Q 01/05

Bringing Out the Dead was the last title released in North America on which home video format?

A) Betamax

B) CED Videodisc

C) LaserDisc

D) Video CD

Answer · why

C) LaserDisc

LaserDisc bowed out with this film: the disc reached North American shops in October 2000, almost a year after the cinema release.

Q 02/05

Which Oscar-winning actor plays burned-out paramedic Frank Pierce in Bringing Out the Dead?

A) Nicolas Cage

B) John Cusack

C) Robert Downey Jr.

D) Johnny Depp

Answer · why

A) Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage later singled the film out as one of the best he ever made, even though it had flopped at the box office.

Q 03/05

Which director of Bringing Out the Dead is also heard as the voice of the male ambulance dispatcher?

A) Oliver Stone

B) William Friedkin

C) Sidney Lumet

D) Martin Scorsese

Answer · why

D) Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese barks the radio calls himself, and he said making the film exorcised ten years of ambulances taking his parents to hospital.

Q 04/05

The title of Bringing Out the Dead is a joking reference to a plague scene in which comedy film?

A) And Now for Something Completely Different

B) Monty Python and the Holy Grail

C) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

D) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Answer · why

B) Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a collector touring a plague town for corpses; the novelist chose the title with a sense of humor.

Q 05/05

Bringing Out the Dead reunited the director and writer of which film about a sleepless loner?

A) Mean Streets

B) After Hours

C) Taxi Driver

D) The King of Comedy

Answer · why

C) Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver came 23 years earlier, and the new film has been described as a pitch-black comic take on it, with an ambulance in place of the cab.