Q 01/05

Million Dollar Baby won Clint Eastwood his second Best Director Oscar; which of his westerns had won him the first?

A) Pale Rider

B) The Outlaw Josey Wales

C) High Plains Drifter

D) Unforgiven

Answer · why

D) Unforgiven

Unforgiven. His mother sat in the audience both times: "She was only 84 then," he told the 2005 ceremony, before thanking her, at 96, for her genes.

Q 02/05

Million Dollar Baby brought Hilary Swank her second Best Actress Oscar; which film had won her the first?

A) The Next Karate Kid

B) Insomnia

C) Boys Don't Cry

D) The Gift

Answer · why

C) Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry. Accepting that first Oscar she forgot to thank her husband, so in 2005 she thanked him first, saying she liked to think she learned fr...

Q 03/05

Who plays Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris in Million Dollar Baby?

A) Morgan Freeman

B) Danny Glover

C) Samuel L. Jackson

D) Louis Gossett Jr.

Answer · why

A) Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman. The part won him his first Oscar after three losing nominations, and he narrates the whole story, just as he had in The Shawshank Rede...

Q 04/05

What is the name of Frankie Dunn's boxing gym in Million Dollar Baby?

A) The Hit Pit

B) The Iron Corner

C) Dunn's Ring

D) The Rope Room

Answer · why

A) The Hit Pit

The Hit Pit. Scrap lives in a room at the gym and keeps it clean, and he lets Maggie go on training there after closing time.

Q 05/05

What job does Maggie Fitzgerald have when she first turns up at Frankie's gym in Million Dollar Baby?

A) Truck stop cashier

B) Hotel maid

C) Factory worker

D) Waitress

Answer · why

D) Waitress

Waitress. She has waited tables since she was 13, and she eats customers' leftovers so she can pay six months of gym dues in advance.