Tuesday, September 30, 2008

War Movie Trivia

1. What film was adapted from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, switching the Congo for the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia?
2. Vincent D'Onofrio stars as the tragic Leonard Lawrence in what disturbing 1987 film directed by Stanley Kubrick?
3. What Ang Lee film was based in part on the real story of the freed black slave John Noland (Jeffrey Wright in the film) who rode with the Confederate raider William Quantrill during the Civil War?
4. The literal German to English transalation of this best-selling book and Oscar-Winning film is "Nothing new in the west"...but we came to know it as?
5. What film starred Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould as medical personnel stationed at a Medical Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War?
6. Despite it's gross inaccuracies, this 2000 film starring a fresh-faced Heath Ledger :( is by far the highest-grossing picture to date about the Revolutionary War.
7. This WWII film classic is helped along by a memorable score and an iconic motorcycle-riding Steve McQueen.
8. In 2006, Clint Eastwood hit us with a WWII double whammy that included "Flags of our Fathers" and what instant classic?
9. Daniel Day-Lewis starred as Hawkeye/Nathanial Poe, a white man adopted by an Native American father during the French and Indian War, in this 1992 Michael Mann film.
10. Three US Soldiers try to steal seized Kuwaiti gold bullion from Iraqi bunkers following the Persian Gulf War in this 1999 action/comedy/drama war film.

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