FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!
Quiz about National Film Registry Part 1
Quiz about National Film Registry Part 1

National Film Registry: Part 1 Quiz


Created in 1989, the National Film Registry of the U.S. inducts 25 films each year for preservation. I've got one question about each of the first 25 films inducted.

A multiple-choice quiz by Caseena. Estimated time: 5 mins.
  1. Home
  2. »
  3. Quizzes
  4. »
  5. Movie Trivia
  6. »
  7. Movie Mixture
  8. »
  9. Classic Movies

Author
Caseena
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
349,250
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
11 / 15
Plays
2030
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
Last 3 plays: Guest 50 (12/15), Guest 174 (8/15), Reamar42 (14/15).
- -
Question 1 of 15
1. This early Technicolor epic is one of the longer films in cinema--almost four hours! Frankly, I'm not surprised it won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Don't wait until another day to answer! Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. This highly quotable film from 1942 was not expected to do well, much less win Best Picture and be selected as one of the best movies of all time by the AFI. And now, we'll always have it. Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. This next movie is about three men returning from World War II only to discover that their lives have been changed by exposure to war. Not only that, Harold Russell won two Oscars for his performance: Supporting Actor and a special award for bringing hope to the veterans through the film. Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Which Elia Kazan film about unions and corruption earned Marlon Brando his first acting Oscar? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Well, that's it for the Best Picture Oscar winners. However, this 1927 film won a special Oscar for Unique and Artistic Production. Do you remember this silent film? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. D.W. Griffith was one of the early film pioneers. Which film of his, which spans centuries, did the National Film Registry choose for induction in 1989? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. "Nanook of the North" is the only documentary among the first inductees. What is unusual about this film? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Buster Keaton is a silent screen legend; his film "The General" also made the list. Who or what is the "General"? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. "The Crowd" was significant in that it was one of the first films to deal with the hardships of urban life, money troubles, and marital problems in a modern family. Is it a silent film?


Question 10 of 15
10. This Charlie Chaplin film inspired the "I Love Lucy" episode in which Lucy and Ethel have to wrap chocolates at an ever-increasing speed. Which film is this, which takes a look at unemployment and factories during the Great Depression? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was the first feature-length animated movie, paving the way for a future industry. Which of these songs is not from the film? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. Legends often spring up around films. Some claim that in this Technicolor fantasy from 1939, you can see a person's corpse swinging around! Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. An average Joe becomes a senator in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" to help out the Boy Rangers. Who plays Mr. Smith? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. The novel "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck was published in 1939. How many years afterward did the film adaptation come out? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. Often on top of "Greatest Films" lists, such as the AFI's Top 100 Films, this movie did not win Best Picture. Hint



(Optional) Create a Free FunTrivia ID to save the points you are about to earn:

arrow Select a User ID:
arrow Choose a Password:
arrow Your Email:




Most Recent Scores
Mar 26 2024 : Guest 50: 12/15
Mar 26 2024 : Guest 174: 8/15
Mar 21 2024 : Reamar42: 14/15
Mar 18 2024 : AlmostSisters: 14/15
Mar 15 2024 : Guest 173: 8/15
Mar 13 2024 : Guest 191: 13/15
Mar 13 2024 : Guest 73: 12/15
Mar 13 2024 : pughmv: 14/15
Mar 12 2024 : Guest 97: 9/15

Score Distribution

quiz
Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. This early Technicolor epic is one of the longer films in cinema--almost four hours! Frankly, I'm not surprised it won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Don't wait until another day to answer!

Answer: Gone with the Wind

Sets of other movies were burned down for the Atlanta burning scene. The actors were composited in later, and since Vivien Leigh hadn't been cast as Scarlett at the time, a stunt person was used.
2. This highly quotable film from 1942 was not expected to do well, much less win Best Picture and be selected as one of the best movies of all time by the AFI. And now, we'll always have it.

Answer: Casablanca

This film about a bar owner, a Resistance leader trying to escape to the U.S., and the woman trying to choose between the two has become a classic. Though it first played in 1942 at a special screening, "Casablanca" actually won Best Picture for 1943 because that was the year it went into wide release.

In the 1990s, Warner Brothers created the cartoon "Carrotblanca" as a Bugs Bunny parody. Quotations include, "We'll always have Paris," "Here's looking at you, kid," "Round up the usual suspects," and "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
3. This next movie is about three men returning from World War II only to discover that their lives have been changed by exposure to war. Not only that, Harold Russell won two Oscars for his performance: Supporting Actor and a special award for bringing hope to the veterans through the film.

Answer: The Best Years of Our Lives

This film directly addresses the difficulties war veterans have in readjusting to civilian life. They can't get jobs, have difficulty relating to their children, have marriage woes, and Russell's character fears that his fiancee will shudder at his hook arms. Russell lost both his arms to burn wounds in the war. He died in 2002.
4. Which Elia Kazan film about unions and corruption earned Marlon Brando his first acting Oscar?

Answer: On the Waterfront

He plays Terry Malloy, a boxer-turned-longshoreman. This movie contains the famous line "I coulda been a contender."
5. Well, that's it for the Best Picture Oscar winners. However, this 1927 film won a special Oscar for Unique and Artistic Production. Do you remember this silent film?

Answer: Sunrise

"Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" was one of the first movies to have recorded music, rather than the live music played at each theater. The characters have no names; they are the Man, Woman, Wife, etc. The Man has an affair with the Woman, which his Wife knows about.
6. D.W. Griffith was one of the early film pioneers. Which film of his, which spans centuries, did the National Film Registry choose for induction in 1989?

Answer: Intolerance

"Intolerance" tells four stories from ancient Babylon to what was then modern America (ca. 1916) that show human intolerance. In part, this film was a response to Griffith's own "The Birth of a Nation," which many people believed (and believe) supports racism.
7. "Nanook of the North" is the only documentary among the first inductees. What is unusual about this film?

Answer: Some of the events depicted in it were staged.

For one, Nanook was not the Inuit's name. He also was asked to hunt with primitive weapons instead of the modern guns his tribe used. However, "Nanook" was one of the first documentaries, and a silent one, so the idea of presenting reality as it occurred did not carry the kind of weight it does today.
8. Buster Keaton is a silent screen legend; his film "The General" also made the list. Who or what is the "General"?

Answer: A train

Keaton's character Johnny loves two things: his train and his girlfriend. The Union soldiers steal both, inciting Confederate Johnny into a train chase to get them back. It features much precise stunt work, including a scene where a bridge is blown up as a real train falls into the river below.
9. "The Crowd" was significant in that it was one of the first films to deal with the hardships of urban life, money troubles, and marital problems in a modern family. Is it a silent film?

Answer: yes

Because it was a silent film, "The Crowd" had better visuals than the early sound pictures of the time. Director King Vidor didn't have to deal with the limitations that filming with sound posed in the late 1920s. The studio tried to give the film a happy ending, but the director refused and left it with its original, bleak ending.
10. This Charlie Chaplin film inspired the "I Love Lucy" episode in which Lucy and Ethel have to wrap chocolates at an ever-increasing speed. Which film is this, which takes a look at unemployment and factories during the Great Depression?

Answer: Modern Times

This would be Chaplin's last "silent" film; while there is some music and dialogue, it is primarily silent. In one famous scene, Chaplin gets caught in the factory's machinery and spins around the wheels while repairing them.
11. Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was the first feature-length animated movie, paving the way for a future industry. Which of these songs is not from the film?

Answer: So This is Love

"So This is Love" comes from "Cinderella." Walt Disney could have lost his fortune making this movie; instead, the movie was the top grossing film of 1938 (though it premiered in 1937). It also won Disney an honorary Oscar for film innovation, and he was given a normal-sized Oscar statue and seven tiny ones.
12. Legends often spring up around films. Some claim that in this Technicolor fantasy from 1939, you can see a person's corpse swinging around!

Answer: The Wizard of Oz

Upon inspection, the "Dead Munchkin" who supposedly hanged himself is clearly a crane stretching its wings. As this movie was filmed out of order, these scenes were shot before the Munchkinland scenes--the Munchkins hadn't even been hired, much less been on the set.

This legend may have arisen from the fact that many prints deteriorated and became fuzzy over the years, converting crystal-clear details into hazy ones. A colorful film about a girl who goes over the rainbow via tornado and meets new friends while trying to get home, "The Wizard of Oz" has gained popularity from repeated television screenings and has become one of the most beloved films of all time.
13. An average Joe becomes a senator in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" to help out the Boy Rangers. Who plays Mr. Smith?

Answer: James Stewart

Jean Arthur is his co-star. After the film's premiere, some people in the government claimed the film was anti-American for its portrayal of Congress. Capra's motivation was to show what an impact a single person can make. This movie was banned in Nazi Germany and the USSR.
14. The novel "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck was published in 1939. How many years afterward did the film adaptation come out?

Answer: 1

Film studios didn't waste any time picking up this one, did they? From 1940, "The Grapes of Wrath" features Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell as part of an Okie family going to California to seek their fortunes. The film alters the ending of the novel, in which Rose of Sharon suckles a starving grown man after her baby dies. Apparently that scene was too intense for Hollywood.
15. Often on top of "Greatest Films" lists, such as the AFI's Top 100 Films, this movie did not win Best Picture.

Answer: Citizen Kane

Orson Welles pioneered camera techniques that are used to this day, such as deep focus photography, which enables objects in the foreground and background to be in focus at the same time. "Citizen Kane" lost to "How Green Was My Valley."
Source: Author Caseena

This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor LadyCaitriona before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.
3/28/2024, Copyright 2024 FunTrivia, Inc. - Report an Error / Contact Us