Q 01/05

About how many wounded soldiers is Desmond Doss credited with rescuing from the top of Hacksaw Ridge?

A) 8

B) 25

C) 75

D) 250

Answer · why

C) 75

75 was a compromise: Doss put the number he had saved at about 50, his commanding officer wanted to credit him with 100, and they met in the middle.

Q 02/05

In which country was Hacksaw Ridge filmed from start to finish, with a disused quarry standing in for the cliff?

A) Australia

B) New Zealand

C) Thailand

D) Philippines

Answer · why

A) Australia

Australia supplied the locations, most of the cast and the government subsidies that made the financing possible.

Q 03/05

Which faith, in which his mother raised him, leads Desmond Doss to refuse to carry a weapon in Hacksaw Ridge?

A) Jehovah's Witnesses

B) Seventh-day Adventist

C) Religious Society of Friends

D) Mennonite Brethren

Answer · why

B) Seventh-day Adventist

Seventh-day Adventist teaching also made the real Doss a lifelong vegetarian, and his congregation made him a deacon at twenty-one.

Q 04/05

The actor who plays Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge had earlier starred in two films as which comic-book superhero?

A) Superman

B) Daredevil

C) Green Lantern

D) Spider-Man

Answer · why

D) Spider-Man

Spider-Man came first, in The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, but he called Doss a real superhero and found playing him much more inspiring.

Q 05/05

Desmond Doss of Hacksaw Ridge was the first conscientious objector to receive which American decoration?

A) Silver Star

B) Legion of Merit

C) Medal of Honor

D) Soldier's Medal

Answer · why

C) Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor went to a man who disliked the label: Doss preferred to call himself a conscientious cooperator, eager to serve but not to kill.