Q 01/05

Kathy Bates won the Best Actress Oscar for playing an author's obsessive fan in which 1990 thriller?

A) Misery

B) Carrie

C) Christine

D) Firestarter

Answer · why

A) Misery

Misery cast Kathy Bates when she was a stage actress mostly unknown to film audiences, and the part of Annie Wilkes won her both the Oscar and a Golde...

Q 02/05

Which real first-class passenger did Kathy Bates play in the 1997 epic Titanic?

A) Madeleine Astor

B) Molly Brown

C) Ida Straus

D) Dorothy Gibson

Answer · why

B) Molly Brown

Molly Brown is looked down on by the other first-class women as vulgar new money. The real Margaret Brown urged Lifeboat 6's crew to go back for survi...

Q 03/05

Kathy Bates played the overprotective Mama Boucher, mother of which comedian's character, in The Waterboy?

A) Chris Farley

B) David Spade

C) Rob Schneider

D) Adam Sandler

Answer · why

D) Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler plays Bobby Boucher, and Kathy Bates nearly passed on the film: she threw the script in the trash after a few pages because football did ...

Q 04/05

Which tool does Kathy Bates's Annie Wilkes swing to break her captive writer's ankles in a notorious hobbling scene?

A) A felling axe

B) A cast-iron skillet

C) A sledgehammer

D) A fire poker

Answer · why

C) A sledgehammer

A sledgehammer replaced the novel's axe, with which Annie cuts off a foot. The director insisted she only break the ankles, and the screenwriter later...

Q 05/05

Kathy Bates's CBS drama Matlock shares its name with a 1980s legal series that starred which television veteran?

A) Andy Griffith

B) Angela Lansbury

C) Raymond Burr

D) Dick Van Dyke

Answer · why

A) Andy Griffith

Andy Griffith played the title lawyer, Ben Matlock, from 1986. In the Bates series the old show exists as television, and her character borrows the fa...