Q 01/05

Under what title did Thomas Keneally first publish the 1982 novel that became Schindler's List?

A) Schindler's Ark

B) Schindler's Jews

C) Schindler's Legacy

D) Schindler's Children

Answer · why

A) Schindler's Ark

Schindler's Ark won Britain's Booker Prize as fiction, though Keneally had built the book from the testimony of the people Schindler saved.

Q 02/05

Who plays Oskar Schindler?

A) Ralph Fiennes

B) Liam Neeson

C) Ben Kingsley

D) Kenneth Branagh

Answer · why

B) Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson won the part after Spielberg saw him on Broadway in Anna Christie. The director wanted an actor without movie-star baggage, so an interest...

Q 03/05

Who plays the SS officer Amon Göth?

A) Gary Oldman

B) Jonathan Pryce

C) Daniel Day-Lewis

D) Ralph Fiennes

Answer · why

D) Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes prepared by talking to survivors and reading their testimony about Göth, which he remembered as full of the physical fear people felt at...

Q 04/05

In Schindler's List, what job does Ben Kingsley's Itzhak Stern do for Oskar Schindler?

A) His interpreter

B) His lawyer

C) His accountant

D) His chauffeur

Answer · why

C) His accountant

His accountant: Schindler showed the real Stern the balance sheet of a run-down factory, took his shrewd advice to buy it, and the business made him a...

Q 05/05

What does Schindler's Kraków factory produce at the start of the film?

A) Ammunition

B) Uniforms

C) Enamelware

D) Canned food

Answer · why

C) Enamelware

Enamelware: pots and pans for the German army. Schindler listed unskilled workers, even children, as expert metalworkers essential to the war effort, ...