# Fun but fairly easy movie actor quiz for Oscars night
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [April 25, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763 "2021-04-25T23:52:04Z")
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/1 "2021-04-25T23:52:04Z")
> **[QUIZ: Can You Name These Iconic Actors?](https://www.pastfactory.com/quiz/quiz-can-you-name-these-iconic-actors/)**
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> Are you an expert on Hollywood’s leading men? Take this quiz to see if you really know the iconic stars.
See how you do.
I got a 56 or 57 as I got cocky and too fast and click Gene Wilder for Gene Hackman.
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### Author:  [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/2 "2021-04-26T00:02:22Z")
57/57, but I only got Laurence Olivier by process of elimination - I had no idea who the picture was, but I knew it definitely wasn’t one of the other three choices. I recognized everyone else, although a few it took me a little bit and mentally cropping out hairdos and up-aging them.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/3 "2021-04-26T00:31:15Z")
54/57 due to a couple misclicks. I clicked Paul Newman when it was Robert Redford. One picture was very strange and I missed it as well. I forget which one. Clark Gable was kind of older in his picture, but I did get it right.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/4 "2021-04-26T01:06:10Z")
57/57. It was easy for me because these were mostly actors I grew up with.
Anyone else notice they said Bill Murray was in _Jaws_?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/5 "2021-04-26T01:09:01Z")
Full marks! Easy, but for a couple where process of elimination helped. Lee Van Cleef is not on my radar.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/6 "2021-04-26T01:35:32Z")
That was odd.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/7 "2021-04-26T12:14:04Z")
> [@gdave](#):
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> 57/57, but I only got Laurence Olivier by process of elimination
Same.
It was fun, but it would be a challenge a lot of the younger folks. Imagine trying to identify a bunch of current pop stars.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/8 "2021-04-26T12:48:47Z")
That would be tough for me. I don’t know so many of them at all.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/9 "2021-04-26T13:39:00Z")
57/57. I had the page slightly scrolled down and didn’t realize that there were clues above the pictures, but they were all familiar (albeit really young in most of the pictures).
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/10 "2021-04-26T14:00:19Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> I got a 56 or 57 as I got cocky and too fast and click Gene Wilder for Gene Hackman.
I did the exact same thing. I also got an incorrect for Henry Winkler which was a WTF moment. I think what might have happened was an ad loaded late, making the page shift down so I inadvertantly clicked on the wrong one at the last second. So I got 55. But they were all so easy I could have typed the name in to a text box for the answer for all but 2-- I might have had a bit of trouble remembering James Cromwell’s name, and Lee Van Cleef I only got through process of elimination.
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### Author:  [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/11 "2021-04-26T14:13:27Z")
57 out of 57, that was super easy.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/12 "2021-04-26T14:43:29Z")
I had to laugh when I saw James Cromwell in there. I had just seen him in something about a week ago and completely blanked on his last name, finally had to look up one of his movies on imdb.
I got them all, most of them just from the picture before scrolling down to read the clue or see the choices. A lot of the pictures seemed to be from early in their careers or possibly even before they were famous, which sometimes made it difficult. For example I’m not sure I would have got either Michael Caine or Olivier except that they were the only Brits out of the four choices!
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/13 "2021-04-26T15:51:40Z")
57/57, but nothing to strain ones waistcoat buttons over. I’d fail on a current popstar quiz, as well as on truly classic esoterica like “Yea or Nay’ Baby WAMPAS Star?”
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/14 "2021-04-26T17:07:42Z")
51/57 oy.
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2021, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/15 "2021-04-27T13:08:05Z")
I got 'em all, but it was fun to spend a few moments looking at pictures of handsome movie stars. I almost didn’t recognize De Niro. Also, how did I not know Sydney Poitier is Bahamian?
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### Author:  [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/16 "2021-04-27T14:03:13Z")
57/57 - I thought it was very easy, but the whole time I was doing it I was thinking of the younger generations of people that wouldn’t know even half of them.
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### Author:  [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/17 "2021-04-27T15:14:02Z")
> [@gdave](#):
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> 57/57, but I only got Laurence Olivier by process of elimination
57/57 same for me on Olivier. Too easy
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-but-fairly-easy-movie-actor-quiz-for-oscars-night/940763/18 "2021-04-27T23:50:07Z")
57/57, only because I’m an old guy.