Q 01/05

The actors playing King, his wife, the president and the governor in Selma share which nationality?

A) Canadian

B) Australian

C) British

D) Irish

Answer · why

C) British

British actors took all four parts. The lead had been attached since 2010, under an earlier director, four years before the cameras rolled.

Q 02/05

Selma could not quote Martin Luther King Jr.'s real speeches because his estate licensed them to which filmmaker?

A) Oliver Stone

B) Steven Spielberg

C) Francis Ford Coppola

D) Martin Scorsese

Answer · why

B) Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg was to produce a King film for DreamWorks and Warner Bros., so Selma's director wrote new speeches that echo the originals, copying K...

Q 03/05

Which talk-show host produced Selma and also plays Annie Lee Cooper, who punches a sheriff?

A) Whoopi Goldberg

B) Queen Latifah

C) Ellen DeGeneres

D) Oprah Winfrey

Answer · why

D) Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey said she took the part because of Cooper's courage. The real Cooper had stood for hours at the courthouse trying to register before she ...

Q 04/05

Which song from Selma won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song?

A) Lost Stars

B) Grateful

C) Happy

D) Glory

Answer · why

D) Glory

Glory beat songs from The Lego Movie and Begin Again to the Oscar, then added a Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

Q 05/05

Which director of Selma became the first Black woman nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Director?

A) Julie Dash

B) Ava DuVernay

C) Kasi Lemmons

D) Euzhan Palcy

Answer · why

B) Ava DuVernay

Ava DuVernay took over the stalled project in 2013 and, by her own estimate, rewrote 90 percent of the script, yet a clause in the first writer's cont...