John Sturges Quiz Questions and Answers
1. What was John Sturges’ full name?
A) John Eliot Sturges
B) John Edward Sturges
C) John Michael Sturges
D) John William Sturges
Answer: A) John Eliot Sturges
2. In which year was John Sturges born?
A) 1905
B) 1910
C) 1915
D) 1920
Answer: B) 1910
3. Where was John Sturges born?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Oak Park, Illinois
C) New York, New York
D) San Francisco, California
Answer: B) Oak Park, Illinois
4. What was John Sturges’ initial role in Hollywood before becoming a director?
A) Actor
B) Screenwriter
C) Editor
D) Cinematographer
Answer: C) Editor
5. During which war did John Sturges serve as a captain in the U.S. Army Air Forces?
A) World War I
B) World War II
C) Korean War
D) Vietnam War
Answer: B) World War II
6. What type of films did John Sturges direct during World War II?
A) Feature films
B) Propaganda films
C) Documentaries and training films
D) Animated shorts
Answer: C) Documentaries and training films
7. What was John Sturges’ first mainstream directorial film?
A) The Magnificent Seven
B) The Man Who Dared
C) Bad Day at Black Rock
D) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Answer: B) The Man Who Dared
8. Which film earned John Sturges a Best Director Oscar nomination?
A) The Great Escape
B) The Magnificent Seven
C) Bad Day at Black Rock
D) Ice Station Zebra
Answer: C) Bad Day at Black Rock
9. Which John Sturges film is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai?
A) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
B) The Magnificent Seven
C) The Great Escape
D) The Hallelujah Trail
Answer: B) The Magnificent Seven
10. What format did John Sturges use innovatively in Bad Day at Black Rock?
A) CinemaScope
B) 3D
C) Technicolor
D) IMAX
Answer: A) CinemaScope
11. Which award did John Sturges win for his contribution to the Western genre?
A) Golden Globe
B) Golden Boot Award
C) BAFTA Award
D) Emmy Award
Answer: B) Golden Boot Award
12. Which film did John Sturges direct that was selected for the National Film Registry in 2013?
A) The Great Escape
B) Ice Station Zebra
C) The Magnificent Seven
D) Hour of the Gun
Answer: C) The Magnificent Seven
13. What was the setting of John Sturges’ film The Walking Hills?
A) A small town
B) A desert with treasure hunters
C) A prison camp
D) A naval submarine
Answer: B) A desert with treasure hunters
14. Which actor starred in Bad Day at Black Rock?
A) Steve McQueen
B) Yul Brynner
C) Spencer Tracy
D) Kirk Douglas
Answer: C) Spencer Tracy
15. Which John Sturges film was based on a novella by Ernest Hemingway?
A) The Old Man and the Sea
B) The Magnificent Yankee
C) The Girl in White
D) The Scarlet Coat
Answer: A) The Old Man and the Sea
16. What was the name of the first Western directed by John Sturges?
A) Escape from Fort Bravo
B) The Walking Hills
C) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
D) Last Train from Gun Hill
Answer: B) The Walking Hills
17. Which film did John Sturges co-direct with William Wyler during World War II?
A) Thunderbolt
B) The Capture
C) The Magnificent Yankee
D) Mystery Street
Answer: A) Thunderbolt
18. Which John Sturges film features a plot about a mass escape from a German POW camp?
A) The Eagle Has Landed
B) The Great Escape
C) Ice Station Zebra
D) Marooned
Answer: B) The Great Escape
19. Which studio did John Sturges join in 1949?
A) Columbia Pictures
B) MGM
C) Warner Bros.
D) Universal Pictures
Answer: B) MGM
20. What was the profession of the main character in The Magnificent Yankee?
A) Lawyer
B) Doctor
C) Soldier
D) Gambler
Answer: A) Lawyer
21. Which John Sturges film is a sports comedy about horse racing?
A) The Capture
B) Right Cross
C) Fast Company
D) Jeopardy
Answer: C) Fast Company
22. Which film marked John Sturges’ return to directing after his retirement?
A) The Eagle Has Landed
B) Joe Kidd
C) McQ
D) Chino
Answer: A) The Eagle Has Landed
23. What was the name of John Sturges’ second wife?
A) Dorothy Lynn Brooks
B) Katherine Helena Soules
C) Emily Dunning
D) Barbara Stanwyck
Answer: B) Katherine Helena Soules
24. Which John Sturges film was a box office failure but later gained relevance due to the Apollo 13 incident?
A) Marooned
B) The Satan Bug
C) The Hallelujah Trail
D) A Girl Named Tamiko
Answer: A) Marooned
25. Which award did The Old Man and the Sea win at the Blue Ribbon Awards in Japan?
A) Best Director
B) Best Foreign Language Film
C) Best Actor
D) Best Cinematography
Answer: B) Best Foreign Language Film