Q 01/05

Which film won Anthony Hopkins his first Best Actor Oscar and swept all five major Academy Awards?

A) The Remains of the Day

B) The Silence of the Lambs

C) The World's Fastest Indian

D) Bram Stoker's Dracula

Answer · why

B) The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs was only the third film to win Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay together. The first two were It Happened...

Q 02/05

Anthony Hopkins won his second Best Actor Oscar for The Father, playing a man living with which condition?

A) Dementia

B) Epilepsy

C) Blindness

D) Parkinson's

Answer · why

A) Dementia

Dementia shapes The Father, which Florian Zeller adapted from his own 2012 play Le Père. Hopkins's character in the film is also named Anthony.

Q 03/05

Which Marvel character did Anthony Hopkins play in three Thor films released between 2011 and 2017?

A) Zeus

B) Heimdall

C) Odin

D) Thanos

Answer · why

C) Odin

Odin rules Asgard in the films, and Hopkins admitted he knew nothing of the comics before taking the part. He said he found a personal resonance in th...

Q 04/05

Which actress won an Oscar as FBI trainee Clarice Starling opposite Anthony Hopkins's Hannibal Lecter?

A) Michelle Pfeiffer

B) Meg Ryan

C) Sigourney Weaver

D) Jodie Foster

Answer · why

D) Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster got the part only after Michelle Pfeiffer and Meg Ryan had each turned it down, uneasy about the gruesome subject matter.

Q 05/05

Which US president did Anthony Hopkins play in Oliver Stone's 1995 biopic, earning a Best Actor Oscar nomination?

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

B) Gerald Ford

C) Ronald Reagan

D) Richard Nixon

Answer · why

D) Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon looked an odd fit for a Welshman, but Oliver Stone told Hopkins that his outsider quality was exactly why he wanted him for the part.