Adults
Movie Jeopardy
Directors, characters, famous scenes, film decades and animated films, for a movie night with adults.
Directors
- 100He directed “Jurassic Park” and “Schindler’s List”, both released in 1993Who is Steven Spielberg?
- 200He directed “Psycho” (1960) and “The Birds” (1963)Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
- 300He directed “Pulp Fiction” (1994) and both volumes of “Kill Bill”Who is Quentin Tarantino?
- 400He directed “The Godfather” (1972)Who is Francis Ford Coppola?
- 500He directed “Parasite”, the first non-English-language film to win the Oscar for Best PictureWho is Bong Joon Ho?
Characters
- 100The archaeologist played by Harrison Ford who wears a fedora and carries a bullwhipWho is Indiana Jones?
- 200In “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy’s little dogWho is Toto?
- 300In the “Star Wars” films, the Wookiee who is Han Solo’s co-pilot on the Millennium FalconWho is Chewbacca?
- 400DDIn “The Princess Bride” (1987), the Spanish swordsman played by Mandy PatinkinWho is Inigo Montoya?
- 500In “Citizen Kane” (1941), the newspaper publisher whose dying word, “Rosebud”, starts the storyWho is Charles Foster Kane?
Famous scenes
- 100In “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”, Elliott and E.T. fly across the face of the moon on one of theseWhat is a bicycle?
- 200In “The Matrix” (1999), Morpheus offers Neo a red pill or a pill of this colourWhat is blue?
- 300In “Forrest Gump”, Forrest tells his life story to strangers while sitting on one of these in Savannah, GeorgiaWhat is a bench (at a bus stop)?
- 400At the end of “King Kong” (1933), Kong climbs this New York skyscraperWhat is the Empire State Building?
- 500In “North by Northwest” (1959), Cary Grant is chased across open farmland by this kind of planeWhat is a crop duster (a crop-dusting biplane)?
Name the decade
- 100“The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone with the Wind” were both released in this decadeWhat is the 1930s?
- 200“Rocky” and the first “Star Wars” film were both released in this decadeWhat is the 1970s?
- 300“Ghostbusters” and “Back to the Future” were both released in this decadeWhat is the 1980s?
- 400“Casablanca” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” were both released in this decadeWhat is the 1940s?
- 500“Lawrence of Arabia” and “The Sound of Music” were both released in this decadeWhat is the 1960s?
Animated films
- 100The 1995 Pixar film about a cowboy doll named Woody and a space ranger named Buzz LightyearWhat is “Toy Story”?
- 200The 2001 DreamWorks film about a grumpy green ogre whose swamp is overrun by fairy-tale creaturesWhat is “Shrek”?
- 300In “The Lion King” (1994), Simba’s fatherWho is Mufasa?
- 400Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 film in which a girl named Chihiro works in a bathhouse for spiritsWhat is “Spirited Away”?
- 500The 1993 stop-motion film in which Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas TownWhat is “The Nightmare Before Christmas”?
Final round: Film history
Released in 1927 and starring Al Jolson, it was the first feature-length film with synchronized singing and speech
What is “The Jazz Singer”?