1958 In Movies

Choose an answer from the three choices and True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. What was the Oscar winning film in 1958?

• The Defiant Ones
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Gigi

2. What was the top grossing film in 1958?

• The Big Country
• Me and the Colonel
• The Bridge on the River Kwai

3. This American actress was born on March 10, 1958?

• Sharon Stone
• Edna Purviance
• Pascale Ogier

4. It was a successful and long-running series for over six decades of theatrical short subjects created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The series ended in 1958. What was the series?

• Tom and Jerry
• Yosemite Sam
• Terrytoons

5. Who won the 1958 Oscar for Best Actor?

• David Niven
• Tony Curtis
• Sidney Poitier

6. Who was the Academy Award-winning actress born on March 20, 1958? .

• Miranda Richardson
• Holly P. Hunter
• Rosalind Russell

7. Who was the Oscar Best Actress for her role in I Want to Live!?

• Deborah Kerr
• Shirley MacLaine
• Susan Hayward

8. Who is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated American film director, writer and designer notable for the quirky and often dark gothic atmosphere in his high-profile films born on August 25, 1958?

• Tim Burton
• Wade Phillips
• Kevin Mansfield

9. The #4 Top Grossing film was No Time for Sergeants. Who was the movie’s star?

• Nick Adams
• Don Knotts
• Andy Griffith

10. Who is an Academy Award-winning American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist, and musician born October 16, 1958?

• Gary Oldman
• Kevin Bacon
• Tim Robbins

Check Your Answers

• 1. Gigi
• 2. The Bridge on the River Kwai
• 3. Sharon Stone
• 4. Tom and Jerry
• 5. David Niven
• 6. Holly P. Hunter
• 7. Susan Hayward
• 8. Tim Burton
• 9. Andy Griffith
• 10. Tim Robbins