This movie trivia game is the movies & tv edition of Rarest, where the rarest right answer wins. Prompts ask for Pixar, Disney and DreamWorks films, Marvel films, Best Picture winners, sitcoms, Simpsons and Star Wars characters and much more. Toy Story and Frozen are the answers everyone types first; the film a studio quietly released between its hits is where the burner roars.
Play it right here: the game above locks every round to movies & tv. You can play the daily round (seven prompts, the same for everyone that day) or switch to Unlimited for as many rounds as you like. For a mix of all eight categories, play Rarest, the rarest answer game on the home page.
How the movie trivia game works
- You get seven prompts, each starting with "Name a…" or "Name the…", and 25 seconds per prompt (or no clock at all with No timer).
- Type any correct answer and press Enter. A wrong guess costs one second and you can try again.
- Each correct answer lands in one of six tiers, from Flicker (5 points) to Inferno (100 points). Once per round, Thermal ×2 doubles one prompt.
- After each prompt you see where your answer ranks, the best-known answers and a few of the rarest.
All 40 prompts in the movie trivia game
These are the prompts the movies & tv edition draws from, with how many correct answers each one accepts:
- Name a Pixar film (31 answers)
- Name a Walt Disney Animation Studios film (64 answers)
- Name a DreamWorks Animation film (54 answers)
- Name a Marvel Cinematic Universe film (37 answers)
- Name an official James Bond film (25 answers)
- Name a Disney Channel Original Movie (123 answers)
- Name a film that won the Oscar for Best Picture (98 answers)
- Name an actor who won the Oscar for Best Actor (87 answers)
- Name an actress who won the Oscar for Best Actress (82 answers)
- Name a director who won the Oscar for Best Director (75 answers)
- Name a film that won the Oscar for Best International Feature (71 answers)
- Name a film that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes (97 answers)
- Name a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (60 answers)
- Name a film directed by Steven Spielberg (39 answers)
- Name a film directed by Martin Scorsese (41 answers)
- Name a film directed by Clint Eastwood (41 answers)
- Name a film directed by Akira Kurosawa (32 answers)
- Name a film starring Tom Hanks (73 answers)
- Name a film starring Meryl Streep (74 answers)
- Name a film starring Tom Cruise (51 answers)
- Name a film scored by John Williams (116 answers)
- Name a film based on a Stephen King story (63 answers)
- Name an American TV sitcom (1000 answers)
- Name a British TV sitcom (600 answers)
- Name an HBO original series (250 answers)
- Name a Netflix original series (1000 answers)
- Name a Hanna-Barbera cartoon series or character (263 answers)
- Name a Nickelodeon TV show (389 answers)
- Name a Cartoon Network show (218 answers)
- Name a TV medical drama (189 answers)
- Name a character from The Simpsons (177 answers)
- Name a Star Wars character (524 answers)
- Name a character from Tolkien's Middle-earth (532 answers)
- Name a Game of Thrones character (223 answers)
- Name a Marvel Comics character (300 answers)
- Name a DC Comics character (300 answers)
- Name a Looney Tunes character (79 answers)
- Name a Muppet or Sesame Street character (116 answers)
- Name a Star Trek character (175 answers)
- Name a Doctor Who character or alien species (256 answers)
Common answers vs rare answers
Here is what separates a low score from a high one in the rarest answers for a few of the prompts. The left column is what most players type; the right column shows answers from the rarest tier for that prompt.
| Prompt | What most people say | Rare answers |
|---|---|---|
| Name a Pixar film | Toy Story, Cars, Ratatouille | Cars 3, Elio, Elemental (Roar) |
| Name a Walt Disney Animation Studios film | The Lion King, Frozen, Aladdin | Home on the Range, Strange World, Make Mine Music (Inferno) |
| Name a DreamWorks Animation film | Shrek, The Prince of Egypt, Shrek 2 | Orion and the Dark, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Trolls Band Together (Roar) |
| Name a Marvel Cinematic Universe film | Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, The Avengers | Thor: The Dark World, Black Widow, The Marvels (Roar) |
| Name an official James Bond film | Skyfall, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace | Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, The Living Daylights (Roar) |
| Name a Disney Channel Original Movie | High School Musical, Camp Rock, Descendants | Northern Lights, The Jennie Project, Buffalo Dreams (Inferno) |
| Name a film that won the Oscar for Best Picture | The Godfather, Titanic, Forrest Gump | Gentleman's Agreement, Grand Hotel, Cimarron (Inferno) |
| Name an actor who won the Oscar for Best Actor | Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Hanks | Wallace Beery, Paul Muni, Ronald Colman (Inferno) |
| Name an actress who won the Oscar for Best Actress | Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman | Anna Magnani, Shirley Booth, Greer Garson (Inferno) |
| Name a director who won the Oscar for Best Director | Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan | Lewis Milestone, George Roy Hill, Leo McCarey (Inferno) |
For the rarest answers to every prompt in all eight categories, see the rarest answers list.
Tips to win the movie trivia game
- Think of the gaps between the hits. Every studio filmography has films most people have forgotten.
- Characters lists are deep: background characters from long-running shows are rare answers.
- Character lists run deep: Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes and Star Trek all have hundreds of characters beyond the famous few.
- Titles are matched loosely, so a leading 'The' or a small typo will not cost you the answer.
More categories
Rarest has eight categories. Each one has its own page and its own locked game:
- Geography trivia
- Animals trivia
- Food & Drink trivia
- Sports trivia
- Music trivia
- Science trivia
- History trivia
Answer lists are built from Wikidata, and rarity comes from public Wikipedia statistics; read more on the About page.