Gus Van Sant Quiz Questions and Answers
1. In which year was Gus Van Sant born?
A) 1948
B) 1952
C) 1956
D) 1960
Answer: B) 1952
2. What is Gus Van Sant’s full name?
A) Gus Green Van Sant Jr.
B) Gus Gregory Van Sant
C) Gus George Van Sant Sr.
D) Gus Gerald Van Sant
Answer: A) Gus Green Van Sant Jr.
3. Where was Gus Van Sant born?
A) Portland, Oregon
B) Louisville, Kentucky
C) Los Angeles, California
D) New York, New York
Answer: B) Louisville, Kentucky
4. Which film marked Gus Van Sant’s feature-length directorial debut?
A) Drugstore Cowboy
B) Mala Noche
C) My Own Private Idaho
D) Good Will Hunting
Answer: B) Mala Noche
5. In which year was Mala Noche released?
A) 1985
B) 1987
C) 1989
D) 1991
Answer: A) 1985
6. Which Gus Van Sant film is based on the Columbine High School massacre?
A) Last Days
B) Elephant
C) Paranoid Park
D) Gerry
Answer: B) Elephant
7. For which film did Gus Van Sant win the Palme d’Or at Cannes?
A) Milk
B) Elephant
C) My Own Private Idaho
D) To Die For
Answer: B) Elephant
8. Which film earned Gus Van Sant his first Academy Award nomination for Best Director?
A) Good Will Hunting
B) Milk
C) Drugstore Cowboy
D) Finding Forrester
Answer: A) Good Will Hunting
9. In which year was Good Will Hunting released?
A) 1995
B) 1997
C) 1999
D) 2001
Answer: B) 1997
10. Who wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting?
A) Gus Van Sant
B) Robin Williams
C) Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
D) Casey Affleck
Answer: C) Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
11. Which Gus Van Sant film features River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as young hustlers?
A) Drugstore Cowboy
B) My Own Private Idaho
C) To Die For
D) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Answer: B) My Own Private Idaho
12. What is the primary setting for many of Gus Van Sant’s films, including Mala Noche and Drugstore Cowboy?
A) Los Angeles
B) New York
C) Portland, Oregon
D) Seattle, Washington
Answer: C) Portland, Oregon
13. Which Gus Van Sant film is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller?
A) Psycho
B) To Die For
C) Finding Forrester
D) Promised Land
Answer: A) Psycho
14. In which year was Gus Van Sant’s Psycho remake released?
A) 1996
B) 1998
C) 2000
D) 2002
Answer: B) 1998
15. Which actor starred as the leader of a group of heroin addicts in Drugstore Cowboy?
A) Matt Dillon
B) Keanu Reeves
C) River Phoenix
D) Joaquin Phoenix
Answer: A) Matt Dillon
16. Which Gus Van Sant film is loosely based on the life of Harvey Milk?
A) Elephant
B) Milk
C) Last Days
D) Paranoid Park
Answer: B) Milk
17. Who played the title role in Milk?
A) Sean Penn
B) Matt Damon
C) James Franco
D) Josh Brolin
Answer: A) Sean Penn
18. Which Gus Van Sant film integrates elements of Shakespeare’s Henry IV: Part 1?
A) Good Will Hunting
B) My Own Private Idaho
C) To Die For
D) Finding Forrester
Answer: B) My Own Private Idaho
19. What is the title of Gus Van Sant’s novel published in 1997?
A) Pink
B) Blue
C) Red
D) Green
Answer: A) Pink
20. Which album did Gus Van Sant release in 1997?
A) Songs of the Northwest
B) Gus Van Sant
C) 18 Songs About Golf
D) Portland Nights
Answer: B) Gus Van Sant
21. Which band’s album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, featured photography and art direction by Gus Van Sant?
A) Nirvana
B) Red Hot Chili Peppers
C) Pearl Jam
D) Soundgarden
Answer: B) Red Hot Chili Peppers
22. Which music video directed by Gus Van Sant is for the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
A) Californication
B) Under the Bridge
C) Otherside
D) Scar Tissue
Answer: B) Under the Bridge
23. Which Gus Van Sant film was critically panned and adapted from a Tom Robbins novel?
A) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
B) To Die For
C) Restless
D) Promised Land
Answer: A) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
24. In which film did Gus Van Sant direct Nicole Kidman as a manipulative news anchor?
A) Milk
B) To Die For
C) Last Days
D) Paranoid Park
Answer: B) To Die For
25. Which Gus Van Sant film is part of his “Death Trilogy”?
A) Finding Forrester
B) Gerry
C) Good Will Hunting
D) Psycho
Answer: B) Gerry