Q 01/05

Which 1975 thriller's faulty mechanical shark, nicknamed Bruce, had to stay mostly offscreen?

A) Jaws

B) Orca

C) Deep Blue Sea

D) Open Water

Answer · why

A) Jaws

Jaws became the prototype summer blockbuster partly because the unreliable shark pushed Steven Spielberg to hint at it rather than reveal it, leaving ...

Q 02/05

Which Star Wars film gave Darth Vader actor David Prowse a decoy line to keep its twist secret?

A) Star Wars: A New Hope

B) The Empire Strikes Back

C) The Phantom Menace

D) Revenge of the Sith

Answer · why

B) The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back hid 'I am your father' so well that only the director, the producers and Mark Hamill knew it on set; James Earl Jones dubbed t...

Q 03/05

Which 1942 Humphrey Bogart film began as an unproduced play called Everybody Comes to Rick's?

A) The Maltese Falcon

B) The Big Sleep

C) Casablanca

D) To Have and Have Not

Answer · why

C) Casablanca

Casablanca had its premiere rushed forward to November 1942 because Allied troops had just landed in North Africa and captured the city itself.

Q 04/05

Which 1972 film won Marlon Brando a Best Actor Oscar that Sacheen Littlefeather declined for him?

A) On the Waterfront

B) Apocalypse Now

C) Last Tango in Paris

D) The Godfather

Answer · why

D) The Godfather

The Godfather's Brando boycotted the 1973 ceremony in protest at Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans and the siege at Wounded Knee, so Littlefea...

Q 05/05

Which Malcolm in the Middle dad went on to play chemistry teacher Walter White in Breaking Bad?

A) Bryan Cranston

B) Aaron Paul

C) Bob Odenkirk

D) Dean Norris

Answer · why

A) Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston got the part because creator Vince Gilligan remembered him from a 1998 X-Files episode, 'Drive'; AMC executives, who knew him as a sitc...