Q 01/05

Who directed the 1996 film Twister?

A) Jan de Bont

B) Ron Howard

C) Wolfgang Petersen

D) Michael Bay

Answer · why

A) Jan de Bont

Jan de Bont. He had spent more than half a year preparing a Godzilla film, quit when the studio would not meet his budget and jumped straight into Twi...

Q 02/05

Which best-selling novelist co-wrote the Twister screenplay with his wife, Anne-Marie Martin?

A) Tom Clancy

B) Michael Crichton

C) Stephen King

D) John Grisham

Answer · why

B) Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton. A writer who claimed the film copied his own storm-chaser script took the Jurassic Park author to trial in 1998, and the jury sided ...

Q 03/05

Who plays Jo Harding, the tornado-obsessed meteorologist who leads the storm chasers in Twister?

A) Sandra Bullock

B) Julianne Moore

C) Helen Hunt

D) Rene Russo

Answer · why

C) Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt. When the shoot overran, her sitcom Mad About You is said to have held up its new season until she was free.

Q 04/05

Who plays Jo's estranged husband in Twister, an ex-storm chaser turned television weatherman?

A) Kurt Russell

B) Dennis Quaid

C) Kevin Costner

D) Bill Paxton

Answer · why

D) Bill Paxton

Bill Paxton. The shoot was rough on him: after a day spent filming in a filthy roadside ditch, he and his co-star both had to be given hepatitis shots...

Q 05/05

Who plays Dusty Davis, the loudest of Jo's storm chasers in Twister?

A) Philip Seymour Hoffman

B) Vincent D'Onofrio

C) John C. Reilly

D) Steve Buscemi

Answer · why

A) Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman. He went on to win the Best Actor Oscar for Capote, yet when People asked fans in 2014 to name their favourite of his films, th...