Robert Wise Quiz Questions and Answers
1. In which year was Robert Wise born?
a) 1905
b) 1914
c) 1920
d) 1925
Answer: b) 1914
2. Where was Robert Wise born?
a) Los Angeles, California
b) Winchester, Indiana
c) New York City, New York
d) Chicago, Illinois
Answer: b) Winchester, Indiana
3. What was Robert Wise’s initial role in the film industry at RKO Pictures?
a) Director
b) Actor
c) Film editor
d) Screenwriter
Answer: c) Film editor
4. Which Orson Welles film did Robert Wise edit, earning him an Academy Award nomination?
a) The Magnificent Ambersons
b) Citizen Kane
c) Touch of Evil
d) The War of the Worlds
Answer: b) Citizen Kane
5. What was the first film Robert Wise directed?
a) The Set-Up
b) The Day the Earth Stood Still
c) The Curse of the Cat People
d) West Side Story
Answer: c) The Curse of the Cat People
6. For which film did Robert Wise win his first Academy Award for Best Director?
a) The Sound of Music
b) West Side Story
c) The Sand Pebbles
d) The Haunting
Answer: b) West Side Story
7. Which film, co-directed by Robert Wise, won 10 Academy Awards?
a) West Side Story
b) The Sound of Music
c) Star Trek: The Motion Picture
d) The Andromeda Strain
Answer: a) West Side Story
8. Which genre is NOT associated with Robert Wise’s directorial work?
a) Science fiction
b) Musical
c) Romantic comedy
d) Animated feature
Answer: d) Animated feature
9. Which 1949 film directed by Robert Wise won the Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival?
a) The Body Snatcher
b) The Set-Up
c) Born to Kill
d) Blood on the Moon
Answer: b) The Set-Up
10. In which decade did Robert Wise begin his directing career?
a) 1920s
b) 1930s
c) 1940s
d) 1950s
Answer: c) 1940s
11. Which Robert Wise film is a science fiction classic about an alien warning Earth about atomic warfare?
a) The Andromeda Strain
b) The Day the Earth Stood Still
c) Star Trek: The Motion Picture
d) The Hindenburg
Answer: b) The Day the Earth Stood Still
12. Who was Robert Wise’s collaborator in co-directing West Side Story?
a) Jerome Robbins
b) Orson Welles
c) Val Lewton
d) Ernest Lehman
Answer: a) Jerome Robbins
13. Which actress won an Academy Award for her role in Robert Wise’s I Want to Live! (1958)?
a) Julie Andrews
b) Susan Hayward
c) Patricia Neal
d) Natalie Wood
Answer: b) Susan Hayward
14. What was the profession of Robert Wise’s father?
a) Film producer
b) Accountant
c) Journalist
d) Meat packer
Answer: d) Meat packer
15. Which film did Robert Wise direct that was based on Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House?
a) The Haunting
b) The Body Snatcher
c) The Curse of the Cat People
d) Audrey Rose
Answer: a) The Haunting
16. Which studio employed Robert Wise when he began his career in the 1930s?
a) MGM
b) RKO Pictures
c) Warner Bros.
d) 20th Century Fox
Answer: b) RKO Pictures
17. What major historical event forced Robert Wise to abandon his college education?
a) World War II
b) The Korean War
c) The Great Depression
d) The Dust Bowl
Answer: c) The Great Depression
18. Which Robert Wise film was a noir Western starring Robert Mitchum?
a) Tribute to a Bad Man
b) Blood on the Moon
c) The Set-Up
d) Destination Gobi
Answer: b) Blood on the Moon
19. For which film did Robert Wise receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award?
a) The Sand Pebbles
b) The Sound of Music
c) West Side Story
d) Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Answer: a) The Sand Pebbles
20. Which organization did Robert Wise serve as president from 1985 to 1988?
a) Directors Guild of America
b) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
c) American Film Institute
d) Screen Actors Guild
Answer: b) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
21. Which Robert Wise film is a biographical drama about boxer Rocky Graziano?
a) Somebody Up There Likes Me
b) The Set-Up
c) I Want to Live!
d) Executive Suite
Answer: a) Somebody Up There Likes Me
22. What was the name of Robert Wise’s first wife?
a) Millicent Franklin
b) Natalie Wood
c) Julie Andrews
d) Patricia Doyle
Answer: d) Patricia Doyle
23. Which 1979 film marked Robert Wise’s directorial contribution to the Star Trek franchise?
a) Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
b) Star Trek: The Motion Picture
c) Star Trek: First Contact
d) Star Trek: Generations
Answer: b) Star Trek: The Motion Picture
24. Which Robert Wise film was a major commercial failure despite starring Julie Andrews?
a) The Sound of Music
b) Two for the Seesaw
c) Star!
d) The Haunting
Answer: c) Star!
25. What was Robert Wise’s last theatrical film as a director?
a) The Hindenburg
b) Rooftops
c) The Andromeda Strain
d) Audrey Rose
Answer: b) Rooftops