Q 01/05

In The Godfather, film producer Jack Woltz wakes to find the severed head of which animal in his bed?

A) A horse

B) A greyhound

C) A bull

D) A rooster

Answer · why

A) A horse

A horse named Khartoum, a racehorse Woltz valued at $600,000, pays the price for his refusal to cast singer Johnny Fontane.

Q 02/05

The Departed remade the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs but moved the story to which American city?

A) Chicago

B) Philadelphia

C) Boston

D) Baltimore

Answer · why

C) Boston

Boston gave the remake an Irish mob in place of the original's triad, and the relocated story went on to win four Academy Awards.

Q 03/05

Which actor declined his Oscar for playing Vito Corleone, sending activist Sacheen Littlefeather in his place?

A) George C. Scott

B) Marlon Brando

C) Laurence Olivier

D) Orson Welles

Answer · why

B) Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando was only the second man to turn down the Best Actor award, after George C. Scott refused his for Patton two years earlier.

Q 04/05

In Scarface, Tony Montana reaches Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift as a refugee from which country?

A) Colombia

B) Bolivia

C) Panama

D) Cuba

Answer · why

D) Cuba

Cuba's Mariel boatlift brought about 125,000 people to Florida in 1980; the film, though set in Miami, was shot mostly in Los Angeles after requests t...

Q 05/05

Which actor won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing the volatile gangster Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas?

A) Ray Liotta

B) Joe Pesci

C) Paul Sorvino

D) Harvey Keitel

Answer · why

B) Joe Pesci

Joe Pesci's Tommy was based on real mobster Thomas DeSimone, and in the same year, 1990, he played a bumbling burglar in Home Alone.