80's Australian Movies: How Well Do You Remember?
ghostlyfink
Created 6/24/2024
Take a trip down memory lane and test your knowledge of 80's Australian movies with this quiz! See how many correct answers you can get out of 10.
1. Which Australian film from the 1980s is based on a play about a working-class Irish-Australian Catholic family?
A Hard God
The Killing of Angel Street
Manganinnie
The Club
2. Which film is noted for being a polished Australian feature directed in widescreen in 1980?
Harlequin
Lonely Hearts
Puberty Blues
Mad Max 2
3. What role was Diana 'Bubbles' Fisher expected to play on the 1980 television program 'The Inventors'?
The scientist
The inventor
The 'dizzy dame'
The host
4. What 1980 television program lampoons suburban Australian culture?
Kingswood Country
Lucinda Brayford
Torque
Rusty Bugles
5. Which 1980 feature film tells the saga of an Australian heiress who marries into British aristocracy?
A Town Like Alice
Lucinda Brayford
Against the Grain
Stepping Out
6. In which 1981 film do teenage girls buy a surfboard and teach themselves to surf?
Puberty Blues
Mad Max 2
The Killing of Angel Street
Winter of Our Dreams
7. Which 1981 political thriller is loosely based on the disappearance of Sydney heiress Juanita Nielsen?
Lonely Hearts
The Club
The Killing of Angel Street
Gallipoli
8. Who is the satirist and comedian that co-wrote the 1981 film 'Lonely Hearts'?
Paul Cox
John Clarke
George Miller
Peter Weir
9. What 1981 feature film is set during World War I and is one of Peter Weir’s most emotional works?
Backs to the Blast
A Town Like Alice
Against the Grain
Gallipoli
10. What is the title of the 1982 television series that uses First World War historical footage?
The Blainey View – Footprints
1915
A Big Country – Gulf Battlers
The Australian Way: A Salute to Aussie Sex Appeal
