City Lights Quizzes

City Lights Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the film?

Steven Spielberg

William Goldman

Charlie Chaplin

Frances Marion
2 Who directed the film?

Charlie Chaplin

Jean Renoir

Howard Hawks

Orson Welles
3 When was the film released?

1940

1931

1929

1930
4 Who produced the film?

Howard Hawks

John Ford

Charlie Chaplin

Victor Fleming
5 Who wrote the music?

Charlie Chaplin

George Gershwin

Bernard Herrmann

Leonard Bernstein
6 Who plays the lead character?

William Haines

Rudolph Valentino

Charlie Chaplin

Buster Keaton
7 Who is the main character?

The Flower Girl

The Eccentric Millionaire

The Tramp

James, the butler
8 Where do we first encounter the Tramp?

Sitting next to the river

Begging for money on the street

Sleeping on top of a new monument

On a train towards New York
9 In which city does the film take place?

Paris

London

New York

It doesn't specify
10 Who composed the theme music for the Flower Girl?

José Padila

Leonard Bernstein

George Gershwin

Paul Bowles
11 What was the first "talkie"?

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Jazz Singer

City Lights

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

The General

Modern Times

The Kid

The Great Dictator
13 What does the monument signify?

Wealth and Wisdom

Peace and Prosperity

The end of a great war

The spread of democracy
14 What do the two newsboys steal from the Tramp?

His wallet

His cane

His hat

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

A nude statue

A wind-up toy

A movie playing on a screen

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

He nearly gets hit with a fridge falling from an overhead apartment

He nearly falls in a manhole

He nearly trips the Flower Girl

He nearly gets pickpocketed
17 What does the girl sell in front of the mansion?

Paintings

Flowers

Scarves

Poems
18 What does the Tramp notice about the girl?

She is wearing rags

She's blind

She has a wooden leg

She has a scar on her forehead
19 What does the Flower Girl throw on the Tramp (accidentally)?

Water

Wine

Rotting flowers

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

She hears two lovers walking by

It's starting to rain
21 How does the Millionaire plan to kill himself?

Hanging

Jumping off a building

Drowning

Poison
22 Where does the Tramp find the Millionaire?

At the dancehall

At the river

In his mansion

On the roof of the capitol
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?

Hank Mann

Charlie Chaplin

Harry Myers

Buster Keaton
25 Who plays the Flower Girl?

Louise Brooks

Clara Bow

Virginia Cherrill

Lillian Gish

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