City Lights Quizzes

City Lights Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the film?

Frances Marion

William Goldman

Steven Spielberg

Charlie Chaplin
2 Who directed the film?

Howard Hawks

Charlie Chaplin

Jean Renoir

Orson Welles
3 When was the film released?

1930

1929

1931

1940
4 Who produced the film?

John Ford

Charlie Chaplin

Victor Fleming

Howard Hawks
5 Who wrote the music?

George Gershwin

Bernard Herrmann

Charlie Chaplin

Leonard Bernstein
6 Who plays the lead character?

Rudolph Valentino

Charlie Chaplin

Buster Keaton

William Haines
7 Who is the main character?

The Eccentric Millionaire

James, the butler

The Tramp

The Flower Girl
8 Where do we first encounter the Tramp?

Begging for money on the street

Sleeping on top of a new monument

On a train towards New York

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

New York

Paris

London

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

Paul Bowles

George Gershwin

José Padila

Leonard Bernstein
11 What was the first "talkie"?

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Circus

City Lights

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

Modern Times

The Great Dictator

The General

The Kid
13 What does the monument signify?

The end of a great war

The spread of democracy

Wealth and Wisdom

Peace and Prosperity
14 What do the two newsboys steal from the Tramp?

His cane

His hat

His wallet

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

A wind-up toy

A nude statue

A ring

A movie playing on a screen
16 What nearly happens to the Tramp as he stares in the shop window?

He nearly falls in a manhole

He nearly trips the Flower Girl

He nearly gets pickpocketed

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 has a scar on her forehead

She's blind

She is wearing rags

She has a wooden leg
19 What does the Flower Girl throw on the Tramp (accidentally)?

A handkerchief

Rotting flowers

Water

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

Her grandmother is emotionally abusive

She hears two lovers walking by

It's starting to rain

She doesn't have any money
21 How does the Millionaire plan to kill himself?

Hanging

Jumping off a building

Poison

Drowning
22 Where does the Tramp find the Millionaire?

In his mansion

At the dancehall

On the roof of the capitol

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

He recently got a divorce

He has clinical depression

He recently filed bankruptcy

His son died in the war
24 Who plays the Millionaire?

Harry Myers

Charlie Chaplin

Hank Mann

Buster Keaton
25 Who plays the Flower Girl?

Virginia Cherrill

Lillian Gish

Clara Bow

Louise Brooks

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