Peter Bogdanovich Quiz Questions and Answers
1. In which year was Peter Bogdanovich born?
a) 1929
b) 1939
c) 1949
d) 1959
Answer: b) 1939
2. Where was Peter Bogdanovich born?
a) Los Angeles, California
b) Kingston, New York
c) Chicago, Illinois
d) Miami, Florida
Answer: b) Kingston, New York
3. What was the profession of Peter Bogdanovich’s father, Borislav?
a) Painter and pianist
b) Actor
c) Film director
d) Writer
Answer: a) Painter and pianist
4. What was the ethnic background of Peter Bogdanovich’s mother, Herma?
a) Serbian
b) Italian
c) Austrian Jewish
d) French
Answer: c) Austrian Jewish
5. Which legendary acting teacher did Peter Bogdanovich study under as a teenager?
a) Lee Strasberg
b) Stella Adler
c) Sanford Meisner
d) Uta Hagen
Answer: b) Stella Adler
6. What was Peter Bogdanovich’s first credited feature film as a director?
a) Targets
b) The Last Picture Show
c) Paper Moon
d) What’s Up, Doc?
Answer: a) Targets
7. In which year was The Last Picture Show released?
a) 1968
b) 1971
c) 1973
d) 1975
Answer: b) 1971
8. Which film earned Peter Bogdanovich Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay?
a) Paper Moon
b) The Last Picture Show
c) What’s Up, Doc?
d) Mask
Answer: b) The Last Picture Show
9. Which award did Peter Bogdanovich win for his documentary Runnin’ Down a Dream?
a) Oscar
b) Emmy
c) Grammy
d) BAFTA
Answer: c) Grammy
10. Which film director was the subject of Bogdanovich’s documentary Directed by John Ford?
a) Orson Welles
b) John Ford
c) Howard Hawks
d) Alfred Hitchcock
Answer: b) John Ford
11. Which film by Bogdanovich is a screwball comedy starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal?
a) What’s Up, Doc?
b) The Last Picture Show
c) Paper Moon
d) Nickelodeon
Answer: a) What’s Up, Doc?
12. What was the setting of the film Paper Moon?
a) 1950s Texas
b) Depression-era Midwest
c) 1970s New York
d) 1940s California
Answer: b) Depression-era Midwest
13. Which actress played a memorable role as the mother in Bogdanovich’s film Mask?
a) Barbra Streisand
b) Audrey Hepburn
c) Cher
d) Cybill Shepherd
Answer: c) Cher
14. Which film by Bogdanovich was inspired by Howard Hawks’s Bringing Up Baby?
a) The Cat’s Meow
b) What’s Up, Doc?
c) They All Laughed
d) Noises Off
Answer: b) What’s Up, Doc?
15. What tragic event affected Bogdanovich’s personal life in 1980?
a) Bankruptcy
b) Divorce from Polly Platt
c) Murder of Dorothy Stratten
d) Death of his brother
Answer: c) Murder of Dorothy Stratten
16. Which book did Bogdanovich write about Dorothy Stratten?
a) The Killing of the Unicorn
b) Who the Devil Made It
c) Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
d) This Is Orson Welles
Answer: a) The Killing of the Unicorn
17. Which film marked Bogdanovich’s return to directing after a four-year break following Dorothy Stratten’s death?
a) Texasville
b) Mask
c) Noises Off
d) The Thing Called Love
Answer: b) Mask
18. In which TV series did Bogdanovich play the recurring role of Dr. Elliot Kupferberg?
a) Breaking Bad
b) The Wire
c) The Sopranos
d) Mad Men
Answer: c) The Sopranos
19. Which film by Bogdanovich is based on the alleged killing of director Thomas Ince by William Randolph Hearst?
a) The Cat’s Meow
b) Saint Jack
c) They All Laughed
d) She’s Funny That Way
Answer: a) The Cat’s Meow
20. What was the title of Bogdanovich’s first feature film produced under Roger Corman?
a) Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
b) The Wild Angels
c) Targets
d) The Last Picture Show
Answer: c) Targets
21. Which film by Bogdanovich was adapted from a stage play by Michael Frayn?
a) Noises Off
b) The Thing Called Love
c) Texasville
d) Illegally Yours
Answer: a) Noises Off
22. Which organization presented Bogdanovich with an award for outstanding contribution to film preservation in 2007?
a) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
b) International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
c) Directors Guild of America
d) British Film Institute
Answer: b) International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
23. In which year did Bogdanovich declare bankruptcy for the second time?
a) 1985
b) 1990
c) 1997
d) 2001
Answer: c) 1997
24. Which film by Bogdanovich featured Audrey Hepburn and Ben Gazzara?
a) They All Laughed
b) Saint Jack
c) The Cat’s Meow
d) Mask
Answer: a) They All Laughed
25. Which of the following films did Bogdanovich turn down the opportunity to direct?
a) The Godfather
b) The Last Picture Show
c) Paper Moon
d) What’s Up, Doc?
Answer: a) The Godfather