Q 01/05

Who created the Mad Max franchise, directing or co-directing every film in it?

A) Peter Weir

B) Baz Luhrmann

C) Russell Mulcahy

D) George Miller

Answer · why

D) George Miller

George Miller has directed every Mad Max film through Furiosa (2024), sharing Beyond Thunderdome with George Ogilvie; he was an emergency-room doctor ...

Q 02/05

What is Mad Max's surname?

A) Rockwell

B) Rockatansky

C) Rostovsky

D) Rakoczy

Answer · why

B) Rockatansky

Rockatansky: the series' creator, a trained doctor, borrowed the name from Carl von Rokitansky, a 19th-century Austrian pathologist who pioneered a me...

Q 03/05

Which actor played Max in the first three Mad Max films?

A) Bryan Brown

B) Mel Gibson

C) Sam Neill

D) Jack Thompson

Answer · why

B) Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson was a drama-school graduate with one film behind him; the director had flown to Los Angeles for an American name, found one would swallow t...

Q 04/05

Under what title was Mad Max 2 released in the United States?

A) The Road Warrior

B) The Interceptor

C) Fury Road

D) Desert Outlaw

Answer · why

A) The Road Warrior

Warner Bros. released Mad Max 2 in the United States in 1982 as The Road Warrior, dropping the sequel number because the 1979 original had barely been...

Q 05/05

Which pop star plays Aunty Entity, ruler of Bartertown, in Beyond Thunderdome?

A) Tina Turner

B) Grace Jones

C) Donna Summer

D) Diana Ross

Answer · why

A) Tina Turner

Tina Turner got the part because, while writing the script, the filmmakers kept describing Aunty as 'someone like Tina Turner'; when it came to castin...