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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 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 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 'Get Out' director Jordan Peele's comedy background and how does it inform his horror?
- A. Peele came from the sketch comedy duo Key & Peele - his comedy training in building and subverting audience expectations directly informs his horror films' structure
- B. He was a dramatic actor
- C. He was a director of romantic comedies
- D. He had no comedy background
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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 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
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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 '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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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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Who directed 'Ghostbusters' (1984) and what made it an unprecedented commercial success?
- A. John Landis
- B. Ivan Reitman - combining horror and comedy with original characters and a memorable Bill Murray performance in a way that created one of the era's most beloved films
- C. Joe Dante
- D. Steven Spielberg - combining horror and comedy
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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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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 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 the comedy 'Knives Out' (2019) and what does director Rian Johnson do with the whodunit genre?
- A. A conventional mystery
- B. A horror film
- C. A romantic comedy
- D. A comedy-mystery that reveals who committed the murder early then asks how the story ends - a formal inversion of genre expectations starring Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc
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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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Who plays the accident-prone Inspector Clouseau in the original 'Pink Panther' films?
- A. Buster Keaton
- B. Bob Hope
- C. Peter Sellers
- D. Cary Grant
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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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Who played Austin Powers in the comedy spy franchise and also played the villain?
- A. Jim Carrey
- B. Will Ferrell
- C. Mike Myers
- D. Adam Sandler
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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 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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What is the comedy 'About a Boy' (2002) based on and who stars in it?
- A. Nick Hornby's novel - Hugh Grant plays a superficial bachelor who invents a fictitious son to attend a single parents' group, then befriends a real troubled 12-year-old
- B. A French comedy
- C. A serious drama
- D. An original screenplay