Q 01/05

Which Cleveland running back announced his retirement from football during the making of The Dirty Dozen?

A) O. J. Simpson

B) Jim Brown

C) Fred Williamson

D) Bernie Casey

Answer · why

B) Jim Brown

Jim Brown was already the NFL's all-time leading rusher when his team's owner told him to choose between football and acting. He was thirty, and he pi...

Q 02/05

Which real unit of hard-drinking American paratroopers inspired the novel behind The Dirty Dozen?

A) The Filthy Thirteen

B) The Devil's Brigade

C) Merrill's Marauders

D) Darby's Rangers

Answer · why

A) The Filthy Thirteen

The Filthy Thirteen were demolition specialists, not convicts, though their brawling and scorn for authority often landed them in the stockade.

Q 03/05

Which Western star turned down the lead in The Dirty Dozen, objecting to adultery in the script?

A) James Stewart

B) Burt Lancaster

C) John Wayne

D) Gregory Peck

Answer · why

C) John Wayne

John Wayne disliked a subplot in the original script in which the major has an affair with a married woman whose husband is away fighting.

Q 04/05

In the sequel The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission, the convicts must kill a general plotting to assassinate whom?

A) Winston Churchill

B) Joseph Stalin

C) Dwight Eisenhower

D) Adolf Hitler

Answer · why

D) Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler has to be kept alive, the Allied generals reason, because a more capable leader taking his place could prolong the war.

Q 05/05

Which DC Comics team of jailed supervillains was revived in the 1980s on a premise echoing The Dirty Dozen?

A) Suicide Squad

B) Doom Patrol

C) Injustice League

D) Legion of Doom

Answer · why

A) Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad swaps military convicts for costumed criminals, and director David Ayer described his film version as the Dirty Dozen with super villain...