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50 free One Battle After Another trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This One Battle After Another trivia quiz covers Paul Thomas Anderson's 2025 Best Picture winner. It follows Ghetto Pat and Perfidia from the raid on Otay Mesa through the birth of Charlene, the betrayal, the sixteen years off-grid in Baktan Cross, Colonel Lockjaw's return, the Christmas Adventurers Club, the revolutionary nuns, Sergio St. Carlos's karate students, the desert car chase over blind summits and the countersign that ends it. Behind the scenes it covers the Thomas Pynchon novel Anderson wanted to adapt for two decades, Chase Infiniti's six-month audition, the VistaVision cameras restored by Giovanni Ribisi, the 1.5 million feet of film, Ronald Reagan's old mansion as the Club's headquarters, the two-and-a-half-month pause for Benicio del Toro, the $130 to $175 million budget, the test screenings and Jonny Greenwood's score. It ends with the 98th Academy Awards, where the film's thirteen nominations became six wins including the first-ever Best Casting Oscar. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who wrote, directed and produced One Battle After Another?
Paul Thomas Anderson
It's his tenth film and the first to win him Oscars.
Q 02Which novel inspired the film?
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Anderson had wanted to adapt it since the early 2000s; he'd already filmed Pynchon's Inherent Vice.
Q 03Who plays the washed-up revolutionary Bob Ferguson?
Leonardo DiCaprio
He reportedly received his standard $25 million fee.
Q 04What is the name of the revolutionary group?
The French 75
It's named after the cocktail; the film's greeting code is voiced by Jena Malone.
Q 05Who plays Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw?
Sean Penn
The role won him his third Oscar, and his first for supporting.
Q 06Who plays Perfidia Beverly Hills?
Teyana Taylor
Regina Hall plays Deandra, 'Lady Champagne'.
Q 07Who plays Willa Ferguson, in her film debut?
Chase Infiniti
She went through a six-month audition with chemistry reads opposite DiCaprio.
Q 08Who plays Sergio St. Carlos, Willa's karate sensei?
Benicio del Toro
Production paused two and a half months while he shot a Wes Anderson film.
Q 09Which detention centre do the revolutionaries raid in the opening?
Otay Mesa
It's where Perfidia first humiliates Lockjaw.
Q 10Why is Perfidia arrested?
She murders a security guard in a botched bank robbery
Lockjaw keeps her out of prison in exchange for the names of her comrades.
Q 11Which comrade supplies Pat and Charlene with their stolen new identities?
Howard Sommerville
Perfidia, meanwhile, flees witness protection for Mexico.
Q 12How many years pass before the main action resumes?
Sixteen
Bob has become a paranoid stoner in the sanctuary city of Baktan Cross.
Q 13What is the Christmas Adventurers Club?
A white supremacist secret society
Being invited to join is what drives Lockjaw to want Willa dead.
Q 21Where is Willa heading in the final scene?
A protest in Oakland
Bob has just given her Perfidia's letter of apology.
Q 22What was the film's working title during production?
BC Project
It was later rumoured to be The Battle of Baktan Cross before the final title was confirmed in March 2025.
Q 23Which vintage widescreen format was most of the film shot in?
VistaVision
Between 75 and 80% of the film used it, one of the first to do so since the 1960s.
Q 24Which actor is thanked in the credits for lending personally restored vintage cameras?
Q 14What has Bob told his daughter about her mother?
That she was a hero who died when she was a baby
Willa guesses the truth about the betrayal at the convent.
Q 15Where does Deandra take Willa after rescuing her from the school dance raid?
A convent of revolutionary nuns
The Sisters of the Brave Beaver are based on the real Sisters of the Valley.
Q 16How does Lockjaw confirm Willa is his daughter?
He tests their DNA in front of her
He's holding her hostage at the convent at the time.
Q 17Who shoots Lockjaw in the face while he's driving?
Tim Smith of the Christmas Adventurers
The Club had discovered his interracial relationship with Perfidia.
Q 18Why does bounty hunter Avanti refuse to kill Willa?
Her age
He later frees her and dies in a shootout with the militia.
Q 19How does Willa finally defeat Tim?
Lures him into a crash on a blind summit, then shoots him
He fails to recite the revolutionary countersign.
Q 20What happens to the scarred Lockjaw at the Christmas Adventurers Club?
He is gassed and cremated
He'd thought he was being welcomed in.
Giovanni Ribisi
The Brutalist had just helped revive the format.
Q 25Roughly how much film did the production shoot?
1.5 million feet
Cinematographer Michael Bauman said the cameras hadn't run that much film in decades.
Q 26Whose former Sacramento mansion served as the Christmas Adventurers Club's exterior?
Ronald Reagan's
A nod to Vineland, which is set in the year of Reagan's re-election.
Q 27Which 1970s film print did Anderson and his cinematographer carry with them during the shoot?
The French Connection
They also cited The Last Detail, Wong Kar-wai and The Silence of the Lambs.
Q 28Which Wes Anderson film caused the two-and-a-half-month break in production?
The Phoenician Scheme
Del Toro had ten days between the two shoots.
Q 29Who composed the score, in his sixth collaboration with Anderson?
Jonny Greenwood
Jon Brion also contributed two songs, his first Anderson work since Punch-Drunk Love.
Q 30To whom is the film dedicated?
First AD and producer Adam Somner
He died in November 2024 after six films with Anderson.