Django Unchained Trivia
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50 free Django Unchained trivia questions with answers. Django Unchained is Tarantino's biggest hit and his most argued-over film, and this quiz digs into both. Fifty questions cover Django and Dr. King Schultz, Broomhilda and Candyland, the plantation dinner that turned real blood into a take, the stars who almost played the parts, the 1966 spaghetti Western that lent its name and its star, the two Oscars, the Rick Ross, John Legend and Morricone soundtrack, and the fights over the film's language and violence. Easy questions ask who plays Django and where the film premiered on the calendar; the hard ones want the name of the original Django's cameo character, the TV detective who inspired Schultz's coat and the Karl May hero behind the character. Made for anyone who has ever said 'the D is silent.' Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its cast, its predecessor and its soundtrack, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which musical out-earned Django Unchained on their shared opening day?
Les Misérables
Les Misérables led the day with $18.1 million to Django's $15 million. Tarantino's film had the longer legs, though, and finished ahead in the US with about $163 million.
Q 02Who plays the title character in Django Unchained?
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx also worked on the soundtrack: he produced and sang on '100 Black Coffins', one of the songs written specially for the film.
Q 03Who plays the German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained?
Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz had the part written specially for him. Bees startled his horse, which threw him, and the fall injured his pelvis.
Q 04What is the name of the plantation owner who holds Broomhilda in Django Unchained?
Calvin Candie
Calvin Candie insists on being called 'Monsieur', yet his lawyer warns visitors not to speak French to him: he doesn't know the language and it would embarrass him.
Q 05Who plays Broomhilda, Django's wife, in Django Unchained?
Kerry Washington
Kerry Washington's character is Broomhilda von Shaft. Tarantino chose the surname so that she and Django would be ancestors of the 1970s screen detective John Shaft.
Q 06Who plays Stephen, the fiercely loyal head house slave in Django Unchained?
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson said Stephen is the one who really runs the plantation, and it is Stephen who works out that Django and Broomhilda know each other and exposes the ruse.
Q 07Which Django Unchained actor really cut his hand on a glass in the dinner scene and stayed in character?
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio slammed his hand onto a glass around the sixth take and kept going as it bled. The room gave him a standing ovation, and Tarantino kept the take in the film.
Q 08Which star turned down the title role in Django Unchained, later saying it 'wasn't the lead'?
Will Smith
Will Smith was deep in rewrites on Men in Black 3 and said there was no time for his input on the script. He still called the finished film brilliant.
Q 09Before turning bounty hunter in Django Unchained, what was Dr. King Schultz's profession?
Dentist
Dentist. Schultz admits he hasn't practised in five years, yet he rides a cart topped with a giant wobbling molar, built for the film when its injured actor could not sit a horse.
Q 10Which pseudoscience does the villain of Django Unchained cite to justify slavery?
Phrenology
Phrenology, the reading of character from the shape of the skull, drives his dinner-table speech. It was inspired by a racist Civil War-era book in the actor's own collection.
Q 11Which Beethoven piece is heard in Django Unchained?
Für Elise
Für Elise is an anachronism here: Beethoven wrote it in 1810, but it lay unpublished until 1867, years after the pre-Civil War story takes place.
Q 12On which US holiday did Django Unchained open in American theaters?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day. Making the date was a scramble: the 130-day shoot wrapped only in late July 2012, leaving Tarantino about four months to finish the film.
Q 13Along with Best Supporting Actor, which Oscar did Django Unchained win?
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay. Tarantino won for his writing even though the Academy left him off that year's Best Director list.
Q 21Which star of the 1966 original Django makes a cameo in Django Unchained as a slave owner at the bar?
Franco Nero
Franco Nero suggested playing a horseman in black who haunts Django's visions and turns out to be his father. Tarantino declined and cast him as an Italian drinking at the bar instead.
Q 22Which rapper performs '100 Black Coffins', the Django Unchained track produced by its lead actor?
Rick Ross
Rick Ross recorded one of four songs made for the film, a rarity for Tarantino, who usually reuses existing music because he dislikes 'giving that much power to anybody' on his movies.
Q 23Which comedy star cameos in Django Unchained as one of Big Daddy's hooded raiders?
Jonah Hill
Q 14Django Unchained's Dr. King Schultz actor won his first Oscar for which earlier Tarantino film?
Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds. He played SS colonel Hans Landa, a part Tarantino feared was unplayable until this actor auditioned and, in the director's words, 'gave me my movie'.
Q 15At the end of Django Unchained, Django destroys the plantation mansion using what?
Dynamite
Dynamite is an anachronism: Alfred Nobel invented it in 1866 and patented it the next year, after the Civil War, while the film's story is set before the war began.
Q 16Django Unchained opens with Django in a chained coffle of slaves in which state?
Texas
Texas. Schultz rides up there at night, shoots one of the slavers when a gun is pulled on him, and leaves the other to the men he had been driving in chains.
Q 17In Django Unchained, the plantation where Broomhilda is held lies in which state?
Mississippi
Mississippi. To get invited there, Schultz poses as a wealthy buyer of fighting slaves and passes Django off as his hired expert.
Q 18Which actor plays plantation owner Big Daddy Bennett in Django Unchained?
Don Johnson
Don Johnson's Big Daddy wears a cream linen suit that the costume designer based on the actor's signature Miami Vice look, though she resisted rolling up the sleeves.
Q 19Which French novelist, Schultz tells the villain of Django Unchained, was black?
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas. The villain has named a slave D'Artagnan after the Musketeers hero, unaware that the novelist's own grandmother was an enslaved African woman in what is now Haiti.
Q 20Sergio Leone made the Dollars films, but who directed the original Django in 1966?
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci. Tarantino hit on the idea for his own film while writing an essay on Corbucci's brutal Westerns for a planned book about directors.
Jonah Hill had been offered a bigger part, a gambler who loses Broomhilda at poker, but turned it down over a clash with The Watch. That role was cut, and he returned for the raid scene.
Q 24In 2013, Django Unchained overtook which 1990 film as the highest-grossing Western to date?
Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves had grossed about $424 million worldwide. Django passed it largely on overseas ticket sales, which supplied nearly two-thirds of its $450 million.
Q 25Which hero of German legend, Schultz tells Django, walked through hellfire to rescue the original Broomhilda?
Siegfried
Siegfried. Schultz says that when a German meets a real-life Siegfried it is 'kind of a big deal', and that as a German he is obliged to help Django rescue his own Broomhilda.
Q 26A 2014-15 comic-book sequel to Django Unchained teamed Django with which classic masked hero?
Zorro
Zorro. Because his heyday came decades before Django's, co-writer Matt Wagner planned to put a new man behind the mask, but Tarantino insisted on the original Don Diego de la Vega, now grown old.
Q 27Which filmmaker refused to see Django Unchained, calling it 'disrespectful to my ancestors'?
Spike Lee
Spike Lee told Vibe he would not see it, then tweeted that American slavery 'was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a Holocaust.'
Q 28Tarantino's abandoned sequel novel, Django in White Hell, was reworked into which film?
The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight. Tarantino found that Django's morals did not fit the snowbound story he was developing, so he dropped the character and rewrote it as a film of its own.
Q 29In Django Unchained, Dr. King Schultz hails from which Rhine city?
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf. Schultz turns his home city into a cover story, posing as a big-money buyer from Düsseldorf who needs Django as his expert on fighting slaves.
Q 30Which Jim Croce hit, first heard as a 1973 film theme, features in Django Unchained?
I Got a Name
I Got a Name was the theme of The Last American Hero. It came out as a single the day after Croce died in a plane crash in September 1973, making it his first posthumous hit.