Q 01/05

In which German city was Werner Herzog born in 1942?

A) Hamburg

B) Munich

C) Frankfurt

D) Berlin

Answer · why

B) Munich

He was born Werner Stipetić; the family fled to a Bavarian mountain village two weeks later after an Allied bombing raid destroyed the house next door...

Q 02/05

Which volatile actor starred in five Herzog films, beginning with Aguirre, the Wrath of God?

A) Mario Adorf

B) Klaus Kinski

C) Bruno Ganz

D) Maximilian Schell

Answer · why

B) Klaus Kinski

Herzog first met him as a teenager, when the struggling actor lived in the same boarding house as Herzog's family.

Q 03/05

What did Herzog famously cook and eat in public in 1978 after Errol Morris finished Gates of Heaven?

A) His hat

B) His script

C) His shoe

D) His belt

Answer · why

C) His shoe

He had promised to do it if Morris ever completed the pet-cemetery project; Les Blank turned the meal into a short documentary two years later.

Q 04/05

In Fitzcarraldo, what does the title character try to haul over a hill in the Amazon?

A) A steamship

B) A grand piano

C) A church bell

D) A locomotive

Answer · why

A) A steamship

Herzog had his crew actually pull the 320-ton vessel up the slope with no special effects, causing three injuries.

Q 05/05

Grizzly Man chronicles the life and death of which bear enthusiast?

A) Kaspar Hauser

B) Dieter Dengler

C) Bruno Schleinstein

D) Timothy Treadwell

Answer · why

D) Timothy Treadwell

He and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were killed by a bear in Katmai National Park, Alaska, in October 2003.