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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
Criminal
Boxer
3. What is "Spartacus" said to have effectively ended?
Blacklisting
the Hays Code
the classic studio system
black and white cinema
4. What is the name of Kubrick's movie about the Vietnam War?
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
5. Where does "Dream Novella", the inspiration for "Eyes Wide Shut", take place?
Tokyo
Vienna
San Francisco
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?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Martin Luther King
George Washington
Napoléon Bonaparte
7. What causes the apes in "2001" to go mad?
a computer screen
a black monolith
a machine gun
a giant phallus
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
Peter Ustinov
Peter Sellers
James Mason
10. And in which category did Kubrick win his only Oscar?
Original Screenplay
Lifetime Achievement
Visual Effects
Editing
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.
Science Fiction
Heist
Western
Horror
12. What is the correct way to pronounce his last name (according to Wikipedia)?
Kew-brick
Koo-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 9/11 attacks
the Chernobyl accident
the moon landing
the assasination of John F. Kennedy
15. What is the historical backdrop of "Paths of Glory"?
the Cuba Crisis
the October Revolution
the Fall of the Berlin Wall
World War I
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