City Lights Quizzes

City Lights Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the film?

Steven Spielberg

Charlie Chaplin

William Goldman

Frances Marion
2 Who directed the film?

Howard Hawks

Orson Welles

Charlie Chaplin

Jean Renoir
3 When was the film released?

1931

1940

1930

1929
4 Who produced the film?

Howard Hawks

Victor Fleming

Charlie Chaplin

John Ford
5 Who wrote the music?

Leonard Bernstein

Charlie Chaplin

George Gershwin

Bernard Herrmann
6 Who plays the lead character?

William Haines

Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin

Rudolph Valentino
7 Who is the main character?

James, the butler

The Flower Girl

The Tramp

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

Begging for money on the street

Sitting next to the river

Sleeping on top of a new monument

On a train towards New York
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?

Paul Bowles

Leonard Bernstein

George Gershwin

José Padila
11 What was the first "talkie"?

The Jazz Singer

The Circus

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

The Kid

Modern Times

The Great Dictator

The General
13 What does the monument signify?

Wealth and Wisdom

The end of a great war

Peace and Prosperity

The spread of democracy
14 What do the two newsboys steal from the Tramp?

His cane

His wallet

His hat

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

A movie playing on a screen

A wind-up toy

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 falls in a manhole

He nearly trips the Flower Girl

He nearly gets pickpocketed
17 What does the girl sell in front of the mansion?

Scarves

Poems

Flowers

Paintings
18 What does the Tramp notice about the girl?

She is wearing rags

She's blind

She has a wooden leg

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

Water

Rotting flowers

Wine

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

She doesn't have any money

She hears two lovers walking by

Her grandmother is emotionally abusive

It's starting to rain
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

On the roof of the capitol

In his mansion

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

He recently got a divorce

He recently filed bankruptcy

His son died in the war

He has clinical depression
24 Who plays the Millionaire?

Buster Keaton

Harry Myers

Hank Mann

Charlie Chaplin
25 Who plays the Flower Girl?

Virginia Cherrill

Louise Brooks

Clara Bow

Lillian Gish

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