Q 01/05

In True Detective's first season, how do viewers learn what happened in 1995?

A) Through a courtroom trial

B) Through police interviews in 2012

C) Through a dead man's diary

D) Through a podcast investigation

Answer · why

B) Through police interviews in 2012

Through police interviews in 2012, each ex-partner tells the old case his own way; the two are questioned separately, and it emerges they have not spo...

Q 02/05

In True Detective's premiere, what does Rust Cohle say he is called 'in philosophical terms'?

A) A stoic

B) A nihilist

C) A pessimist

D) A fatalist

Answer · why

C) A pessimist

A pessimist, he tells Marty, a breath after calling himself a realist; asked what that means, he replies, 'It means I'm bad at parties.'

Q 03/05

Which 2013 film won Matthew McConaughey the Best Actor Oscar while True Detective's first season was still airing?

A) The Wolf of Wall Street

B) Mud

C) Dallas Buyers Club

D) Interstellar

Answer · why

C) Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club, for which he lost nearly 50 pounds to play AIDS patient Ron Woodroof, won him the Oscar on 2 March 2014, the same night the season...

Q 04/05

True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto co-wrote the screenplay of which 2016 Western?

A) The Revenant

B) The Magnificent Seven

C) Hell or High Water

D) Jane Got a Gun

Answer · why

B) The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven began as a Tom Cruise project: Pizzolatto was hired to write it while Cruise was attached, but the star dropped out, the script ...

Q 05/05

In True Detective's first season, what is the first victim's body wearing when found in a sugarcane field?

A) A crown of deer antlers

B) A feathered owl mask

C) A wolf pelt

D) A bear-claw necklace

Answer · why

A) A crown of deer antlers

A crown of deer antlers tops the kneeling body, posed as if praying to a lone tree; Rust takes one look and tells Marty the killer has done this befor...