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Comedy Quiz
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20 questions · 30 min timer · Results at the end
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 the mockumentary style best exemplified by in film comedy?
- A. A television style only
- B. A conventional narrative approach
- C. A European art cinema approach
- D. Films presented as documentary footage of real events - Christopher Guest's ensemble improvisations and This Is Spinal Tap are its finest cinematic examples
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What is the 2000s romantic comedy 'Mean Girls' (2004) and what cultural legacy did it create?
- A. A Tina Fey script about a girl raised in Africa who joins a US high school and becomes entangled with the Plastics clique - creating a vocabulary of social dynamics that lasted decades
- B. A sports comedy
- C. A serious high school drama
- D. A horror film
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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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Who starred in 'Home Alone' (1990) as Kevin McCallister?
- A. Elijah Wood
- B. River Phoenix
- C. Edward Furlong
- D. Macaulay Culkin
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What is 'Barbie' (2023) director Greta Gerwig's filmmaking background and how did it shape the comedy?
- A. Gerwig's background in mumblecore and indie drama (Frances Ha, Lady Bird) gave her a specific relationship to character interiority that transformed Barbie from a brand comedy into a meditation on identity and expectation
- B. She was a documentary filmmaker
- C. She was previously a TV director only
- D. She had no previous films
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Who plays the father in 'Meet the Parents' (2000) and what is the comedy's central tension?
- A. Anthony Hopkins - a subtle thriller
- B. Jack Nicholson - a mild father
- C. Gene Hackman - a friendly father
- D. Robert De Niro as Jack Byrnes - a former CIA operative who methodically suspects and intimidates his daughter's boyfriend
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What is the physical comedy tradition of Jacques Tati and his character Monsieur Hulot?
- A. A British comedy tradition
- B. A French director-performer who created a gentle, bumbling character navigating modern life - 'Playtime' (1967) and 'Mon Oncle' (1958) are his masterworks of visual comedy
- C. An Italian comedy tradition
- D. An American slapstick tradition
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What is 'This Is Spinal Tap' (1984) and what filmmaking innovation did it popularise?
- A. A horror film
- B. A Rob Reiner mockumentary following a fictional British heavy metal band on their disastrous American tour - popularising the mockumentary format that became ubiquitous in comedy
- C. A real rockumentary
- D. A romantic comedy
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What is 'Little Miss Sunshine' (2006) about and what made it an awards contender as a comedy?
- A. A science fiction comedy
- B. A drama without comedy
- C. A heist film
- D. A dysfunctional family's road trip to a child beauty pageant in a broken VW bus - whose genuine humanity and ensemble excellence earned it four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture
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What is 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' (2004) about?
- A. A musical
- B. A pompous 1970s San Diego television anchorman whose male-dominated newsroom is disrupted by the arrival of a talented female reporter
- C. A news thriller
- D. A Western parody
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What is 'School of Rock' (2003) about and why is Jack Black's performance central to it?
- A. A serious music biopic
- B. A failed rock musician who pretends to be a substitute teacher and converts his students into a rock band - Jack Black's genuine musical ability and manic energy made the comedy credibly musical
- C. A horror film
- D. A romantic drama
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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 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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What is Mel Brooks's 'Blazing Saddles' (1974) and why is it considered unmakeable today?
- A. A straightforward Western
- B. A savage satire of Western racism using comedy - featuring Black Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) in a racist 1874 town - whose frank use of racial slurs as satirical weapons would prevent its production today
- C. A serious social drama
- D. A children's film
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In 'Dumb and Dumber', who plays the two leads?
- A. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey
- B. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn
- C. Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider
- D. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels
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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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Who plays the lead in 'I, Tonya' (2017) and how does the film blend drama and dark comedy?
- A. Amy Adams in a pure comedy
- B. Jennifer Lawrence in a straight drama
- C. Reese Witherspoon in a pure drama
- D. Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding - using mockumentary confessional interviews that create comedy through competing unreliable narrators while also telling a genuinely affecting story of class and ambition
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What is 'Midnight Run' (1988) about and what made it stand out as a buddy comedy?
- A. A bounty hunter and the nervous accountant he is transporting across the country for bail - their mismatched relationship and the excellent chemistry between Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin created the definitive buddy road comedy
- B. A romantic film
- C. A science fiction comedy
- D. A superhero film
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Who plays the character 'The Dude' in 'The Big Lebowski'?
- A. John Turturro
- B. John Goodman
- C. Steve Buscemi
- D. Jeff Bridges
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What is the premise of 'Idiocracy' (2006) directed by Mike Judge?
- A. A straightforward action film
- B. An average soldier is cryogenically frozen and wakes 500 years in the future to find America has become comprehensively stupid - the most intelligent person alive
- C. A science fiction film without comedy
- D. A romantic film