Movie Legends Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

The original screen 007, in Dr. No and six more spy films. This Scottish actor won a supporting Oscar in 1988 as a grizzled Chicago beat cop mentoring Eliot Ness against Al Capone. Who is this?

Question 2

Nicknamed the 'Master of Suspense,' this filmmaker made Psycho, Vertigo and Rear Window, slipped a brief personal cameo into nearly every one of his films, and was nominated five times for Best Director without ever winning. Who is this?

Question 3

Best Supporting Actor for a Union soldier in a Civil War drama in 1990, then Best Actor for a corrupt Los Angeles narcotics detective in 2002, made this performer the first Black man with two acting Oscars. Who is this?

Question 4

A working carpenter who became the biggest movie star of his generation by playing two of cinema's most iconic characters: a wisecracking smuggler in a galaxy far, far away, and a whip-cracking archaeologist in a fedora. Who is this?

Question 5

An athletic, ordinary-guy contrast to Fred Astaire's elegance, this dancer co-directed and starred in a 1952 film in which he splashes and swings through a downpour in one of the most famous numbers in movie history. Who is this?

Question 6

This British actress won both of her Best Actress Oscars playing Southern belles: Scarlett O'Hara, and twelve years later the fragile, fading Blanche DuBois. She was married to Laurence Olivier and struggled for years with bipolar disorder. Who is this?

Question 7

An Australian who can vanish into any role, winning a supporting Oscar as Katharine Hepburn and a lead Oscar as a wealthy New York woman whose comfortable life falls apart, in a Woody Allen film. She also played the elf-queen Galadriel and, in a role usually played by a man, Bob Dylan. Who is this?

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About Movie Legends

Every era of the movies has its faces. Classic Hollywood gave us Charlie Chaplin's Tramp and Buster Keaton's deadpan, then the studio-system royalty of Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Cary Grant and Bette Davis. The 1950s and 1960s added Marlon Brando and the Method, Elizabeth Taylor's scandals, Sidney Poitier breaking the Best Actor barrier, and Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.

New Hollywood in the 1970s belonged to Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Jane Fonda and Faye Dunaway, and to actor-directors like Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Warren Beatty. The blockbuster age brought Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, and comedy stars Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams.

The modern record book is held by Daniel Day-Lewis, the only man with three Best Actor Oscars, and Frances McDormand, with three for Best Actress; by Meryl Streep and her 21 nominations; by Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Anthony Hopkins, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Viola Davis.

Behind the camera stand the directors: Alfred Hitchcock, who never won; Stanley Kubrick, one uncompromising film per genre; Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, who built the blockbuster; Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan and Spike Lee. This quiz spans all of them. Read the two clues, name the legend, and get the full story after each answer.