Q 01/05

Which earlier Coen brothers film had already won them a screenwriting Oscar before No Country for Old Men?

A) Fargo

B) The Big Lebowski

C) Raising Arizona

D) Barton Fink

Answer · why

A) Fargo

Fargo won Joel and Ethan Coen the original screenplay Oscar in 1997, though the film itself lost Best Picture that night to The English Patient.

Q 02/05

Whose 2005 novel is No Country for Old Men based on?

A) Larry McMurtry

B) James Ellroy

C) Elmore Leonard

D) Cormac McCarthy

Answer · why

D) Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy first wrote No Country for Old Men as a screenplay, then reworked it into the 2005 novel that the Coens adapted.

Q 03/05

Who plays the hitman Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men?

A) Javier Bardem

B) Antonio Banderas

C) Benicio del Toro

D) Woody Harrelson

Answer · why

A) Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem wore a greasy pageboy haircut as the killer and went as far as crediting it in his Oscar acceptance speech.

Q 04/05

Which war did Llewelyn Moss fight in?

A) Korean War

B) Vietnam War

C) Gulf War

D) Iraq War

Answer · why

B) Vietnam War

Vietnam War: the film is set in 1980, and bounty hunter Carson Wells, another veteran, asks Moss at his hospital bedside whether he was in Nam.

Q 05/05

How much cash is in the case Llewelyn Moss finds in No Country for Old Men?

A) $20,000

B) $200,000

C) $2 million

D) $20 million

Answer · why

C) $2 million

$2 million, in bank-wrapped hundreds beside a dead man who had fled the desert shootout; taking it puts both a drug cartel and a hired killer on Moss'...