Q 01/05

Salinger's girlfriend Oona O'Neill, a playwright's daughter, left him in the 1940s for which film star?

A) Charlie Chaplin

B) Errol Flynn

C) Douglas Fairbanks

D) Clark Gable

Answer · why

A) Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin married Oona in June 1943, a month after she turned 18. Salinger had phoned her often and written her long letters before the romance ...

Q 02/05

Which Kevin Costner film replaced the novel's kidnapped J. D. Salinger with a fictional writer, fearing a lawsuit?

A) Bull Durham

B) The Untouchables

C) Field of Dreams

D) For Love of the Game

Answer · why

C) Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams turned Salinger into the reclusive Terence Mann, played by James Earl Jones. In W. P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, the hero takes th...

Q 03/05

Whose killer stayed at the New York scene reading a copy of Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye?

A) Harvey Milk

B) Marvin Gaye

C) Gianni Versace

D) John Lennon

Answer · why

D) John Lennon

John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, had bought the book that same day. He sat reading it outside the Dakota building until police arrived and ar...

Q 04/05

Salinger, serving with the US 4th Infantry Division, was at which Normandy beach on D-Day?

A) Omaha

B) Utah

C) Juno

D) Sword

Answer · why

B) Utah

Utah Beach was only the start of Salinger's war. He went on to the Battle of Hürtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in five campaigns and...

Q 05/05

Salinger's son Matt became an actor and played which Marvel superhero in a 1990 film?

A) The Punisher

B) Spider-Man

C) Captain America

D) The Incredible Hulk

Answer · why

C) Captain America

Captain America is one of Matt Salinger's two best-known films, with Revenge of the Nerds. After his father died, he became an executor of the literar...