Q 01/05

Which actor plays crusading 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman in The Insider?

A) Robert De Niro

B) Al Pacino

C) Dustin Hoffman

D) Harvey Keitel

Answer · why

B) Al Pacino

Al Pacino plays the producer, and the real Lowell Bergman went on to co-write a series on worker safety that won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Public Se...

Q 02/05

Which actor earned his first Oscar nomination as whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider?

A) Kevin Spacey

B) Billy Bob Thornton

C) Guy Pearce

D) Russell Crowe

Answer · why

D) Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe won Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics for the part, and Premiere later ranked it among the 100 greatest performances ...

Q 03/05

After a death threat, what does Jeffrey Wigand find in his mailbox in The Insider?

A) A dead bird

B) A bullet

C) A funeral card

D) A torn photo

Answer · why

B) A bullet

A bullet in the mailbox comes from the real case, in which an FBI agent visited the Wigand home over a death threat and a bullet placed there the nigh...

Q 04/05

Michael Gambon, tobacco boss Thomas Sandefur in The Insider, later played which Harry Potter character?

A) Albus Dumbledore

B) Gilderoy Lockhart

C) Cornelius Fudge

D) Alastor Moody

Answer · why

A) Albus Dumbledore

Albus Dumbledore became his role from 2004, when he replaced Richard Harris, who had died two years earlier.

Q 05/05

Which Kentucky-based tobacco company fires Jeffrey Wigand before the events of The Insider?

A) Philip Morris

B) R. J. Reynolds

C) Brown & Williamson

D) American Tobacco Company

Answer · why

C) Brown & Williamson

Brown & Williamson, the maker of Kool menthols, disappeared as a name in 2004 when its US business merged with R. J. Reynolds.