City Lights Quizzes

City Lights Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the film?

Charlie Chaplin

Steven Spielberg

Frances Marion

William Goldman
2 Who directed the film?

Orson Welles

Howard Hawks

Charlie Chaplin

Jean Renoir
3 When was the film released?

1940

1929

1930

1931
4 Who produced the film?

John Ford

Victor Fleming

Howard Hawks

Charlie Chaplin
5 Who wrote the music?

Charlie Chaplin

Bernard Herrmann

Leonard Bernstein

George Gershwin
6 Who plays the lead character?

Charlie Chaplin

Rudolph Valentino

Buster Keaton

William Haines
7 Who is the main character?

The Flower Girl

The Eccentric Millionaire

James, the butler

The Tramp
8 Where do we first encounter the Tramp?

On a train towards New York

Sleeping on top of a new monument

Begging for money on the street

Sitting next to the river
9 In which city does the film take place?

It doesn't specify

Paris

London

New York
10 Who composed the theme music for the Flower Girl?

Leonard Bernstein

José Padila

George Gershwin

Paul Bowles
11 What was the first "talkie"?

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Jazz Singer

The Circus

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12 Which of the following is not a Charlie Chaplin film?

The Great Dictator

The General

The Kid

Modern Times
13 What does the monument signify?

Wealth and Wisdom

Peace and Prosperity

The spread of democracy

The end of a great war
14 What do the two newsboys steal from the Tramp?

His hat

His wallet

His cane

His flower
15 What does the Tramp stare at in a shop window?

A movie playing on a screen

A ring

A wind-up toy

A nude statue
16 What nearly happens to the Tramp as he stares in the shop window?

He nearly gets pickpocketed

He nearly trips the Flower Girl

He nearly falls in a manhole

He nearly gets hit with a fridge falling from an overhead apartment
17 What does the girl sell in front of the mansion?

Poems

Scarves

Paintings

Flowers
18 What does the Tramp notice about the girl?

She's blind

She has a wooden leg

She has a scar on her forehead

She is wearing rags
19 What does the Flower Girl throw on the Tramp (accidentally)?

Rotting flowers

Water

Wine

A handkerchief
20 Why does the Flower Girl seem disappointed when she stands by her window?

Her grandmother is emotionally abusive

She doesn't have any money

It's starting to rain

She hears two lovers walking by
21 How does the Millionaire plan to kill himself?

Hanging

Poison

Jumping off a building

Drowning
22 Where does the Tramp find the Millionaire?

In his mansion

On the roof of the capitol

At the river

At the dancehall
23 Why does the Millionaire want to kill himself?

He recently filed bankruptcy

He has clinical depression

His son died in the war

He recently got a divorce
24 Who plays the Millionaire?

Buster Keaton

Harry Myers

Charlie Chaplin

Hank Mann
25 Who plays the Flower Girl?

Clara Bow

Lillian Gish

Virginia Cherrill

Louise Brooks

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