Camillo series of motion pictures?
Answer: Fernandel

Question: The title of what 1991 film is derived from a song by the B-52's which the director Van Sant heard while visiting a particular US state?
Answer: My Own Private Idaho from "Private Idaho"

Question: Since weekend box office top 10 rankings were first recorded in 1982, what are the only two Best Picture Oscar winners (1996 and 1984) to have never enter the weekend box office top 5?
Answer: The English Patient (1996) and Amadeus (1984)

Question: Which classic 1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo was shown in the Pentagon in 2003 with the flyer reading as follows? How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film.
Answer: The Battle of Algiers

Question: Can you connect Jack Nicholson and the piano works? 1. Fantasy in F Minor Op.49 (Chopin) 2. Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (Bach) 3. E-flat Maj. Concerto K.271 (Mozart) 4. Prelude Opus 28 in E Minor no. 4 (Chopin) and 5. Fantasy in D Minor K.397 (Mozart)
Answer: The pieces in his 1970 movie Five Easy Pieces

Question: Monuriki is an obscure island in the Pacific Ocean in a group known as the Mamanuca Islands. For what particular reason connected to films did it become famous after 2000?
Answer: Cast Away starring Tom Hanks was filmed here

Question: With connection to films, how do we better know Jules Brunet, a French army captain who fought in the Boshin War in 19th century Japan?
Answer: As The Last Samurai

Question: What series of documentary films directed by Michael Apted follow the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old?
Answer: Up Series

Question: When he visited Turkey in 2004, screenwriter Oliver Stone apologized for what specific reason?
Answer: For his movie Midnight Express that shows Turkey in bad light

Question: David Chase, the creator of which super-hit TV series called the movie Goodfellas his inspiration?
Answer: The Sopranos

Question: Nobody puts this movie in a corner. A survey by Britain's Sky Movies in 2007 listed which 1987 movie as number one on 'Women's most-watched films' above the Star Wars Trilogy, Grease, The Sound of Music, and Pretty Woman?
Answer: Dirty Dancing

Question: It's not just the title, even the profits were corpulent. What ethnic 2002 romantic comedy is the highest-grossing film to never have been number one on the weekly North American box-office charts?
Answer: My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Question: As of 2010, what is the only non-American film to win the award for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars?
Answer: Spirited Away (2001-Japanese release)

Question: The title of which 2003 movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall who sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed it upon death?
Answer: 21 Grams

Question: In The Matrix films, the hovercraft of Morpheus is named after which ancient ruler of Babylon?
Answer: Nebuchadnezzar

Question: A landmark legislation in the 1930s in the US that is designed to protect a child actor's earnings by depositing some of them in trust funds was named after which 'kid'?
Answer: Jackie Coogan