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