The Screen and Sound Marathon

What this quiz asks

• Who directed the 1975 shark thriller Jaws?
• Which studio released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, the first full-length cel-animated feature?
• Was Toy Story (1995) the first feature film animated entirely with computer graphics?
• In which year was Orson Welles's Citizen Kane released?
• This weather hints at a 1952 MGM musical built around a dance in a downpour. Which film is it?
• Which actress played Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979)?
• Who directed The Godfather (1972)?
• Select ALL of these films that were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
• Put these films in order of release, earliest first.
• Who directed the South Korean film Parasite?
• Which studio produced the 2001 animated feature Spirited Away?
• Select ALL of these actors who have played James Bond in the official Eon Productions series.
• Who directed the Spanish-language fantasy Pan's Labyrinth (2006)?
• Which Italian director made La Dolce Vita (1960)?
• Who composed the score for Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)?
• In which year did The Jazz Singer premiere, bringing synchronised speech to feature films?
• Casablanca premiered while the Second World War was still being fought.
• Order these Best Picture winners by the year of the ceremony at which they won, earliest first.
• Which 1939 film switches from sepia to Technicolor when its heroine arrives in a magical land?
• Who composed the string-only score for Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)?
• Which instrument did Miles Davis play?
• Which record label did Berry Gordy build in Detroit from 1959 onwards?
• Was Johann Sebastian Bach born in the 17th century?
• Who composed the set of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons?
• Order these albums by release year, earliest first.
• Select ALL of these acts that performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969.
• Which singer's album 21 won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2012?
• In which year did the Beatles release their debut album, Please Please Me?
• Which South Korean group released the single Dynamite in August 2020?
• The Eurovision Song Contest was first held in 1956.
• Which 1973 album was Bob Marley and the Wailers' first release for Island Records?
• Select ALL of these instruments found in a standard string quartet.
• Which Brazilian style, blending samba rhythm with jazz harmony, emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1950s?
• Which German band, formed in Düsseldorf in 1970, released the electronic album Autobahn?
• Which Nigerian musician pioneered Afrobeat and led the band Africa '70?
• Who created the animated series The Simpsons?
• Which American network broadcast the original Star Trek series from 1966 to 1969?
• This crown points to a Netflix drama about the reign of Elizabeth II, first released in 2016. Which is it?
• Did the original Twilight Zone series air in black and white?
• In which country was the sitcom The Office originally created in 2001?
• Select ALL of these series that first aired during the 1990s.
• Which service released the Korean series Squid Game in September 2021?
• Order these series by the year they first aired, earliest first.
• Which channel first broadcast The Sopranos in 1999?
• The series M*A*S*H ran for more years than the Korean War it depicted.
• Which British series about a time-travelling Time Lord began broadcasting in November 1963?
• Select ALL of these series that were originally made in a language other than English.
• Who composed the theme music for HBO's Game of Thrones?
• Which Nordic crime series, first aired in 2011, opens with a body found on the Øresund Bridge?
• Which German drama set in Berlin in 1929 premiered in 2017?