1. In which year was John Huston born?
A) 1906
B) 1910
C) 1898
D) 1920
Answer: A) 1906
2. What was John Huston’s primary profession?
A) Actor
B) Film Director
C) Novelist
D) Cinematographer
Answer: B) Film Director
3. Which film marked John Huston’s directorial debut?
A) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
B) Key Largo
C) The Maltese Falcon
D) The African Queen
Answer: C) The Maltese Falcon
4. For which film did John Huston win an Academy Award for Best Director?
A) The Asphalt Jungle
B) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
C) The African Queen
D) Moulin Rouge
Answer: B) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
5. John Huston also won an Oscar for which category for the same film?
A) Best Actor
B) Best Cinematography
C) Best Screenplay
D) Best Editing
Answer: C) Best Screenplay
6. Which actor starred in Huston’s “The Maltese Falcon”?
A) Clark Gable
B) Humphrey Bogart
C) James Cagney
D) Cary Grant
Answer: B) Humphrey Bogart
7. In which genre is “The Maltese Falcon” primarily categorized?
A) Western
B) Comedy
C) Film Noir
D) Musical
Answer: C) Film Noir
8. Which film directed by Huston featured Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn?
A) The African Queen
B) Beat the Devil
C) Key Largo
D) The Misfits
Answer: A) The African Queen
9. What was the setting of “The African Queen”?
A) World War II Europe
B) African jungle during World War I
C) American West
D) Victorian England
Answer: B) African jungle during World War I
10. Which Huston film is based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett?
A) The Asphalt Jungle
B) The Maltese Falcon
C) The Man Who Would Be King
D) The Night of the Iguana
Answer: B) The Maltese Falcon
11. In which decade did John Huston direct “The Asphalt Jungle”?
A) 1930s
B) 1940s
C) 1950s
D) 1960s
Answer: C) 1950s
12. Which Huston film is considered a classic heist movie?
A) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
B) The Asphalt Jungle
C) Key Largo
D) The Kremlin Letter
Answer: B) The Asphalt Jungle
13. Who played the lead role in Huston’s “The Man Who Would Be King”?
A) Sean Connery
B) Marlon Brando
C) John Wayne
D) Gregory Peck
Answer: A) Sean Connery
14. Which author’s short story inspired “The Man Who Would Be King”?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) William Faulkner
Answer: B) Rudyard Kipling
15. In which year was “The Man Who Would Be King” released?
A) 1975
B) 1965
C) 1985
D) 1955
Answer: A) 1975
16. Which Huston film is set during the Mexican Revolution?
A) The Unforgiven
B) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
C) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
D) The Misfits
Answer: B) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
17. Which actress starred in Huston’s “The Misfits”?
A) Marilyn Monroe
B) Lauren Bacall
C) Ava Gardner
D) Ingrid Bergman
Answer: A) Marilyn Monroe
18. What was the last film John Huston directed?
A) Prizzi’s Honor
B) The Dead
C) Under the Volcano
D) Annie
Answer: B) The Dead
19. Which Huston film is an adaptation of a James Joyce short story?
A) The Dead
B) Wise Blood
C) The Night of the Iguana
D) Reflections in a Golden Eye
Answer: A) The Dead
20. In which film did John Huston himself play a significant acting role?
A) The Cardinal
B) Chinatown
C) The Bible: In the Beginning
D) The Wind and the Lion
Answer: B) Chinatown
21. Which Huston film features a boxing storyline?
A) Fat City
B) The Roots of Heaven
C) The Misfits
D) The Barbarian and the Geisha
Answer: A) Fat City
22. Which Huston film is a World War II documentary?
A) The Battle of San Pietro
B) Report from the Aleutians
C) Let There Be Light
D) All of the above
Answer: D) All of the above
23. Which Huston film stars his daughter, Anjelica Huston?
A) Prizzi’s Honor
B) The Night of the Iguana
C) The African Queen
D) The Asphalt Jungle
Answer: A) Prizzi’s Honor
24. For which film did Anjelica Huston win an Academy Award under her father’s direction?
A) The Dead
B) Prizzi’s Honor
C) The Grifters
D) Enemies, A Love Story
Answer: B) Prizzi’s Honor
25. Which Huston film is a satirical comedy about the Mafia?
A) Prizzi’s Honor
B) Beat the Devil
C) The Kremlin Letter
D) The List of Adrian Messenger
Answer: A) Prizzi’s Honor