1. What is Joel Coen’s primary role in the Coen Brothers’ filmmaking partnership?
A) Cinematographer
B) Director
C) Editor
D) Producer
Answer: B) Director
2. In which year was Joel Coen born?
A) 1952
B) 1954
C) 1956
D) 1958
Answer: B) 1954
3. Which film marked the Coen Brothers’ directorial debut?
A) Blood Simple
B) Raising Arizona
C) Miller’s Crossing
D) Barton Fink
Answer: A) Blood Simple
4. For which film did Joel Coen win his first Academy Award for Best Director?
A) Fargo
B) No Country for Old Men
C) True Grit
D) The Big Lebowski
Answer: B) No Country for Old Men
5. Which Coen Brothers film is a loose adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey?
A) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
B) Inside Llewyn Davis
C) A Serious Man
D) Burn After Reading
Answer: A) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
6. What is the name of Joel Coen’s wife, who frequently stars in his films?
A) Holly Hunter
B) Frances McDormand
C) Tilda Swinton
D) Julianne Moore
Answer: B) Frances McDormand
7. Which Coen Brothers film is set during the Great Depression?
A) The Hudsucker Proxy
B) Barton Fink
C) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
D) The Man Who Wasn’t There
Answer: C) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
8. Which film directed by Joel Coen is a black-and-white noir set in 1950s California?
A) Miller’s Crossing
B) The Man Who Wasn’t There
C) Blood Simple
D) True Grit
Answer: B) The Man Who Wasn’t There
9. What genre is the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo primarily classified as?
A) Comedy
B) Western
C) Crime Thriller
D) Drama
Answer: C) Crime Thriller
10. Which Coen Brothers film features a character named “The Dude”?
A) The Big Lebowski
B) No Country for Old Men
C) Burn After Reading
D) A Serious Man
Answer: A) The Big Lebowski
11. Which film did Joel Coen direct solo, without his brother Ethan, in 2021?
A) The Tragedy of Macbeth
B) Hail, Caesar!
C) Inside Llewyn Davis
D) True Grit
Answer: A) The Tragedy of Macbeth
12. Which actor played the lead role in The Tragedy of Macbeth?
A) George Clooney
B) Denzel Washington
C) Jeff Bridges
D) John Turturro
Answer: B) Denzel Washington
13. What is the setting of the Coen Brothers’ film True Grit?
A) Modern-day Texas
B) 1920s New York
C) 19th-century American West
D) 1940s Los Angeles
Answer: C) 19th-century American West
14. Which Coen Brothers film is a satire of Hollywood in the 1950s?
A) Barton Fink
B) Hail, Caesar!
C) The Hudsucker Proxy
D) Intolerable Cruelty
Answer: B) Hail, Caesar!
15. Which film earned Joel and Ethan Coen an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay?
A) Fargo
B) The Big Lebowski
C) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
D) Miller’s Crossing
Answer: A) Fargo
16. In which Coen Brothers film does a folk singer struggle in 1960s Greenwich Village?
A) A Serious Man
B) Inside Llewyn Davis
C) Burn After Reading
D) The Ladykillers
Answer: B) Inside Llewyn Davis
17. Which Coen Brothers film is a remake of a 1969 John Wayne Western?
A) No Country for Old Men
B) True Grit
C) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
D) Miller’s Crossing
Answer: B) True Grit
18. What is the primary profession of the protagonist in Barton Fink?
A) Playwright
B) Detective
C) Lawyer
D) Musician
Answer: A) Playwright
19. Which Coen Brothers film features a character named Anton Chigurh?
A) No Country for Old Men
B) Fargo
C) Blood Simple
D) The Man Who Wasn’t There
Answer: A) No Country for Old Men
20. Which actor frequently collaborates with Joel Coen and appears in Fargo and The Big Lebowski?
A) Steve Buscemi
B) John Goodman
C) Both A and B
D) Nicolas Cage
Answer: C) Both A and B
21. Which Coen Brothers film is an anthology set in the Old West?
A) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
B) True Grit
C) No Country for Old Men
D) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Answer: A) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
22. What is the name of the fictional company in The Hudsucker Proxy?
A) Waring Enterprises
B) Hudsucker Industries
C) Norville Corporation
D) Blue Letter Co.
Answer: B) Hudsucker Industries
23. Which Coen Brothers film is a dark comedy about a CIA analyst?
A) Burn After Reading
B) Hail, Caesar!
C) Intolerable Cruelty
D) The Ladykillers
Answer: A) Burn After Reading
24. Which film by the Coen Brothers is set in a Minneapolis suburb in the 1960s?
A) Inside Llewyn Davis
B) Fargo
C) A Serious Man
D) The Man Who Wasn’t There
Answer: C) A Serious Man
25. What is the name of the protagonist in Raising Arizona?
A) H.I. McDunnough
B) Llewyn Davis
C) Tom Reagan
D) Norville Barnes
Answer: A) H.I. McDunnough