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Quiz: How well do you know your film and theatre history?

Fancy yourself a cinephile? Let’s see.

DRAMA, FILM AND Theatre is going to be a new Leaving Cert subject.

Alongside Climate Action and Sustainable Development, the new subject will be introduced into schools next year, for fifth year students starting the 2025/2026 school year.

The subjects will initially be offered to 100 schools and the selected schools have yet to be announced.

As well as studying film and theatre criticism, students will also be working on their own productions, according to the Department of Education’s draft curriculum. 

So today we thought we’d see, how well do you know the history of the stage and screen? 

D.W. Griffith directed the first Hollywood blockbuster, which is still hailed for its technical feats but condemned for its positive portrayal of the Klu Klux Klan. What's it called?
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Born in the USA
The Birth of a Nation

A Nation is Born
The Birth of America
Which one of these films was not directed by Quentin Tarantino?
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Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs

True Romance
Jackie Brown
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” Which legendary director said this?
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John Ford
Steven Spielberg

Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Who are the two characters in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot?
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Vladimir and Estragon
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

They're both called Seámus
Brutus and Cassius
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." What Shakespeare play is this quote from?
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Hamlet
Julius Caesar

The Tempest
Macbeth
Who directed the 2003 film Lost in Translation, starring Bill Murray and Scarlet Johannsson?
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Wes Anderson
Jane Campion

Sofia Coppola
Spike Jonze
What is the name of the AI computer system in stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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DAVE
HAL

Alexa
Mother
Which of these actors does not have a Best Actor/Actress Oscar?
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Cary Grant
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Reese Witherspoon

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Brendan Fraser
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Halle Berry
What was the first American feature length animated film?
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Bambi
Gulliver's Travels

Pinocchio
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." What film is this famous quote from?
Casablanca
Chinatown

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Which ancient Greek playwright wrote Oedipus Rex?
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Aristophanes
Sophocles

Euripides
Aeschylus
Which American director shot many of his films in Arizona's now iconic Monument Valley?
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John Ford
John Huston

Howard Hawks
Orson Welles
In The Matrix, does Neo take the red pill or the blue pill?
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Red
Blue
What was the first ever feature-length 'talkie', a film that presented dialogue through sound? (And will you ever read the word 'movie' the same way again?)
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Gone With The Wind
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

The Jazz Singer
Pinocchio
In which Shakespeare play does Yorick's skull make an appearance?
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Romeo and Juliet
King Lear

Hamlet
Othello
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