Q.1
What is the title of the earliest surviving Yiddish film?
Turkish Delight
Yiddle with his Fiddle
East and West
Ivan Koschula
Q.2
Before he signed on with MGM, legendary costume designer Adrian had a contract with which producer?
Cecil B. DeMille
Louis B. Mayer
Sol Lesser
Samuel Goldwyn
Q.3
What was unique about the very first Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards?
The results were leaked early by eager theater owners hoping to cash in on the hype
It was the first and only time that there was a tie for the award
The original winning picture had to be pulled from distribution due to protests from the American Decency League and a substitute film was chosen
The award was actually divided between two categories, one for crowd-pleasers and one for art films
Q.4
Which star of 1915 received the most votes in Motion Picture Magazine's Great Cast Contest?
Mabel Normand
Mary Maurice
J. Warren Kerrigan
Clara Kimball Young
Mary Pickford
Charlie Chaplin
Q.5
Russian star Ivan Koval-Samborsky disappeared from the screen for almost two decades. Why?
He defected to the West
He became a director
He was in a gulag
Trick question! He was one of the most prolific Russian actors of all time
Q.6
"A Trip to the Moon" is pioneering science fiction but what else was Georges Melies saying with the story?
It was a protest against the cutting of the astronomy budget at a nearby university
It was a spoof of a French politician who mocked the idea of space travel
It was a plea to allow women to join the French armed forces
It was a political statement on the dangers of militant nationalism and colonialism
Q.7
One of the most closely-guarded secrets in Hollywood was that Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was directing under an assumed name. What other detail was hidden from the public?
Trick question! Everyone knew that Arbuckle was directing under a new name, there was even a blurb in Photoplay Magazin about it!
That Arbuckle was also acting in German comedy short films (he wore a heavy fake mustache so that the films could be screened in the U.S.A.)
That Arbuckle was planning to make a comeback with a trio of young comedians he had discovered in New York. They're known today as the Three Stooges.
That Arbuckle had used what was left of his private fortune to purchase a small motion picture studio
Q.8
When Alfred Hitchcock was asked to name his favorite films, he picked a long list of silents and only one talkie. What was the talkie?
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
M
The Broadway Melody of 1936
Public Enemy
Curly Top
Q.9
The first authorized adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories were created by a French production company. What was wrong with these films?
Trick question! The films are acclaimed as masterpieces!
The action was moved to France and Holmes was renamed "Monsieur Vache"
The acting was hilariously inept
The films were never actually released and were recently rediscovered in the basement of an old theater in Calais
Q.10
Ramon Novarro was the actor who won the part of Ben-Hur but who originally had the role and was fired mid-production?
Antonio Moreno
George Walsh
Rudolph Valentino
James Kirkwood
John Gilbert
Q.11
Which film was the first dramatic feature to be shown at the White House?
From the Manger to the Cross
The Birth of a Nation
Cabiria
Richard III
Q.12
Which of these is a genuine title card from The Cruise of the Jasper B?
Return to camp with thy booty!
The noive!
Gentlemen do not meet ladies without their pants, sir!
He was muscle-bound from patting himself on the back.