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  • 1. Who presented Walt Disney with the Legion of Honour in 1936?
A) Martin Scorsese
B) The text does not specify who presented it
C) Georges Méliès
D) Émile Cohl
  • 2. Which pioneer alongside Méliès was thanked by Walt Disney in 1936?
A) Brian Selznick
B) Gaston Méliès
C) Terry Gilliam
D) Émile Cohl
  • 3. Which Queen single featured portions of A Trip to the Moon?
A) Hugo
B) Heaven for Everyone
C) The Loneliest Time
D) Tonight, Tonight
  • 4. In what year was Queen's single 'Heaven for Everyone' released?
A) 1902
B) 2002
C) 1996
D) 1995
  • 5. Which music video from 1996 was heavily inspired by Méliès's films?
A) The Smashing Pumpkins' 'Tonight, Tonight'
B) Carly Rae Jepsen's 'The Loneliest Time'
C) The Artemis I theme song
D) Queen's 'Heaven for Everyone'
  • 6. Whose 2022 single 'The Loneliest Time' was inspired by Georges Méliès's films?
A) Walt Disney
B) Brian Selznick
C) Sir Ben Kingsley
D) Carly Rae Jepsen
  • 7. What title did Terry Gilliam give to Georges Méliès?
A) The king of silent films
B) The father of modern animation
C) The pioneer of artificial intelligence
D) The first great film magician
  • 8. In what year was Méliès inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame?
A) 2018
B) 2015
C) 2022
D) 2017
  • 9. In what year was Méliès inducted into the Visual Effects Society (VES) Hall of Fame?
A) 2017
B) 2015
C) 2018
D) 2011
  • 10. Which film inspired the Visual Effects Society (VES) logo?
A) A Trip to the Moon
B) Heaven for Everyone
C) The Impossible Voyage
D) Hugo
  • 11. On what date did the first ever virtual reality interactive Google doodle honour Méliès?
A) 19 March 1936
B) 21 November 2007
C) 12 December 2022
D) 3 May 2018
  • 12. What award was the Google doodle honouring Méliès nominated for?
A) BAFTA for Best Short Film
B) Emmy for Outstanding Original Interactive Program
C) Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
D) Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature
  • 13. What space mission carried a picture of Méliès that orbited the Moon in 2022?
A) Artemis II
B) Voyager 1
C) Artemis I
D) Apollo 11
  • 14. Who linked Méliès's special effects to modern uses of artificial intelligence in a 2025 interview?
A) Martin Scorsese
B) Brian Selznick
C) Terry Gilliam
D) Christian Clavier
  • 15. With which media outlet did Christian Clavier conduct his 2025 interview about Méliès and AI?
A) Brut
B) The Library of Congress
C) Google
D) duanju.news
  • 16. Who wrote the 2007 novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret?
A) Émile Cohl
B) Brian Selznick
C) Martin Scorsese
D) Christian Clavier
  • 17. What is the primary subject of the 2007 novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret?
A) A fictionalization of the later life of Méliès
B) The biography of Walt Disney
C) The creation of the VES logo
D) The history of the French army
  • 18. Who directed the film Hugo, which adapted The Invention of Hugo Cabret?
A) Georges Méliès
B) Terry Gilliam
C) Martin Scorsese
D) Christian Clavier
  • 19. Who played Georges Méliès in the 2011 film Hugo?
A) Sir Ben Kingsley
B) Walt Disney
C) Brian Selznick
D) Christian Clavier
  • 20. Roughly how many Méliès films remain in existence today out of over 500?
A) 300
B) 200
C) 450
D) 100
  • 21. Who destroyed a portion of Méliès's original negatives?
A) The U.S. Library of Congress
B) Gaston Méliès
C) The French army
D) Georges Méliès
  • 22. Which military organization confiscated some of Méliès's prints?
A) The German army
B) The British army
C) The American army
D) The French army
  • 23. Where does the majority of preserved Méliès films come from?
A) The Walt Disney Archives
B) The French National Archives
C) The U.S. Library of Congress
D) The Visual Effects Society
  • 24. Who set up the American branch of Star Films in 1902?
A) Georges Méliès
B) Brian Selznick
C) Gaston Méliès
D) Christian Clavier
  • 25. How did Gaston Méliès preserve the copyright for all new Star Films in America?
A) By registering them with the French army
B) By storing original negatives in the Library of Congress
C) By submitting paper prints of each frame
D) By publishing a novel about them
  • 26. In what year was A Trip to the Moon released?
A) 1936
B) 1902
C) 1995
D) 1904
  • 27. In what year was The Impossible Voyage released?
A) 2007
B) 2011
C) 1904
D) 1902
  • 28. What type of prints were submitted to the U.S. Library of Congress to preserve Star Films copyright?
A) Original glass negatives
B) Digital video files
C) Paper prints of each frame
D) Canvas paintings
  • 29. Which website or platform echoed Christian Clavier's ideas about Méliès and AI?
A) Library of Congress
B) Brut
C) Google
D) duanju.news
  • 30. What general factor contributed to the loss of many silent-era films including Méliès's work?
A) The typical deterioration of the majority of films made in the silent era
B) Intentional burning by the U.S. Library of Congress
C) Accidental erasure on magnetic tape
D) Destruction by the American branch of Star Films
  • 31. In what year was Georges Méliès's film Joan of Arc released?
A) 1901
B) 1902
C) 1903
D) 1900
  • 32. How long was the film Joan of Arc?
A) 10 minutes
B) 24 minutes
C) 7 minutes
D) 13 minutes
  • 33. In which film did Méliès play seven instruments simultaneously by multiplying himself on camera?
A) The Brahmin and the Butterfly
B) The Melomaniac
C) The One-Man Band
D) The Christmas Dream
  • 34. Which film merged cinematic effects with traditional Christmas pantomime scenes?
A) Rip's Dream
B) Joan of Arc
C) Red Riding Hood
D) The Christmas Dream
  • 35. Which two féeries made by Méliès in 1901 were based on stories by Charles Perrault?
A) Gulliver's Travels and The Christmas Dream
B) Jack and the Beanstalk and Rip's Dream
C) Red Riding Hood and Blue Beard
D) Cinderella and Robinson Crusoe
  • 36. In the film Blue Beard, which actors co-starred with Georges Méliès?
A) Louise de Mirmont and Victor de Cottens
B) Jeanne d'Alcy and Bleuette Bernon
C) Phoebe and Mabouloff
D) Edwin S. Porter and Charles Urban
  • 37. Which 1902 film directed by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Company was considered a less successful American version of several Méliès films?
A) The Coronation of Edward VII
B) A Trip to the Moon
C) The Impossible Voyage
D) Jack and the Beanstalk
  • 38. What mechanism did Méliès use to create the illusion of a character changing size starting in 1902?
A) Electric studio lights
B) A pulley-drawn chair system
C) A superimposed fish tank
D) Parallel cross-cutting
  • 39. In the film The Devil and the Statue, who comes to the rescue of Juliet?
A) Professor Barbenfouillis
B) Engineer Mabouloff
C) The Virgin Mary
D) The Moon goddess Phoebe
  • 40. What is the name of the character played by Méliès in A Trip to the Moon?
A) The Brahmin
B) Edward VII
C) Professor Barbenfouillis
D) Engineer Mabouloff
  • 41. Who played the Moon goddess Phoebe in A Trip to the Moon?
A) Jeanne d'Alcy
B) Louise de Mirmont
C) Bleuette Bernon
D) Acrobats from the Folies Bergère
  • 42. Who played the Moon aliens in A Trip to the Moon?
A) Charles Urban and Thomas Edison
B) Actors from the Théâtre Robert-Houdin
C) Acrobats from the Folies Bergère
D) Gaston Méliès and Lucien Reulos
  • 43. What was used to create the illusion of the deep ocean when the spaceship landed back on Earth in A Trip to the Moon?
A) A pulley-drawn chair system
B) A superimposed fish tank
C) Hand-coloured film prints
D) Electric stage lighting
  • 44. Who assisted Gaston Méliès in the United States?
A) Lucien Reulos
B) Jean Mitry
C) Thomas Edison
D) Victor de Cottens
  • 45. Who commissioned The Coronation of Edward VII?
A) Thomas Edison
B) Siegmund Lubin
C) Victor de Cottens
D) Charles Urban
  • 46. Which film critic called The Kingdom of the Fairies undoubtedly Méliès's best film?
A) Lewis Jacobs
B) Jean Mitry
C) Charles Musser
D) Edwin S. Porter
  • 47. How many superimpositions did Méliès use in The Melomaniac?
A) Twenty-four
B) Four
C) Thirteen
D) Seven
  • 48. What was the name of the engineer played by Méliès in The Impossible Voyage?
A) The Brahmin
B) Engineer Mabouloff
C) Professor Barbenfouillis
D) Le Cyclone
  • 49. What were the vehicles used for travel in The Impossible Voyage called?
A) Automobouloffs
B) Submarines
C) Artillery shells
D) L'Omnibus des toqués
  • 50. How long was the film The Impossible Voyage?
A) 100 years
B) 24 minutes
C) Six weeks
D) 13 minutes
  • 51. Which film critic described The Impossible Voyage as a masterpiece for its day?
A) Edwin S. Porter
B) Charles Musser
C) Jean Mitry
D) Lewis Jacobs
  • 52. Who invited Méliès to create a special effects film for a theatre revue at the Folies Bergère in 1904?
A) Charles Urban
B) Thomas Edison
C) Gaston Méliès
D) Victor de Cottens
  • 53. In late 1904, which American inventor sued Star Films along with Paley & Steiner, Pathé Frères, and Eberhard Schneider?
A) Thomas Edison
B) William Selig
C) Edwin S. Porter
D) Siegmund Lubin
  • 54. What was the name of Méliès's first new stage trick in several years, created for the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in 1905?
A) Les Phénomènes du Spiritisme
B) Le Voyage dans l'espace
C) Le Cyclone
D) Rip's Dream
  • 55. What improvements did Méliès make to his studio at Montreuil in 1905?
A) Opened an office in New York City
B) Converted to blackface burlesque
C) Installed electric lights, added a second stage, and bought costumes from other sources
D) Added a pulley-drawn chair system and a fish tank
  • 56. Which 1905 film was based on the Rip Van Winkle legend and the opera by Robert Planquette?
A) The Witch
B) The Merry Deeds of Satan
C) The Palace of the Arabian Nights
D) Rip's Dream
  • 57. By the end of 1905, by what percentage did Gaston Méliès cut the prices of all films in the Star Films catalog to improve sales?
A) 50%
B) 10%
C) 5%
D) 20%
  • 58. When was Georges Méliès born?
A) 15 June 1855
B) 10 November 1865
C) 21 January 1938
D) 8 December 1861
  • 59. In which city was Georges Méliès born?
A) London
B) Amsterdam
C) Berlin
D) Paris
  • 60. What was the profession of Méliès's father before he moved to Paris?
A) Shoemaker
B) Painter
C) Filmmaker
D) Magician
  • 61. Which school did Méliès attend until it was bombed during the Franco-Prussian War?
A) École des Beaux-Arts
B) University of Paris
C) Lycée Louis-le-Grand
D) Lycée Michelet
  • 62. At what age did young Georges begin building cardboard puppet theatres?
A) 7
B) 14
C) 18
D) 10
  • 63. What degree did Méliès graduate with from the Lycée in 1880?
A) Baccalauréat
B) Diplôme d'Ingénieur
C) Master of Arts
D) Doctorate
  • 64. Which city was Méliès sent to by his father to work as a clerk and improve his English?
A) Geneva
B) London
C) New York
D) Brussels
  • 65. Whose illusion shows at the Egyptian Hall inspired Méliès's lifelong passion for stage magic?
A) Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
B) John Nevil Maskelyne
C) Emile Voisin
D) Robert W. Paul
  • 66. Which magician gave Méliès magic lessons and the opportunity to perform his first public shows?
A) Eugène Calmels
B) Emile Voisin
C) Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
D) John Nevil Maskelyne
  • 67. What was one of Méliès's best-known stage illusions where a professor's severed head continues talking?
A) The Vanishing Lady
B) The One-Man Band
C) The Recalcitrant Decapitated Man
D) The Four Troublesome Heads
  • 68. For which liberal newspaper did Méliès work as a political cartoonist?
A) La Griffe
B) Le Monde
C) Le Figaro
D) La Presse
  • 69. When did Méliès attend the Lumière brothers' special private demonstration of the cinematograph?
A) 15 April 1896
B) 27 December 1895
C) 1 September 1896
D) 8 December 1861
  • 70. Whose film projector did Méliès purchase in London after the Lumières refused to sell him one?
A) Pathé
B) Thomas Edison
C) Gaumont
D) Robert W. Paul
  • 71. Approximately how many films did Méliès direct from 1896 to 1913?
A) Over 2000
B) Exactly 100
C) Under 50
D) Over 500
  • 72. What was the title of Méliès's first film, which was similar to an early Lumière film?
A) Playing Cards
B) Cinderella
C) The Vanishing Lady
D) A Trip to the Moon
  • 73. Which substitution trick accident inspired Méliès to discover stop-trick special effects?
A) A train crashing into a station
B) A horse turning into a dog
C) A house catching on fire
D) A bus changing into a hearse
  • 74. What was the title of the film where Méliès first used the substitution trick to turn a person into a skeleton?
A) The One-Man Band
B) A Terrible Night
C) The Cave of the Demons
D) The Vanishing Lady
  • 75. In which town just outside Paris did Méliès build his glass-walled film studio?
A) Boulogne-Billancourt
B) Versailles
C) Montreuil
D) Saint-Denis
  • 76. Which singer commissioned Méliès in 1897 to make films of his performances, requiring studio arc and mercury lamps?
A) John Nevil Maskelyne
B) Alfred Dreyfus
C) Paulus
D) Charles Perrault
  • 77. What is the title of the surviving 'stag film' by Star Films that stars Jeanne d'Alcy stripping down to a flesh-coloured leotard?
A) A Dinner Under Difficulties
B) After the Ball
C) A Hypnotist at Work
D) Peeping Tom at the Seaside
  • 78. What is the title of the film in which Méliès removes his own head three times to create a musical chorus?
A) The Four Troublesome Heads
B) The Recalcitrant Decapitated Man
C) A Trip to the Moon
D) The One-Man Band
  • 79. In what year was Méliès's previously lost early horror film Robbing Cleopatra's Tomb rediscovered in Paris?
A) 2005
B) 1899
C) 1938
D) 1902
  • 80. Which historical political scandal was the basis for Méliès's ambitious historical reconstruction film in 1899?
A) The Franco-Prussian War
B) The French Revolution
C) The Napoleonic Wars
D) The Dreyfus Affair
  • 81. What term is used for Méliès's films that featured multiple scenes?
A) Tableaux
B) Tableches
C) Tablets
D) Féeries
  • 82. What trade union did Méliès and other filmmakers establish in 1900 to defend themselves in foreign markets?
A) International Cinematograph Union
B) Chambre Syndicale des Editeurs Cinématographiques
C) Star Film Protection League
D) French Filmmakers Guild
  • 83. Méliès was one of the first filmmakers to use which pre-production tool in his work?
A) Megaphones
B) Teleprompters
C) Script doctors
D) Storyboards
  • 84. Where did Gaston Méliès establish his first studio, the Méliès Manufacturing Company?
A) San Antonio
B) Chicago
C) Paris
D) New York City
  • 85. Where did Gaston Méliès move his manufacturing company after Chicago?
A) San Antonio, Texas
B) Tahiti
C) Southern California
D) Fort Lee, New Jersey
  • 86. What type of films did Gaston Méliès produce at his Star Film Ranch in San Antonio?
A) Stage magic revues
B) Féeries
C) Documentaries
D) Westerns
  • 87. What name did Gaston give to his branch of Star Films by 1911?
A) Vitagraph Studios
B) Méliès Manufacturing Company
C) American Wildwest Productions
D) Star Film Ranch
  • 88. Which company signed an agreement with Star Films in 1910 to distribute all of its films?
A) Pathé Frères
B) Vitagraph
C) Gaumont
D) Biograph
  • 89. Who did Pathé hire to trim Cinderella or the Glass Slipper down to 33 minutes?
A) Miriam Rosen
B) Ferdinand Zecca
C) Gaston Méliès
D) Jean Mitry
  • 90. Where did Gaston Méliès travel with a film crew in the summer of 1912?
A) Fort Lee, New Jersey
B) San Antonio, Texas
C) Montreuil, France
D) Tahiti
  • 91. To whom did Gaston Méliès have to sell the American branch of Star Films after losing $50,000?
A) Gaumont
B) Charles Pathé
C) Vitagraph Studios
D) Thomas Edison
  • 92. When did Gaston Méliès die?
A) 1910
B) 1923
C) 1915
D) 1913
  • 93. What was the name of Georges Méliès's son who was left motherless in 1913?
A) Gaston
B) Charles
C) André
D) Ferdinand
  • 94. What was the occupation of Jehanne d'Alcy before their marriage?
A) Film director
B) Actress
C) Nurse
D) Journalist
  • 95. Who was the first film historian to demonstrate Méliès's importance to the industry?
A) Georges-Michel Coissac
B) Louis Lumière
C) Eugène Lauste
D) Henri Langlois
  • 96. In what year did Georges-Michel Coissac interview Méliès for a book on cinema history?
A) 1924
B) 1926
C) 1925
D) 1929
  • 97. In what year did Ciné-Journal locate Méliès and commission his memoir?
A) 1938
B) 1926
C) 1924
D) 1931
  • 98. Where was the gala retrospective of Méliès's work held in December 1929?
A) Orly Retirement Home
B) Père Lachaise Cemetery
C) Gare Montparnasse
D) Salle Pleyel
  • 99. How many hours a day did Méliès report working in his letter to Eugène Lauste?
A) 14 hours
B) 8 hours
C) 10 hours
D) 16 hours
  • 100. Which organization arranged a place for Méliès at the film industry's retirement home in 1932?
A) Léopold Bellan Hospital
B) The Cinema Society
C) Cinémathèque française
D) Ciné-Journal
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