Q 01/05

In what year is Raiders of the Lost Ark set?

A) 1936

B) 1938

C) 1941

D) 1945

Answer · why

A) 1936

That places it three years before Last Crusade and a year after Temple of Doom, which was made second but set first.

Q 02/05

What does Indiana Jones grab from the booby-trapped temple in the film's opening sequence?

A) A jade mask

B) A crystal skull

C) A golden idol

D) A jewelled dagger

Answer · why

C) A golden idol

The idol was modelled on a real Aztec-style birthing figure, and Belloq takes it off him minutes later.

Q 03/05

The opening temple is in which country?

A) Peru

B) Mexico

C) Brazil

D) Guatemala

Answer · why

A) Peru

The jungle exteriors were actually shot on Kauai in Hawaii, with Kalalea Mountain standing in for the Andes.

Q 04/05

Which rival archaeologist takes the idol from Indy and later opens the Ark for the Nazis?

A) Arnold Toht

B) René Belloq

C) Colonel Dietrich

D) Marcus Brody

Answer · why

B) René Belloq

Paul Freeman played him; during one scene a fly crawled onto his lip mid-line and he simply kept talking.

Q 05/05

The Nazis are excavating for the Ark of the Covenant at which ancient Egyptian city?

A) Thebes

B) Memphis

C) Tanis

D) Abydos

Answer · why

C) Tanis

The real Tanis was a Nile-delta capital; the film's version was built in the Tunisian desert.