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A movie quiz for friends who enjoy different genres. This board mixes animation, familiar adventures and filmmaking terms instead of requiring release-year memorization or current box-office records.
- This original board has five categories with five clues each, worth 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 points. Suggested values move from accessible recall to a more specific fact or a reasoning step.
- The questions and answers are free to read here. Quiz Champ is an independent game maker, not affiliated with or endorsed by the television show.
Choose the audience and handle spoilers
Use Animated worlds, Movie journeys, Name the film, Behind the camera, and Famous objects. The clues reveal premises and well-known characters. Tell the group that story details may appear, and replace any film they prefer to avoid before copying the board.
- For mixed film knowledge, let each team name one category they feel comfortable with before the first selection.
- Accept a recognized shortened film title when it identifies the right movie. Where a year is specified, judge that version rather than a remake.
- No clips or soundtrack are needed. Read each clue and show the text; use a separate numerical tie-breaker if two teams finish level.
Animated worlds
These questions name the film so the task is identifying one character or story detail.
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100 points. In Finding Nemo, Nemo and his father Marlin are this kind of fish.
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200 points. In Ratatouille, this rat dreams of becoming a chef.
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300 points. In the first Inside Out film, this cheerful yellow emotion works alongside Sadness in Riley's mind.
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400 points. In Coco, this young musician travels to the Land of the Dead.
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500 points. In WALL-E, the sleek robot who searches for signs of plant life is known by these three letters.
Movie journeys
Identify the place or vehicle. Give a clear answer rather than a plot summary.
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100 points. In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy begins in this U.S. state.
Reveal answer
Kansas
Accept Kansas, not the fictional land of Oz.
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200 points. In Back to the Future, Doc Brown turns this car model into a time machine.
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A DeLorean
Accept DeLorean or DMC-12.
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300 points. The original Jurassic Park theme park is located on this fictional island.
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Isla Nublar
Isla Sorna is associated with later films.
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400 points. In The Lord of the Rings films, Mount Doom is in this dark realm.
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Mordor
The clue asks for the realm, not the mountain.
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500 points. In Finding Nemo, the dentist's office is in this Australian city.
Name the film
These are original descriptions, not quotations from scripts.
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100 points. A police chief, marine biologist and shark hunter pursue a great white near Amity Island in this 1975 film.
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Jaws
Accept Jaws.
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200 points. A stranded alien befriends Elliott in this 1982 Steven Spielberg film.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Accept E.T.
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300 points. A weather presenter keeps reliving the same day in Punxsutawney in this 1993 comedy.
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Groundhog Day
Accept Groundhog Day.
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400 points. Jack and Rose meet aboard an ocean liner in this 1997 James Cameron film.
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Titanic
Accept Titanic; the director and year identify this adaptation.
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500 points. Tom Hanks plays Jim Lovell during a troubled lunar mission in this 1995 film.
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Apollo 13
Accept Apollo 13.
Behind the camera
These terms reward people interested in how films are made, even if they have not seen every title above.
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100 points. This person guides the actors' performances and the film's creative staging during a shoot.
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The director
Accept director.
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200 points. This written document sets out a film's scenes, action and dialogue.
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A screenplay
Accept script or screenplay.
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300 points. This series of drawings plans shots before filming or animation.
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A storyboard
Accept storyboard.
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400 points. This filmmaking term means a single uninterrupted recording by the camera, or the resulting continuous piece of footage.
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A shot
Accept shot; a scene can contain many shots.
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500 points. This editor's technique alternates between actions in different locations, often suggesting they happen at the same time.
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Cross-cutting
Accept parallel editing. A flashback is a change in narrative time rather than the described alternation.
Famous objects
Name the object or material, with the film version kept explicit.
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100 points. In the 1939 Wizard of Oz film, Dorothy's magical slippers are this color.
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Ruby red
Accept red or ruby; the book uses silver shoes.
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200 points. In the original Star Wars trilogy, Jedi commonly fight with this glowing energy weapon.
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A lightsaber
Accept lightsaber.
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300 points. In the Indiana Jones films, this flexible leather tool is one of the archaeologist's signature items.
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A bullwhip
Accept whip.
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400 points. In The Lord of the Rings, the central object Frodo must destroy is this.
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The One Ring
Accept the Ring or One Ring.
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500 points. In the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, Jack Sparrow's ship has this two-word name.
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Black Pearl
Accept the Black Pearl; the clue asks for the ship.
Copy the board into Quiz Champ
Open the creator, choose Standard format, and manually enter each category, clue, accepted answer and judging explanation. The button opens the builder; it does not import this article or load a ready-made version of this board.
- Prepare all 25 clues before the event. Use the preview to check the text and answer for every tile. Saving or hosting requires an account; check the current plan and room limits before inviting players.
- Keep the host screen and answer notes private. Share only the player display.
- In Spoken Classic, a participant must buzz through Quiz Champ before answering aloud. In typed mode, the first buzzer submits the answer in the game. An external chat message does not register a response.
- After a registered response, reveal and judge. The current host dashboard adds the tile value for Correct and adds zero for Incorrect. Announce any manually tracked house rules before play.