No Country for Old Men Trivia
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50 free No Country for Old Men trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Call it, friendo. This No Country for Old Men trivia quiz covers the Coen brothers' 2007 Best Picture winner from the drug deal in the desert to Sheriff Bell's dream about his father: Llewelyn Moss and the $2 million, Anton Chigurh's captive bolt pistol and coin tosses, the transponder in the case, the motel shootout in Eagle Pass, Carson Wells, Carla Jean's refusal to call it, and the ending that sent audiences out arguing. The making-of questions cover Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel and the Yeats poem behind the title, how Heath Ledger passed and Josh Brolin got in with a Grindhouse audition tape, Mark Strong on standby for Bardem, the haircut, Roger Deakins, Carter Burwell's near-silent score, the smoke from There Will Be Blood next door in Marfa, the eight Oscar nominations and four wins, and Bardem becoming the first Spanish actor to win. Easy questions for anyone who has seen it, harder ones for the people who have read the book too. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the film, the novel, the character and the people who made it, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which earlier Coen brothers film had already won them a screenwriting Oscar before No Country for Old Men?
Fargo
Fargo won Joel and Ethan Coen the original screenplay Oscar in 1997, though the film itself lost Best Picture that night to The English Patient.
Q 02Whose 2005 novel is No Country for Old Men based on?
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy first wrote No Country for Old Men as a screenplay, then reworked it into the 2005 novel that the Coens adapted.
Q 03Who plays the hitman Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men?
Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem wore a greasy pageboy haircut as the killer and went as far as crediting it in his Oscar acceptance speech.
Q 04Which war did Llewelyn Moss fight in?
Vietnam War
Vietnam War: the film is set in 1980, and bounty hunter Carson Wells, another veteran, asks Moss at his hospital bedside whether he was in Nam.
Q 05How much cash is in the case Llewelyn Moss finds in No Country for Old Men?
$2 million
$2 million, in bank-wrapped hundreds beside a dead man who had fled the desert shootout; taking it puts both a drug cartel and a hired killer on Moss's trail.
Q 06What animal is Llewelyn Moss hunting when he finds the drug money in No Country for Old Men?
Pronghorn
Pronghorn, which the script calls antelope: Moss wounds one, sets off after it across the desert and comes upon the shot-up trucks of a drug deal gone wrong instead.
Q 07In No Country for Old Men, what weapon does Anton Chigurh use to kill a driver and steal his car?
A captive bolt pistol
A captive bolt pistol is a slaughterhouse stunner that fires a bolt and snaps it back, so Chigurh hauls a tank of compressed air around with it.
Q 08What does Chigurh warn the gas station owner against doing with the coin that spared him?
Pocketing it
Pocketing it: the owner had called heads on a 1958 quarter, and Chigurh tells him to keep his lucky coin anywhere but his pocket, where it would mix with the others and become just a coin.
Q 09How does Anton Chigurh track Llewelyn Moss to a motel in Del Rio?
A transponder hidden in the money case
A transponder hidden in the money case leads Chigurh to the motel, where Moss has stashed the case in an air duct and rented the room next door to reach it.
Q 10In which Texas border town does the gunfight between Moss and Chigurh spill into the streets?
Eagle Pass
Eagle Pass: the night-time shootout leaves both men badly wounded and a truck driver dead, and Moss then slips across the border into Mexico.
Q 11Where does the wounded Llewelyn Moss hide the case of money after his street gunfight with Chigurh?
Along the Rio Grande
Along the Rio Grande: Moss heaves the case off the border bridge into the cane on the riverbank, where Carson Wells later spots it and leaves it lying.
Q 12Who plays the bounty hunter Carson Wells in No Country for Old Men?
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson plays Wells, whom Chigurh shoots in his hotel room just as the phone rings; Chigurh then picks up and threatens Moss down the line.
Q 13Who unwittingly gives away Moss's El Paso motel to the Mexicans trailing him in No Country for Old Men?
Carla Jean's mother
Q 21How did Ethan Coen say the brothers adapted No Country for Old Men?
One types, one holds the book open
One types, one holds the book open: that was Ethan's account, and much of the dialogue is lifted from the novel almost word for word. Joel added that otherwise his brother would have to type one-handed.
Q 22What does Chigurh drink on the sofa in Moss's empty trailer?
Milk
Milk: Chigurh drinks it facing the dead television, and when Sheriff Bell arrives it is still sweating, which tells him they have only just missed their man.
Q 23Which film shooting nearby in Marfa cost the Coens a day of filming with its smoke?
There Will Be Blood
Carla Jean's mother tells a well-dressed stranger who offers to carry her bags that they are bound for El Paso, and Sheriff Bell reaches the motel to find Moss already dead.
Q 14How does Carla Jean answer Chigurh's offer of a coin toss?
She refuses to call it
She refuses to call it, telling Chigurh the coin has no say and the choice is his alone; in the novel she gives in, picks heads and loses.
Q 15What happens to Anton Chigurh as he drives away from Carla Jean's house?
A car crashes into his
A car crashes into his at a junction and breaks his arm; he buys the shirt off a boy's back for a sling and limps away before the ambulance arrives.
Q 16In Sheriff Bell's second dream, what is his father doing?
Riding past him carrying fire in a horn
Riding past him carrying fire in a horn, going on ahead to make a fire in the dark and cold where Bell knew he would be waiting; then Bell woke up, and the film ends.
Q 17Which poet's line gives No Country for Old Men its title?
W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats opens Sailing to Byzantium with the words 'That is no country for old men', and his ageing speaker leaves the land of the young and sails for the holy city.
Q 18What does Chigurh check as he leaves Carla Jean's house?
His boot soles
His boot soles: he stops and looks at each in turn, a care the film set up earlier, when he lifted his boots onto a bed as Carson Wells's blood spread across the hotel floor.
Q 19Which two directors shot Josh Brolin's audition tape for No Country for Old Men?
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez filmed it on their Grindhouse set with a $1 million camera, and by Brolin's account the Coens' response was to ask who lit it.
Q 20Which producer bought the rights to No Country for Old Men and brought the novel to the Coens?
Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin, known for buying novels before the reviews arrive, took it to the Coens just as their long-planned film of James Dickey's To the White Sea had fallen apart.
There Will Be Blood was testing the fire for its burning oil derrick, and the cloud of black smoke shut the Coens' set down for the day; months later the two films were rivals for Best Picture.
Q 24Which cinematographer shot No Country for Old Men and was Oscar-nominated twice over that year?
Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins was up for both this film and The Assassination of Jesse James, lost with each, and had to wait another decade and a 14th nomination before Blade Runner 2049 finally won him the Oscar.
Q 25Roughly how many minutes of music are heard in the two-hour thriller No Country for Old Men?
16
16 minutes is all the music there is, and several of those play over the end credits; the brothers let gunshots, engine noise and prairie wind carry the tension instead.
Q 26What did the sound team record for the two-part thump of Anton Chigurh's signature weapon?
A pneumatic nail gun
A pneumatic nail gun gave the weapon its ch-chung; sound designer Craig Berkey said he wasn't after authenticity and never even researched the real thing.
Q 27Which film beat No Country for Old Men to three Oscars?
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Ultimatum won all three of its nominations, film editing and both sound awards, so a thriller with barely any music lost the sound Oscars to an all-action blockbuster.
Q 28The actor behind Anton Chigurh switched languages mid-speech to dedicate his Oscar to which country?
Spain
Spain: switching to Spanish, he told his actress mother the Oscar was for her and for the country's performers, who had brought dignity and pride to their profession.
Q 29Which Clint Eastwood film was the last Western to win Best Picture before No Country for Old Men?
Unforgiven
Unforgiven sat in Clint Eastwood's drawer for years: having made a bunch of Westerns, he said, he thought he should do some other things first, while its writer was told more than once that it would be shot next year.
Q 30At which festival did No Country for Old Men premiere in May 2007?
Cannes
Cannes put it in competition, the Coens' seventh film there, sixteen years after Barton Fink won them the Palme d'Or; Joel said they keep coming back because they keep being invited.