43 The Deer Hunter Trivia Questions & Answers

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.

Answer: Pennsylvania

They all live in Pennsylvania and work in a steel mill. It is most likely a small town near Pittsburgh.

Answer: Blonde

They are all blondes, including Meryl Streep.

Answer: Michael Cimino

His best film and one of the best movies ever made.

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.

Answer: Stanley

Michael, Steven and Nick all shipped off to Viet Nam right after Steven's wedding. Stanley, Axel and John stayed home.

Answer: Nick made Michael promise to never leave him over there.

Nick may have had a feeling about his own fate.

Answer: Rolling Rock

People from Pennsylvania love their Rolling Rock, which is made there.

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.

Answer: Steven

Steven was back by the time Mike got back. He was in the VA hospital.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Answer: the steel mill

This scene sets the atmosphere of this little town in Pennsylvania that they love. This is their home.

Answer: A hotel

Michael goes to a hotel to be alone. Linda is actually living at Michael and Nick's house.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Answer: Scrambled eggs

They have coffee, beer, and scrambled eggs.

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.

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."

Answer: a grocery store

Linda worked at the Eagle Super Market. Mike walks her to work when he gets home from the war.

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.