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Movie and TV Trivia Questions
These 46 movie and TV trivia questions cover films and shows from every decade and several film industries: Hollywood classics and blockbusters, animation and Studio Ghibli, British television, Bollywood and Korean drama. They ask about directors, characters, settings, casts and awards of a named year, never about a famous line, so nothing here is a misremembered quote.
Every answer was checked against two independent sources on November 9, 2026.
Who directed the 1993 dinosaur adventure film Jurassic Park?
Answer: Steven Spielberg
The film was based on Michael Crichton's 1990 novel of the same name.
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Which 2019 South Korean film was the first non-English-language film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Parasite
It also won Best Director for Bong Joon-ho, plus Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature.
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Which country produced the 2021 Netflix survival drama series Squid Game?
Answer: South Korea
Its star Lee Jung-jae became the first Asian actor to win the Emmy for lead actor in a drama, in 2022.
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Which 1939 film musical starred a teenage Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale?
Answer: The Wizard of Oz
It was based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's novel.
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Who directed the 1960 thriller Psycho, set partly at the Bates Motel?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
The film was based on a 1959 novel by Robert Bloch.
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Which New Zealand director made The Lord of the Rings film trilogy?
Answer: Peter Jackson
The final film, The Return of the King, won all 11 Oscars it was nominated for.
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Which HBO fantasy series is set mainly in the fictional continent of Westeros?
Answer: Game of Thrones
It was adapted from George R. R. Martin's book series A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Which animated TV family lives on Evergreen Terrace in the town of Springfield?
Answer: The Simpsons
The family began as short cartoons on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987.
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Which TV drama follows a high school chemistry teacher named Walter White?
Answer: Breaking Bad
Bryan Cranston won four Emmy Awards for playing the lead role.
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Which English actor co-created and played the nearly silent comic character Mr. Bean?
Answer: Rowan Atkinson
The original TV series, 14 episodes made in the 1990s, relied almost entirely on physical comedy.
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Which actor played the title role in the BBC series Sherlock, first shown in 2010?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch
Martin Freeman co-starred as his friend Dr. John Watson.
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Which Christopher Nolan film won Best Picture at the 2024 Academy Awards?
Answer: Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy won Best Actor for playing the title role, the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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Which Australian cartoon follows a Blue Heeler puppy and her family in Brisbane?
Answer: Bluey
The show was created by Joe Brumm and is made by the animation studio Ludo Studio.
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Which Canadian-born director made both Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009)?
Answer: James Cameron
Titanic won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
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Which children's TV show, first aired in 1969, features Big Bird and Elmo?
Answer: Sesame Street
Its Muppet characters were created by Jim Henson and his team.
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Which Hayao Miyazaki film won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 2003 ceremony?
Answer: Spirited Away
Miyazaki won the same award again at the 2024 ceremony for The Boy and the Heron.
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Which Mexican TV comedy, created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños, follows a poor orphan boy who hides in a barrel?
Answer: El Chavo del Ocho
Gómez Bolaños, known as Chespirito, played the eight-year-old boy himself, starting when he was in his forties.
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Which 1970s BBC sitcom starred John Cleese as a rude hotel owner in Torquay?
Answer: Fawlty Towers
Only 12 episodes were made, in two series broadcast in 1975 and 1979.
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Which 2001 Aamir Khan film, about villagers who take on British officers in a cricket match, earned an Oscar nomination?
Answer: Lagaan
Its title is a Hindi word for tax, which the villagers play to escape paying.
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Which 2022 Indian film by S. S. Rajamouli won the Oscar for Best Original Song with Naatu Naatu?
Answer: RRR
It is a Telugu-language action epic set in the 1920s.
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Which manga artist created Dragon Ball, first serialized in 1984?
Answer: Akira Toriyama
He also designed the characters for the Dragon Quest video game series.
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Which actor played Vito Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather?
Answer: Marlon Brando
He won the Best Actor Oscar for the role but declined to accept it.
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Which Australian film series, begun in 1979, follows the road warrior Max Rockatansky?
Answer: Mad Max
Mel Gibson first played Max in 1979, and Tom Hardy took over the role in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
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Which 2001 French film stars Audrey Tautou as a shy café waitress in Montmartre?
Which Mexican director won the Oscar for Best Director for both Gravity and Roma?
Answer: Alfonso Cuarón
For Roma he also won Best Cinematography, having shot the film himself.
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Fernando Meirelles's 2002 film City of God is set in a favela of which city?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro
The film earned four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Director.
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Which ITV period drama, created by Julian Fellowes, follows the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants?
Answer: Downton Abbey
Highclere Castle stood in for the family's grand country house.
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Which Bollywood star, nicknamed Big B, began hosting the TV quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati in 2000?
Answer: Amitabh Bachchan
The show is the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
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Which long-running Australian TV soap opera is set on Ramsay Street?
Answer: Neighbours
Kylie Minogue became famous playing the mechanic Charlene on the show in the 1980s.
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Which Egyptian actor played Sherif Ali in the 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia?
Answer: Omar Sharif
He went on to play the title role in Doctor Zhivago in 1965.
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Which 1927 German silent film by Fritz Lang features a robot made to look like a woman named Maria?
Answer: Metropolis
Actress Brigitte Helm played both the human Maria and her robot double.
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Which Bristol animation studio makes the clay-animated Wallace and Gromit films?
Answer: Aardman Animations
Creator Nick Park won his first Oscar for the studio's short film Creature Comforts in 1991.
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Which 1995 Bollywood romance starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol played at one Mumbai cinema for over 1,000 weeks?
Answer: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ)
It was the directing debut of Aditya Chopra.
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Which South African film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2006 ceremony?
Answer: Tsotsi
Directed by Gavin Hood, it was adapted from a novel by playwright Athol Fugard.
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Which Swedish director made The Seventh Seal, in which a knight plays chess with Death?
Answer: Ingmar Bergman
Max von Sydow played the knight, Antonius Block, in the 1957 film.
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Which Polish director made the Three Colors film trilogy of Blue, White and Red?
Answer: Krzysztof Kieślowski
The three colors are those of the French flag, and each film loosely explores one ideal of the French motto: liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Which Spanish director made the films All About My Mother and Volver?
Answer: Pedro Almodóvar
All About My Mother won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2000 ceremony.
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Which film won Outstanding Picture, the award now called Best Picture, at the first Academy Awards in 1929?
Answer: Wings
It is a silent film about World War I fighter pilots.
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Film director Ousmane Sembène, often called the father of African cinema, came from which country?
Answer: Senegal
He was also a novelist, the author of God's Bits of Wood (1960).
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Which Iranian director won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with A Separation?
Answer: Asghar Farhadi
He won the same award again for The Salesman at the 2017 ceremony.
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Which Nigerian actress directed and starred in Lionheart, Netflix's first original film from Nigeria?
Answer: Genevieve Nnaji
The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
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