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  The Ultimate Midway Quiz   best quiz  
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Instead of focusing on the history, this quiz will largely deal with the actors and the characters they played in this sweeping 1976 historical epic. Good luck!
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Here is a not too tricky quiz on one of the greatest war epics ever made with an all star cast. Hopefully not too hard if you have seen it more than once. Enjoy!
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  Midway Pacific War [History] (7 quizzes)


Midway the Movie Trivia Questions

1. Another great classic Hollywood actor, Glenn Ford, played the role of what admiral who had command of U.S. naval forces during the Battle of Midway?

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Answer: Ray Spruance

Glenn Ford did an excellent job playing Ray Spruance, a man so smart, he was often referred to as the 'Electric Brain' by his associates. Glenn Ford is an underrated Hollywood actor who starred in such great movies as 'Gilda' and 'The Big Heat'.

2. Erik Estrada was made famous by his T.V. role in "CHiPs". He plays the fighter pilot, "Chili Bean" Ramos. How does he claim to know when there are Japanese around?

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Answer: His hair "frizzles"

Ramos and a friend are watching planes take off from the deck of their carrier when this conversation takes place. Ramos claims to know which direction the Japanese carriers are. His friend asks where he gets his info and Ramos gestures to his hair and replies, "When it frizzles, there's Japs around!"

3. William 'Bull' Halsey was another key figure of the U.S. war in the Pacific. What great Hollywood tough guy of the 50s and 60s played this brief but substantial role?

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Answer: Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum, who chilled audiences with his roles in thrillers such as 'Night of the Hunter' and 'Cape Fear', played a lighter role in this movie. He played Bull Halsey, the commander of the U.S. Third Fleet during World War II. During the Battle of Midway, he was laid up in a hospital with a skin rash.

4. There are so many stars in this film from the big and small screen that we can't list them all. I will give you four actors. You tell me which one did NOT have a role in this film.

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Answer: Robert Conrad

We can see Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi from "The Karate Kid") om the bridge of the Japanese carrier. He plays Rear Adm. Kusaka. He has several lines in the movie as well. Tom Selleck ("Magnum P.I.") has a small role in this film, but he is in it. He plays an aide to Cpt. Simard. Robert Wagner plays Jonathan Hart in the T.V. series "Hart to Hart". He plays Lt. Commander Blake in this film. "Black Sheep Squadron" with "Pappy" Boyington (played by Robert Conrad) was on the air during the time period this film came out, but Conrad isn't in the film "Midway".

5. What popular American television star of the 1980s played a relatively small role as Ensign Ramos, aka 'Chili Bean', in 'Midway'?

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Answer: Erik Estrada

Erik Estrada has the whitest teeth in Hollywood, and he showed them off well in this film. His part was not very substantial, but he is featured as one of the heroic pilots that made the brave and deadly assaults against the Japanese aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway.

6. What popular American actor of both the big and small screen played the key role of Captain Joseph Rochefort, a cryptanalyst who helped discover what the Japanese intended to do just before the Battle of Midway began?

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Answer: Hal Holbrook

You may recognize Hal Holbrook from some of his other film roles, including: 'Wall Street', 'The Firm' and 'The Majestic'. Rochefort's advice just prior to the Battle of Midway helped turn the tide of the Pacific war in the favor of the Allies.

7. Three American aircraft carriers take part in this battle. One of them almost doesn't make it to the battle at all due to heavy damage it sustained at the battle of Coral Sea a few weeks before. Which carrier is this?

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Answer: U.S.S. Yorktown

The repair of the U.S.S. Yorktown at Pearl Harbor just before the battle of Midway is one the greatest engineering feats of the second world war. Several thousand repairman and welders descended on the ship and worked 24 hrs a day feverishly for a couple days. We see this taking place in the very beginning of the movie. The Admirals are talking about it on the docks at Pearl Harbor in the beginning of the film. The Lexington was lost at the battle of Coral Sea a few weeks earlier and so did not take part in the battle at Midway. This is also mentioned in that part of the film.

8. The Japanese were amply represented in this film as well. For example, what popular Asian-American star of the small screen appeared in 'Midway' as Rear Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka?

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Answer: Pat Morita

Pat Morita, well-known for his role in TV's 'Happy Days', played Ryunosuke Kusaka, the Chief of Staff of Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet after 1942. In this film he plays a key advisor to Admiral Nagumo.

9. In the Battle of Midway, aircraft from both sides attacked each other back and forth without the ships sighting each other. In the film, the Japanese suffer a crushing defeat, losing four aircraft carriers, and the Americans lose which carrier?

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Answer: U.S.S. Yorktown

The Yorktown is hit by two separate attacks of Japanese planes. During the first attack she is damaged badly and burning. The crew of the Yorktown is very good at damage control and repair after the Coral Sea action and the repairs at Pearl Harbor. The Yorktown's crew is able to get the fires under control and get the carrier upright and able to launch aircraft again. When the Japanese attack a second time later on, they assume it is a different carrier and report back to their fleet that they have destroyed a second American carrier. This confusion lead the Japanese to believe that they had sunk or disabled two out of the three American carriers, when in fact they only hit the Yorktown again. We see an aide to Admiral Nagumo mistakenly tell him, "Now it's only two against one, Admiral." We see Charlton Heston being told they are short of pilots and asked to fly a dive bomber off Yorktown as they evacuate the ship. He scores a direct hit on a Japanese carrier in the movie on that flight. In real life, the ship was abandoned and sunk after the second wave of attacks.

10. What key Japanese admiral is portrayed by perhaps Japan's greatest actor, Toshiro Mifune, in this film?

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Answer: Yamamoto

Though Mifune played the role, his voice was dubbed in this film by popular voice actor Paul Frees, who did Boris Badenov in the Jay Ward cartoons and the Burgermeister Meisterburger in the cartoon 'Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town'. Mifune is best known for his powerful renditions of various Samurai characters in Akira Kurosawa's greatest films.

11. Finally, what popular football player from the 1970s made a cameo appearance in 'Midway' as Commander Delaney?

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Answer: Larry Csonka

Larry Csonka is best known as the powerful running back for the Miami Dolphins in the early 1970s. This is one of only two feature films Csonka ever did during his limited acting career.

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