Q 01/05

Which actor won his first Academy Award for playing the defiant Private Trip in Glory?

A) Denzel Washington

B) Laurence Fishburne

C) Wesley Snipes

D) Samuel L. Jackson

Answer · why

A) Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington took Best Supporting Actor for the role, then became a two-time winner twelve years later as a corrupt detective in Training Day.

Q 02/05

Which actor, famous as the teenage truant Ferris Bueller, plays Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in Glory?

A) Anthony Michael Hall

B) Matthew Broderick

C) John Cusack

D) Emilio Estevez

Answer · why

B) Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick later learned on a television ancestry show that his own great-great-grandfather had fought as a Union soldier.

Q 03/05

In Glory, where do Confederate soldiers bury Colonel Shaw after the failed assault on Fort Wagner?

A) An officers' cemetery nearby

B) At sea, off the island

C) A mass grave with his men

D) A churchyard in the city

Answer · why

C) A mass grave with his men

A mass grave with his men was meant as an insult, but Shaw's father declared himself proud that his son lay among his soldiers.

Q 04/05

In Glory, Private Trip is punished for desertion after leaving camp to look for which badly needed item?

A) Bread

B) Medicine

C) Blankets

D) Shoes

Answer · why

D) Shoes

Shoes were all Trip wanted, and the discovery sends a furious Shaw off to demand proper supplies for the whole regiment.

Q 05/05

Glory opens with Captain Shaw wounded at which 1862 battle, the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?

A) Seven Pines

B) Antietam

C) Fredericksburg

D) Perryville

Answer · why

B) Antietam

Antietam is where the real Shaw fought with the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, months before the governor chose him to lead a new regiment.