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Comedy Quiz
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Comedy is one of the oldest and most beloved genres in cinema, bringing laughter, joy, and unforgettable characters to audiences of all ages. Whether through clever dialogue, physi...
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All 20 questions in this Comedy quiz
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What is 'Sister Act' (1992) about and what made Whoopi Goldberg's performance distinctive?
- A. A horror film
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A thriller
- D. A Reno lounge singer who witnesses a mob murder and hides in a convent - revitalising it with soul music despite the nuns' discomfort
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What is the plot of 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' (1987) directed by John Hughes?
- A. A sports comedy
- B. A romantic comedy
- C. A buttoned-up marketing executive trying to get home for Thanksgiving becomes stranded with a warm but infuriating shower curtain ring salesman - Steve Martin and John Candy
- D. A heist comedy
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Who wrote and directed 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964)?
- A. Mel Brooks
- B. Stanley Kubrick - considered the greatest political satire in cinema history
- C. Billy Wilder
- D. Sidney Lumet
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What is 'Elf' (2003) starring Will Ferrell about?
- A. A Christmas horror
- B. A political satire
- C. A human raised among elves at the North Pole who travels to New York City to find his biological father - a Christmas comedy whose Will Ferrell character became one of cinema's great innocents
- D. A romantic drama
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What is the British sitcom-to-film transition 'The Inbetweeners Movie' (2011) about?
- A. A romantic drama
- B. A serious drama
- C. Four socially awkward friends take a holiday to Malia after completing their A-levels - becoming one of Britain's most commercially successful comedy films
- D. A historical film
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What is 'Rush Hour' (1998) and how did it establish Jackie Chan in American cinema?
- A. A serious action film
- B. A martial arts drama
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A Hong Kong detective paired with an American cop in Los Angeles - Jackie Chan's physical comedy and Chris Tucker's verbal comedy created a cross-cultural comedy dynamic
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What is the classic comedy 'Duck Soup' (1933) by the Marx Brothers about?
- A. A war drama
- B. A musical
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A satire in which Groucho plays the prime minister of a small country at war - the Marx Brothers' most politically pointed film and a savage parody of nationalism and war
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What is 'Hot Fuzz' (2007) directed by Edgar Wright about?
- A. A romantic comedy
- B. A highly competent London police officer is transferred to a quiet English village where he discovers a disturbing secret behind the crime-free facade - a spoof that also delivers genuine action
- C. A horror film
- D. A straightforward action film
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What is 'Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!' (1988) about?
- A. A romantic film
- B. A Western
- C. A serious police procedural
- D. A parody police procedural where completely incompetent detective Frank Drebin accidentally prevents an assassination attempt - Leslie Nielsen at his finest
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What is 'The Producers' (1967) by Mel Brooks about?
- A. A Western
- B. A serious drama
- C. A Broadway producer and his accountant realise they could make more money from a flop than a hit - and deliberately produce the worst play possible (Springtime for Hitler)
- D. A romantic comedy
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What is 'Paddington' (2014) and how does it achieve both children's and adult appeal?
- A. A parody film
- B. A serious drama
- C. A dark horror film
- D. A CGI bear from Peru adjusts to London life in a story that is simultaneously charming for children and emotionally intelligent for adults - Paul King's direction created one of British cinema's finest family films
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What is the comedy 'The Internship' (2013) and how does it differ from 'Wedding Crashers' (2005)?
- A. They are completely unrelated films
- B. They have different directors only
- C. They are identical films
- D. Both star Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson but Wedding Crashers (2005) is their finest work - The Internship reunites them in a Google recruitment comedy with less success
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What is 'Napoleon Dynamite' (2004) about and what cultural impact did it have?
- A. A historical epic
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A deadpan comedy about a socially awkward Idaho teenager, his llama, and his unusual family - whose bizarre non-sequitur dialogue became a national phenomenon
- D. A fantasy adventure
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What is the British romantic comedy 'Notting Hill' (1999) about?
- A. A historical drama
- B. A London bookshop owner who meets a famous American actress - a Richard Curtis script that was the UK's highest-grossing film of the decade
- C. A thriller
- D. A horror comedy
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What is the premise of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' (1986)?
- A. A serious drama
- B. A romantic drama
- C. A horror film
- D. A popular high school senior fakes illness to take a day off school in Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend - and directly addresses the camera throughout
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What makes 'The Princess Bride' (1987) a classic comedy-adventure?
- A. Its perfect blend of romance, comedy, adventure, and meta-fictional self-awareness - a fairy tale that lovingly mocks fairy tale conventions while completely delivering on them
- B. Pure adventure with no comedy
- C. Pure comedy with no adventure
- D. A serious historical drama
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What is the comedic premise of 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' (2005)?
- A. A parody film
- B. A man who fears marriage
- C. A department store electronics salesman whose friends discover he is a 40-year-old virgin and attempt to help him - Judd Apatow's directorial debut
- D. A romantic drama
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What is 'Step Brothers' (2008) about and what is its comedy approach?
- A. A romantic film
- B. A serious family drama
- C. A political satire
- D. Two 40-year-old man-children whose single parents marry - forcing them to live together as step-brothers - an extreme improvised comedy of extended adolescence
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Who starred as Derek Zoolander in the 2001 comedy?
- A. Owen Wilson
- B. Ben Stiller
- C. Jim Carrey
- D. Will Ferrell
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What is Mel Brooks's 'Young Frankenstein' (1974) and why is it considered his masterpiece?
- A. A loving parody of Universal's Frankenstein films shot in black-and-white with actual props from the original - Gene Wilder plays Frederick Frankenstein
- B. A romantic comedy
- C. A horror film
- D. A parody without affection for the original