Bonnie and Clyde Quizzes

Bonnie and Clyde Quiz 1

1 In what year was the film released?
1964

1970

1967

1965
2 What is the film based on?
A play

A novel

An epic poem

Real events
3 In what state does the film take place?
Washington

Texas

California

West Virginia
4 Who directed the film?
Francis Ford Coppola

Arthur Penn

Francois Truffaut

Jean-Luc Godard
5 Who composed the score?
Charles Strouse

Elmer Bernstein

Burt Bacharach

John Williams
6 What movement is the film a part of?
French New Wave

Cinema Verite

New Hollywood

Neo-Noir Revival
7 Who produced the film?
Arthur Penn

Warren Beatty

George Lucas

Alfred Hitchcock
8 Who wrote the screenplay?
David Newman & Robert Benton

Truman Capote

Arthur Penn

Warren Beatty
9 Which aspect of the production received an Academy Award?
Cinematography

Score

Sound editing

Special effects
10 Which actor won an Academy Award?
Warren Beatty

Gene Hackman

Faye Dunaway

Estelle Parsons
11 Who plays Clyde Barrow?
Gene Wilder

Robert Redford

Harrison Ford

Warren Beatty
12 Who plays Bonnie Parker?
Natalie Wood

Faye Dunaway

Ellen Burstyn

Jane Fonda
13 When does the film take place?
During the Great Depression

In the 1960s

In the 1910s

In an undetermined time
14 What is Clyde doing when Bonnie first meets him?
Bathing in a river outside her house

Stealing her mother's car

Setting her house on fire

Stealing food from her refrigerator
15 Where was Bonnie born?
Rowayton, Connecticut

Rowena, Texas

Raleigh, North Carolina

Atlanta, Georgia
16 What is Bonnie's job at the beginning of the film?
Model

Actress

Secretary

Waitress
17 What did Clyde's family do for work?
Oil barons

Criminals

Bankers

Sharecroppers
18 What does Clyde NOT guess as Bonnie's possible profession?
Lady mechanic

Composer

Maid

Movie star
19 Why was Clyde recently in state prison?
Murder

Rape

Armed robbery

Fraud
20 What does Clyde tell Bonnie he did in prison to get out of a work detail?
Cut off all of his hair

Chop off two of his toes

Chop off one of his fingers

Sleep with a warden
21 Where does Bonnie live with her mother?
Dallas

St. Louis

Houston

Austin
22 What does Clyde do when Bonnie kisses him in the car for the first time?
Try and take advantage of her sexually

Kick her out of the car

Tell her he's a homosexual

Rebuff her
23 Which French recording artist made a song about "Bonnie and Clyde"?
Francoise Hardy

Maurice Chevalier

Jacques Brel

Serge Gainsbourg (and Brigitte Bardot)
24 Who finds them at the abandoned house that they sleep at, the next day?
The farmer who used to own the house

C.W. Moss

Frank Hammer

A man who says he's Clyde's father
25 Who did the cinematography?
Nicolas Roeg

Gianni Di Venanzo

Burnett Guffey

John L. Russell

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