Movie Pictionary Trivia Quiz

This sketch shows a dial of a clock (it's pure coincidence the time is three o'clock) and an orange thing. Put that together and you get "A Clockwork Orange".
Stanley Kubrick directed in 1971 this movie, with Malcolm McDowell starring as Alex DeLarge. Kubrick received three Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing. His assistant Bill Butler was also nominated for Best Film Editor.
The story: Alex was a violent teenager, head of a small gang. But things went wrong during a burglary, and Alex got arrested for murder. When he was serving time, he volunteered for an experimental cure to reduce violent behaviour - and this cure had more than the desired result.

I've tried to sketch the outline of the coast of Normandy, with a swastika indicating the German occupation during WW II. I've added five arrows roughly pointing to the landing zones on D-Day (June 6, 1944): from east to west Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah. All this to make a pictorial guide to the 1962 movie "The Longest Day".
Directors Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton and Gerd Oswald contributed to this masterpiece produced by Daryl F. Zanuck.
"The Longest Day" won two Oscars (Best Cinematography and Best Special Effects), and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Art Direction and Best Film Editing.
The movie had dozens of stars, including John Wayne as US Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort, Robert Mitchum as US Brigadier General Norman Cota, Sean Connery as UK Private Flanagan, Werner Hinz as Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, Curd Jurgens as General Gunther Blumentritt, and André Bourvil as the Mayor of Coleville.
Werner Hinz delivered in German the quote on which the movie title was derived: "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day... The longest day.".

What's this sketch? You'll probably recognize a large ship, and there is a huge whitish object too. I tried to draw the "Titanic" as it was heading towards the iceberg...
So this silly sketch should point you at "Titanic" (1997).
James Cameron directed this epic movie, starring Leonardo di Caprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater.
The storyline mixed a love affair between a third class passenger (Dawson) and a first class passenger (DeWitt Bukater) with the actual tragedy: the largest cruise ship at that time, deemed too large to sink, hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and it sank - leading to the death of over 1,500 people out of the about 2,300 passengers and crew.

This is indeed a very odd sketch. You can see a face, with something hanging down that is supposed to look like a white beard. Below this face are two tablets with something scribbled on it. What would this silly sketch intend to depict? Well, a white-bearded man is how I would figure Moses, and the two rectangles are two stone slabs inscribed with the Ten Commandments.
And that is exactly the movie you'd had to pick to go with this awkward sketch: "The Ten Commandments" by Cecil B. DeMille.
I hereby refer to the 1956 movie in colour, not the 1923 black-and-white movie Cecil B. DeMille filmed in 1923. The 1956 movie won an Oscar for Best Special Effects and was also nominated for Best Pcture.
In the 1956 movie Charlton Heston starred as Moses, and Yul Brynner played the Pharaoh Rameses II.
The plot started with the episode where Moses was left in a basket on the Nile and picked up by Bithia, an Egyptian princess and widow. Bithia adopted Moses, and when he grew up, he and Rameses were vying for the succession of the old Pharaoh Seti. Moses was the favourite to succeed to the throne, but then he discovered that he was not of royal birth - he was born a Hebrew slave. And Moses decided to live with the Hebrews where he thought he would fit in.
Having killed an Egyptian overseer, Moses was sentenced to cross the desert with insufficient supplies. He ended up with the tribe of Jethro and married Sephora. And then the Lord spoke to Moses, and Moses would have to convince Rameses to release the Hebrews, whereupon Moses would lead them to Canaan. On the way the Lord gave Moses the Ten Commandments.

Here's a sketch of a block of something yellow (inscribed with the abbreviation Au) and an open hand. Now what could this mean? The block is of course gold (Au being the symbol for the element), and an arrow points to one of the fingers. Put these together and you have the movie title "Goldfinger".
In 1964 Guy Hamilton filmed "Goldfinger", the third instalment in the "James Bond" franchise. Sean Connery starred as James Bond, and his foe Auric Goldfinger was portrayed by Gert Frobe. The main actresses were Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson and Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore.
"Goldfinger" was the first "James Bond" movie winning an Oscar (Best Sound Effects).
The plot? James Bond was sent to spy on the gold investor Auric Goldfinger, and via Auric's secretary Jill Masterson he discovered a sinister plot involving Fort Knox. After several adventures, Bond thwarted Goldfinger's plan and picked up Goldfinger's helicopter pilot Pussy Galore.

I suppose this sketch is a clear reference to a bridge. But there are so many movies with the word bridge in the title, so which one? Those of you who know the movie I hint at, will perhaps recognize the unique structure with two diamond-shaped reinforcements of the two pillars: "The Bridge on the River Kwai".
David Lean directed in 1957 this movie about a company of British prisoners of war, lead deep into the jungle of Thailand in order to work on a railway bridge to connect Singapore with Rangoon (today Yangon). Colonel Nicholson (played by Alec Guinness) and the Japanese camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) had a serious quarrel about the way to handle this situation. Meanwhile the US Navy Commander Shears (William Holden) made an almost impossible escape, only to be "volunteered" into going back on a mission to blow up the bridge...
"The Bridge on the River Kwai" received seven Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor (Guinness), Best Director, Best Writing, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Music. Hayakawa was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor.

A dwarfish figure with green skin, clothed in brown rags, and holding a blue blade? Surely you're dreaming? No: it is indeed my sketch of Yoda, the Jedi Master from the "Star Wars" movie series.
I chose not to include the episode title, for two reasons: Yoda appeared in eight out of the nine "Star Wars" episodes, and including the episode title would make the answer button way too long.
Although Yoda appeared in all "Star Wars" movies but the first one ("Episode IV: A New Hope"), he used his light sabre (a green one, not a blue one as I've taken a bit of poetic liberty) only in two episodes.
The first movie in which we could witness Yoda's mastery of the blade, was "Episode II: Attack of the Clones" (2002, directed by George Lucas). At the end of the movie, Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz) and Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) duelled with the light sabre.
In 2005, Yoda was also seen battling Emperor Palpatine (role by Ian McDiarmid) in "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" (also directed by George Lucas).
"Episode II: Attack of the Clones" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, and "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Make-up.

This sketch seems very straightforward: it's a hat - more specifically, a "Top Hat".
"Top Hat" (1935) was directed by Mark Sandrich. Fred Astaire played the American dancer Jerry Travers, and Ginger Rogers starred as the British model Dale Tremont.
When Jerry Travers toured Britain, he met Dale Tremont - and at first, he did not like her. But love was in the air...
This musical was nominated for four Oscars: Best Picture, Best Art Direction, Best Dance Direction and Best Song ("Cheek to Cheek").

This sketch is an oversimplification of the movie title involved. I've outlined a seven floor building with fire coming out of the windows on the fifth floor (fourth in European terms - Europeans don't count the ground floor). A single fire truck has arrived and one person tries extinguishing the fire.
In the movie "The Towering Inferno" (1974), fire broke out on the 81st floor out of 138 floors - the highest skyscraper ever built. And that disaster happened on the opening night, in the presence of the chief architect Doug Roberts (role by Paul Newman). The head of the San Francisco Fire Department, Chief O'Halloran (played by Steve McQueen) came with all his collaborators to start the sheer impossible task of saving the guests.
John Guillermin directed this disaster movie, one of the most iconic of the era of disaster movies (the 1970s).
The movie won three Oscars: Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Music.

This was one of the more difficult sketches to me: it contains animals, and in my drawings, all animals roughly look alike. So I added a text balloon where one of the animals bleats out "Baa", indicating it has to be some ovine creature - more specifically, these white animals should represent four lambs.
Another text balloon admonishes the sheep or lambs to shut up: "Sst".
Putting all this nonsense together, has to lead you to the movie title "The Silence of the Lambs".
Jonathan Demme directed this horror thriller in 1991, starring Jodie Foster as FBI trainee agent Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as the condemned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter. The movie won all five the major Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Writing.
How about the plot? Chief Jack Crawford, head of the (still experimental) Behavioural Science Unit of the FBI, recruited trainee agent Clarice Starling to interview Hannibal Lecter, as this convicted psychiatrist might be able to set the FBI on the track of the serial killer using the alias Buffalo Bill.
Indeed, Lecter helped Starling to locate Jame Gumb, the real serial killer named Buffalo Bill. But meanwhile Lecter escaped from custody and probably took up his old habit of cannibalism. As he phoned Starling at the end of the movie: "I'm having an old friend for dinner."

What can you see on this sketch? A dial with the letter N on top, which indicates it is not a clock but a compass. And the needle points not to the north, but slightly off to the left - indeed, "North by Northwest".
Alfred Hitchcock directed this suspense movie in 1959, with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint as the stars.
The plot: Roger Thornhill (played by Cary Grant), an advertising executive, was mistaken for George Kaplan, a secret agent about to roll up a gang of traitors lead by Philip Vandamm (role by James Mason). Roger miraculously survived a scheme to kill him and then started tracking down the mysterious Kaplan, only to find out George Kaplan did not exist (and the true secret agent was Eve Kendall, played by Eva Marie Saint). Iconic scenes are the chase by a crop dusting plane in Indiana and the final chase down Mount Rushmore.
"North by Northwest" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing, Best Art Direction and Best Film Editing. 

This sketch is quite straightforward: it shows an oversimplified submarine, and it's all in yellow - so we get the animated movie "Yellow Submarine".
In 1968 George Dunning directed this psychedelic animated movie, in which the most recent songs by the Beatles were used to quell an invasion by the Blue Meanies. Originally the Beatles were scheduled to perform the spoken parts too, but these were all dubbed by voice actors.
The plot is flimsy: the music hating Blue Meanies invaded Pepperland (a fictive country under the sea), and only the Beatles' music could drive them out. So the Beatles were transported to Pepperland in a submarine that happened to be canary yellow.
"Yellow Submarine" did not make the shortlist for the Oscars, though it was nominated for a Grammy for Best Original Score.