Q 01/05

McCandless gave the roughly $24,000 left in his college fund after Emory to which charity?

A) UNICEF

B) The Red Cross

C) Oxfam

D) Greenpeace

Answer · why

C) Oxfam

Oxfam got all of it, a college fund of more than $24,000, and McCandless then lived as a drifter, taking work as a farm-hand or restaurant food prepar...

Q 02/05

McCandless, who abandoned his car and burned his cash, travelled under which alias?

A) Alexander Supertramp

B) Alexander Wanderlust

C) Alexander Vagabond

D) Alexander Drifter

Answer · why

A) Alexander Supertramp

Alexander Supertramp, usually shortened to 'Alex', was all most people he met knew, so his body went unidentified until an old employer dug out a tax ...

Q 03/05

A flash flood disabled McCandless's Datsun, and he abandoned the car beside which desert reservoir?

A) Lake Powell

B) Lake Havasu

C) Lake Mohave

D) Lake Mead

Answer · why

D) Lake Mead

Lake Mead rangers came across the abandoned Datsun a few months later and got it running again, and it was then put to work as an undercover vehicle.

Q 04/05

In Penn's film, McCandless leaves Carthage after his boss Wayne Westerberg is arrested for what?

A) Tax evasion

B) Satellite piracy

C) Drunk driving

D) Cattle rustling

Answer · why

B) Satellite piracy

Satellite piracy puts Westerberg behind bars in the film, so McCandless moves on and takes a kayak down the Colorado River, ignoring the rangers who t...

Q 05/05

Shooting which animal did McCandless call 'one of the greatest tragedies of my life' in his journal?

A) A moose

B) A caribou

C) A black bear

D) A Dall sheep

Answer · why

A) A moose

A moose, shot on June 9, 1992, fed him for only a few days: he failed to preserve the meat, it spoiled, and he wrote 'I now wish I had never shot the ...