Courtroom Drama Quiz
Try out this Courtroom Drama quiz to test your knowledge. Courtroom Drama trivia explores the judges, lawyers, cases, and memorable confrontations that have defined one of popular culture’s most enduring storytelling traditions.
15 questions
~3 min to finish
Easy to hard difficulty
530 pts max score
Question 1 · Hard · 40 pts
Name the performer who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for "Judgment at Nuremberg."?
Question 2 · Easy · 10 pts
Which actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Atticus Finch?
Question 3 · Medium · 20 pts
Which actress took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "My Cousin Vinny"?
Question 4 · Medium · 20 pts
Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in "Reversal of Fortune"?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
Before it reached the screen in 1997, "The Winslow Boy" already existed in another dramatic form. Who wrote the original play it was based on?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
In a notable double-duty credit, who both wrote and directed the 1997 legal drama "The Winslow Boy"?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
Which director helmed the 1962 film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Name the screenwriter who adapted "To Kill a Mockingbird" for its 1962 film incarnation.?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
If you trace "Witness for the Prosecution" back to its source author, whose work are you following?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
Who directed the 1957 courtroom classic "Witness for the Prosecution"?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
In "Witness for the Prosecution," the sharp-tongued barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts is played by whom?
Question 12 · Hard · 40 pts
Which star portrays Christine Vole in "Witness for the Prosecution"?
Question 13 · Hard · 40 pts
Quick gavel tap: who directed the 1947 film "Boomerang!"?
Question 14 · Hard · 40 pts
"The Verdict" reached the screen from a literary source. Who wrote the novel it was adapted from?
Question 15 · Hard · 40 pts
Who directed the 1961 courtroom epic "Judgment at Nuremberg"?