Question: In the 2010 movie Devil, a group of people each with their own secret are trapped in what location?
Answer: Elevator

Question: What connects Martin Scorsese to the names The Dead Rabbits, The Daybreak Boys, and The Whyos (among others)?
Answer: Gangs of New York

Question: A sword called Green Destiny occupies a prominent spot in the story of what 2000 world-wide hit movie?
Answer: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Question: According to IMDB.com, what was the first film Jimmy Carter watched during his presidential tenure? Appropriate since it showed what led to his electoral win!
Answer: All the President's Men

Question: In what classic 1953 French-Italian thriller do four truckers attempt to transport nitroglycerine over treacherous roads where a tiny bump would blow them sky-high?
Answer: The Wages of Fear

Question: The executive producer of what 2004 biopic stated that the main character in the movie "is more akin to Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassady than Marx or Lenin"?
Answer: The Motorcycle Diaries

Question: In 1995, two Stanford researchers came up with a selected list of film clips able to elicit a single emotion. What 1989 film's scene that takes place in Katz's Delicatessen was the top-rated clip for amusement? (hint: what was she really having?)
Answer: When Harry Met Sally

Question: If The Quiet American (2002) is to Vietnam, The Killing Fields (1984) is to Cambodia, then The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) is to what country?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: The African-American David Hampton whose 'exploits' inspired a 1990 play and a 1993 movie convinced many New Yorkers that he was the son of whom?
Answer: Sidney Poitier (inspiring Six Degrees of Separation)

Question: Because Disney funded Kundun, the biography of Dalai Lama, the Chinese government was not pleased. What subsequent 1998 animated release did Disney pitch hoping to better relations?
Answer: Mulan

Question: What invention of Garrett Brown that 'smoothens' movie viewing experience saw its debut in Bound for Glory and subsequently in the chase scenes of Marathon Man?
Answer: Steadicam

Question: The English actress Diana Dors once called herself "the only sex symbol Britain has produced since" which person? No peeping or you'll go blind.
Answer: Lady Godiva

Question: What is the only movie on IMDB.com that is rated out of 11 stars instead of the standard 10?
Answer: This Is Spinal Tap

Question: He lives by the following three rules. 1. Don't hurt anybody. 2. Don't steal from anyone who doesn't deserve it. 3. Play the game like you have nothing to lose. His partners in the order of recruitment are Frank Catton, Rusty Ryan, Reuben Tishkoff, Virgil Malloy, Turk Malloy, Livingston Dell, Basher Tarr, 'The Amazing' Yen, Saul Bloom and Linus Caldwell. Who?
Answer: Danny Ocean (Oceans Eleven and the sequels)

Question: What character of a path-breaking 1988 movie was said to be a combination of "Tex Avery's cashew nut-shaped head, the swatch of red hair ... like Droopy's, Goofy's overalls, Porky Pig's bow tie, Mickey Mouse's gloves and Bugs Bunny like cheeks and ears"?
Answer: Roger Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Question: What American drama that was inspired by an incident in which black youths were chased out of a pizzeria by white youths takes its title from what Malcolm X said one ought to do?
Answer: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989)

Question: What Hitchcock classic is said to use the Madonna-whore complex to represent a lead figure, the same woman simultaneously representing virtue and debasement?
Answer: Vertigo (1958)

Question: A 2009 documentary that chronicles the history of Disney animation from 1981 to 1994 is titled as Waking which much-loved character?
Answer: Waking Sleeping Beauty

Question: In fact: Lucchese, Bonanno, Gambino, Luciano/Genovese, and Profaci/Colombo. In a 1972 movie: The ___, the Tattaglias, the Barzinis, the Cuneos and the Straccis. Who's missing in the second list?
Answer: Corleones (from The Godfather)

Question: Cheoah Dam in North Carolina was the real-life location of the 'dive scene' in what 1993 movie in which the protagonist is wrongly accused of murder?
Answer: The Fugitive

Question: Pintel and Ragetti are a recurring comedy pair in a 2000s adventure film franchise set on high seas. What possession of Ragetti that is repeatedly hit by a fork is he usually seen to be searching for?
Answer: Wooden eye

Question: Harry Davis and John P. Harris opened a small theater in Pittsburgh in 1905 and popularized the exhibition of movies at low cost. What was the cost of admission?
Answer: Five cents (nickel) and hence 'Nickelodeon'

Question: A hand holding marionette strings hovers over the title in the theatrical release poster of what classic movie?
Answer: The Godfather

Question: The producer of what 1970s film wanted to call it The Sidewalk Vigilante as he felt the title (which stayed) was too morbid?
Answer: Death Wish

Question: The villain in which multi-award winning film was based on three serial killers - one who skinned his victims, one who employed fake handicap to lure women, and who kept the victims in his basement?
Answer: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Question: For an American Express ad, Tiger Woods once donned the role of Carl Spackler, a character from what 1980 comedy set at the Bushwood Country Club?
Answer: Caddyshack

Question: Look closer and rearrange 'Humbert Learns' and you will get the name of which character from a 90s Oscar-winning movie, one that makes several references to Lolita?
Answer: Lester Burnham from American Beauty

Question: Who's the character? Peter Sellers (6), Alan Arkin (1), Roger Moore (1), Steve Martin (2)
Answer: Inspector Clouseau (The Pink Panther films)

Question: The 18th century human-like Jaquet-Droz automata that are capable of drawing intricate sketches inspired a key plot element of what 2011 film?
Answer: Hugo

Question: The 2-word title of what 2005 documentary about the moon landings comes from how Buzz Aldrin described the moonscape while conversing with Neil Armstrong?
Answer: Magnificent Desolation

Question: Called the biggest regular cultural event on the African continent, FESPACO, the largest African film festival takes place in the capital of which country? (hint: formerly Upper Volta)
Answer: Burkina Faso

Question: The climax of what great 1952 Italian film, Ingmar Bergman's favorite, has the title character attempting suicide on a train track with his pet dog?
Answer: Umberto D.

Question: The main lead Rick from what classic marking its 70th anniversary in 2012 was once compared to President FDR with the similarity reinforced by the English translation of the film's title?
Answer: Casablanca (1942)

Question: Rick Baker won the inaugural Oscar award for make-up for his showcasing of beastly transformation in which 1981 John Landis' cult classic?
Answer: An American Werewolf in London

Question: After the duet "Sull'aria...che soave zeffiretto" from The Marriage of Figaro plays on loudspeakers in a film, a voice-over goes: "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. [...] I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. [...] It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in ___ felt free." What is the missing word?
Answer: """Shawshank"""

Question: Editor Thelma Schoonmaker's successful collaboration with which director fetched her three Oscars in 1980, 2004 and 2006? (hint: the director won only once till date in one of these years)
Answer: Martin Scorsese