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Which film won all 11 Academy Awards it was up for, and what does a gaffer do? These free movie trivia questions and answers go by genre, from silent comedies to animated features, with the reason under every answer.
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Fun trivia questions about movies, round by round
Adventures, Westerns and epics has the chariot race, the motorcycle jump and two outlaws on the run to Bolivia. Comedies and musicals runs from two musicians in disguise to a squire with coconut shells. Animated features goes from cut-out silhouettes of 1926 to a house flown to Venezuela.
A movie trivia quiz for film buffs
Silent films and first talkies asks about the nickelodeon, the first woman to direct and a dog rescued from a battlefield. Behind the camera is the round on film words: the clapperboard, the MacGuffin, a scream heard in many films. Pick a round under Start from and read each question aloud.
- Give each team one round to host. The host team reads, and the other teams write down a letter before the tap.
Questions and answers
What are some great movie trivia questions?
Which 1952 Western plays out in real time? What is the 1963 comedy with Inspector Clouseau named after? Which film of 1927 first had synchronized singing and speech? The answers are High Noon, a priceless diamond and The Jazz Singer.
Is there a printable list or PDF of these movie trivia questions and answers?
The whole list, with answers, is on this page under the quiz. After a set, Print lists the questions you just played, and a tick on With answer key adds the answers and reasons. For a PDF, choose Save as PDF when printing.
Are there trivia questions for children's movies?
Yes. Animated features has fourteen, from a deer of 1942 to a clownfish of 2003, and every question on the page was written to be read aloud at a family table. Films of the 1990s have a page of their own.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 16, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article linked beside it, 70 articles in all, one to a question. Nothing that a new release could change is asked, and no line of dialogue is quoted.