Trivia For May 6, 2025
It's themed Tuesday! Today's questions will all be about...
Movies of the 1950s
Question 1:
In this 1959 Walt Disney animated fairy tale, Princess Aurora is cursed by an evil fairy.
The story is based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale. The original release in 1959 was a box-office failure but it performed much better in re-releases and is now considered a classic.
Question 2:
Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) featured this actor in the role of Moses.
Filmed on location in Egypt, Mount Sinai, and the Sinai Peninsula, The Ten Commandments was DeMille's most successful work, his first widescreen film, his fourth biblical production, and his final directorial effort before his death in 1959.
Question 3:
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" was sung by Carol Channing in the original 1949 Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, but this actress performed it in the 1953 film.
Most of the song in the film is Monroe's own voice and sources differ on how much help she had. Monroe's rendition of the song was ranked the 12th best film song of the century by the American Film Institute.
Question 4:
Sidney Lumet made his directorial debut with this 1957 legal drama.
The film tells the story of a jury of twelve men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a teenager charged with murder. An independent production distributed by United Artists, 12 Angry Men received acclaim from critics, despite a lukewarm box-office performance.
Question 5:
The trope that features multiple witnesses providing contradictory accounts of the same incident is named for this enormously influential 1950 Japanese period drama, directed by Akira Kurosawa.
In addition to its popularity as a plot device in film and tv, the Rashomon effect has also been used in legal, journalistic and scientific contexts to describe the unreliability of eyewitness accounts.
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