City Lights Quizzes

City Lights Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the film?
Frances Marion

Steven Spielberg

William Goldman

Charlie Chaplin
2 Who directed the film?
Orson Welles

Charlie Chaplin

Howard Hawks

Jean Renoir
3 When was the film released?
1929

1931

1930

1940
4 Who produced the film?
Howard Hawks

Charlie Chaplin

John Ford

Victor Fleming
5 Who wrote the music?
Leonard Bernstein

George Gershwin

Bernard Herrmann

Charlie Chaplin
6 Who plays the lead character?
Rudolph Valentino

Charlie Chaplin

Buster Keaton

William Haines
7 Who is the main character?
The Tramp

The Eccentric Millionaire

James, the butler

The Flower Girl
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?
It doesn't specify

London

Paris

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

George Gershwin

José Padila

Leonard Bernstein
11 What was the first "talkie"?
The Circus

City Lights

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Jazz Singer
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?
Peace and Prosperity

The spread of democracy

The end of a great war

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

His cane

His hat

His wallet
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 trips the Flower Girl

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

He nearly gets pickpocketed

He nearly falls in a manhole
17 What does the girl sell in front of the mansion?
Scarves

Flowers

Poems

Paintings
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

Wine

Rotting flowers

Water
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 doesn't have any money

She hears two lovers walking by
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

In his mansion

At the dancehall

On the roof of the capitol
23 Why does the Millionaire want to kill himself?
His son died in the war

He has clinical depression

He recently got a divorce

He recently filed bankruptcy
24 Who plays the Millionaire?
Hank Mann

Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin

Harry Myers
25 Who plays the Flower Girl?
Louise Brooks

Lillian Gish

Virginia Cherrill

Clara Bow

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