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Stanley Kubrick Trivia - Multiple Choice

Here are some facts relating to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. How many do you know?
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1. Which author did NOT write a book that was adapted by Kubrick?
Aldous Huxley
Anthony Burgess
Arthur C. Clarke
Stephen King
2. What was his profession prior to making movies?
Photographer
Soldier
Boxer
Criminal
3. What is "Spartacus" said to have effectively ended?
the classic studio system
the Hays Code
black and white cinema
Blacklisting
4. What is the name of Kubrick's movie about the Vietnam War?
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
5. Where does "Dream Novella", the inspiration for "Eyes Wide Shut", take place?
San Francisco
Vienna
Tokyo
Cairo
6. Kubrick spent many years trying to make film about an historical person, reading more than 100 books about him in the process. Who is he?
George Washington
Napoléon Bonaparte
Martin Luther King
Ludwig van Beethoven
7. What causes the apes in "2001" to go mad?
a giant phallus
a black monolith
a computer screen
a machine gun
8. Kubrick made the protagonist of this movie explicitly evil, to stress the point that freedom in any individual is important regardless of his moral quality.
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
9. Who is the only actor to win an Oscar for a performance in a Stanley Kubrick movie?
Malcolm McDowell
James Mason
Peter Ustinov
Peter Sellers
10. And in which category did Kubrick win his only Oscar?
Editing
Original Screenplay
Visual Effects
Lifetime Achievement
11. Which genre did the director never tackle?
Kubrick was set to direct the western "One-Eyed Jacks" but fell out with lead star Marlon Brando, who took on the job.
Western
Science Fiction
Heist
Horror
12. What is the correct way to pronounce his last name (according to Wikipedia)?
Koo-brick
Kew-brick
13. Who is the main character of "A Clockwork Orange"?
Jesus Antichrist
Alex DeLarge
Julius Kaiser
Franklin D. Nixon
14. What did Stanley Kubrick fake, according to conspiracy theories?
the Chernobyl accident
the 9/11 attacks
the assasination of John F. Kennedy
the moon landing
15. What is the historical backdrop of "Paths of Glory"?
the Fall of the Berlin Wall
the Cuba Crisis
World War I
the October Revolution
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