Film Noir Quiz
Try out this Film Noir quiz to test your knowledge. Film Noir trivia explores the dark, stylish world of the crime dramas that flourished in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s.
15 questions
~3 min to finish
Easy to hard difficulty
460 pts max score
Question 1 · Medium · 20 pts
What explosive object powers the famous opening long take in Touch of Evil?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
Name the novelist responsible for the book version of Double Indemnity.?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
Scarlet Street ultimately derives from what French story?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
Which studio released Gilda?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
Who directed the noir road movie Detour?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
Gun Crazy reached theaters in 1950 through King Brothers Productions and which distributor?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
In The Killing, what kind of heist sits at the center of the plot?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Which famed noir cinematographer shot The Big Combo?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
Murder, My Sweet adapts Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My what?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
He Walked by Night was loosely inspired by which real-life criminal?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
The Window was adapted from Cornell Woolrich's story titled what?
Question 12 · Easy · 10 pts
In Out of the Past, what is Robert Mitchum's character name?
Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts
Humphrey Bogart plays which detective in The Big Sleep?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
Key Largo pairs Humphrey Bogart with which co-star?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
Which private eye appears in Kiss Me Deadly?