Question: In 1978 following a public campaign to restore it, the following nine gave $27,777 for each of its components: Terrence Donnelly, Giovanni Mazza (Italian movie producer), Les Kelley, Gene Autry, Hugh Hefner, Andy Williams, Warner Bros. Records, Alice Cooper and Thomas Pooley. It was a campaign to preserve what nine letter symbol?
Answer: Hollywood sign

Question: What frightening sci-fi film character, also called a xenomorph, was designed by H. R. Giger from a lithograph titled Necronom IV?
Answer: Alien

Question: The set piece of what classic 1955 one-word French film is a 30-min heist scene filmed in near silence and which has inspired real crimes around the world?
Answer: Rififi

Question: A Swedish publication review of what 2011 movie end with the declaration 'Hollywood wins'?
Answer: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Question: The main setting in what 1994 classic is modeled after Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya where crew members of the film spent time to study on the film's setting and observe the animals?
Answer: The Lion King

Question: What eerie 1973 British film that tells the story of an upright Christian police officer investigating the disappearance of a young girl has been called by a film magazine as "The Citizen Kane of Horror Movies"?
Answer: The Wicker Man

Question: According to imdb.com, the title of what Michael Douglas 1984 hit that is set in South America refers to a step in the preparation of a gem for use in jewelry?
Answer: Romancing the Stone

Question: The plot of what 80s movie that featured an Oscar-winning acting performance is centered around a violent incident in a bar called The Mill?
Answer: The Accused starring Jodie Foster

Question: What video-distribution company known for standardizing features like letterbox ratio, bonus features, and special editions started in 1984 with the releases of Citizen Kane and King Kong?
Answer: Criterion Collection

Question: Martin Scorsese might have belatedly won the Best Director Oscar for The Departed but he was snubbed earlier for Raging Bull (1980) and Goodfellas (1990), arguably his two best films. Both times he lost to known actors making their directorial debut. Can you name either of the films or the actor-directors?
Answer: Ordinary People (Robert Redford) and Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner)

Question: Which filmmaker who spent much of his life on the island of Fårö in the Baltic was once called by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera"?
Answer: Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)

Question: What 'arty' 2003 film had the lead actress netting a cool $25 million, the highest ever earned by an actress for a role?
Answer: Mona Lisa Smile, starring Julia Roberts

Question: Huge! What 1988 film was the first film directed by a female to have grossed over $100 million at the US box office?
Answer: Big by Penny Marshall (that starred Tom Hanks)

Question: Because it would require most of Antarctica to melt to submerge New York to the level it was shown in this film, which 2004 flick was lampooned by a climatologist as "This movie is to climate science as Frankenstein is to heart transplant surgery"?
Answer: The Day After Tomorrow

Question: In June 2011, FBI arrested Boston mob boss James 'Whitey' Bulger near Los Angeles after a 16 year manhunt. He was the inspiration behind the character of Frank Costello in which Oscar-winning film?
Answer: The Departed

Question: The title of what Ridley Scott movie that means con-men is also a term used to describe human figures in the paintings of the British artist L. S. Lowry?
Answer: Matchstick Men (2003)

Question: What 1920 horror classic from Germany that tells the story of a doctor and his sidekick Cesare in the village of Holstenwall is said to have introduced the concept of twist ending in cinema?
Answer: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Question: What runs for about 1.3 miles on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles county and is said to attract 10 million tourists every year?
Answer: Hollywood Walk of Fame

Question: Estimating that an average inch of hair weighs 50 micrograms, animators of what 2010 movie said that the hair of the lead character weighs 4.2 kg/10.4 lbs?
Answer: Tangled, referring to Rapunzel

Question: Focusing on a superhero movie of 2011, about what director did Entertainment Weekly carry a story titled 'From Hamlet to Hammers'?
Answer: Kenneth Branagh (who directed Thor)

Question: The Bengali films Pratidwandi, Seemabaddha and Jana Aranya directed by the Oscar winning Satyajit Ray are known as the trilogy of what Indian city to which he was strongly associated?
Answer: Calcutta

Question: Which Hollywood heartthrob got his first name because his pregnant mother felt his first kick while she was viewing the painting of a famous Italian artist?
Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio

Question: """... once dreamed of seeing a beautiful nameless woman on the street and having sex with her without ever knowing who she was."" This fantasy of a director was the idea behind the production of which envelope pushing 1972 film that is set in a European capital?"
Answer: Last Tango in Paris

Question: With connection to films, what is the claim to fame of Don LaFontaine who is identified with the phrase "In a world ..." and who has been called 'Thunder Throat'?
Answer: He was a voice-over artist who recorded more than 5,000 film trailers.

Question: Which actor, the epitome of American masculinity has the appropriate distinction of being the only one on every annual list of Harris Poll's 'America's favorite film stars'?
Answer: John Wayne

Question: The authentic Nazi submarine used in Raiders of the Lost Ark was rented from the production of what 1981 epic war film that tells the fictional story of the crew of U-boat U-96?
Answer: Das Boot

Question: The title of which 1979 British comedy has its origin in a flippant remark by a comedy troupe member who said their next release would be Jesus Christ - Lust for Glory?
Answer: Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian

Question: Paul Brickhill, an Australian pilot during WWII was shot down over Tunisia and became a POW in Germany; his experiences at the camp, which not every Tom, Dick or Harry could have had were dramatized in what 1963 'break-out' drama?
Answer: The Great Escape

Question: The screening of the classic satire Dr. Strangelove was originally scheduled for November 22, 1963 but was delayed until January 1964 for what particular reason?
Answer: Kennedy's assassination

Question: The 1973 Japanese film Lady Snowblood that is about a woman seeking vengeance upon her parents' killers was the inspiration behind what 2000s 2-part blockbuster?
Answer: Kill Bill

Question: What film set in Fantasia was the most expensive film produced outside of the USA or the USSR at the time of its 1984 release?
Answer: The NeverEnding Story (from Germany)

Question: The Penrose stairs, a staircase with four 90-degree turns forming a loop is called the 'impossible staircase' as it is not possible to create such an object in 3-dimensions. They appear in a stunt sequence in what 2010 hit movie?
Answer: Inception

Question: In 2003, screenwriter Paul Schrader was fired while working on a prequel to which 1973 classic as the production company felt that his version was too cerebral without being scary?
Answer: The Exorcist (the prequel was Exorcist: Dominion)

Question: The title of what poignant 1971 drama film set in Anarene, Texas refers to the fact of the town's only cinema closing forever?
Answer: The Last Picture Show

Question: Which 1992 romantic-thriller that had two Oscar nominated songs in "I Have Nothing" and "Run to You" has spawned the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time?
Answer: The Bodyguard

Question: The 1969 drama film They Shoot Horses, Don't They? provides a glimpse into which 1920s/30s American fad?
Answer: Dance marathons