1. What was Sam Wood’s full name?
A) Samuel Grosvenor Wood
B) Samuel George Wood
C) Samuel Gregory Wood
D) Samuel Gavin Wood
Answer: A) Samuel Grosvenor Wood
2. In which city was Sam Wood born?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
C) New York City, New York
D) Chicago, Illinois
Answer: B) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3. In which year was Sam Wood born?
A) 1878
B) 1883
C) 1888
D) 1893
Answer: B) 1883
4. What was Sam Wood’s profession before entering the film industry?
A) Lawyer
B) Real estate dealer
C) Journalist
D) Teacher
Answer: B) Real estate dealer
5. Under what stage name did Sam Wood act in silent films?
A) Chad Applegate
B) Charles Adams
C) Chris Anderson
D) Chester Allen
Answer: A) Chad Applegate
6. Who did Sam Wood work for as an assistant director starting in 1915?
A) D.W. Griffith
B) Cecil B. DeMille
C) Charlie Chaplin
D) Buster Keaton
Answer: B) Cecil B. DeMille
7. What was the title of Sam Wood’s directorial debut in 1919?
A) Double Speed
B) The Great Moment
C) Excuse My Dust
D) Under the Lash
Answer: A) Double Speed
8. Which studio did Sam Wood join in 1927?
A) Paramount Pictures
B) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
C) Warner Bros.
D) Universal Pictures
Answer: B) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
9. Which famous comedy group did Sam Wood direct in A Night at the Opera (1935)?
A) The Marx Brothers
B) The Three Stooges
C) Laurel and Hardy
D) Abbott and Costello
Answer: A) The Marx Brothers
10. Which Sam Wood-directed film earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Director?
A) A Night at the Opera
B) Goodbye, Mr. Chips
C) The Pride of the Yankees
D) For Whom the Bell Tolls
Answer: B) Goodbye, Mr. Chips
11. In which year did Sam Wood direct Goodbye, Mr. Chips?
A) 1937
B) 1939
C) 1941
D) 1943
Answer: B) 1939
12. Which actor won an Oscar for his role in Sam Wood’s Goodbye, Mr. Chips?
A) Gary Cooper
B) Clark Gable
C) Robert Donat
D) Ronald Reagan
Answer: C) Robert Donat
13. Which film did Sam Wood co-direct uncredited parts of in 1939?
A) Gone with the Wind
B) The Wizard of Oz
C) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
D) Stagecoach
Answer: A) Gone with the Wind
14. Which actress won an Oscar for her performance in Sam Wood’s Kitty Foyle (1940)?
A) Joan Crawford
B) Ginger Rogers
C) Myrna Loy
D) Ingrid Bergman
Answer: B) Ginger Rogers
15. Which Sam Wood film is considered a classic baseball biopic?
A) The Pride of the Yankees
B) Kings Row
C) The Stratton Story
D) Huddle
Answer: A) The Pride of the Yankees
16. Who played Lou Gehrig in Sam Wood’s The Pride of the Yankees (1942)?
A) James Stewart
B) Gary Cooper
C) Clark Gable
D) Humphrey Bogart
Answer: B) Gary Cooper
17. Which literary adaptation did Sam Wood direct in 1940, based on a Thornton Wilder play?
A) Our Town
B) The Glass Menagerie
C) Death of a Salesman
D) A Streetcar Named Desire
Answer: A) Our Town
18. Which film directed by Sam Wood in 1942 was nominated for Best Picture and featured Ronald Reagan?
A) Kitty Foyle
B) Kings Row
C) For Whom the Bell Tolls
D) Ivy
Answer: B) Kings Row
19. Which Ernest Hemingway novel did Sam Wood adapt into a film in 1943?
A) The Sun Also Rises
B) A Farewell to Arms
C) For Whom the Bell Tolls
D) The Old Man and the Sea
Answer: C) For Whom the Bell Tolls
20. Which organization did Sam Wood help found in 1944?
A) Directors Guild of America
B) Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals
C) Screen Actors Guild
D) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Answer: B) Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals
21. In which year did Sam Wood testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee?
A) 1944
B) 1947
C) 1950
D) 1953
Answer: B) 1947
22. Which Sam Wood film is a World War II drama adapted from a William Wister Haines novel?
A) Command Decision
B) Heartbeat
C) Ivy
D) Ambush
Answer: A) Command Decision
23. How many Academy Award nominations for Best Director did Sam Wood receive?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
Answer: C) Three
24. Which actress played the female lead opposite Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls?
A) Ingrid Bergman
B) Greer Garson
C) Joan Fontaine
D) Teresa Wright
Answer: A) Ingrid Bergman
25. Which Sam Wood-directed film featured the Marx Brothers in 1937?
A) A Day at the Races
B) Duck Soup
C) Animal Crackers
D) Horse Feathers
Answer: A) A Day at the Races