Q 01/05

Dances with Wolves opened in 1990, the same year as which film?

A) Goodfellas

B) Gladiator

C) Braveheart

D) Unforgiven

Answer · why

A) Goodfellas

Goodfellas. Scorsese's gangster film opened that September and was up for the same Best Picture Oscar, which went to Costner's three-hour Western.

Q 02/05

What is the surname of the Union lieutenant Kevin Costner plays in Dances with Wolves?

A) Dunbar

B) Elgin

C) Bauer

D) Spivey

Answer · why

A) Dunbar

Dunbar. Decorated for a reckless charge and offered any posting he liked, the lieutenant asked for the western frontier, wanting to see it before it w...

Q 03/05

Who wrote both the novel Dances with Wolves and the Oscar-winning screenplay adapted from it?

A) William Goldman

B) Larry McMurtry

C) Cormac McCarthy

D) Michael Blake

Answer · why

D) Michael Blake

Michael Blake. He was penniless and had no home of his own while writing the novel in 1986, living on friends' hospitality; five years later the scree...

Q 04/05

Much of the dialogue in Dances with Wolves is spoken, with English subtitles, in which language?

A) Cheyenne

B) Arapaho

C) Lakota

D) Navajo

Answer · why

C) Lakota

Lakota. About a third of the dialogue is in it, and Costner built three weeks of rehearsal into the schedule so that his cast could learn their lines ...

Q 05/05

In the novel Dances with Wolves, the lieutenant settles among which people, a detail the film changed?

A) Cheyenne

B) Comanche

C) Crow

D) Apache

Answer · why

B) Comanche

Comanche. The film gave him different hosts, but the author's sequel novel stayed with the book and made its hero a full Comanche warrior.