Q 01/05

Which studio distributed Braveheart in the United States and Canada?

A) Paramount

B) Universal

C) Columbia

D) Disney

Answer · why

A) Paramount

It financed a third of the budget for those rights; Fox put up the rest for the international release.

Q 02/05

Who wrote the Braveheart screenplay, sharing a surname with its hero?

A) Irving Wallace

B) Randall Wallace

C) David Wallace

D) Seoras Wallace

Answer · why

B) Randall Wallace

He went on to direct The Man in the Iron Mask and We Were Soldiers, and won the Writers Guild award for the script.

Q 03/05

Which 15th-century epic poem was the film's main inspiration?

A) The Scotichronicon

B) The Bruce and the Spider

C) Blind Harry's The Wallace

D) Barbour's The Brus

Answer · why

C) Blind Harry's The Wallace

Historians do not treat it as reliable: it also claims Wallace was seven feet tall.

Q 04/05

Which French actress plays Princess Isabelle?

A) Isabelle Adjani

B) Juliette Binoche

C) Emmanuelle Béart

D) Sophie Marceau

Answer · why

D) Sophie Marceau

The real Isabella was a child living in France at the time of Falkirk and did not marry Edward II until he was already king.

Q 05/05

Which actor, once the star of The Prisoner, plays Edward Longshanks?

A) Patrick McGoohan

B) Brian Cox

C) Ian Bannen

D) James Cosmo

Answer · why

A) Patrick McGoohan

The real Edward I was a devoted husband to Eleanor of Castile and died almost two years after Wallace, not on the same day.