Q 01/05

How is Marion Ravenwood introduced in Raiders of the Lost Ark?

A) Singing in a nightclub

B) Winning a drinking contest

C) Flying a cargo plane

D) Picking Indy's pocket

Answer · why

B) Winning a drinking contest

Winning a drinking contest: Marion out-drinks a man twice her size for cash in her own bar, and Karen Allen later pushed for her to try the same trick...

Q 02/05

What does Indiana Jones grab from the booby-trapped temple in the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark?

A) A jade mask

B) A crystal skull

C) A golden idol

D) A jewelled dagger

Answer · why

C) A golden idol

A golden idol sits on a weighted pedestal, and Indy's swap with a bag of similar weight fails: taking it brings the temple down around him and sets a ...

Q 03/05

In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the booby-trapped temple of the opening sequence is in which country?

A) Peru

B) Mexico

C) Brazil

D) Guatemala

Answer · why

A) Peru

Peru is only where the story puts it: the temple interior, boulder run included, was a life-sized set built on a soundstage at Elstree Studios in Engl...

Q 04/05

Which rival archaeologist robs Indy outside the temple 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

René Belloq, the film's French villain, was played by an Englishman, Paul Freeman; French singer Jacques Dutronc was among those considered for the pa...

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

Tanis is a real ruined city in the Nile delta, once Egypt's capital; in 1939, three years after the film is set, intact royal tombs holding silver cof...