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50 free Django Unchained trivia questions with answers. Django Unchained is Tarantino's biggest hit and his most argued-over film, and this quiz digs into both. Fifty questions cover Django and Dr. King Schultz, Broomhilda and Candyland, the plantation dinner that turned real blood into a take, the stars who almost played the parts, the 1966 spaghetti Western that lent its name and its star, the two Oscars, the Rick Ross, John Legend and Morricone soundtrack, and the fights over the film's language and violence. Easy questions ask who plays Django and where the film premiered on the calendar; the hard ones want the name of the original Django's cameo character, the TV detective who inspired Schultz's coat and the Karl May hero behind the character. Made for anyone who has ever said 'the D is silent.' Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its cast, its predecessor and its soundtrack, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01In what year was Django Unchained released in US theaters?
2012
It premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York on December 11 and went wide two weeks later.
Q 02Who plays the title character, Django?
Jamie Foxx
He also produced one of the soundtrack's original rap tracks during filming.
Q 03Who plays the German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz?
Christoph Waltz
Tarantino wrote the part specifically for him after their work together on his previous film.
Q 04What is the name of the plantation owner who holds Broomhilda?
Calvin Candie
He styles himself 'Monsieur' despite speaking no French, a running joke in the film.
Q 05Who plays Broomhilda, Django's wife?
Kerry Washington
Her character's full name is Broomhilda 'Hildi' von Shaft.
Q 06Who plays Stephen, the fiercely loyal head house slave?
Samuel L. Jackson
He had already worked with Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill: Volume 2.
Q 07Which actor really cut his hand on a glass in the dinner scene and stayed in character?
Leonardo DiCaprio
The other actors gave him a standing ovation after the take, and his hand is visibly bandaged in the next scene.
Q 08Which star turned down the title role, later saying it 'wasn't the lead'?
Will Smith
He nonetheless said he thought the finished movie was brilliant.
Q 09Before bounty hunting, what was Dr. King Schultz's profession?
Dentist
He still travels in a wagon topped with a giant bobbing tooth.
Q 10What is the name of the plantation where Broomhilda is held?
Candyland
Its enslaved men are forced into wrestling deathmatches for their owner's entertainment.
Q 11Which Beethoven piece is heard in the film?
Für Elise
Verdi's 'Dies Irae' from his Requiem is the other classical piece Tarantino worked in.
Q 12On which US holiday did the film open in American theaters?
Christmas Day
It made $15 million that day, the third-biggest opening ever for the date at the time.
Q 13Along with the supporting-actor prize, which Oscar did the film win?
Best Original Screenplay
It was Tarantino's second writing Oscar, eighteen years after Pulp Fiction.
Q 21Which star of the 1966 original makes a cameo as a slave owner drinking at the bar?
Franco Nero
He was first rumored for the villain's role and had pitched playing a ghostly horseman instead.
Q 22Which rapper performs '100 Black Coffins', a track produced by the film's lead actor?
Rick Ross
The song became his most successful single in France.
Q 23Roughly how much did the film gross worldwide?
$449 million
That was against a $100 million production budget, and it remains Tarantino's biggest hit.
It became the highest-grossing Western of all time, overtaking which 1990 film?
Q 14The actor who plays Dr. King Schultz had won his first Oscar for which earlier Tarantino film?
Inglourious Basterds
Both of his Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes have come from Tarantino roles.
Q 15Django destroys the mansion at the end using what?
Dynamite
He and Broomhilda watch the explosion from a distance before riding off together.
Q 16The film opens with Django in a chained coffle of slaves in which state?
Texas
The slaves are being marched by the Speck brothers when Schultz intercepts them.
Q 17The plantation where Broomhilda is held is in which state?
Mississippi
Schultz and Django first pitch their offer at the owner's gentleman's club in Greenville.
Q 18Which former Nash Bridges star plays plantation owner Big Daddy Bennett?
Don Johnson
Big Daddy leads the bag-headed night riders whose eyeholes are cut too small to see through.
Q 19In what year does the story open?
1858
That places the action three years before the Civil War began.
Q 20The title nods to the 1966 spaghetti Western Django, directed by whom?
Sergio Corbucci
Tarantino got the idea for the film while writing a book about the director.
Dances with Wolves
It also passed Tarantino's own previous film to become his top earner.
Q 25How many Academy Award nominations did the film receive?
5
The nominations were for Best Picture, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Sound Editing.
Q 26A 2014-15 comic-book sequel crossed Django with which classic masked hero?
Zorro
It was the first comic-book sequel to any Tarantino film, and Tarantino insisted on using the original Don Diego de la Vega.
Q 27Which filmmaker said he would not see the film, calling it 'disrespectful to my ancestors'?
Spike Lee
He added that American slavery 'was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a Holocaust.'
Q 28Tarantino's abandoned sequel novel, Django in White Hell, was reworked into which film?
The Hateful Eight
He decided the developing story's tone did not fit Django's morals and dropped the character.
Q 29Dr. King Schultz hails from which German city?
Düsseldorf
In 1858 the city was part of the Kingdom of Prussia.
Q 30Big Daddy's cream-colored linen suit was inspired by its actor's signature look on which TV series?
Miami Vice
The costume designer said the villain's look drew partly on Rhett Butler.