Q 01/05

Which event on the day of Dr. Strangelove's first test screening forced the studio to delay the release?

A) The Cuban Missile Crisis

B) The Bay of Pigs invasion

C) Kennedy's assassination

D) The Gulf of Tonkin incident

Answer · why

C) Kennedy's assassination

Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, fell on the very day of the first test screening. The premiere was pushed into late January because the ...

Q 02/05

Stanley Kubrick won arguments with his Turgidson actor on the Dr. Strangelove set by beating him at which game?

A) Chess

B) Backgammon

C) Gin rummy

D) Billiards

Answer · why

A) Chess

Chess was played frequently on the set, and Kubrick kept winning. Those victories, more than any argument, got his star to go along with scenes the tw...

Q 03/05

Dr. Strangelove, a satire of American nuclear war plans, was filmed at Shepperton Studios in which country?

A) Ireland

B) England

C) Canada

D) Australia

Answer · why

B) England

England hosted the studio shoot, on three main sound stages near London. Peter Sellers was in the middle of a divorce and unable to leave the country,...

Q 04/05

What does Major Kong wave as he rides the falling bomb toward its target in Dr. Strangelove?

A) An American flag

B) His flight helmet

C) A service pistol

D) A cowboy hat

Answer · why

D) A cowboy hat

A cowboy hat is in his hand as the Texan pilot whoops his way down. He ends up astride the weapon because he climbed into the bomb bay to fix the wiri...

Q 05/05

In Dr. Strangelove, which public health measure does General Ripper believe is a Soviet plot against Americans?

A) Water fluoridation

B) Polio vaccination

C) Milk pasteurization

D) Iodized table salt

Answer · why

A) Water fluoridation

Water fluoridation is the general's obsession, and he starts a nuclear war to stop it. The joke was topical: far-right activists of the 1950s really d...