1. In which country was Billy Wilder born?
a) United States
b) Austria
c) Germany
d) Poland
Answer: b) Austria
2. What was Billy Wilder’s birth name?
a) Samuel Wilder
b) Wilhelm Wilder
c) Sigmund Wilder
d) Solomon Wilder
Answer: a) Samuel Wilder
3. In which year was Billy Wilder born?
a) 1900
b) 1906
c) 1912
d) 1918
Answer: b) 1906
4. Before becoming a filmmaker, what was Billy Wilder’s profession in Berlin?
a) Lawyer
b) Actor
c) Journalist
d) Teacher
Answer: c) Journalist
5. Why did Billy Wilder leave Germany in the 1930s?
a) To pursue a Hollywood career
b) To escape Nazi persecution
c) To study filmmaking in France
d) To work in the British film industry
Answer: b) To escape Nazi persecution
6. Which was Billy Wilder’s first major Hollywood screenplay?
a) Ninotchka
b) Double Indemnity
c) The Lost Weekend
d) Sunset Boulevard
Answer: a) Ninotchka
7. Which film marked Billy Wilder’s directorial debut in the United States?
a) The Major and the Minor
b) Five Graves to Cairo
c) Double Indemnity
d) The Lost Weekend
Answer: a) The Major and the Minor
8. Which Billy Wilder film is considered a landmark in film noir?
a) Some Like It Hot
b) Double Indemnity
c) The Apartment
d) Ace in the Hole
Answer: b) Double Indemnity
9. Who co-wrote the screenplay for Double Indemnity with Billy Wilder?
a) Raymond Chandler
b) I.A.L. Diamond
c) Charles Brackett
d) Ernest Lehman
Answer: a) Raymond Chandler
10. Which Billy Wilder film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1945?
a) Sunset Boulevard
b) The Lost Weekend
c) Double Indemnity
d) The Major and the Minor
Answer: b) The Lost Weekend
11. What is the name of the fictional silent film star in Sunset Boulevard?
a) Max von Mayerling
b) Betty Schaefer
c) Norma Desmond
d) Joe Gillis
Answer: c) Norma Desmond
12. Which actor played the lead role of Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard?
a) William Holden
b) Humphrey Bogart
c) Gary Cooper
d) James Stewart
Answer: a) William Holden
13. Which Billy Wilder film features a journalist exploiting a man trapped in a cave?
a) The Front Page
b) Ace in the Hole
c) Witness for the Prosecution
d) The Spirit of St. Louis
Answer: b) Ace in the Hole
14. What genre is Some Like It Hot primarily classified as?
a) Drama
b) Thriller
c) Comedy
d) Musical
Answer: c) Comedy
15. Which two actors starred as musicians disguising themselves as women in Some Like It Hot?
a) Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis
b) Cary Grant and James Stewart
c) Humphrey Bogart and William Holden
d) Fred MacMurray and Ray Milland
Answer: a) Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis
16. Which actress played Sugar Kane in Some Like It Hot?
a) Audrey Hepburn
b) Marilyn Monroe
c) Gloria Swanson
d) Shirley MacLaine
Answer: b) Marilyn Monroe
17. Which Billy Wilder film is a romantic comedy set in a corporate environment?
a) The Apartment
b) Sabrina
c) Love in the Afternoon
d) Irma la Douce
Answer: a) The Apartment
18. How many Academy Awards did The Apartment win?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 5
d) 7
Answer: c) 5
19. Who was Billy Wilder’s frequent writing partner in the 1950s and 1960s?
a) Charles Brackett
b) I.A.L. Diamond
c) Raymond Chandler
d) Ben Hecht
Answer: b) I.A.L. Diamond
20. Which Billy Wilder film is a remake of a German film he co-wrote in the 1930s?
a) The Front Page
b) Ninotchka
c) Love in the Afternoon
d) One, Two, Three
Answer: b) Ninotchka
21. Which film features a Coca-Cola executive in Cold War Berlin?
a) One, Two, Three
b) The Fortune Cookie
c) Avanti!
d) The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Answer: a) One, Two, Three
22. What is the setting of Stalag 17?
a) A World War I battlefield
b) A German POW camp
c) A naval submarine
d) A Cold War spy agency
Answer: b) A German POW camp
23. Which actor starred as the cynical prisoner in Stalag 17?
a) William Holden
b) Kirk Douglas
c) Burt Lancaster
d) Robert Mitchum
Answer: a) William Holden
24. Which Billy Wilder film is a courtroom drama based on an Agatha Christie play?
a) The Seven Year Itch
b) Witness for the Prosecution
c) The Fortune Cookie
d) Kiss Me, Stupid
Answer: b) Witness for the Prosecution
25. Which actress played the femme fatale in Double Indemnity?
a) Barbara Stanwyck
b) Lauren Bacall
c) Rita Hayworth
d) Joan Crawford
Answer: a) Barbara Stanwyck