This Jeopardy! movie quiz is filled with references to well-known classics, as well as obscure and foreign films. Do you know as much as the contestants who had to face these clues on the stage of the famous game show? Scroll to find out! Click to reveal the answers once you’re ready. To keep you from getting tired of this film trivia, we mixed in some questions about actors, producers, and movie scenes. Just like Catherine Zeta-Jones in Rock of Ages, Hit Me with Your Best Shot!
1. In “Why Him?” this “Breaking Bad” star does not understand the appeal of James Franco (but his daughter does).
2. Ashton Kutcher & Seann William Scott search for a jalopy while aliens look for the continuum transfunctioner in this film.
3. In this 1962 film former child star Bette Davis lives in a crumbling Hollywood mansion with her invalid sister.
4. Ice Cube tries to get out of the friend zone with Nia Long by offering to drive her kids to Vancouver in this 2005 film.
5. The title of this Coen Bros. film comes from a movie Joel McCrea wanted to make in Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels.”
6. A young couple lost at sea miraculously piece an ocean liner together & head for Europe, where they separate as she gets engaged to one another.
7. A government worker flies to Iran with some folks & tries desperately against long odds to get them to a Canadian’s house.
8. In 1954 a big new guy in town strolls around a world capital, rebuilding entire structures & repairing broken power stations.
9. 2 friends leave a Mexican paradise & make their separate ways into a Maine prison.
10. A slave entertains ancient Rome & rises to become an army general, an advisor to the emperor & a happy family man.
11. Rosario Dawson moves into the title domicile in this 2023 film based on a Disney attraction.
12. A romance sparks between Ember, who is flamin’ hot, & a guy named Wade, a drip (of water), in this 2023 Pixar film.
13. She played Indy’s goddaughter Helena in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
14. This Scorsese film is based on David Grann’s nonfiction book about Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma.
15. Doing his iconic “pizza strut,” John Travolta scarfs down a double-decker slice in the opening credits of this film.
16. Burnout surfer Jeff Spicoli orders a pizza to history class but Mr. Hand is having none of it in this 1982 teen comedy.
17. Julia Roberts’ star was on the rise after she played a waitress in this film set at a New England pizza parlor.
18. In “Home Alone,” Kevin pays the pizza delivery guy & then plays audio of an old gangster delivering this memorable line.
19. Ruth Gordon played Mia Farrow’s next-door neighbor in this scarefest.
20. A wheelman for Atlanta bank robbers, Ansel Elgort plays a tinnitus-afflicted hero in this Edgar Wright flick.
21. Ben Affleck directed this tale about the kidnapping of a little girl.
22. This character drowning at Camp Crystal Lake leads to all kinds of murderous fallout in “Friday the 13th.”
23. This title girl from a 2018 movie came & gave without taking & they took her away from Nic Cage; big mistake–he’s good with a chainsaw.
24. Anya Taylor-Joy voiced this character in “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
25. This screwball comedy involves Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn & a pet leopard.
26. This Bill Murray “Ghostbusters” character has PhDs in parapsychology & psychology.
27. Robin Williams had a cameo as a mime class instructor in this film that Bobcat Goldthwait wrote, directed & starred in.
28. This 2000 film has a choreographer named Sparky demonstrating, “these are spirit fingers.”
29. “No man is a failure who has friends” is just one of the lessons George Bailey learns in this Christmas classic.
30. Residents of a small town are replaced by soulless alien duplicates in this 1956 sci-fi classic.
31. “I coulda had class, I could’ve been a contender”, said Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role in this film.
32. This 1979 film about a small group of friends who cycle to victory was ranked by AFI as one of the most inspiring of all time.
33. In this silent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice.
34. Having chipped his front tooth as a child, this comic actor removed the cap in “Dumb & Dumber.”
35. The last word in this 1974 Jack Nicholson movie is its title–“Forget it, Jake, it’s” this place.
36. John Singleton was the first African-American directing Oscar nominee with this film, set in South Central L.A. where he grew up.
37. 1932’s “I am a Fugitive from” this shackled-together group stirred outrage against that penal practice.
38. Who are Janning, Hahn, Lampe & Hofstetter? (We’ll add they’re the German judges in this movie.
39. James Dean starred in only 3 films–these 3.
40. He’s the filmmaker behind the movies about Madea, a character he describes as “a cross between my mother & my aunt.”
41. “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” was the subtitle of a 2022 biopic of this late, great singer.
42. He put on his best southern drawl as detective Benoit Blanc in “Knives Out.”
43. This animated swashbuckler returned to the big screen in search of “The Last Wish.”
44. Black people are mysteriously disappearing in this 2017 directorial debut of Jordan Peele.
45. Bram Stoker’s widow got a court order to have this 1922 German silent classic destroyed–but it survived, as vampires do.
46. In 1984, a house in Hollywood got the cinematic address 1428 this for the first time.
47. The first Oscar in the new Makeup category went to Rick Baker in 1982 for turning David Naughton into one of these (in London).
48. This 1973 cult classic about pagan rites on a small Scottish isle ends with the burning of the title effigy—& some other things.
49. 1995 epic about a fight for freedom!
50. Keira Knightley kicks it in this soccer film.
51. Frankie Laine sang the title tune of this Mel Brooks Western.
52. It was subtitled “The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.”
53. This Terry Gilliam fantasy features a futuristic bureaucracy.
54. Starring Tom Hanks as a gay man with AIDS, this was the first major studio film to deal with that disease & the stigma it carried.
55. This 2006 Al Gore documentary was a wake-up call for many about how climate change is devastating our planet.
Final Words
That’s all for this batch of Jeopardy! Questions—I’ll see you at the movies! Until then, check out these lists of even more Jeopardy! fun: 55 Jeopardy! Questions Perfect for Couples, 55 Jeopardy! Questions and Answers Perfect for Families, 57 Surprising Animal Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Jeopardy! Questions Perfect for Kids, 55 Rockin’ Music Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Really Fun Pop Culture Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Tantalizing Food Questions for Jeopardy!, 55 Fun Holiday Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Fascinating Science Jeopardy! questions, 55 Really Fun Christmas Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Really Fun Christmas Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Fun and Challenging Random Jeopardy! Questions, and more!
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