# Hard Movie Trivia Quiz: Post Your Results **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910 "2011-12-31T03:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/21 "2011-12-31T16:06:44Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Only 17. I could have picked up a couple of more if I’d spent more time. But a lot of it is very trivial. One less than you for 16, and yeah, a lot of it is _very_ trivial. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/22 "2011-12-31T16:16:03Z")
22 correct. It was fun, thanks for posting it! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/23 "2011-12-31T16:21:37Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I’m not sure that knowing what performers/movies are “inducted” constitutes movie knowledge. Yeah, that caused me to give up about 12 questions in. It struck me as something a smug private club would do - ask “hard” trivia questions about the history of the club itself. If you fail, that just means you’re not worthy of being in the club. That, plus questions like “This actor was considered for this role…?” Considered by who? Considered how seriously? Would an actor’s name mentioned once in passing at an early-stage development meeting count as a “consideration” ? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/24 "2011-12-31T16:51:52Z")
Wow. I didn’t really think the quiz was all that hard overall. The biggest problem was that I didn’t know what films were in the directory. Still, it was simple to eliminate two of the multiple choices if you didn’t know the answer at all. So I was surprised that my 33 correct was such a good score. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/25 "2011-12-31T17:49:45Z")
25/50, so better than most it looks like. But I _was_ a Film major in college (although that was 22 years ago). I should have listened to my wife about _High Noon_. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/26 "2011-12-31T18:02:17Z")
17 right. Could’ve gotten more if I had gone with some “obvious” answers instead. Also, a lot of it hinges on what films have been checked off by one organization as being worthy, which is altogether arbitrary and irrelevant to me as a movie buff. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/27 "2011-12-31T18:17:04Z")
26 correct for 52%. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/28 "2011-12-31T18:35:11Z")
23 out of 50, but many of my guesses were “pick the most obscure” - i.e. Ward Bond instead of Jimmy Stewart or John Wayne. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/29 "2011-12-31T20:56:11Z")
46% ut ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/30 "2011-12-31T21:23:57Z")
I answered 28 correctly, for a score of 56%. However… this wasn’t really a movie trivia quiz, it was a National Film Registry quiz. There are at least five questions about the National Film Registry, not actual movie trivia, including [ul] [li]Which year has no releases represented on the registry?[/li][li]Only case of two films made from the same book in National Registry?[/li][li]How many Godfather movies have been inducted?[/li][li]Which of the following is not the the National Film Registry?[/ul] [/li]I find that very annoying. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/31 "2011-12-31T21:38:26Z")
I got the same as the OP, 19. They were almost all guesses. I got the Ward Bond one right because I’d never heard of him, but all the others were very familiar, so I figured there had to be some reason he was included. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/32 "2011-12-31T21:45:51Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > 22 correct. It was fun, thanks for posting it! Ditto - got 22 right. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/33 "2011-12-31T21:48:51Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > I got the Ward Bond one right because I’d never heard of him, but all the others were very familiar, so I figured there had to be some reason he was included. Huh. ‘His’ question was one of the few I was pretty sure about, and the question about “Vertigo,” and maybe some others, but most were just too much about the registry for me to do more than blindly guess (and I still don’t know how many I would have guessed right on). I didn’t think Ward Bond was unknown – he’s one of those guys you see and say to yourself, “Oh, it’s that guy.” I fucking love Westerns, though, and yet I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have gotten the one about Devil’s Tower right – that was a blind guess and I knew all the movies in the multiple pretty well (I thought). I guess I’ll try it again with Javascript wide open, out of curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/34 "2011-12-31T22:39:19Z")
I got 28 right. I don’t really know much about movies, so no idea where these correct answers came from. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/35 "2011-12-31T23:09:34Z")
25 out of 50. I was a bit surprised, didn’t think I was doing nearly that well. Some were certain, some were guesses, some were reverse-engineering the quiz itself (“why would that be one of the choices if it weren’t correct?”). I’ve heard of Ward Bond, but I don’t know if I could pick him out of a lineup. His name does stand out on that list. Didn’t care much for the way the test was laid out; having to click that extra link to get the correct answer each time. I still have to go back and look up some answers. What did everybody think was the easiest question? For me, Buster Keaton, Cecil B. DeMille and Hedda Hopper had cameos in what film? Does anybody who gets that far into the quiz miss that one? ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/36 "2011-12-31T23:35:14Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Yep, Ward Bond. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > 25 out of 50. I was a bit surprised, didn’t think I was doing nearly that well. > > Some were certain, some were guesses, some were reverse-engineering the quiz itself (“why would that be one of the choices if it weren’t correct?”). > > I’ve heard of Ward Bond, but I don’t know if I could pick him out of a lineup. His name does stand out on that list. > > Didn’t care much for the way the test was laid out; having to click that extra link to get the correct answer each time. I still have to go back and look up some answers. > > What did everybody think was the easiest question? For me, Buster Keaton, Cecil B. DeMille and Hedda Hopper had cameos in what film? Does anybody who gets that far into the quiz miss that one? That was one of the ones I was certain of. The Sleepless in Seattle question was the easiest, though, I think - when it was made there was all sorts of stuff in the media about the original, and the title of the original is also a bit of a hint to anyone who’s seen the later movie. I didn’t even see that there was a link to the correct answer after you’d chosen. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/37 "2011-12-31T23:39:34Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > Huh. ‘His’ question was one of the few I was pretty sure about, and the question about “Vertigo,” and maybe some others, but most were just too much about the registry for me to do more than blindly guess (and I still don’t know how many I would have guessed right on). I didn’t think Ward Bond was unknown – he’s one of those guys you see and say to yourself, “Oh, it’s that guy.” I fucking love Westerns, though, and yet I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have gotten the one about Devil’s Tower right – that was a blind guess and I knew all the movies in the multiple pretty well (I thought). > > I guess I’ll try it again with Javascript wide open, out of curiosity. I might recognise his face, maybe, but I’ve watched hardly any Westerns and am not American. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/38 "2011-12-31T23:44:12Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > The Sleepless in Seattle question was the easiest, though, I think - when it was made there was all sorts of stuff in the media about the original, and the title of the original is also a bit of a hint to anyone who’s seen the later movie. Oh, fuck me – was that the one with _The Shop Around the Corner_ as one of the multiples? Fucking huge Lubitsch fan, so I picked that out of loyalty, but didn’t know the plot of whatever romcom the authors of the quiz were yammering on about in their punkass question. ETA saw response to Ward Bond – that’s fair enough. He’s in a shitload of John Ford movies, though. “Featured Player,” I believe, for Jack Ford, in addition to an asshead’s full of other movies. I think “On Dangerous Ground” – the Ray movie with Bob Ryan. I had a vivid dream about him a week or so ago, so that’s probably why I’m puling and spitting up all about Ward Bond – don’t pay me any attention! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/39 "2012-01-01T00:07:00Z")
24/50 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-movie-trivia-quiz-post-your-results/607910/40 "2012-01-01T00:15:00Z")
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