Q 01/05

Which actor won his first Oscar playing Randle McMurphy in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

A) Jack Nicholson

B) Marlon Brando

C) Burt Reynolds

D) Donald Sutherland

Answer · why

A) Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson landed the part only after Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando and James Caan had all turned it down. He went on to win two more Oscars.

Q 02/05

What does Chief Bromden, narrator of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, fool the ward by pretending to be?

A) Blind and lame

B) Deaf and mute

C) Senile and frail

D) Unable to walk

Answer · why

B) Deaf and mute

Deaf and mute is the act that lets the Chief overhear the ward's dirtiest secrets, because staff talk freely in front of a man they think cannot follo...

Q 03/05

Which procedure leaves Randle McMurphy silent and motionless at the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

A) Electroshock therapy

B) An insulin coma

C) A lobotomy

D) Heavy sedation

Answer · why

C) A lobotomy

A lobotomy is Nurse Ratched's final answer after McMurphy attacks her, and he is wheeled back to the ward in a vegetative state.

Q 04/05

Which 1991 thriller next matched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by winning all five top Oscars?

A) The Silence of the Lambs

B) Terminator 2: Judgment Day

C) Sleeping with the Enemy

D) A Kiss Before Dying

Answer · why

A) The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs matched the sweep of Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay, a feat only It Happened One Night had managed bef...

Q 05/05

The title One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes from what kind of verse, sung by Chief Bromden's grandmother?

A) A church hymn

B) A nursery rhyme

C) A sea shanty

D) A logging camp ballad

Answer · why

B) A nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme about three geese gives the novel its name, and the Chief recalls it in the middle of an electroshock treatment.