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Quiz about Moral Issues in Movies
Quiz about Moral Issues in Movies

Moral Issues in Movies Trivia Quiz


A look at some interesting moral questions that appear in assorted movies.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
robert362
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
106,643
Updated
May 30 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
1342
Last 3 plays: Guest 24 (6/10), Guest 63 (3/10), Guest 32 (6/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. In "Fail Safe", President Henry Fonda decides to make up for the destruction of a Soviet city by voluntarily destroying an American one. Which U.S. city does he select? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In "Fat Man and Little Boy", the question of using an atomic bomb in WW II is addressed. Who stars in the movie? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In "Judgment at Nuremberg", the Nazi crimes in WW II were addressed. Which of the following did NOT play a victim of Nazi brutality? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In "North by Northwest", Cary Grant is a fictional individual - who is placed in considerable danger as a result. Who decides to more-or-less leave him there in order to further his own agenda? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In "Inherit the Wind", the issue involves the impact of teaching Darwin's theories of evolution as opposed to the Bible's story of creation. Who is NOT in the cast of the Spencer Tracy /Fredric March version? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. In "The Best Man", political candidate Henry Fonda has a weapon that he may be able to use against opponent Cliff Robertson. What is it? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In "Seven Days in May", the President (and his supporters) have a potential weapon to use against renegade Burt Lancaster - letters that he wrote to Ava Gardner. Who is sent to obtain this "weapon"? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In "The Music Box", Jessica Lange must deal with the possibility of her father's guilt in Nazi atrocities. What is the evidence that is contained within the music box? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. In "Absence of Malice", the issue involved is the responsibility of the press. Who pays the price - by committing suicide - when certain information is disclosed? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In "Wall Street", the morality of what one does for money is examined when Charlie Sheen turns over some information to bigshot Michael Douglas. Where did Sheen get the information?m, Hint



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1. In "Fail Safe", President Henry Fonda decides to make up for the destruction of a Soviet city by voluntarily destroying an American one. Which U.S. city does he select?

Answer: New York

Interesting issue. To maintain the uneasy "balance" of the Cold War, the President avoids major conflict by killing millions of people.
Hard to believe it could ever happen. Could it be justified: the certain death of many versus the possible death of so many more?
2. In "Fat Man and Little Boy", the question of using an atomic bomb in WW II is addressed. Who stars in the movie?

Answer: Paul Newman

Newman is Leslie Groves in this fact-based tale of J. Robert Oppenheimer and company and the Manhattan project. A weapon of this sort had never before been used (or even existed). Too radical to use - or a fair and necessary weapon (a la "all's fair in war")?
3. In "Judgment at Nuremberg", the Nazi crimes in WW II were addressed. Which of the following did NOT play a victim of Nazi brutality?

Answer: Marlene Dietrich

Garland and Clift were victims. Dietrich was a citizen and resident - not all Germans were Nazi sympathizers, etc. Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell and Richard Widmark. Is it acceptable to say "we were only following orders"?
4. In "North by Northwest", Cary Grant is a fictional individual - who is placed in considerable danger as a result. Who decides to more-or-less leave him there in order to further his own agenda?

Answer: Leo G. Carroll

Carroll's attitude initially is that the development is his good luck - and Grant's misfortune. One of the oldest questions in ethics: do the ends justify the means?
5. In "Inherit the Wind", the issue involves the impact of teaching Darwin's theories of evolution as opposed to the Bible's story of creation. Who is NOT in the cast of the Spencer Tracy /Fredric March version?

Answer: James Whitmore

Morgan is the judge. York is the defendant, Scopes. Akins is the priest (and father of York's girl friend). Freedom of speech - even if it's "blasphemy"?
6. In "The Best Man", political candidate Henry Fonda has a weapon that he may be able to use against opponent Cliff Robertson. What is it?

Answer: Allegations of homosexuality

Again, do the ends justify the means? Robertson is a scoundrel - but, do you pull out all the stops? Does "anything go"?
7. In "Seven Days in May", the President (and his supporters) have a potential weapon to use against renegade Burt Lancaster - letters that he wrote to Ava Gardner. Who is sent to obtain this "weapon"?

Answer: Kirk Douglas

Old friend Douglas is dispatched by president Fredric March to retrieve the letters for possible use. Again, do the ends justify the means?
8. In "The Music Box", Jessica Lange must deal with the possibility of her father's guilt in Nazi atrocities. What is the evidence that is contained within the music box?

Answer: Incriminating photographs

Moral issue here involves loyalty to one's family versus a moral obligation to the world at large. Does one turn in one's own parent?
Good movie.
9. In "Absence of Malice", the issue involved is the responsibility of the press. Who pays the price - by committing suicide - when certain information is disclosed?

Answer: Melinda Dillon

Dillon plays a sensitive young woman who cannot bear to have word of her abortion revealed. Fine movie.
10. In "Wall Street", the morality of what one does for money is examined when Charlie Sheen turns over some information to bigshot Michael Douglas. Where did Sheen get the information?m,

Answer: From a family member

Sheen gets it from his father, Martin Sheen. Do you "do whatever it takes" to get ahead in business? ("Greed is good" ? That's another issue.)
Source: Author robert362

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