Otto Preminger Quiz Questions and Answers
1. In which year was Otto Preminger born?
a) 1905
b) 1910
c) 1895
d) 1920
Answer: a) 1905
2. What was Otto Preminger’s birth country?
a) Germany
b) Austria
c) United States
d) France
Answer: b) Austria
3. Which film marked Otto Preminger’s breakthrough as a director in Hollywood?
a) Laura
b) Anatomy of a Murder
c) The Man with the Golden Arm
d) Exodus
Answer: a) Laura
4. What genre is Otto Preminger’s 1944 film Laura primarily associated with?
a) Comedy
b) Film Noir
c) Western
d) Musical
Answer: b) Film Noir
5. Which actor played the lead role of Laura Hunt in the film Laura?
a) Gene Tierney
b) Lauren Bacall
c) Ingrid Bergman
d) Ava Gardner
Answer: a) Gene Tierney
6. Which Otto Preminger film was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
a) Fallen Angel
b) Anatomy of a Murder
c) Carmen Jones
d) Bunny Lake Is Missing
Answer: b) Anatomy of a Murder
7. What was the primary theme of Preminger’s 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder?
a) Courtroom drama
b) Romantic comedy
c) War epic
d) Science fiction
Answer: a) Courtroom drama
8. Which actor played the lawyer Paul Biegler in Anatomy of a Murder?
a) Gregory Peck
b) Cary Grant
c) James Stewart
d) Humphrey Bogart
Answer: c) James Stewart
9. Which Preminger film was controversial for its depiction of drug addiction?
a) The Man with the Golden Arm
b) Advise & Consent
c) Exodus
d) Laura
Answer: a) The Man with the Golden Arm
10. Who starred as the lead in The Man with the Golden Arm?
a) Marlon Brando
b) Frank Sinatra
c) Paul Newman
d) Kirk Douglas
Answer: b) Frank Sinatra
11. Which Otto Preminger film is a musical adaptation of a Georges Bizet opera?
a) Carmen Jones
b) Porgy and Bess
c) The Moon Is Blue
d) Saint Joan
Answer: a) Carmen Jones
12. What year was Carmen Jones released?
a) 1944
b) 1954
c) 1964
d) 1974
Answer: b) 1954
13. Which actress played the title role in Carmen Jones?
a) Dorothy Dandridge
b) Lena Horne
c) Eartha Kitt
d) Ruby Dee
Answer: a) Dorothy Dandridge
14. Which Preminger film dealt with the Israeli War of Independence?
a) The Cardinal
b) Exodus
c) Rosebud
d) In Harm’s Way
Answer: b) Exodus
15. Who wrote the novel on which Exodus was based?
a) Leon Uris
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) John Steinbeck
d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: a) Leon Uris
16. Which actor played Ari Ben Canaan in Exodus?
a) Burt Lancaster
b) Charlton Heston
c) Kirk Douglas
d) Paul Newman
Answer: d) Paul Newman
17. Which Preminger film was notable for its frank discussion of homosexuality in politics?
a) Advise & Consent
b) The Moon Is Blue
c) Hurry Sundown
d) Such Good Friends
Answer: a) Advise & Consent
18. What was the setting of Advise & Consent?
a) A courtroom
b) The U.S. Senate
c) A hospital
d) A military base
Answer: b) The U.S. Senate
19. Which Preminger film caused controversy for using the word “virgin” and was released in 1953?
a) The Moon Is Blue
b) Carmen Jones
c) Angel Face
d) River of No Return
Answer: a) The Moon Is Blue
20. Which actress starred in Preminger’s Saint Joan?
a) Audrey Hepburn
b) Jean Seberg
c) Elizabeth Taylor
d) Grace Kelly
Answer: b) Jean Seberg
21. Which film marked Jean Seberg’s debut under Preminger’s direction?
a) Saint Joan
b) Bonjour Tristesse
c) Anatomy of a Murder
d) Bunny Lake Is Missing
Answer: a) Saint Joan
22. What is the central mystery in Bunny Lake Is Missing?
a) A stolen painting
b) A missing child
c) A political conspiracy
d) A murder case
Answer: b) A missing child
23. Which actor played the lead in Bunny Lake Is Missing?
a) Laurence Olivier
b) Carol Lynley
c) Keir Dullea
d) Ann-Margret
Answer: b) Carol Lynley
24. Which Preminger film is a World War II naval drama starring John Wayne?
a) In Harm’s Way
b) Exodus
c) The Cardinal
d) Rosebud
Answer: a) In Harm’s Way
25. What was Otto Preminger’s role in the 1945 film Stalag 17?
a) Director
b) Actor
c) Producer
d) Screenwriter
Answer: b) Actor