Movie Legends Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

A rapper turned sitcom star turned blockbuster king, with Independence Day and Men in Black. He won Best Actor in 2022 for playing the father and coach of Venus and Serena Williams, moments after striding on stage to slap the host. Who is this?

Question 2

An Australian star who wore a prosthetic nose to win Best Actress as the novelist Virginia Woolf, sang in Moulin Rouge!, headlined the HBO series Big Little Lies, and was for a decade married to Tom Cruise. Who is this?

Question 3

A teen-idol breakout aboard a sinking ocean liner was followed by years of losing the Oscar, until a bruising 2015 wilderness-survival film finally delivered one. Since 2002 he has been Martin Scorsese's regular leading man. Who is this?

Question 4

'You talkin' to me?' as a Manhattan cab driver, and a 60-pound weight gain to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in a 1980 film that won Best Actor. This performer has made ten features with Martin Scorsese and co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival. Who is this?

Question 5

A slight, elfin Belgian-born star who won Best Actress for her first big Hollywood role, as a runaway princess in Rome, then became a fashion icon in a little black dress in Breakfast at Tiffany's. She spent her final years as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. Who is this?

Question 6

The sneering young emperor Commodus in Gladiator, and Johnny Cash in Walk the Line. He won Best Actor in 2020 for an origin story of Batman's clown-faced nemesis, and used the acceptance speech for an animal-rights plea. Who is this?

Question 7

Popeye Doyle in a 1971 chase thriller won this actor Best Actor, and a sadistic frontier sheriff in a 1992 Western won a supporting one. He retired abruptly in 2004 and became a published historical novelist. 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.