Q 01/05

What happens to Matthew Harrison Brady when he tries to speak after the Inherit the Wind verdict?

A) He storms out of town

B) He collapses and dies

C) He concedes the case

D) He is jeered off stage

Answer · why

B) He collapses and dies

He collapses and dies as the crowd files out, ignoring his speech. The statesman he is modeled on outlived the real 1925 trial by five days.

Q 02/05

Which star of Boys Town and Father of the Bride plays lawyer Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind?

A) James Stewart

B) Henry Fonda

C) Gregory Peck

D) Spencer Tracy

Answer · why

D) Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy turned the part down at first; once he signed, the rest of the cast followed. It was the first of four films he made with the same direc...

Q 03/05

Which song-and-dance star of An American in Paris plays reporter E. K. Hornbeck in Inherit the Wind?

A) Gene Kelly

B) Fred Astaire

C) Danny Kaye

D) Donald O'Connor

Answer · why

A) Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly was cast against type because the director liked his mix of intelligence and devilish humor. Trade papers had first announced Theodore Bike...

Q 04/05

Inherit the Wind's Matthew Harrison Brady is modeled on which real three-time presidential candidate?

A) William Howard Taft

B) William Randolph Hearst

C) William Jennings Bryan

D) Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer · why

C) William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan lost the presidency in 1896, 1900 and 1908, then served as Secretary of State. Unlike Brady, he offered to pay the defendant's ...

Q 05/05

The title Inherit the Wind comes from which Old Testament book, quoted by Brady at a prayer meeting?

A) Psalms

B) Isaiah

C) Jeremiah

D) Proverbs

Answer · why

D) Proverbs

Proverbs supplies the warning against bringing trouble on your own household, which Brady turns on Reverend Brown for cursing his own daughter in fron...