Hollywood Quiz
Big Hollywood names and moments: legendary directors, leading actors and lines everyone knows. Plus films about money, greed and big business.
About this quiz
Questions on the biggest names in American cinema: directors behind record-breaking hits, stars of romantic dramas and action classics, and lines that are quoted to this day. A good test of how well you know mainstream Hollywood.
Good to know: The Hollywood sign first read “HOLLYWOODLAND” when it went up in 1923 as an advertisement for a housing development. The last four letters were taken down in 1949.
How to play
- 10 questions, each with four answers
- +100 points for every right answer
- After each question you see the right answer and why
- Every round picks its questions at random, so playing again brings new ones
- No time limit: take as long as you like
Sample questions
- Which 1987 film features Gordon Gekko, who says “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good”?
- Which 2015 film follows investors who bet against the US housing market before the 2008 crash?
- In which 1983 comedy do two rich brothers make a bet by swapping the lives of a commodities broker and a street hustler?
Each round picks 10 of this quiz’s 20 questions, so these may come up.
