City Lights Quizzes

City Lights Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the film?

William Goldman

Charlie Chaplin

Steven Spielberg

Frances Marion
2 Who directed the film?

Orson Welles

Howard Hawks

Charlie Chaplin

Jean Renoir
3 When was the film released?

1930

1940

1929

1931
4 Who produced the film?

John Ford

Howard Hawks

Victor Fleming

Charlie Chaplin
5 Who wrote the music?

George Gershwin

Leonard Bernstein

Bernard Herrmann

Charlie Chaplin
6 Who plays the lead character?

Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin

Rudolph Valentino

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?

Begging for money on the street

Sitting next to the river

On a train towards New York

Sleeping on top of a new monument
9 In which city does the film take place?

London

New York

Paris

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

Leonard Bernstein

José Padila

Paul Bowles

George Gershwin
11 What was the first "talkie"?

Arsenic and Old Lace

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The Jazz Singer

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

The Kid

Modern Times

The General

The Great Dictator
13 What does the monument signify?

The end of a great war

Peace and Prosperity

The spread of democracy

Wealth and Wisdom
14 What do the two newsboys steal from the Tramp?

His hat

His cane

His wallet

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

A nude statue

A wind-up toy

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 gets hit with a fridge falling from an overhead apartment

He nearly gets pickpocketed

He nearly trips the Flower Girl
17 What does the girl sell in front of the mansion?

Poems

Flowers

Scarves

Paintings
18 What does the Tramp notice about the girl?

She has a wooden leg

She has a scar on her forehead

She's blind

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

Wine

A handkerchief

Water

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

Her grandmother is emotionally abusive

It's starting to rain

She hears two lovers walking by

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

Drowning

Poison

Hanging

Jumping off a building
22 Where does the Tramp find the Millionaire?

At the river

At the dancehall

On the roof of the capitol

In his mansion
23 Why does the Millionaire want to kill himself?

He recently filed bankruptcy

He recently got a divorce

His son died in the war

He has clinical depression
24 Who plays the Millionaire?

Harry Myers

Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin

Hank Mann
25 Who plays the Flower Girl?

Clara Bow

Louise Brooks

Lillian Gish

Virginia Cherrill

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