Q 01/05

How did Deliverance fake the banjo picking of Billy Redden, the local boy who could not play?

A) Footage sped up in editing

B) A player hidden behind him

C) A banjo with dummy strings

D) Shots that never showed his hands

Answer · why

B) A player hidden behind him

A player hidden behind him did the playing. Careful camera angles kept the local musician out of frame, and the music itself was dubbed in from a stud...

Q 02/05

In the Deliverance scene set to Dueling Banjos, Drew answers the banjo boy on which instrument?

A) Fiddle

B) Mandolin

C) Guitar

D) Harmonica

Answer · why

C) Guitar

Guitar is what Drew plays, so the famous duel has only one banjo in it. Ronny Cox really could play, which is why he was hired for the part.

Q 03/05

Burt Reynolds cracked which bone when he rode a canoe over a real waterfall for Deliverance?

A) His tailbone

B) His collarbone

C) His kneecap

D) His jawbone

Answer · why

A) His tailbone

His tailbone took the damage after Reynolds asked to replace the dummy first used for the shot. He recalled John Boorman telling him the new footage s...

Q 04/05

Novelist James Dickey appears near the end of Deliverance playing which small-town character?

A) The doctor

B) The preacher

C) The coroner

D) The sheriff

Answer · why

D) The sheriff

The sheriff who doubts the survivors' story is Dickey himself. John Boorman offered him the cameo after the two men, who had clashed bitterly during t...

Q 05/05

Which Georgia governor set up a state film commission after Deliverance was shot there?

A) Lester Maddox

B) Zell Miller

C) Jimmy Carter

D) Herman Talmadge

Answer · why

C) Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter created the commission to lure more productions, years before he reached the White House. By 2012 Georgia had become one of the top five ...