Q 01/05

Which TV series features a surgeon nicknamed Hawkeye after the scout in The Last of the Mohicans?

A) Cheers

B) M*A*S*H

C) St. Elsewhere

D) Hogan's Heroes

Answer · why

B) M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H's Hawkeye Pierce was given the nickname by his father, who borrowed it from the frontier hero of James Fenimore Cooper's novel.

Q 02/05

Which humorist mocked The Last of the Mohicans in an 1895 essay on its author's literary offenses?

A) Mark Twain

B) Ambrose Bierce

C) Washington Irving

D) Edgar Allan Poe

Answer · why

A) Mark Twain

Mark Twain called the essay 'Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses' and complained that Cooper was overly wordy and lacked a variety of styles.

Q 03/05

Which actor learned to hunt and skin game to play Hawkeye in the 1992 film The Last of the Mohicans?

A) Kevin Costner

B) Kiefer Sutherland

C) Daniel Day-Lewis

D) Mel Gibson

Answer · why

C) Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis spent weeks in wilderness training with US Army Special Forces personnel, learning to use period weapons and start fires.

Q 04/05

Set in colonial New York, the 1992 film The Last of the Mohicans was shot mostly in which state?

A) West Virginia

B) Pennsylvania

C) Tennessee

D) North Carolina

Answer · why

D) North Carolina

North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains stood in for the northern wilderness, and the fort set was built beside Lake James.

Q 05/05

Cooperstown, founded by the father of The Last of the Mohicans' author, houses which sports museum?

A) Baseball Hall of Fame

B) Pro Football Hall of Fame

C) Hockey Hall of Fame

D) Basketball Hall of Fame

Answer · why

A) Baseball Hall of Fame

The Baseball Hall of Fame was founded in the village in 1939; William Cooper had established the settlement, and his novelist son grew up there.