Movie Trivia Jeopardy

For the friend who ranks directors and the one who just loves popcorn flicks alike, a film-only board that is free to copy and buzzed entirely by phone.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Oscar Winners

$200
This 1994 film starring Tom Hanks as a slow-witted but kind-hearted Alabama man won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Forrest Gump?
$400
This 2019 Bong Joon-ho film about class divide in South Korea became the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
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This 1972 crime saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola, about the Corleone crime family, won Best Picture.
What is The Godfather?
$800
This 1993 Steven Spielberg film, shot largely in black and white, depicts a German businessman saving Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.
What is Schindler's List?
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This 1959 historical epic starring Charlton Heston as a Jewish prince swept the Oscars with a then-record eleven wins including Best Picture.
What is Ben-Hur?

Famous Directors

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This director of Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park is among the highest-grossing directors in film history.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
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Known for tense psychological thrillers like Psycho and Vertigo, this British-born filmmaker earned the nickname the Master of Suspense.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
$600
This director of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill is known for nonlinear storytelling and stylized violence.
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
$800
This Taiwanese-American director won Best Director Oscars for both Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi.
Who is Ang Lee?
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This Japanese filmmaker, director of Seven Samurai and Rashomon, is widely considered one of the most influential directors in film history.
Who is Akira Kurosawa?

Animated Films

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In this 1994 Disney film, a lion cub named Simba flees his kingdom after the death of his father.
What is The Lion King?
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This 1995 Pixar film was the first feature-length movie created entirely with computer animation.
What is Toy Story?
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In this 2003 Pixar film, a clownfish searches the ocean for his missing son.
What is Finding Nemo?
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This 1988 Japanese animated film by Studio Ghibli follows two sisters and a friendly forest spirit near their new countryside home.
What is My Neighbor Totoro?
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This 1940 Disney film, told largely through classical music with little dialogue, features Mickey Mouse as a sorcerer's apprentice.
What is Fantasia?

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

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In this 1977 film, a young farm boy joins a rebellion against an evil Galactic Empire.
What is Star Wars?
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This 2001 fantasy film, based on a J.R.R. Tolkien novel, follows a hobbit who must destroy a powerful ring.
What is The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring?
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In this 1982 Steven Spielberg film, a young boy helps a stranded alien phone home before it returns to space.
What is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
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This 1999 film introduces audiences to a simulated reality and a hero named Neo who is offered a choice between two pills.
What is The Matrix?
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This 1968 Stanley Kubrick film, based on a story by Arthur C. Clarke, features a rogue computer named HAL 9000.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Classic Hollywood

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This 1939 musical fantasy stars Judy Garland as a girl swept from Kansas to a magical land by a tornado.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
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This 1939 Civil War epic, adapted from a Margaret Mitchell novel, starred Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara.
What is Gone with the Wind?
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This 1942 romance set in Morocco during World War II stars Humphrey Bogart as a nightclub owner reunited with a former lover.
What is Casablanca?
$800
This 1952 musical, starring Gene Kelly, features its title character dancing joyfully through a rainstorm.
What is Singin' in the Rain?
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This 1950 film noir, narrated by a dead man floating in a swimming pool, tells the story of a washed-up silent film star.
What is Sunset Boulevard?

Name That Film

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In this film, a great white shark terrorizes the fictional beach town of Amity Island.
What is Jaws?
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In this film, a great ocean liner sinks after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912.
What is Titanic?
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In this film, a group of astronauts travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humanity.
What is Interstellar?
$800
In this film, a struggling Philadelphia club boxer is given a supposedly impossible shot at the world heavyweight title as a publicity stunt.
What is Rocky?
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In this film, an archaeologist and adventurer races Nazi treasure hunters to find a biblical relic with destructive power.
What is Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Final Jeopardy — The Oscars

At the first Academy Awards ceremony, this 1927 silent film about World War I fighter pilots took the top prize for outstanding picture.

What is Wings?

How to run this board

Movie buffs argue about everything except how fun it is to prove they were right, and a buzzer gives them the chance. The categories run from Oscar winners and famous directors through animated films, sci-fi and fantasy, classic Hollywood, and a name-that-film column built on plot descriptions.

Run it before or after a movie night while everyone is already gathered around the TV. Phones in, board up, and the host reads.

One suggestion: award a point of style for answers delivered in character. It costs nothing and improves the evening considerably.

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