Classic Comedies Knowledge Quiz – Test the Details
Some Like It Hot ends with one of cinema's most famous closing lines, and this classic comedies knowledge quiz revisits Hollywood's funniest era. Meet the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, screwball comedies like Bringing Up Baby, Billy Wilder's comedies and Charlie Chaplin's tramp in City Lights.
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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds
Some Like
Which actors dressed as women in Some Like It Hot?
Marx
Which Marx Brother never spoke on screen?
Duo
Which comedy duo was famous for slapstick shorts like The Music Box?
Screwball
What is a screwball comedy?
Baby
In Bringing Up Baby, what is Baby?
Night
Which 1934 comedy swept the five top Oscars?
Wilder
Which director made The Apartment and Some Like It Hot?
Abbott
Which duo performed the routine Who's on First?
Lights
In which Chaplin film does the Tramp help a blind flower girl?
Lucy
Which comedian starred in I Love Lucy on TV?
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Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions
- Q1: Which actors dressed as women in Some Like It Hot?
Answer: Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
Marilyn Monroe co-starred.
- Q2: Which Marx Brother never spoke on screen?
Answer: Harpo
He honked a horn instead.
- Q3: Which comedy duo was famous for slapstick shorts like The Music Box?
Answer: Laurel and Hardy
It won an Oscar in 1932.
- Q4: What is a screwball comedy?
Answer: A fast, witty battle-of-the-sexes comedy
It flourished in the 1930s.
- Q5: In Bringing Up Baby, what is Baby?
Answer: A leopard
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant starred.
- Q6: Which 1934 comedy swept the five top Oscars?
Answer: It Happened One Night
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert starred.
- Q7: Which director made The Apartment and Some Like It Hot?
Answer: Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon starred in both.
- Q8: Which duo performed the routine Who's on First?
Answer: Abbott and Costello
It is about baseball.
- Q9: In which Chaplin film does the Tramp help a blind flower girl?
Answer: City Lights
It was released in 1931.
- Q10: Which comedian starred in I Love Lucy on TV?
Answer: Lucille Ball
She was also a film actress.
Classic Comedies Knowledge Quiz – Laughs From the Classic Era
Classic Hollywood comedy ranged from silent slapstick to quick-witted dialogue. Comedians such as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers became international stars, each with their own style of humor.
In the 1930s, screwball comedies like It Happened One Night and Bringing Up Baby featured fast talk and battles of the sexes. It Happened One Night swept the five top Oscars, and Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant chased a leopard named Baby.
Billy Wilder later made sharp comedies such as Some Like It Hot, with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe, and The Apartment. Abbott and Costello's Who's on First routine and Chaplin's City Lights remain comedy classics.
What This Quiz Teaches
Movie fans and comedy lovers will enjoy these questions.
- Who starred in Some Like It Hot
- Which Marx Brother was silent
- What screwball comedy is
- Who made The Apartment
- What Who's on First is
Did You Know?
- Duck Soup starred the Marx Brothers.
- Preston Sturges wrote witty comedies.
- His Girl Friday has rapid dialogue.
- The Philadelphia Story starred Hepburn.
- Jerry Lewis made slapstick films.
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