City Lights Quizzes

City Lights Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the film?

Charlie Chaplin

William Goldman

Frances Marion

Steven Spielberg
2 Who directed the film?

Orson Welles

Howard Hawks

Jean Renoir

Charlie Chaplin
3 When was the film released?

1930

1929

1940

1931
4 Who produced the film?

Charlie Chaplin

Howard Hawks

John Ford

Victor Fleming
5 Who wrote the music?

George Gershwin

Leonard Bernstein

Bernard Herrmann

Charlie Chaplin
6 Who plays the lead character?

Rudolph Valentino

Charlie Chaplin

William Haines

Buster Keaton
7 Who is the main character?

The Flower Girl

The Tramp

James, the butler

The Eccentric Millionaire
8 Where do we first encounter the Tramp?

Sleeping on top of a new monument

On a train towards New York

Sitting next to the river

Begging for money on the street
9 In which city does the film take place?

London

Paris

New York

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

George Gershwin

Leonard Bernstein

José Padila

Paul Bowles
11 What was the first "talkie"?

The Circus

City Lights

The Jazz Singer

Arsenic and Old Lace
12 Which of the following is not a Charlie Chaplin film?

The Great Dictator

The Kid

Modern Times

The General
13 What does the monument signify?

The spread of democracy

Wealth and Wisdom

The end of a great war

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

His hat

His wallet

His flower

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

A wind-up toy

A movie playing on a screen

A nude statue

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 trips the Flower Girl

He nearly falls in a manhole

He nearly gets pickpocketed
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 wooden leg

She is wearing rags

She's blind

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

A handkerchief

Rotting flowers

Wine

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

It's starting to rain

Her grandmother is emotionally abusive

She hears two lovers walking by

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

Hanging

Poison

Drowning

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

At the dancehall

In his mansion

At the river

On the roof of the capitol
23 Why does the Millionaire want to kill himself?

He recently filed bankruptcy

He has clinical depression

He recently got a divorce

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

Harry Myers

Hank Mann

Charlie Chaplin

Buster Keaton
25 Who plays the Flower Girl?

Lillian Gish

Louise Brooks

Virginia Cherrill

Clara Bow

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