Q 01/05

Which word, also the title of an opera, gets Bill Harford through the mansion gates in Eyes Wide Shut?

A) Idomeneo

B) Fidelio

C) Rigoletto

D) Otello

Answer · why

B) Fidelio

Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, is named for the disguise a wife takes to free her jailed husband. A tale of marital loyalty opens the door to a nigh...

Q 02/05

Which Australian star secretly dubbed the masked woman who warns Bill Harford at the mansion in Eyes Wide Shut?

A) Naomi Watts

B) Toni Collette

C) Cate Blanchett

D) Rachel Griffiths

Answer · why

C) Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett recorded the lines after Kubrick's death because the actress on screen could not manage a convincing American accent. Cruise and Kidman...

Q 03/05

Stanley Kubrick coined the surname Harford in Eyes Wide Shut as a nod to which Hollywood leading man?

A) Harrison Ford

B) Henry Fonda

C) Gary Cooper

D) Robert Redford

Answer · why

A) Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford was the type Kubrick pictured for Bill, so he folded the star's name into Harford. The part itself went to Tom Cruise.

Q 04/05

Eyes Wide Shut, planned as a three-month job, holds which Guinness World Record?

A) Most takes of a single shot

B) Largest purpose-built street set

C) Longest continuous film shoot

D) Most costumes for one film

Answer · why

C) Longest continuous film shoot

Longest continuous film shoot is the record: more than 15 months in all, with 46 weeks of it unbroken. One shot of Tom Cruise walking through a door r...

Q 05/05

Eyes Wide Shut swaps the novella's Carnival season for which holiday, even though the film opened in summer?

A) Halloween

B) Christmas

C) New Year's Eve

D) Valentine's Day

Answer · why

B) Christmas

Christmas trees stand in nearly every set except the mansion, and their lights gave Kubrick a glow to film by. One critic called it the Christmas movi...