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A pop-quiz. How much you know about the movies? If you are not sure about something, find the information out.

1. Although film is a collaborative medium, the invention of cinema (dating roughly to the mid-1890s) has generally been credited to but two Frenchmen — brothers Auguste and Louis. They are:

a) The Brothers Karamazov

b) The Lumière Brothers

c) The Brothers Quay

d)The Coen Brothers

2. Some of actresses pictured below have all been regarded as cultural icons and/or sex symbols. Which actress listed below is not pictured among them?

a) Sofia Loren

b) Brigitte Bardot

c) Scarlett Johansson

d) Rita Hayworth

e) Penélope Cruz

f) Marilyn Monroe

3. Silent films were the norm in cinema before "talkies" (early sound films) advanced filmmaking from merely "moving pictures" toward the full-fledged art form as we know it today. When (approximately) did sound film replace silent film, thus becoming the standard throughout cinema production?

a) 1900

b) 1915

c) 1930

d) 1945

e) 1960

4. "Photography is truth. Cinema is truth at 24 frames per second." To what filmmaker is this famous quote attributed?

a) Orson Welles

b) Jean-Luc Godard

c) Rainer Werner Fassbinder

d) Federico Fellini