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Quiz: Movies from the 1930s

By Elissa Royal, March-April 2004





1. Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) teaches Peter Warne (Clark Gable) a better way to do what in It Happened One Night?

  darn a sock
  hitchhike
  write poetry
  drive a bus

2. Mutiny on the Bounty is the last movie in which Clark Gable appears:

  without a mustache
  as a blond
  with a beard
  in uniform

3. In City Lights, the Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) falls in love with a:

  ballet dancer (Claire Bloom)
  street urchin (Paulette Goddard)
  farmer's daughter (Edna Purviance)
  blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill)

4. The quarreling lovers in the tear-jerker Wuthering Heights are:

  Cathy and Heathcliff
  Marguerite and Armand
  Charlotte and Jerry
  Mildred and Philip

5. What 1939 movie appears among the 100 all-time, top-grossing movies in the U.S.?

  Duck Soup
  Gone with the Wind
  A Night at the Opera
  The Wizard of Oz

6. In Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Senator Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) escapes expulsion by:

  sine die adjournment
  suspension of the rules
  filibuster
  pocket veto

7. Which "talkie" about WWI is still considered one of the most powerful anti-war films ever made?

  What Price Glory?
  All Quiet on the Western Front
  Wings
  The Dawn Patrol

8. In Bringing Up Baby, what is Baby?

  a tiger
  an ocelot
  a lion
  a leopard

9. John Wayne became a star after appearing in what 1930s western?

  Stagecoach
  The Plainsman
  The Big Trail
  Cimarron

10. In the famous still photo of Charlie Chaplin from Modern Times, what is he doing?

  hanging from the face of a giant clock
  riding on the cowcatcher of a train
  playing with an inflatable globe
  using tools while wrapped around a cog in a giant machine