40 Film and TV Trivia Questions for Kids
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Easy Film and TV Questions and Answers
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In 2001: A Space Odyssey, what is the name of Discovery One's onboard computer?
HAL 9000
HAL 9000 runs every system aboard Discovery One on its voyage to Jupiter, and turns on the crew when its orders collide with the mission.
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Which film includes the line "You can't handle the truth!"?
A Few Good Men
Colonel Jessup shouts this line during the courtroom climax of A Few Good Men.
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Which horror franchise features a dream-stalking killer with a bladed glove?
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven wrote and directed the 1984 original. Robert Englund played Freddy Krueger, the burned killer with the signature clawed glove, across the franchise's original run through 2003.
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What brand supplies Wile E. Coyote's gadgets?
ACME
ACME is the recurring fictional supplier of Wile E. Coyote's gadgets.
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What relic does Indiana Jones seek in his debut adventure?
Ark of the Covenant
The Ark of the Covenant is the relic Indiana Jones seeks in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Who directed the film Avatar?
James Cameron
James Cameron wrote an early treatment for the story in 1994. He then waited over a decade for CGI and 3D camera technology to catch up before filming and releasing it in December 2009.
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What is Batman's real name?
Bruce Wayne
Batman is the crime-fighting identity of Bruce Wayne, the wealthy Gotham City businessman behind the mask.
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What breed is Snoopy?
Beagle
Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet beagle.
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Which animated Disney film won the Oscar for Best Original Song for its title song?
Beauty and the Beast
The title song from Beauty and the Beast won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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What is the name of the fictional African kingdom in Black Panther?
Wakanda
Wakanda is the technologically advanced fictional kingdom ruled by T'Challa. Its hidden wealth and technology are linked to the fictional metal vibranium.
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Which television series features Walter White and Jesse Pinkman?
Breaking Bad
Walter White and Jesse Pinkman are the central characters of Breaking Bad.
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What is the Hulk's civilian name?
Bruce Banner
The Hulk is the powerful alter ego of Bruce Banner.
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In film and TV, what is a cameo?
A brief appearance by a well-known person
A cameo is a very short on-screen appearance by someone the audience will recognize, often a famous actor, the director, or the author of the book being adapted. Many are uncredited and last only seconds.
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Who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy?
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher played Princess Leia throughout the original trilogy.
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What vegetable is Bugs Bunny famous for eating?
Carrot
Bugs Bunny is famously depicted eating carrots.
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Which film features the line "Here's looking at you, kid"?
Casablanca
Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine says it to Ilsa four times in Casablanca, most famously as they part on the airfield at the end.
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Which horror franchise centers on a murderous Good Guy doll?
Child's Play
Child's Play introduced Chucky, a murderous doll inhabiting a Good Guy toy.
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Who directed Citizen Kane?
Orson Welles
Orson Welles directed and starred in Citizen Kane.
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In filmmaking, what does CGI stand for?
Computer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery covers anything drawn by a computer rather than filmed, from a whole creature to a removed wire.
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Which British network has broadcast Coronation Street since its debut?
ITV
Writer Tony Warren originally titled the show Florizel Street. As the story goes, a cleaner at Granada Studios complained it sounded like a disinfectant, so it was renamed before the first episode aired.
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Which publisher publishes Batman?
DC Comics
Batman is a flagship character of DC Comics.
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Which superhero team counts Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman among its members?
The Justice League
The Justice League first assembled in 1960 and brings DC's biggest names together, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and Aquaman.
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What is Wonder Woman's secret identity?
Diana Prince
Wonder Woman commonly uses the civilian identity Diana Prince.
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Which film was Disney’s first full-length animated feature?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s first full-length animated feature, released in 1937. Its success helped establish animated films as a major form of cinema.
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What is the Doctor's time machine called in Doctor Who?
TARDIS
The Doctor travels through time and space in a TARDIS.
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Which TV series follows advertising executive Don Draper?
Mad Men
Mad Men follows Don Draper and his colleagues at a 1960s Madison Avenue advertising agency. The title refers to the nickname for advertising executives working on Madison Avenue.
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Which film introduced "Bond, James Bond"?
Dr. No
James Bond first introduces himself with this line in Dr. No.
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Which 1931 Universal horror film stars Bela Lugosi as a vampire count?
Dracula
Dracula is the 1931 Universal film starring Bela Lugosi in the title role.
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Which TV sitcom features the fictional paper company Dunder Mifflin?
The Office
Dunder Mifflin is the paper company at the center of the American version of The Office. Most of the series takes place in its Scranton, Pennsylvania, branch.
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Who played the title character in Edward Scissorhands?
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp played Edward, an artificial man with scissors for hands, in Tim Burton's 1990 fantasy film. The role began Depp's long creative collaboration with Burton.
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Ethan Hunt is the central character in which film franchise?
The Mission: Impossible franchise
Tom Cruise performs many of the series' biggest stunts himself, including a real climb up the Burj Khalifa in Ghost Protocol and an actual HALO parachute jump in Fallout. Hunt first appeared on screen in 1996, decades after the franchise's roots in a 1966 TV series led by a different IMF agent, Jim Phelps.
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Which film was the first feature to include sequences of synchronized spoken dialogue?
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was mostly a silent picture with title cards, but its Vitaphone sequences carried Jolson's songs and a few lines of spoken dialogue, and its success pushed Hollywood into sound within two years.
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What device enables time travel in Back to the Future?
Flux Capacitor
The Flux Capacitor makes time travel possible in Doc Brown's DeLorean.
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Who played the title character in Forrest Gump?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, his second Oscar in a row after winning for Philadelphia the previous year.
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Which film includes the line 'Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates'?
Forrest Gump
Forrest repeats his mother's saying while waiting on a bus-stop bench in Forrest Gump, and it became the film's signature line.
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Which 1931 film made Boris Karloff's reanimated creature iconic?
Frankenstein
Frankenstein introduced Boris Karloff's iconic reanimated creature in 1931.
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Which horror franchise is set around Camp Crystal Lake?
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th introduced the Camp Crystal Lake setting and Jason Voorhees.
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What is the name of the coffee shop frequently visited by the friends in Friends?
Central Perk
Central Perk is the fictional coffee shop where the Friends characters regularly meet. Its orange couch became one of the sitcom's most recognizable set pieces.
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What is the name of the kingdom ruled by Elsa and Anna in Frozen?
Arendelle
Elsa and Anna are princesses of Arendelle, the fictional Scandinavian-inspired kingdom in Frozen. Elsa becomes its queen at the start of the story.
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What is SpongeBob's job at the Krusty Krab?
Fry cook
SpongeBob works as the Krusty Krab's fry cook.
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