Golden Age Trivia Questions and Answers

25 questions on Golden Age, each with the answer and a short explanation. Part of the Classic Cinema set in Rapid Fire Trivia, which holds 1,000 questions across 5 topics.

All 25 questions, with answers

1. 1The line 'Here's looking at you, kid' comes from which film?

   AnswerCasablanca

   Casablanca is correct. Rick Blaine says the famous line to Ilsa Lund during their bittersweet relationship.

2. 2Which 1946 film features Ingrid Bergman as a spy’s daughter in South America?

   AnswerNotorious

   Notorious pairs Ingrid Bergman with Cary Grant in a tense espionage romance.

3. 3Which film features the line 'I coulda been a contender'?

   AnswerOn the Waterfront

   Marlon Brando's Terry Malloy reflects on the boxing career destroyed by corruption.

4. 4Which 1950 Japanese film follows a bureaucrat facing terminal illness?

   AnswerIkiru

   Ikiru follows Kanji Watanabe as he searches for meaning through one public project.

5. 5Which 1933 musical introduced the song “We’re in the Money”?

   AnswerGold Diggers of 1933

   Gold Diggers of 1933 featured the lavish Busby Berkeley number built around the song.

6. 6Which 1958 musical features the songs “Gigi” and “Thank Heaven for Little Girls”?

   AnswerGigi

   Gigi became a major MGM musical and won nine Academy Awards. The detail remains important to classic cinema history.

7. 7Which comedy features Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell as rival newspaper reporters?

   AnswerHis Girl Friday

   His Girl Friday turns journalism, remarriage, and a last-minute execution story into rapid comedy.

8. 8In Some Like It Hot, Joe and Jerry hide by joining what?

   AnswerAn all-female band

   The musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band to escape pursuing gangsters.

9. 9Which 1950 film centers on ambitious actress Eve Harrington?

   AnswerAll About Eve

   All About Eve is correct. A calculating admirer gradually undermines an established stage star and her circle.

10. 10What threatens the village in Seven Samurai?

    AnswerBandits

    The farmers hire samurai because mounted bandits plan to raid their village after the harvest.

11. 11Norma Desmond was formerly famous as what?

    AnswerA silent-film star

    Sunset Boulevard presents Norma as a forgotten silent-film celebrity desperate to return to the screen.

12. 12Which Christmas film asks whether a department-store Santa is truly Kris Kringle?

    AnswerMiracle on 34th Street

    Miracle on 34th Street places Kris Kringle's identity at the center of a court case.

13. 13Which film features a giant ape taken from Skull Island to New York?

    AnswerKing Kong

    King Kong is captured on Skull Island and displayed in New York before escaping.

14. 14Which Disney classic includes the song 'Someday My Prince Will Come'?

    AnswerSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White sings the hopeful song while living in the cottage of the seven dwarfs.

15. 15Why is the photographer confined to his apartment in Rear Window?

    AnswerHe has a broken leg

    L. B. Jefferies is recovering from a broken leg, leaving him to observe neighbors from his window.

16. 16Which 1959 comedy features Marilyn Monroe as singer Sugar Kane?

    AnswerSome Like It Hot

    Some Like It Hot casts Monroe as Sugar Kane in a band hiding two fugitives.

17. 17Which film stars Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing “Cheek to Cheek”?

    AnswerTop Hat

    Top Hat includes the elegant “Cheek to Cheek” sequence performed by Astaire and Rogers.

18. 18Which 1952 western ends with a wounded gunfighter riding away after saving settlers?

    AnswerShane

    Shane is correct. Shane protects homesteaders from intimidation before leaving the valley alone and wounded.

19. 19Which classic follows a princess secretly exploring Rome with a reporter?

    AnswerRoman Holiday

    Roman Holiday is correct. Princess Ann escapes royal duties and spends a memorable day exploring Rome.

20. 20Snow White is poisoned using which fruit?

    AnswerAn apple

    The disguised Queen offers Snow White a poisoned apple that sends her into an enchanted sleep.

21. 21Singin' in the Rain is set during Hollywood's transition to what?

    AnswerSound films

    The musical follows performers and a studio adapting when synchronized sound transforms the film industry.

22. 22Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman starred together in which wartime romance?

    AnswerCasablanca

    Casablanca is correct. The former lovers meet again in wartime Morocco as difficult choices close around them.

23. 23George Bailey lives in which fictional town?

    AnswerBedford Falls

    It's a Wonderful Life follows George Bailey in the close-knit fictional community of Bedford Falls.

24. 24Which 1954 film follows a photographer spying on neighbors from his apartment?

    AnswerRear Window

    Rear Window is correct. An injured photographer suspects a neighbor of murder while confined to his apartment.

25. 25Which Disney film introduced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

    AnswerSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is correct. Disney's 1937 feature brought the fairy tale and its seven dwarfs to animated life.