Q 01/05

Who directed The Wolf of Wall Street?

A) David O. Russell

B) Oliver Stone

C) Adam McKay

D) Martin Scorsese

Answer · why

D) Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese. When the project stalled he made Shutter Island with DiCaprio instead, then returned to it and out-grossed that film to set the box-o...

Q 02/05

Wolf of Wall Street writer Terence Winter created which HBO drama?

A) True Detective

B) Boardwalk Empire

C) Deadwood

D) The Leftovers

Answer · why

B) Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire. Winter began adapting Belfort's memoir in 2007, three years before that series aired; the film then stalled for so long that his sho...

Q 03/05

Which market crash costs the young Belfort his first Wall Street job?

A) Black Wednesday

B) Black Monday

C) The dot-com crash

D) The Nikkei collapse

Answer · why

B) Black Monday

Black Monday. With no Wall Street firm hiring after the crash, he takes a job at a Long Island boiler room and discovers the 50 percent commissions on...

Q 04/05

Which actor plays Belfort's chest-thumping mentor Mark Hanna?

A) Billy Bob Thornton

B) Matthew McConaughey

C) Rob Reiner

D) Jon Favreau

Answer · why

B) Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey. Mark Hanna was a real broker whose name the film kept: Belfort's memoir credits him with the same crude lunchtime lessons, and he...

Q 05/05

What respectable-sounding name does Belfort give his boiler-room firm in 1989?

A) Stratton Oakmont

B) Investor's Center

C) Aerotyne International

D) Duke Securities

Answer · why

A) Stratton Oakmont

Stratton Oakmont. Behind the blue-blooded name was a penny-stock shop that began as a franchise of a tiny brokerage, run out of a friend's car dealers...