Below is the full Quizmo quiz devoted to the theme "Alfred Hitchcock": 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 quizIn which film genre did Alfred Hitchcock become famous as the master?
Source: His skill at building dread earned him the nickname the 'Master of Suspense' worldwide.
What did Hitchcock famously do briefly in nearly all of his own films?
Source: Spotting his quick cameos became a beloved game for audiences over decades.
Hitchcock's chilling shower scene appears in which of his films?
Source: The shower scene took a week to shoot and used chocolate syrup for the blood.
In which country did Hitchcock direct his early thrillers before moving to Hollywood?
Source: He learned montage and lighting tricks while shooting at a German studio early in his career.
Which everyday creatures menace a coastal town in a 1963 Hitchcock film?
Source: Many of the attacking birds were mechanical, trained, or animated to terrify viewers.
In Vertigo, a detective is paralyzed on rooftops by an intense fear of what?
Source: Hitchcock invented the dizzying "dolly zoom" shot to put that fear right on screen.
Which film follows a man confined to a wheelchair spying on neighbours?
Source: The entire film was shot on one massive courtyard set built inside a studio.
What did Hitchcock host on television for many years?
Source: His droll on-air introductions made him one of TV's most recognizable faces.
Which Hitchcock thriller features a crop-duster plane chasing a man?
Source: That dusty cornfield chase has no music at all, making the danger feel eerily real.
Which blonde actress starred in both Rear Window and To Catch a Thief?
Source: She left Hollywood soon after to become Princess of Monaco through marriage.
In which American city does much of Vertigo take place?
Source: Its hilly streets and the Golden Gate Bridge became almost characters in the film.
Hitchcock's 1948 film Rope was famous for appearing to be shot how?
Source: He hid cuts behind characters' backs to fake an unbroken real-time murder story.
Which actor became known as the definitive Hitchcock leading man across four films?
Source: Their partnership spanned Rope, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo.
Hitchcock popularized which term for a plot device that motivates characters but barely matters?
Source: He illustrated it with a joke about a "MacGuffin" being a device for trapping lions in Scotland.
Which 1940 Hitchcock film won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Source: It was his first Hollywood film, yet the Oscar went to the producer, never to Hitchcock himself.
Composer Bernard Herrmann scored many Hitchcock classics using mainly what for Psycho?
Source: Hitchcock wanted no music in the shower scene, but Herrmann's shrieking violins won him over.
What was unusual about Hitchcock's early film Blackmail in 1929?
Source: Begun as a silent, it was hastily reworked into Britain's first synchronized-sound feature.
What honorary British title was Hitchcock granted near the end of his life?
Source: He was knighted just months before his death, becoming Sir Alfred after decades in Hollywood.
How many times did Alfred Hitchcock win the Best Director Academy Award?
Source: Despite five nominations, he never won; the Academy later gave him an honorary award instead.
Which actress did Hitchcock cast in both The Birds and Marnie?
Source: Their tense working relationship later inspired books and a film about his obsession with her.