Life Is Beautiful - Quiz
  • 1. Which company released the film in Italy in 1997?
A) Cecchi Gori Distribuzione
B) Universal Pictures
C) Miramax Films
D) Warner Bros
  • 2. In which festival was the film screened in May 1998 as a late addition?
A) Berlin International Film Festival
B) Venice Film Festival
C) Toronto International Film Festival
D) Cannes Film Festival
  • 3. On what date was the film released in the United States?
A) 12 November 1998
B) 22 October 2001
C) 12 February 1999
D) 23 October 1998
  • 4. Which company released the film in the United States with English subtitles?
A) Paramount Pictures
B) Cecchi Gori Distribuzione
C) 20th Century Fox
D) Miramax Films
  • 5. On what date was the film released in Germany?
A) 23 October 1998
B) 12 February 1999
C) 13 November 1998
D) 12 November 1998
  • 6. On what date was the film released in Austria?
A) 23 October 1998
B) 13 November 1998
C) 12 November 1998
D) 12 February 1999
  • 7. On what date was the film released in the United Kingdom?
A) 12 February 1999
B) 12 November 1998
C) 23 October 1998
D) 13 November 1998
  • 8. Which version of the film was less successful after being reissued in English speaking territories?
A) Original Italian version
B) English-dubbed version
C) English-subtitled version
D) Black and white version
  • 9. On which Italian television station was the film aired on 22 October 2001?
A) RAI
B) Mediaset
C) Sky Italia
D) LA7
  • 10. How many people viewed the film when it aired on Italian television in 2001?
A) 10 million people
B) 5 million people
C) 20 million people
D) 16 million people
  • 11. How much money did the film make in Italy in lire?
A) 120 billion lire
B) 92 billion lire
C) 50 billion lire
D) 30 billion lire
  • 12. How much money did the film make in Italy in US dollars?
A) $48.7 million
B) $230.1 million
C) $57.6 million
D) $123.8 million
  • 13. Which film surpassed 'Life Is Beautiful' as the highest-grossing Italian film in its native country in 2011?
A) Il Postino: The Postman
B) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
C) What a Beautiful Day
D) Cinema Paradiso
  • 14. Who directed or starred as the main figure making the film a success in Italy, leading him to be treated as a 'national hero'?
A) Imre Kertész
B) Checco Zalone
C) Benigni
D) Tonino Delli Colli
  • 15. How much did the film gross in the United States and Canada?
A) $123.8 million
B) $230.1 million
C) $57.6 million
D) $48.7 million
  • 16. How much did the film gross in other territories outside the US and Canada?
A) $48.7 million
B) $123.8 million
C) $230.1 million
D) $57.6 million
  • 17. What was the worldwide gross of the film?
A) $230.1 million
B) $48.7 million
C) $123.8 million
D) $57.6 million
  • 18. Which fellow Italian film did 'Life Is Beautiful' surpass as the highest-grossing foreign-language film in the United States?
A) Cinema Paradiso
B) What a Beautiful Day
C) 8½
D) Il Postino: The Postman
  • 19. Which film surpassed 'Life Is Beautiful' as the highest-grossing foreign-language film in the United States in 2000?
A) Il Postino: The Postman
B) What a Beautiful Day
C) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
D) Amélie
  • 20. Which pope received a private screening of the film with Benigni and placed it in his top five favourite films?
A) Pope Francis
B) Pope John XXIII
C) Pope Benedict XVI
D) Pope John Paul II
  • 21. What approval rating does the film hold on Rotten Tomatoes?
A) 92%
B) 100%
C) 58%
D) 81%
  • 22. How many reviews were Rotten Tomatoes' 81% approval rating based on?
A) 50 reviews
B) 100 reviews
C) 32 reviews
D) 94 reviews
  • 23. What was the average rating on Rotten Tomatoes out of 10?
A) 6.0/10
B) 8.5/10
C) 7.5/10
D) 5.0/10
  • 24. What weighted average score did Metacritic assign the film out of 100?
A) 75 out of 100
B) 58 out of 100
C) 81 out of 100
D) 100 out of 100
  • 25. How many critics based Metacritic's score of 58 out of 100?
A) 32 critics
B) 50 critics
C) 10 critics
D) 94 critics
  • 26. What did Metacritic's score of 58 out of 100 indicate?
A) overwhelming dislike
B) masterpiece
C) universal acclaim
D) mixed or average reviews
  • 27. How many stars did Roger Ebert give the film?
A) 3.5/4 stars
B) 4/4 stars
C) 2.5/4 stars
D) 3/4 stars
  • 28. Who gave the movie a score of 100/100, calling it 'A deeply moving blend of cold terror and rapturous hilarity'?
A) Owen Gleiberman
B) Michael Wilmington
C) Roger Ebert
D) Richard Schickel
  • 29. Which publication did Richard Schickel write for when reviewing the film?
A) Entertainment Weekly
B) The Washington Post
C) The New York Times
D) Time
  • 30. What grade did Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly give the film?
A) C+
B) A+
C) B−
D) D
  • 31. Who called the film 'sad, funny and haunting' while writing for The Washington Post?
A) Janet Maslin
B) Kenneth Turan
C) David Rooney
D) Michael O'Sullivan
  • 32. How many stars did Nell Minow of Common Sense Media give the film?
A) 4/5 stars
B) 3/5 stars
C) 5/5 stars
D) 2/5 stars
  • 33. Who wrote in The New York Times that the film took 'a colossal amount of gall'?
A) Tom Dawson
B) Kenneth Turan
C) Janet Maslin
D) Nell Minow
  • 34. Which publication's critic Kenneth Turan noted the film had 'some furious opposition' at Cannes?
A) The Washington Post
B) Chicago Tribune
C) Los Angeles Times
D) The New York Times
  • 35. Who provided 'visually rather flat' camera work for the film according to David Rooney of Variety?
A) Mel Brooks
B) Imre Kertész
C) Tonino Delli Colli
D) Benigni
  • 36. Which BBC critic wrote in 2002 that 'Benigni's sentimental fantasy diminishes the suffering of Holocaust victims'?
A) David Sterritt
B) Ilona Klein
C) Ḳobi Niv
D) Tom Dawson
  • 37. In which publication did Mel Brooks speak negatively of the film in 2006, saying it trivialized suffering?
A) Der Spiegel
B) The Christian Science Monitor
C) Variety
D) Time
  • 38. Which Nobel Laureate argued that those who take the film to be a comedy rather than a tragedy have missed the point?
A) Ḳobi Niv
B) Ilona Klein
C) Imre Kertész
D) Mel Brooks
  • 39. What term did Imre Kertész use to rebuff detractors of the film?
A) 'sentimental optimism'
B) 'treacly horror'
C) 'Holocaust conformism'
D) 'human ingenuity'
  • 40. Which Israeli screenwriter and art critic published the book 'Life Is Beautiful, but Not for Jews'?
A) David Sterritt
B) Ilona Klein
C) Ḳobi Niv
D) Tom Dawson
  • 41. In what year was Ḳobi Niv's critical book published in Hebrew?
A) 2003
B) 1997
C) 2000
D) 2006
  • 42. In what year was the English translation of Ḳobi Niv's book published?
A) 2006
B) 2002
C) 2003
D) 2000
  • 43. Which academic analyzed the movie's success and referred to the 'ambiguous themes hidden within' and its appeal of 'sentimental optimism'?
A) David Sterritt
B) Ḳobi Niv
C) Tom Dawson
D) Ilona Klein
  • 44. Which critic writing for The Christian Science Monitor highlighted that enthusiasm for the movie has not been unanimous?
A) David Rooney
B) Kenneth Turan
C) David Sterritt
D) Michael O'Sullivan
  • 45. Which army's Sherman M4 tank appears in the scene coming to liberate the concentration camp in the movie?
A) French Army
B) U.S. Army
C) British Army
D) Red Army
  • 46. Which actual historical camp was liberated by the Red Army, unlike the camp depicted in the film?
A) Buchenwald
B) Dachau
C) Auschwitz
D) Treblinka
  • 47. What is the release year of the film Life Is Beautiful?
A) 1939
B) 1997
C) 1998
D) 1944
  • 48. What is the name of the main character played by Roberto Benigni?
A) Guido Orefice
B) Giosuè Orefice
C) Rodolfo
D) Eliseo
  • 49. What was Guido's initial profession when he arrived in Arezzo?
A) Schoolteacher
B) Government official
C) Waiter
D) Bookshop owner
  • 50. Who co-wrote the film with Roberto Benigni?
A) Rodolfo
B) Vincenzo Cerami
C) Rubino Romeo Salmonì
D) Eliseo
  • 51. Which book partially inspired the film?
A) Life Is Beautiful
B) Schindler's List
C) In the End, I Beat Hitler
D) The Diary of a Young Girl
  • 52. Who wrote the book In the End, I Beat Hitler?
A) Guido Orefice
B) Vincenzo Cerami
C) Rubino Romeo Salmonì
D) Roberto Benigni
  • 53. Where did Benigni's father spend two years during World War II?
A) Arezzo
B) Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
C) Cannes
D) Tuscany
  • 54. Which award did the movie win at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival?
A) Best Actor
B) Grand Prix
C) Palme d'Or
D) Best Director
  • 55. How many David di Donatello Awards did the film win?
A) Nine
B) Five
C) Two
D) Three
  • 56. In what year does Part I of the film begin?
A) 1939
B) 1997
C) 1944
D) 1998
  • 57. In which Italian town does Guido start working with his uncle?
A) Arezzo
B) Venice
C) Florence
D) Rome
  • 58. What is the region in Italy where Arezzo is located?
A) Lazio
B) Sicily
C) Tuscany
D) Lombardy
  • 59. What is the name of Guido's uncle?
A) Giosuè
B) Rodolfo
C) Rubino
D) Eliseo
  • 60. What is the profession of Dora when Guido meets her in the city?
A) Bookshop owner
B) Nanny
C) Waiter
D) Teacher
  • 61. Who is Dora originally set to be engaged to?
A) Eliseo
B) Rodolfo
C) Guido
D) Robin Hood
  • 62. What is the name of Uncle Eliseo's horse?
A) Hitler
B) Robin Hood
C) Sherman
D) Tuscany
  • 63. What is the name of Guido and Dora's son?
A) Eliseo
B) Rubino
C) Rodolfo
D) Giosuè
  • 64. What business do Guido and Dora open together?
A) A horse stable
B) A school
C) A hotel restaurant
D) A bookstore
  • 65. In what year does Part II of the film take place?
A) 1939
B) 1997
C) 1944
D) 1945
  • 66. Which military force occupies Northern Italy in 1944 in the film?
A) Fascist Italy
B) British Army
C) U.S. Army
D) Nazi Germany
  • 67. On whose birthday are Guido, Eliseo, and Giosuè arrested?
A) Dora's
B) Eliseo's
C) Giosuè's
D) Guido's
  • 68. Why does Dora insist on boarding the train to the concentration camp?
A) To stay with her family
B) She was ordered by Nazi guards
C) She missed her engagement party
D) She wanted to work as a teacher there
  • 69. What method does Guido use to send messages to Dora inside the camp?
A) The camp's loudspeaker
B) Carrier pigeons
C) Secret notes given by German officers
D) Letters left in books
  • 70. How is Uncle Eliseo murdered shortly after arriving at the camp?
A) Shot in an alleyway
B) In a gas chamber
C) In a train accident
D) Starvation
  • 71. Why does Giosuè narrowly avoid being gassed with the other children?
A) He spoke German
B) He hid in a German officer's room
C) His father rescued him
D) He hates to bathe
  • 72. What prize is Giosuè told he will win if he scores one thousand points in the game?
A) A tank
B) A horse
C) A bookshop
D) A train
  • 73. Whom does Guido trick to feed Giosuè during the officers' dinner?
A) Rodolfo
B) A U.S. Army soldier
C) A German nanny
D) Uncle Eliseo
  • 74. What language do the children speak that almost exposes Giosuè at dinner?
A) English
B) German
C) French
D) Italian
  • 75. How does Guido cover for Giosuè when he accidentally speaks Italian at dinner?
A) By hiding Giosuè under the table
B) By claiming Giosuè is a German nanny
C) By telling the guards it was a joke
D) By teaching all the German children how to give thanks in Italian
  • 76. What happens to Guido after he goes to find Dora in the chaos of the camp closing?
A) He boards a train to Arezzo
B) He is caught by a German soldier and executed
C) He hides with Giosuè
D) He escapes on a Sherman tank
  • 77. What gesture does Guido make as he passes Giosuè on his way to his execution?
A) He gives him a point
B) He winks
C) He speaks in German
D) He cries
  • 78. What vehicle does the U.S. Army unit arrive in that excites Giosuè?
A) A train
B) A Sherman tank
C) A horse named Robin Hood
D) A bookstore delivery truck
  • 79. Who reveals himself as the film's narrator at the end?
A) Uncle Eliseo
B) The adult Giosuè
C) Rodolfo
D) Roberto Benigni
  • 80. What happened to Salmonì's brothers?
A) They escaped to America
B) They were murdered
C) They survived
D) They became soldiers
  • 81. How long did Luigi Benigni spend in a Nazi labour camp?
A) Four years
B) Three years
C) One year
D) Two years
  • 82. How did Luigi Benigni talk about his camp experiences to his children?
A) Angrily
B) Tragically
C) Secretly
D) Humorously
  • 83. How are Dora De Giovanni and Guido Vittoriano Basile related to Nicoletta Braschi?
A) Uncles
B) Grandparents
C) Parents
D) Siblings
  • 84. Why was Guido arrested?
A) Stealing food
B) Anti-fascist activity
C) Draft dodging
D) Being Jewish
  • 85. Where is the Center for Documentation of Contemporary Judaism based?
A) Florence
B) Milan
C) Rome
D) Arezzo
  • 86. According to Benigni, what can provide 'the truth' about the Holocaust?
A) Books like the one by Salmonì
B) Feature films like his own
C) Only documentaries interviewing survivors
D) Military records from 1943
  • 87. In front of which building was the bicycle fall scene shot?
A) An old abandoned factory near Papigno
B) Badia delle Sante Flora e Lucilla
C) The Center for Documentation in Milan
D) Mauthausen concentration camp
  • 88. What was the concentration camp set built in?
A) An old abandoned factory
B) A studio in Milan
C) A military base in Rome
D) A historic church in Arezzo
  • 89. Near which location was the abandoned factory converted into a concentration camp?
A) Papigno
B) Tuscany
C) Florence
D) Milan
  • 90. Who composed the original score to the film?
A) Jacques Offenbach
B) Vincenzo Cerami
C) Roberto Benigni
D) Nicola Piovani
  • 91. What is the title of the prominent classical piece in the film?
A) Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour
B) Life Is Beautiful
C) Auschwitz Barcarolle
D) In the End, I Beat Hitler
  • 92. Who composed the prominent classical barcarolle in the film?
A) Jacques Offenbach
B) Nicola Piovani
C) Roberto Benigni
D) Rubino Romeo Salmonì
  • 93. Whose feet did Roberto Benigni kiss upon receiving the award at Cannes?
A) Steven Spielberg
B) Francis Ford Coppola
C) Martin Scorsese
D) Quentin Tarantino
  • 94. What position did Martin Scorsese hold on the jury at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival?
A) Festival director
B) Honorary chairman
C) Lead critic
D) Jury president
  • 95. At which Academy Awards ceremony did Benigni win Best Actor?
A) 70th Academy Awards
B) 69th Academy Awards
C) 71st Academy Awards
D) 72nd Academy Awards
  • 96. Which specific award did Roberto Benigni win for his acting role at the Oscars?
A) Best Original Screenplay
B) Best Director
C) Best Actor
D) Best Supporting Actor
  • 97. Which musical category won an Academy Award for the film?
A) Best Original Song
B) Best Sound Editing
C) Best Adapted Score
D) Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
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