Q 01/05

In Blood Diamond, what color is the enormous rough diamond that Solomon Vandy finds while mining a river?

A) Blue

B) Yellow

C) Pink

D) Green

Answer · why

C) Pink

Pink is the color of the stone that every character ends up chasing. Smuggler Danny Archer hears about it in prison and arranges Solomon's release to ...

Q 02/05

Blood Diamond's smuggler Danny Archer was born in Rhodesia, a country known by what name today?

A) Zambia

B) Namibia

C) Botswana

D) Zimbabwe

Answer · why

D) Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is the modern name of Archer's birthplace. He tells Maddy Bowen that rebels killed his parents, and that he fled to South Africa as a child.

Q 03/05

Leonardo DiCaprio earned two Golden Globe nominations in one category for Blood Diamond and which other 2006 film?

A) The Departed

B) The Aviator

C) Gangs of New York

D) Catch Me If You Can

Answer · why

A) The Departed

The Departed, Martin Scorsese's Boston crime thriller, went on to win Best Picture. Oscar voters, though, nominated DiCaprio for playing Danny Archer ...

Q 04/05

Which rapper won a Grammy for Diamonds from Sierra Leone, a 2005 single built on a James Bond theme sample?

A) Ludacris

B) Kanye West

C) Eminem

D) Snoop Dogg

Answer · why

B) Kanye West

Kanye West first wrote the song about his record label, then re-recorded it after learning about blood diamonds. It samples Shirley Bassey's Diamonds ...

Q 05/05

Which Oscar winner for A Beautiful Mind plays journalist Maddy Bowen opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond?

A) Jennifer Connelly

B) Rachel Weisz

C) Catherine Zeta-Jones

D) Charlize Theron

Answer · why

A) Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Connelly won her Oscar as Alicia Nash, the wife of mathematician John Nash. Her Blood Diamond reporter helps Archer in exchange for evidence ...