Q 01/05

Which actor stars as Major Archie Gates, the career officer who leads the gold heist in Three Kings?

A) Denzel Washington

B) George Clooney

C) Kevin Costner

D) Mel Gibson

Answer · why

B) George Clooney

George Clooney won the part only after lobbying hard: he wrote the director a self-mocking letter signed as a mere TV actor and turned up at his New Y...

Q 02/05

The gold hunted in Three Kings had been plundered by Iraqi troops from which country?

A) Qatar

B) Bahrain

C) Kuwait

D) Jordan

Answer · why

C) Kuwait

Kuwait gets its bullion back in the film's epilogue, though officials there claim a small amount is still missing.

Q 03/05

Which US president invited the makers of Three Kings to a White House screening of the war film?

A) Bill Clinton

B) George H. W. Bush

C) George W. Bush

D) Ronald Reagan

Answer · why

A) Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton had the film shown at the White House two weeks after it opened, and its director recalled him calling it useful for understanding the in...

Q 04/05

Studio executives pushed to cut a scene from Three Kings in which what animal explodes?

A) A camel

B) A goat

C) A horse

D) A cow

Answer · why

D) A cow

A cow that explodes on screen was one of the violent moments the studio wanted gone, but the film's star helped persuade executives to keep it.

Q 05/05

Three Kings is remembered for a startling close-up that follows a bullet travelling where?

A) Through a car engine

B) Down a rifle barrel

C) Inside a human body

D) Across a desert sky

Answer · why

C) Inside a human body

Inside a human body, the shot shows a bullet piercing organs as Archie Gates describes sepsis; the director built it from an emergency-room doctor fri...