Q 01/05

The title Cloud Atlas comes from a piece by composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, once married to which famous artist?

A) Yayoi Kusama

B) Patti Smith

C) Yoko Ono

D) Laurie Anderson

Answer · why

C) Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono was married to Toshi Ichiyanagi before John Lennon, whose music inspired the author's previous novel. He said the coincidence pleased him, an...

Q 02/05

Which actor plays six roles in the film Cloud Atlas, from a thieving hotel manager to the tribesman Zachry?

A) Tom Hanks

B) Russell Crowe

C) Kevin Costner

D) Jeff Bridges

Answer · why

A) Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks kept the project alive: when the studio withdrew its money, he told the directors he was in and asked when they would start. The rest of the...

Q 03/05

Which sibling filmmakers wrote and directed the film Cloud Atlas together with Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer?

A) The Coens

B) The Wachowskis

C) The Russos

D) The Kaurismäkis

Answer · why

B) The Wachowskis

The Wachowskis, makers of The Matrix, shot the 1849 story and the two future ones while Tom Tykwer filmed the other three with a separate crew. They p...

Q 04/05

What kind of institution is Aurora House, which Timothy Cavendish enters in Cloud Atlas believing it is a hotel?

A) A psychiatric hospital

B) A monastery

C) A boarding school

D) A nursing home

Answer · why

D) A nursing home

A nursing home is where Cavendish has unwittingly committed himself, with all contact with the outside world forbidden. He breaks out with three fello...

Q 05/05

The birthmark that recurs on main characters throughout Cloud Atlas is shaped like which heavenly body?

A) A comet

B) The Moon

C) A star

D) Saturn

Answer · why

A) A comet

A comet is the shape of the mark, one thread in a web of repeated motifs that ties the novel's six central characters together across continents and c...