1. What is Ethan Coen’s full name?
a) Ethan James Coen
b) Ethan Joel Coen
c) Ethan Jesse Coen
d) Ethan Joseph Coen
Answer: c) Ethan Jesse Coen
2. In which year was Ethan Coen born?
a) 1955
b) 1957
c) 1959
d) 1961
Answer: b) 1957
3. Where was Ethan Coen born?
a) New York City, NY
b) St. Louis Park, MN
c) Los Angeles, CA
d) Chicago, IL
Answer: b) St. Louis Park, MN
4. What is the professional name for Ethan and his brother Joel when working together?
a) The Coen Siblings
b) The Coen Brothers
c) The Coen Duo
d) The Coen Filmmakers
Answer: b) The Coen Brothers
5. Which university did Ethan Coen attend to study philosophy?
a) Harvard University
b) Yale University
c) Princeton University
d) Stanford University
Answer: c) Princeton University
6. What was the title of Ethan Coen’s senior thesis at Princeton?
a) Two Views of Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
b) The Philosophy of Film
c) Ethics in Cinema
d) Modern American Cinema
Answer: a) Two Views of Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
7. What was the Coen Brothers’ debut film in 1984?
a) Raising Arizona
b) Blood Simple
c) Fargo
d) The Big Lebowski
Answer: b) Blood Simple
8. What pseudonym do Ethan and Joel Coen use for editing their films?
a) Roderick Jaynes
b) Michael Zoss
c) Edward Newman
d) Steven Roderick
Answer: a) Roderick Jaynes
9. Which film earned the Coen Brothers their first Oscar for Best Original Screenplay?
a) The Big Lebowski
b) No Country for Old Men
c) Fargo
d) Barton Fink
Answer: c) Fargo
10. Which Coen Brothers film is a loose retelling of Homer’s Odyssey?
a) Inside Llewyn Davis
b) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
c) A Serious Man
d) True Grit
Answer: b) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
11. Which film marked Ethan Coen’s solo directorial debut?
a) Drive-Away Dolls
b) The Tragedy of Macbeth
c) Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind
d) Honey Don’t!
Answer: c) Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind
12. What is the name of Ethan Coen’s wife?
a) Frances McDormand
b) Tricia Cooke
c) Holly Hunter
d) Rena Neumann
Answer: b) Tricia Cooke
13. Which film did Ethan Coen co-write for Steven Spielberg?
a) Unbroken
b) Suburbicon
c) Bridge of Spies
d) Gambit
Answer: c) Bridge of Spies
14. How many Academy Awards have the Coen Brothers won together?
a) Two
b) Four
c) Six
d) Eight
Answer: b) Four
15. Which Coen Brothers film won the Palme d’Or at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival?
a) Fargo
b) Miller’s Crossing
c) Barton Fink
d) Raising Arizona
Answer: c) Barton Fink
16. What genre is the Coen Brothers’ film No Country for Old Men primarily classified as?
a) Comedy
b) Neo-noir thriller
c) Romantic drama
d) Historical epic
Answer: b) Neo-noir thriller
17. Which actor starred as the lead in The Big Lebowski?
a) George Clooney
b) Jeff Bridges
c) John Goodman
d) Steve Buscemi
Answer: b) Jeff Bridges
18. What is the name of Ethan Coen’s first solo narrative feature film?
a) Honey Don’t!
b) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
c) Drive-Away Dolls
d) A Serious Man
Answer: c) Drive-Away Dolls
19. What award did No Country for Old Men win at the 2007 Academy Awards?
a) Best Original Screenplay
b) Best Picture
c) Best Cinematography
d) Best Costume Design
Answer: b) Best Picture
20. Which Coen Brothers film is loosely based on their childhood in a Jewish suburb?
a) Inside Llewyn Davis
b) Fargo
c) A Serious Man
d) The Hudsucker Proxy
Answer: c) A Serious Man
21. What is the profession of Ethan Coen’s sister, Deborah?
a) Filmmaker
b) Psychiatrist
c) Art Historian
d) Economist
Answer: b) Psychiatrist
22. Which Coen Brothers film features a segment in the anthology film Paris, je t’aime?
a) Tuileries
b) Burn After Reading
c) Hail, Caesar!
d) Intolerable Cruelty
Answer: a) Tuileries
23. What is the name of the Coen Brothers’ production company?
a) Zoss Productions
b) Mike Zoss Productions
c) Coen Films
d) Roderick Jaynes Productions
Answer: b) Mike Zoss Productions
24. Which film did Ethan Coen co-write with his wife, Tricia Cooke?
a) The Tragedy of Macbeth
b) Bridge of Spies
c) Drive-Away Dolls
d) Unbroken
Answer: c) Drive-Away Dolls
25. Which Coen Brothers film was nominated for ten Academy Awards?
a) Fargo
b) True Grit
c) The Big Lebowski
d) Inside Llewyn Davis
Answer: b) True Grit