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2 Atom Egoyan quizzes and 20 Atom Egoyan trivia questions.
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  Atom Egoyan    
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Here's a quiz about one of my favorite directors Atom Egoyan.
Average, 10 Qns, lab*rat, Feb 04 07
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  Atom Egoyan's Movies    
Multiple Choice
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Here is an hommage to one of the most talented directors of all time. This quiz is pretty tough if your not a hardcore Egoyan fan.
Difficult, 10 Qns, egolover, Jun 14 23
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Atom Egoyan Trivia Questions
1. What is the name of the first feature length screenplay that Egoyan wrote?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: Next of Kin

It was directing this film that Egoyan met his future wife.

2. Where was Atom Egoyan born?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan

Answer: Cairo, Egypt

Egoyan's family moved to British Columbia when he was still a child.

3. What is Elias Koteas name in 'The Adjuster'?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: Noah

Elias Koteas also appears in Egoyan's "Exotica".

4. When was Atom Egoyan born?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan

Answer: July 19, 1960

Egoyan's parents named him in honour of the Atom bomb.

5. What Egoyan film was (for the majority) improvised?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: Calendar

Egoyan had little time and budget for this one so most of it was done in one take and without a script.

6. Egoyan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for which movie?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan

Answer: The Sweet Hereafter

He was also nominated for best adapted screen play but didn't win either award.

7. Finish this line from 'The Sweet Hereafter': Where waters gushed, and fruit trees grew, and flowers put forth a fairer hue, and everything was __________ and new.

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: Strange

The theme of the film is solidified here.

8. In which of his movies did he also have a role?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan

Answer: Calendar

Although he has appeared in other movies 'Calender' is the only movie he directed that he has also appeared in.

9. What is one of Egoyan's favorite themes, that runs through the majority of his movies?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: how technology creates distance

Egoyan once said 'it is fascinating, to me, how the technology designed to bring people together, in fact is the key to their alienation' in a Macleans article.

10. What is Bruce Greenwood's (Francis) job in 'Exotica'?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: tax auditor

Egoyan came up with the script for 'Exotica' after he, himself, was audited. He was intrigued by the stories these people could tell with so much access to peoples' personal information.

11. Egoyan has written the screenplay for all his movies except which one?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan

Answer: Gross Misconduct

'Gross Misconduct' was a made for tv movie.

12. What song by a well known Canadian band (but sang by Sarah Polley) plays over the bus ride sequence in 'The Sweet Hereafter'?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: Courage

Written by The Tragically Hip and sung by them later in the film.

13. What Samuel Beckett play did Egoyan adapt into a film starring John Hurt as the lead?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: Krapp's Last Tape

One of Egoyan's favorite plays, which influenced much of his work.

14. What does the photographer in 'Calendar' come to photograph in Armenia?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: churches

Nothing to do with the question but this film contains my all time favorite Egoyan line: 'All that's meant to protect is bound to isolate, and all that's meant to isolate, is bound to hurt'.

15. Egoyan is married to what actress (who he casts in most of his films)?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan

Answer: Arsinee Khanjian

16. What Egoyan film ends with a shot of light flooding through an upstairs window?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan's Movies

Answer: The Sweet Hereafter

Rhymes the shot at the carwash in the beginning of the film.

17. Egoyan's parents were born of what decent?

From Quiz Atom Egoyan

Answer: Armenian

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