Q 01/05

Before his arrest, Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs practised which branch of medicine?

A) Pathology

B) Psychiatry

C) Cardiology

D) Anaesthesia

Answer · why

B) Psychiatry

Psychiatry: one of his former patients is the link to the killer the FBI is hunting, a lead he feeds the trainee sent to question him.

Q 02/05

Who plays FBI trainee Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs?

A) Michelle Pfeiffer

B) Julianne Moore

C) Meg Ryan

D) Jodie Foster

Answer · why

D) Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster lobbied for the role as soon as she had read the novel, even phoning the screenwriter mid-draft, while the director first wanted someone ...

Q 03/05

Which actor did Demme first approach to play Hannibal Lecter before Anthony Hopkins?

A) Robert De Niro

B) Al Pacino

C) Sean Connery

D) Jeremy Irons

Answer · why

C) Sean Connery

Sean Connery got the script first because he was the bigger box-office name; Demme recalled that word came back he found it disgusting, which freed hi...

Q 04/05

Who was Demme's first choice to play Clarice Starling?

A) Laura Dern

B) Melanie Griffith

C) Molly Ringwald

D) Michelle Pfeiffer

Answer · why

D) Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer had just starred in his Married to the Mob, but she turned the part down, later saying the subject matter made her nervous.

Q 05/05

What did Hopkins reportedly ask his agent when told a script called The Silence of the Lambs was coming?

A) 'Is it a musical?'

B) 'Is it a comedy?'

C) 'Is it a children's story?'

D) 'Is it about farming?'

Answer · why

C) 'Is it a children's story?'

'Is it a children's story?' was his reply, and ten pages into the script he rang his agent back to say it was the best part he had ever read.