Q 01/05

Which English actor plays Forrest Bondurant, the middle brother rumoured to be indestructible, in the film Lawless?

A) Christian Bale

B) Tom Hardy

C) Charlie Hunnam

D) Henry Cavill

Answer · why

B) Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy got the part only after the film's first financing fell apart in 2010; Ryan Gosling had been attached to play Forrest.

Q 02/05

Jack Bondurant, the youngest bootlegging brother in The Wettest County in the World, was author Matt Bondurant's what?

A) His grandfather

B) His great-uncle

C) His father

D) His uncle

Answer · why

A) His grandfather

Jack was his grandfather, who lived to 90. Only after Jack's death in 2000 did the family dig up old newspaper reports of the brothers' shootout.

Q 03/05

Which American motorsport traces its roots to Prohibition moonshine runners tuning cars to outrun the law?

A) IndyCar

B) Drag racing

C) NASCAR

D) Rallycross

Answer · why

C) NASCAR

NASCAR grew out of bootleggers racing their modified cars against each other for pride, and many kept hauling liquor after Prohibition ended in 1933.

Q 04/05

In Lawless, which illness kills the supposedly indestructible Forrest Bondurant after he falls into a frozen lake?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Tetanus

C) Gangrene

D) Pneumonia

Answer · why

D) Pneumonia

Pneumonia does what his enemies could not: Forrest drags himself out of the water after a drunken stumble at a family reunion, then dies of the illnes...

Q 05/05

Lawless is set in Franklin County, Virginia, but in which other state was the film actually shot?

A) Georgia

B) Kentucky

C) Tennessee

D) North Carolina

Answer · why

A) Georgia

Georgia stood in for the hills of Prohibition-era Virginia, with the cast living near Atlanta for three months while towns such as Newnan and LaGrange...