Q 01/05

As of 2025, which director alone has won more Best Director Oscars than William Wyler's three?

A) John Ford

B) Billy Wilder

C) David Lean

D) Elia Kazan

Answer · why

A) John Ford

John Ford won four, for The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley and The Quiet Man, yet never for one of the westerns he is famous f...

Q 02/05

At which Roman landmark did Gregory Peck fool his co-star by hiding his hand in William Wyler's Roman Holiday?

A) The Trevi Fountain

B) The Mouth of Truth

C) The Spanish Steps

D) The Colosseum

Answer · why

B) The Mouth of Truth

The Mouth of Truth. Legend says the stone face bites off a liar's hand; Peck sprang the trick without warning his co-star, so her shriek was real and ...

Q 03/05

Which contested border region holds Mulhouse, William Wyler's birthplace?

A) Schleswig

B) Silesia

C) South Tyrol

D) Alsace

Answer · why

D) Alsace

Alsace. Germany had annexed the region in 1871 and France regained it after World War I, so the German-born Wyler's hometown is a French city today.

Q 04/05

Wyler's mother was a cousin of which studio founder, who gave him his start?

A) Adolph Zukor

B) Jack Warner

C) Louis B. Mayer

D) Carl Laemmle

Answer · why

D) Carl Laemmle

Carl Laemmle brought him to New York, then docked five dollars a week from his $25 pay until the cost of the Atlantic crossing was repaid.

Q 05/05

Which studio gave William Wyler his first directing jobs, on dozens of silent westerns in the 1920s?

A) Universal

B) Paramount

C) Warner Bros.

D) RKO

Answer · why

A) Universal

Universal. He started there as an office boy and prop boy, worked up to assistant director, and between 1925 and 1928 directed more than two dozen sil...