Q 01/05

Robert Redford won his only competitive Oscar in which category, for the 1980 drama Ordinary People?

A) Best Actor

B) Best Director

C) Best Picture

D) Best Screenplay

Answer · why

B) Best Director

Best Director went to Redford at the first attempt, because Ordinary People was the first film he had ever directed. He never won an Oscar for acting,...

Q 02/05

In a 1962 episode of The Twilight Zone, Robert Redford's wounded policeman is revealed to be which figure?

A) Death

B) The Devil

C) A ghost

D) An alien

Answer · why

A) Death

Death poses as an injured young officer to win over a frail old woman who has shut herself in a basement flat to escape him. Redford was told it becam...

Q 03/05

Which actor played Butch Cassidy opposite Robert Redford's Sundance Kid in the hit 1969 western?

A) Steve McQueen

B) Warren Beatty

C) Paul Newman

D) Marlon Brando

Answer · why

C) Paul Newman

Paul Newman starred in what became the top-grossing film released in 1969. Steve McQueen and Warren Beatty had both turned down the Sundance role befo...

Q 04/05

Robert Redford's film Quiz Show dramatises the rigging of which real American game show of the 1950s?

A) The $64,000 Question

B) Tic-Tac-Dough

C) Name That Tune

D) Twenty-One

Answer · why

D) Twenty-One

Twenty-One was so tightly staged that contestants were told how to dress, which questions to miss and even when to mop their brows. Its exposure nearl...

Q 05/05

Which star of The Way We Were, opposite Robert Redford, also sang its chart-topping title song?

A) Barbra Streisand

B) Liza Minnelli

C) Diana Ross

D) Olivia Newton-John

Answer · why

A) Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand took the title song to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, and it also won the Oscar for Best Original Song. She played a campus activi...