Ever been to a trivia night that isn’t too fun because the participants are struggling? Yep, us too. That’s why we compiled this list of 99 easy trivia questions. They’re themed around popular films, so they’re a perfect precursor to a movie night or a visit to the movie theater.
Even if you aren’t a big movie buff, these trivia clues will be doable. The clues center around basic, well-known facts about each movie in question. Their answers won’t be too hard to come up with, we promise!
Scroll down to read through our list of 99 easy movie trivia questions to amuse and enjoy. Even though they’re relatively simple questions, you’ll probably learn something new! Refresh your memory on box office hits from both today and yesteryear.
1. Question: Which famous novel is Bridget Jones’s Diary loosely based on?
2. Question: Which actress plays a leading role in The Silence of the Lambs?
3. Question: Which well-known alien rides in the basket of a flying bike? (Hint: he is the titular character of a famous film).
4. Question: What’s the name of Wall-E’s robot love interest in the Pixar film, Wall-E?
5. Question: Name the movie that this iconic quote comes from: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
6. Question: At the 2017 Academy Awards Ceremony, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly named La La Land as the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture. Which film actually won the Best Picture award?
7. Question: In which movie franchise does Anna Kendrick play a college student in an a Capella singing group?
8. Question: Who portrays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie franchise?
9. Question: Who plays opposite Rachel McAdams in The Notebook?
10. Question: What’s the name of George Bailey’s guardian angel in It’s a Wonderful Life?
11. Question: Which actor played Danny Zuko in the movie Grease?
12. Question: Which movie features a bride-to-be trying to figure out which of three men is her father? (Hint: it’s a movie-musical featuring the music of ABBA.)
13. Question: Which actor co-starred opposite Julie Delpy in the movies Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight?
14. Question: Who plays Tom Hansen in (500) Days of Summer?
15. Question: What’s the (fitting) name of the villainous food critic in Pixar’s Ratatouille?
16. Question: Which actress played Julia Child in the film Julie and Julia?
17. Question: Who plays Emma Stone’s father in Crazy, Stupid Love?
18. Question: Who is playing Elphaba in the upcoming Wicked movie musicals?
19. Question: Who voices Woody the Cowboy in the Toy Story movie franchise?
20. Question: Which Richard Linklater movie was filmed with the same cast over the course of 12 years?
21. Question: Name the movie that this iconic quote comes from: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” (Bonus: what’s the name of the actor who says this line?)
22. Question: Which 2017 film featured the hit song “This is Me”?
23. Question: Which actress played Mia Thermopolis Renaldi, the Crown Princess of Genovia, in The Princess Diaries?
24. Question: What creature does Robert Pattinson play in the Twilight movie franchise?
25. Question: Who does Chris Evans portray in the Marvel Avengers movie franchise?
26. Question: The following is a famous line from a film: “My mama always said, “life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” What’s the name of the movie’s titular character who says this line?
27. Question: What type of animal is the movie Seabiscuit about?
28. Question: Who is Smeagol’s alter ego in the Lord of the Rings movie franchise?
29. Question: During what era does Cinderella Man take place?
30. Question: In the 2013 film Her, what type of entity does Joaquin Phoenix’s character fall in love with?
31. Question: At what type of school does Dead Poets Society take place?
32. Question: In Get Out, how does the Armitage family lure in their victims?
33. Question: Name this film from a brief synopsis: a mother (Brie Larson) and son escape captivity after spending seven years in a single, enclosed space.
34. Question: Name the movie that this iconic quote comes from: “I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a cool mom!” (Bonus: which actress says this line?)
35. Question: What type of business does Michelle Yeoh’s character run in Everything Everywhere All at Once?
36. Question: Who directed The French Dispatch, the Grand Budapest Hotel, and Moonrise Kingdom?
37. Question: During which decade does the movie musical Hairspray take place?
38. Question: Who plays Lindsay Lohan’s mom in Freaky Friday (2003)?
39. Question: To play on the soccer team she’d like to be on, what does Amanda Bynes’s character do in She’s the Man?
40. Question: Which singer-turned-actor played opposite Florence Pugh in Don’t Worry Darling?
41. Question: What’s the name of Jennifer Check’s best friend in the film Jennifer’s Body? (Bonus: who portrays this character in the film?)
42. Question: Who played Django in Django Unchained?
43. Question: What’s the name of Marty McFly’s scientist friend in the Back to the Future franchise?
44. Question: Name the movie that this iconic quote comes from: “A son is a poor substitute for a lover.”
45. Question: Which famous actress appeared in the original Top Gun but was not asked to return to be in its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick?
46. Question: In My Girl, what condition does Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) suffer from?
47. Question: Who plays Velma Kelly in the film adaptation of the musical Chicago?
48. Question: Which actress plays Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games movie franchise?
49. Question: Who played opposite Lady Gaga in the remake of A Star is Born?
50. Question: Who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Viola de Lesseps, William Shakespeare’s fictional love interest, in Shakespeare in Love?
51. Question: Name the 80s movie that this quote comes from: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” (Bonus: what’s the name of the actor who says this line?)
52. Question: Vertigo, Dial M for Murder, The Birds—who directed these thrilling movies?
53. Question: Name the movie that this iconic quote comes from: “Here’s looking at you, kid.”
54. Question: Who are the three actors who play Spiderman in the franchise’s live-action film adaptations?
55. Question: The following is a line from a famous romantic comedy: “What you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean.” What rom-com is this quote from? (Bonus: name the character who says this line.)
56. Question: Who composed the music for The Nightmare Before Christmas?
57. Question: Who directed Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
58. Question: As of January 2023, which two movies are the only two foreign films to have won the Best Picture award at the Oscars?
59. Question: Which stop-motion animated film features a small girl offered buttons for eyes by her Other Mother?
60. Question: Which actor plays the titular character in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World?
61. Question: In which Pixar movie does Bill Hader voice the character Fear?
62. Question: In what movie do the ghosts of baseball legends visit a farmer’s homemade baseball diamond?
63. Question: Who is Mufasa’s brother in The Lion King?
64. Question: Which two films feature Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc?
65. Question: Which social network’s creation is dramatized in the movie The Social Network?
66. Question: Name the movie that this iconic quote comes from: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” (Bonus: which character says this line?)
67. Question: In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, what is special about Benjamin Button?
68. Question: In what general setting does The Shawshank Redemption take place?
69. Question: Who plays the Corleone patriarch in The Godfather?
70. Question: Which 1950s movie musical features the songs “Good Mornin’, Good Mornin’,” “Beautiful Girls,” and “All I Do is Dream of You”?
71. Question: Who plays Jo March in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women (2019)?
72. Question: Who famously often starred and danced opposite Fred Astaire?
73. Question: In which film does Audrey Hepburn play escort Holly Golightly?
74. Question: In what film franchise does Tyler Perry portray a grandmother while in drag?
75. Question: Which Disney animated film features the songs “Love is an Open Door”, “In Summer,” and “Let It Go”?
76. Question: In what film do Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara star opposite each other?
77. Question: Who plays Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise?
78. Question: What are Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore doing in the most famous scene from the movie Ghost?
79. Question: During which war does The Sound of Music take place?
80. Question: Who portrayed the Joker in The Dark Knight?
81. Question: Who directed an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that takes place in a beachy city? (Hint: this adaptation starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the titular characters.)
82. Question: What does the blue pill do in The Matrix?
83. Question: In which romantic horror film does Timothee Chalamet play a cannibal?
84. Question: Which actress plays Cher Horowitz in Clueless?
85. Question: Which James Cameron movie franchise follows the lives of the Na’vi, blue humanoid individuals who live on Pandora?
86. Question: West Side Story offers a 1950s New York spin on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Which character in West Side Story represents Juliet in the original?
87. Question: In The Shape of Water, the protagonist, Eliza Esposito, has the inability to do what?
88. Question: What iconic move does Elle Woods (played by Reese Witherspoon) perform in Legally Blonde?
89. Question: What is the name of the antagonist in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
90. Question: Who starred as Rocky Balboa in the Rocky movie franchise?
91. Question: What is The Truman Show about?
92. Question: Which actor stars as Tootsie in Tootsie?
93. Question: What song plays during the final scene of The Breakfast Club?
94. Question: Heathers is about a clique of girls who are mostly named Heather. What is the name of Winona Ryder’s character?
95. Question: What happens to Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day?
96. Question: How are Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader related?
97. Question: Name the movie that this famous quote comes from: “Look at me. Look at me. I am the captain now.”
98. Question: Which actress won an Oscar for playing ballerina Nina Sayers in Black Swan?
99. Question: Which 1986 film launched Spike Lee’s directing career?
Final Words
Thanks for reading through our list of 99 easy movie trivia questions. We hope they help to spice up your next movie night or mellow out your next trivia event. For more movie trivia and games, check out our articles on the best movie trivia apps online, the top movie trivia board games, the best online Disney trivia games, a quiz all about Hollywood directors, and some Harry Potter movie trivia questions.
Do you have a favorite easy piece of movie trivia? Or did we miss your favorite film? Let us know in the comments below.
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