Steven Spielberg Quiz Questions and Answers
1. In which year was Steven Spielberg born?
A) 1942
B) 1946
C) 1950
D) 1954
Answer: B) 1946
2. What was Steven Spielberg’s first feature-length film as a director?
A) Jaws
B) The Sugarland Express
C) Duel
D) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Answer: B) The Sugarland Express
3. Which Spielberg film is based on a novel by Michael Crichton about a theme park with cloned dinosaurs?
A) Jurassic Park
B) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
C) The Lost World
D) War of the Worlds
Answer: A) Jurassic Park
4. In which film did Spielberg make his directorial debut for television?
A) Jaws
B) The Sugarland Express
C) Duel
D) Amistad
Answer: C) Duel
5. Which Spielberg movie features a young boy befriending an alien?
A) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
B) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
C) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
D) Super 8
Answer: B) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
6. What is the name of the production company founded by Steven Spielberg?
A) DreamWorks
B) Amblin Entertainment
C) Bad Robot
D) Lucasfilm
Answer: B) Amblin Entertainment
7. Which Spielberg film won him his first Academy Award for Best Director?
A) Schindler’s List
B) Saving Private Ryan
C) Lincoln
D) The Post
Answer: A) Schindler’s List
8. In which year was Jaws released?
A) 1973
B) 1975
C) 1977
D) 1979
Answer: B) 1975
9. Which Spielberg film is set during the Holocaust and filmed primarily in black and white?
A) Amistad
B) Schindler’s List
C) Munich
D) Empire of the Sun
Answer: B) Schindler’s List
10. Which actor played the lead role of Indiana Jones in Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark?
A) Harrison Ford
B) Tom Hanks
C) Sean Connery
D) Mel Gibson
Answer: A) Harrison Ford
11. What is the setting of Spielberg’s film Saving Private Ryan?
A) Vietnam War
B) World War II
C) Korean War
D) Gulf War
Answer: B) World War II
12. Which Spielberg film features a shark as a central element of the plot?
A) Jaws
B) Deep Blue Sea
C) The Meg
D) Sharknado
Answer: A) Jaws
13. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, what do the aliens use to communicate with humans?
A) Telepathy
B) Light and sound patterns
C) Written messages
D) Radio signals
Answer: B) Light and sound patterns
14. Which Spielberg film is a semi-autobiographical story about a young boy in a Japanese internment camp?
A) Empire of the Sun
B) The Terminal
C) Catch Me If You Can
D) Bridge of Spies
Answer: A) Empire of the Sun
15. What is the name of the main character in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
A) Elliott
B) Michael
C) David
D) Steven
Answer: A) Elliott
16. Which Spielberg film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 7?
A) Saving Private Ryan
B) Schindler’s List
C) Lincoln
D) The Color Purple
Answer: B) Schindler’s List
17. In which Spielberg film does Tom Hanks play a stranded traveler in an airport?
A) The Terminal
B) Catch Me If You Can
C) Bridge of Spies
D) The Post
Answer: A) The Terminal
18. Which Spielberg film is based on the real-life story of Frank Abagnale Jr.?
A) The Wolf of Wall Street
B) Catch Me If You Can
C) The Post
D) Lincoln
Answer: B) Catch Me If You Can
19. What is the name of the archaeologist adventurer in Spielberg’s Indiana Jones series?
A) Rick O’Connell
B) Indiana Jones
C) Allan Quatermain
D) Nathan Drake
Answer: B) Indiana Jones
20. Which Spielberg film explores the ethical dilemmas of artificial intelligence?
A) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
B) Minority Report
C) War of the Worlds
D) Super 8
Answer: A) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
21. In which year did Spielberg co-found DreamWorks SKG?
A) 1990
B) 1994
C) 1998
D) 2002
Answer: B) 1994
22. Which Spielberg film is set in a futuristic world where crimes are predicted before they happen?
A) The Matrix
B) Minority Report
C) Blade Runner
D) Total Recall
Answer: B) Minority Report
23. What is the name of the ship in Spielberg’s Jaws?
A) Orca
B) Nautilus
C) Pequod
D) Argo
Answer: A) Orca
24. Which Spielberg film features a young Christian Bale as a lead actor?
A) Empire of the Sun
B) Schindler’s List
C) The Color Purple
D) Amistad
Answer: A) Empire of the Sun
25. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, what artifact is Indiana Jones searching for?
A) The Holy Grail
B) The Ark of the Covenant
C) The Crystal Skull
D) The Sankara Stones
Answer: B) The Ark of the Covenant