Cinema classics, cult hits and the small screen.
Film and television are how most of us learned what a story feels like, and this category treats them that way. Expect the landmark films, the lines that escaped their scripts and became ordinary speech, the series that people organised their weeks around. It reaches back to early cinema and forward to the streaming era, across Hollywood, Bollywood and the animation studios that quietly changed everything. The explanations add the bit behind the trivia, the reason a shot mattered or a film became a turning point. It is the category to reach for when you want something you can play without warming up first.
7 quizzes in Film & TV
Landmark films, famous lines and the series people planned their week around.
Who directed Jaws and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
Ten directors and the films that made their names recognisable.
Which director made Vertigo, Rear Window and North by Northwest?
Pilots, showrunners, syndication — the vocabulary behind what reaches the screen.
A television "pilot" is best described as what?
Ten questions on the silent era, the arrival of sound and the studios that ran Hollywood.
Which 1941 film was Orson Welles's first feature as a director?
The jobs, the jargon and the order of work behind the credits that scroll past at the end.
What is the director of photography responsible for?
How television was invented, paid for and scheduled, from spinning discs to the shape of the screen.
Which Scottish engineer publicly demonstrated a working television system in London in 1926?
The national film industries and movements that shaped the medium elsewhere.
Which country produces the most feature films per year?
7 published quizzes in this subject, 70 questions in total. Every one is researched, written and checked by hand.
The mix here is 2 easy, 4 medium and 1 hard. Difficulty is about how obscure the answers are, not how fast you have to be — there is no timer on any quiz.
About 7 minutes on average, ranging from 6 to 8. Playing every film & tv quiz would take roughly 1 hour.
"How a Film Gets Made" is the gentlest way in — 10 questions, about 6 minutes, rated easy.
No. Every quiz is free and playable straight away. An optional free account only saves your scores across devices.
Yes — every question has a short explanation of why the right answer is right, shown the moment you answer, whether you got it or not.