Q 01/05

Which Hollywood star, who played Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life, leads The Heroes of Telemark?

A) Kirk Douglas

B) Burt Lancaster

C) Charlton Heston

D) Gregory Peck

Answer · why

A) Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas plays Rolf Pedersen, who is content to sit out the war until the Norwegian resistance pulls him in.

Q 02/05

Which animals featured in the code phrase the real saboteurs behind The Heroes of Telemark radioed to London?

A) Penguins

B) Flamingos

C) Giraffes

D) Elephants

Answer · why

D) Elephants

Elephants, three pink ones, were the agreed reply to London's security question. The British had grown suspicious because the advance team landed in t...

Q 03/05

The director of The Heroes of Telemark had been fired from which Roman epic and replaced by Stanley Kubrick?

A) Ben-Hur

B) Spartacus

C) Cleopatra

D) Quo Vadis

Answer · why

B) Spartacus

Spartacus dropped its first director within three weeks of shooting. Its star and producer promised he owed the man a film, and repaid the debt with T...

Q 04/05

Stranded in the Norwegian wilds, the real heroes of Telemark ate moss and lichen until they caught which animal?

A) Musk ox

B) Reindeer

C) Arctic hare

D) Ptarmigan

Answer · why

B) Reindeer

Reindeer meat arrived just before Christmas 1942 for the four-man advance party. They had been waiting since October for a British raid that ended in ...

Q 05/05

Which Irish actor, later Dumbledore in two Harry Potter films, plays Knut Straud in The Heroes of Telemark?

A) Peter O'Toole

B) Michael Gambon

C) Richard Harris

D) Richard Burton

Answer · why

C) Richard Harris

Richard Harris plays resistance leader Knut Straud, the man who pulls Rolf Pedersen into the fight. Harris had earned his first Oscar nomination for T...