1. What is Mel Brooks’ birth name?
a) Melvin Kaminsky
b) Milton Berlinger
c) Max Brooks
d) Melvyn Douglas
Answer: a) Melvin Kaminsky
2. In which year was Mel Brooks born?
a) 1916
b) 1926
c) 1936
d) 1946
Answer: b) 1926
3. Which film marked Mel Brooks’ directorial debut?
a) The Producers
b) Blazing Saddles
c) Young Frankenstein
d) The Twelve Chairs
Answer: a) The Producers
4. For which film did Mel Brooks win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay?
a) Blazing Saddles
b) The Producers
c) Young Frankenstein
d) High Anxiety
Answer: b) The Producers
5. In “Blazing Saddles,” what is the name of the African-American sheriff?
a) Jim
b) Bart
c) Mongo
d) Lyle
Answer: b) Bart
6. Which actor played Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in “Young Frankenstein”?
a) Gene Wilder
b) Marty Feldman
c) Peter Boyle
d) Mel Brooks
Answer: a) Gene Wilder
7. Which Mel Brooks film is a parody of Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers?
a) Silent Movie
b) High Anxiety
c) Spaceballs
d) Life Stinks
Answer: b) High Anxiety
8. In “Spaceballs,” what is the name of the villain played by Rick Moranis?
a) Dark Helmet
b) Pizza the Hutt
c) President Skroob
d) Lone Starr
Answer: a) Dark Helmet
9. Which Mel Brooks film features a silent film format with no spoken dialogue?
a) The Producers
b) History of the World, Part I
c) Silent Movie
d) Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Answer: c) Silent Movie
10. What role does Mel Brooks play in “Blazing Saddles”?
a) Sheriff Bart
b) Governor William J. Le Petomane
c) The Waco Kid
d) Mongo
Answer: b) Governor William J. Le Petomane
11. Which historical figure is parodied in “History of the World, Part I” during the French Revolution?
a) Napoleon Bonaparte
b) King Louis XVI
c) Marie Antoinette
d) Robespierre
Answer: b) King Louis XVI
12. In “Young Frankenstein,” what is the name of the hunchbacked assistant?
a) Igor
b) Inga
c) Frau Blücher
d) Dr. Frankenstein
Answer: a) Igor
13. Which Mel Brooks film is a parody of the Star Wars franchise?
a) Silent Movie
b) Spaceballs
c) High Anxiety
d) The Twelve Chairs
Answer: b) Spaceballs
14. Who co-wrote the screenplay for “Young Frankenstein” with Mel Brooks?
a) Madeline Kahn
b) Richard Pryor
c) Gene Wilder
d) Dom DeLuise
Answer: c) Gene Wilder
15. In which year was “Blazing Saddles” released?
a) 1971
b) 1974
c) 1977
d) 1980
Answer: b) 1974
16. Which Mel Brooks film features the song “Men in Tights”?
a) Robin Hood: Men in Tights
b) History of the World, Part I
c) The Producers
d) Life Stinks
Answer: a) Robin Hood: Men in Tights
17. In “The Producers,” what is the name of the accountant played by Gene Wilder?
a) Max Bialystock
b) Leo Bloom
c) Franz Liebkind
d) Roger De Bris
Answer: b) Leo Bloom
18. Which actress played Frau Blücher in “Young Frankenstein”?
a) Madeline Kahn
b) Teri Garr
c) Cloris Leachman
d) Anne Bancroft
Answer: c) Cloris Leachman
19. What is the setting of the film “The Twelve Chairs”?
a) Soviet Russia
b) Victorian England
c) Medieval France
d) Colonial America
Answer: a) Soviet Russia
20. Which Mel Brooks film parodies the horror genre, specifically Dracula?
a) Young Frankenstein
b) Dracula: Dead and Loving It
c) High Anxiety
d) Silent Movie
Answer: b) Dracula: Dead and Loving It
21. In “History of the World, Part I,” what role does Mel Brooks play in the Roman Empire segment?
a) Comicus
b) Emperor Nero
c) Josephus
d) Moses
Answer: a) Comicus
22. Which comedian co-wrote “Blazing Saddles” with Mel Brooks?
a) Carl Reiner
b) Richard Pryor
c) Dom DeLuise
d) Steve Martin
Answer: b) Richard Pryor
23. In “Spaceballs,” what is the name of the spaceship piloted by Lone Starr?
a) Eagle 5
b) Spaceball One
c) Millennium Falcon
d) Winnebago
Answer: a) Eagle 5
24. Which Mel Brooks film includes the line, “It’s good to be the king”?
a) The Producers
b) History of the World, Part I
c) Robin Hood: Men in Tights
d) Spaceballs
Answer: b) History of the World, Part I
25. Who played the role of Robin Hood in “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”?
a) Cary Elwes
b) Dave Chappelle
c) Mel Brooks
d) Patrick Stewart
Answer: a) Cary Elwes
