Q 01/05

Who directed the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night?

A) Sidney Lumet

B) Norman Jewison

C) Stanley Kramer

D) Mike Nichols

Answer · why

B) Norman Jewison

Norman Jewison was told by Robert Kennedy while making it that the film could be very important because 'timing is everything'; it won Best Picture, t...

Q 02/05

Who plays detective Virgil Tibbs in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night?

A) Harry Belafonte

B) Ossie Davis

C) James Earl Jones

D) Sidney Poitier

Answer · why

D) Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier played Tibbs three times in five years, returning for two sequels, yet it was his co-star who took the acting Oscar for the original.

Q 03/05

In the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night, Virgil Tibbs is a homicide detective from which city?

A) Pittsburgh

B) New York

C) Philadelphia

D) Baltimore

Answer · why

C) Philadelphia

Philadelphia is where his own chief orders him to stay and help the local police with the case, when all Tibbs wants is to leave town.

Q 04/05

Who won the Best Actor Oscar for playing Chief Bill Gillespie in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night?

A) Warren Beatty

B) Dustin Hoffman

C) Paul Newman

D) Rod Steiger

Answer · why

D) Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger won on the night, while his top-billed co-star, who made three films about race relations that year, was not nominated at all.

Q 05/05

In the Heat of the Night beat which Hoffman film to Best Picture?

A) The Graduate

B) Midnight Cowboy

C) Papillon

D) Tootsie

Answer · why

A) The Graduate

The Graduate went home with only the directing Oscar, while In the Heat of the Night took five awards from seven nominations, the top prize among them...