Movie quiz biography answers

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First film to show the use of camera shot composition, editing, and storytelling technique.

Correct Answer
A. Great Train Robbery

Explanation
The Great Train Robbery is considered the first film to showcase the use of camera shot composition, editing, and storytelling techniques. Released in 1903, this silent film directed by Edwin S. Porter revolutionized the way films were made. It introduced techniques such as cross-cutting, multiple camera angles, and a narrative structure that told a coherent story. The film's success paved the way for the development of modern filmmaking, making it a significant milestone in the history of cinema.

2. 

Muybridge settled a bet for ex-Governer Standford.  What was that bet:

Correct Answer
B. If horses hooves left the ground when they galloped

Explanation
Muybridge settled a bet regarding whether horses' hooves left the ground when they galloped.

3. 

Known as the Wizard of Menlo Park and the inventor of the first commercial cam

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The correct answer is '1 - f, 2 - a, 3 - e, 4 - b, 5 - g, 6 - d, 7 - c'

Key Points

• Rabindranath Tagore- has written and translated 'The Fugitive'. “The Fugitive” is a breathtaking collection of life poems by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore
• William Wordsworth- has written 'The Two April Mornings'. In this poem, the loss of a dear child has been expressed with pain and sorrow. 
• H.W. Longfellow-  has written 'The Waif' it is a collection of poems.
• Annie Louisa Walker- has written 'Against her will'.Walker's third novel, Against her will, was published in 1877. The novel tells the story of how a young woman copes with her father's illness.
• Oscar Wilde- has written 'House of Pomegranates'.A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888).
• Pearl S. Buck- has written 'The exile'. The Exile (New York: John Day, 1936) is a memoir/biography, or work of creative non
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  Biographical Movies Trivia

  1. In 1933, Greta Garbo played the lead role as the monarch at the head of an empire. What is the name of that monarch and also the film?

  
  From Quiz Real to Reel: Real People on the Silver Screen 3
  
  Answer: Queen Christina
  
  In "Queen Christina", the young monarch dedicates her whole life to the Swedish Empire and is even set up to marry her cousin, Karl Gustav, in order to provide the country with a blue-blooded heir to the throne. However, she eventually realises she has denied herself a life of her own. On a whim, she speeds off into the countryside in disguise and ends up falling in love with the Spanish envoy, Antonio, who is on his way to meet her in the capital. He has no idea with whom he has had a brief but ardent fling until they meet officially back in the city. He isn't best pleased and feels belittled, but in the end is won over once again. The public turn against him, she abdicates, and they flee the country, albeit separately. Unfortunately, whilst they are apart Gustav pops up and fatally wounds Antonio in a duel. The film is a mishm