Below is the full Quizmo quiz devoted to the theme "Steven Spielberg": each question, its four options, the correct answer highlighted and, where available, its source. A chance to brush up on your general knowledge and then test what you know.
▶ Play today's quizSpielberg's 1975 breakout thriller is set against what kind of predator?
Source: The mechanical shark broke down so often that Spielberg hid it, which accidentally made the film scarier.
Which beloved Spielberg film features a stranded alien befriending a young boy?
Source: Reese's Pieces sales jumped over 60% after the candy appeared on screen, a marketing legend.
Which adventure series did Steven Spielberg create with George Lucas?
Source: Lucas dreamed up the whip-cracking archaeologist on a Hawaiian beach while waiting out the first Star Wars reviews.
Which composer scored nearly all of Spielberg's films?
Source: Their partnership spans five decades, making it one of the longest director-composer collaborations in film history.
What kind of resurrected creatures populate Spielberg's 1993 island blockbuster?
Source: The famous T. rex roar was built from a baby elephant's call mixed with a tiger and an alligator.
Spielberg's 1993 Holocaust drama was shot almost entirely in what visual style?
Source: He refused to take a salary for it, calling any earnings 'blood money' and donating his profits.
Spielberg's WWII drama about saving a paratrooper opens on which beach?
Source: The 24-minute landing sequence was so realistic that veterans reportedly left theaters shaken.
In which futuristic thriller does Tom Cruise hunt criminals before they offend?
Source: The film's gesture-based screens, designed with real futurists, predicted swipe interfaces years before smartphones.
Which actor played the cunning con man hunted by the FBI in 'Catch Me If You Can'?
Source: The real-life conman the film is based on later became a fraud-prevention consultant for the FBI.
Spielberg co-founded which major Hollywood studio in 1994?
Source: Its first animated mascot, a boy fishing on a crescent moon, was inspired by a sketch from a children's book.
Spielberg's 2011 film 'The Adventures of Tintin' used which filmmaking technique?
Source: He shot it with a virtual camera that let him 'film' inside the computer-generated world like a video game.
Which Spielberg film won him his first Best Director Oscar?
Source: Despite earlier blockbusters, the Academy overlooked him for years until this 1993 epic.
Before features, Spielberg directed a TV movie about a man stalked by which menace?
Source: The driver's face is never shown, turning an ordinary highway into pure suspense.
Which alien-contact film did Spielberg make using a five-note musical phrase?
Source: The famous tones were chosen from hundreds of options as a universal greeting humans and aliens could share.
Spielberg made his theatrical feature debut with which 1974 road movie?
Source: It won a screenwriting prize at Cannes yet flopped at the box office, nearly derailing his career.
Which classic novel did Spielberg adapt into a 1985 drama starring Whoopi Goldberg?
Source: It earned eleven Oscar nominations but famously won none, tying a record for futility.
Which historical drama earned Spielberg his second Best Director Oscar?
Source: He lost Best Picture that year to 'Shakespeare in Love' in one of the Oscars' biggest upsets.
Which screen legend did a young Spielberg direct in his 1969 professional debut?
Source: Crawford phoned the studio to demand the unknown 22-year-old be replaced; she was talked out of it.
In 'Jaws', which line was famously improvised by actor Roy Scheider?
Source: The ad-libbed 'You're gonna need a bigger boat' became one of cinema's most quoted lines.
Spielberg reportedly turned down directing which other blockbuster franchise?
Source: He wanted to make it animated with one actor for all films; the studio declined, and he walked away.