FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!
Trivia Questions and Answers

43 The Deer Hunter Trivia Questions & Answers

Deer Hunter, The
This category is for trivia questions and answers related to The Deer Hunter, as asked by users of FunTrivia.com.

There are 43 questions on this topic. Last updated Mar 29 2024.
Related Questions & Answers:   Grease    Friday The 13th   
Search in topic:
1 In what time of the year does the first third of the movie take place?
Answer: Autumn

It must be fall, because the friends are hunting, and because football is being shown on TV in the bar just before the wedding.

The football game is between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. During the 1968-75 period covered by the film, all games between those two teams were played on Sundays. At the reception, Michael says they leave for Vietnam on "Monday" - and the friends have one last hunting trip the day after the wedding. So the timing of the wedding, hunt, and Vietnam departure isn't exactly correct.

Details, details.
Question Reference: Quiz: Deer Hunter.
trivia question Quick Question
Where is the very first scene in the movie?




2 Where does everybody live in the beginning of the movie?
Answer: Pennsylvania

They all live in Pennsylvania and work in a steel mill. It is most likely a small town near Pittsburgh.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Deer Hunter.
3 What is the common hair color of all the bridesmaids?
Answer: Blonde

They are all blondes, including Meryl Streep.
4 Who directed "The Deer Hunter"?
Answer: Michael Cimino

His best film and one of the best movies ever made.
5 Why does Michael have so little respect for Stan?
Answer: Because Stan is unprepared and often immature

Mike is a man of few words and always in control. By contrast, in the first hunting trip, Stan shows up still in his wedding tuxedo, with no thermal socks or boots. Saying that he's bailed Stan out too many times in the past, Mike refuses to let Stan use his. Later, after returning from Vietnam, he gets extremely angry when Stan cavalierly points a gun at one of their friends.
Question Reference: Quiz: Deer Hunter.
6 Who did not go off to Viet Nam?
Answer: Stanley

Michael, Steven and Nick all shipped off to Viet Nam right after Steven's wedding. Stanley, Axel and John stayed home.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Deer Hunter.
7 What does Nick make Michael promise before they leave for Vietnam?
Answer: Nick made Michael promise to never leave him over there.

Nick may have had a feeling about his own fate.
8 What is the favorite beer?
Answer: Rolling Rock

People from Pennsylvania love their Rolling Rock, which is made there.
9 What Frankie Valli song is used in the movie?
Answer: Can't Take My Eyes Off of You

Valli's 1967 hit "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" is used memorably during the less than three minutes of the movie where it can be heard. It's on the jukebox in the bar just before the wedding, as the men shoot pool, drink, and talk. When Steve's mother shows up and drags him away, the men serenade her with the "I want to hold you so much" line. Later at the reception, the song is playing in the background as Mike asks Nick's girlfriend Linda to dance.
Question Reference: Quiz: Deer Hunter.
10 Which friend got back home from the war first?
Answer: Steven

Steven was back by the time Mike got back. He was in the VA hospital.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Deer Hunter.
11 What did the doctor ask at the hospital in Saigon that made Nick so upset that he cried?
Answer: The birth dates of his parents.

After escaping death so many times, Nick was trying so hard to get himself together before he left the hospital. Many things must have been racing through his mind.
12 What is the bit of advice that Nick (Christopher Walken) gives Steven (John Savage) on his wedding night?
Answer: "Hang loose."

Steven is worried because he has never slept with Angela and it's his wedding night. Stan (John Cazale) has apparently slept with Angela, and is whispering about it to anyone who will listen, as well as the fact that she is pregnant, but by whom? Nick is trying to get him to relax.
13 How does the Green Beret, who has returned from Vietnam, react to Michael and his friends?
Answer: Mostly ignores them and quietly curses

At the reception, the friends find a Green Beret alone at the bar, buy him a drink, and ask him what it's like in Vietnam. He looks past them or stares straight ahead and just curses "it" - whatever "it" is. After failing to start a conversation with him, they eventually return to the reception.
Question Reference: Quiz: Deer Hunter.
14 What are Nick's parents' names?
Answer: Lou and Eva

Nick tells the doctor in the hospital in Saigon that his parents are names Lou and Eva. When the doctor asked what their dates of birth were, Nick started crying uncontrollably.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Deer Hunter.
15 Where is the very first scene in the movie?
Answer: the steel mill

This scene sets the atmosphere of this little town in Pennsylvania that they love. This is their home.
16 When Michael comes home from the war, he ditched his going away party. Where does he go instead?
Answer: A hotel

Michael goes to a hotel to be alone. Linda is actually living at Michael and Nick's house.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Deer Hunter.
17 When Michael was planning their escape from the POW camp, how many bullets does he want the guards to put in the gun for Russian Roulette?
Answer: Three

Michael figured their chances were better if they had more bullets so they could shoot point blank at three of the guards and Nick could grab another gun and shoot the others. "Mao" this!
18 What does Axel dip his twinkie in?
Answer: mustard

There is so much going on with the characters by the time they go up to the mountains to go deer hunting after the reception, and before Vietnam. They know each other so well. Stan causes all kinds of problems and fun for his buddies here.
19 What happens at the wedding reception, to foreshadow trouble ahead?
Answer: The bride spills wine on her dress.

Near the end of their reception, Steven and Angela are given a large double-cupped goblet to drink from, being told that if they don't spill a drop, it will mean good luck for the rest of their lives. Unseen by the couple or their guests, some drops of the red wine fall onto her dress.
Question Reference: Quiz: Deer Hunter.
20 Steven told Nick a secret after his wedding. What was the secret?
Answer: He had never slept with Angela.

Angela was pregnant and everyone thought that was why Stevie was marrying her. He told Nick he had never slept with her, implying that the baby was not his.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Deer Hunter.
21 What kind of eggs do they have after Nick's funeral?
Answer: Scrambled eggs

They have coffee, beer, and scrambled eggs.
22 Where does Nick propose to Linda (Meryl Streep)?
Answer: He proposes at the reception after she catches the bouquet.

Linda answers "yes" right away and Nick laughs with surprise. They both want to laugh and cry at the same time with all that is happening and fear of what's to come.
23 On the hunting trip, Michael holds up a bullet and says "This is" something. What does he say it is?
Answer: This

"Stanley, see this?" Michael says, frustrated that his friend came on a hunting trip unprepared. "This is this. This ain't somethin' else. This is this. From now on, you're on your own."
Question Reference: Quiz: Deer Hunter.
24 Where did Linda work?
Answer: a grocery store

Linda worked at the Eagle Super Market. Mike walks her to work when he gets home from the war.
Question Reference: Quiz: The Deer Hunter.
25 Also, after the funeral, who starts singing "God Bless America" when they're all sitting at the table?
Answer: Linda

John is crying while making the eggs and starts humming the melody to the song, but Linda actually starts singing it and the rest join in.