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'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) was directed by Milos Forman. It stars Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, and William Redfield. It swept the Oscars, winning Best Actor, Actress, Director, Picture, and Adapted Screenplay.
4 quizzes and 40 trivia questions.
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  Cast of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"    
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In this quiz, I will describe a character from the movie, "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", and you tell me who played him or her. Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, CAGuy0206, Jan 11 11
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  Questions About "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"    
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These questions are all about what goes on in the classic 1975 movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
Average, 10 Qns, DrLoveGun, Mar 22 21
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  'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans    
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Questions about a great movie from the Seventies, 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.'
Tough, 10 Qns, Kelvinoid, Jun 22 19
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  One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest    
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Academy Award Movie Trivia: 'One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest' is one of three movies to win all the major academy awards including best picture, best director, best actor and actress in 1975.
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trivia question Quick Question
I was the first person at the mental hospital that McMurphy met with to discuss his being a patient there. Who played me?

From Quiz "Cast of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest""





One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Trivia Questions
1. What unusual musical instrument is heard in the opening theme?

From Quiz 'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans

Answer: musical saw

A lot of people I know thought the musical saw was weird. I think it created the right tone, a combination of eeriness and absurdity.

2. Who is the author of the book 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'?

From Quiz One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Answer: Ken Kesey

3. What do the inmates gamble with when they play cards?

From Quiz Questions About "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Answer: Cigarettes

Throughout the movie, the inmates play cards, and eventually they lose all their cigarettes to McMurphy, and then the cigarettes are confiscated by Nurse Ratched, who bans card-playing. Cheswick repeatedly cries, "Where are my cigarettes?" Nurse Ratched tries to calmly explain to him that he gambled away his cigarettes to McMurphy and that he can't win them back because card-playing is now banned, but that doesn't make him happy. Then, a big fight breaks out. McMurphy breaks the glass window that separates the nurses' office from where the inmates are allowed and he gets a cigarette box for Cheswick, only for Cheswick to complain that it is empty.

4. Which actor did NOT make his film debut in 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'?

From Quiz 'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans

Answer: Danny DeVito

He'd been in other movies before, but this was Danny's first memorable role. Mimi Sarkisian, who played Nurse Pilbow, never made another movie.

5. What is the name of Nurse Ratched's nurse's assistant?

From Quiz One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Answer: Miss Pilbow

6. Which Academy Award did the film NOT win?

From Quiz 'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans

Answer: Brad Dourif for Best Supporting Actor

Brad did win the British Academy Award for his performance, but Hollywood overlooked him.

7. What game were the patients arguing over when McMurphy hosed them down with water?

From Quiz One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Answer: Monopoly

8. In the party scene, which patient is seen wearing Nurse Ratched's cap?

From Quiz 'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans

Answer: Scanlon

Scanlon was the one with the beard. Afterwards, Nurse Ratched asks Martini to get her cap and bring it to her.

9. What object did Billy Bibbit use to commit suicide?

From Quiz One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Answer: A piece of broken glass

10. Who is the best basketball player in the institution?

From Quiz Questions About "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Answer: The Chief

The Chief is almost as tall as the distance between the ground and the basket, and with much effort, McMurphy teaches him how to put the ball in the basket. Eventually, when the inmates play against the staff, every time McMurphy gets the ball, he throws it to the Chief and he puts it in the basket. The Chief also prevents the staff from scoring by blocking the ball when it's in the basket, and knocking it back up so it doesn't go all the way through. Apparently, goal-tending isn't illegal in Asylum Basketball.

11. What repetitive thing did Bancini do, as a sign of his illness?

From Quiz 'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans

Answer: He always complained of being tired

12. At one point in the movie, the inmates leave the institution to do what activity?

From Quiz Questions About "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Answer: Fishing

McMurphy attempts to teach the other inmates how to fish. However, they all lose interest in fishing when they see him talking with Candy. To make matters worse, Cheswick, whom McMurphy put in charge of steering the boat, leaves his post to watch McMurphy and Candy, leaving no one to steer the boat for a while. Billy compliments Candy's hair and eyes while they're on the boat.

13. What was unusual about co-screenwriter Lawrence Hauben and his work on the film?

From Quiz 'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans

Answer: He never had another screenwriting credit

I don't know if this was due to bad luck, or if he just quit while he was ahead!

14. Along with Mr. McMurphy, I urged Nurse Ratched to let the ward watch the World Series and I also wanted my cigarette privileges back. Who played me?

From Quiz Cast of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Answer: Sydney Lassick

Lassick, born in 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, played Mr. Cheswick in this movie. Mr. Cheswick was a patient that was committed to the hospital so the only way he could get out was if the hospital staff authorized his release. Cheswick liked to play Blackjack with the other patients and really wanted to watch the World Series. Cheswick got in trouble when he threw a fit about Nurse Ratched holding onto his cigarttes. He was punished by receiving electroconvulsive therapy and, when he was told to go to the room to get the treatment, it took many orderlies to drag him there since he objected to it. Lassick starred in the films "Carrie", "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit" and "Man On the Moon". He passed away on April 12th, 2003 at the age of 80.

15. What does Martini do during the Monopoly game that upsets Harding?

From Quiz 'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans

Answer: He puts a hotel on Boardwalk without paying for it

He does eat the dice later.

16. How many patients were actually on Nurse Ratched's ward?

From Quiz One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Answer: 18

17. Who commits suicide near the end of the movie?

From Quiz Questions About "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Answer: Billy

McMurphy sneaks in two women and some alcohol and bribes one of the guards to allow this and the inmates throw a party. After the party, Nurse Ratched discovers Billy naked and asleep with Candy. Nurse Ratched asks Billy if he is ashamed of what he has done. Billy's stutter goes away and he says, "No I'm not." Nurse Ratched then threatens to tell Billy's mother. Billy's stutter returns as he pleads with Nurse Ratched not to tell his mom. Afraid that Nurse Ratched will not comply with his plea, Billy commits suicide.

18. What reason does Chief give for not escaping with McMurphy?

From Quiz 'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans

Answer: He isn't big enough

I'm assuming he was talking about emotional, rather than physical bigness.

19. At the end of the movie what did Chief Bromden do to McMurphy?

From Quiz One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Answer: Smothered him to death

20. Who gets lobotomized and then killed at the end of the movie?

From Quiz Questions About "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Answer: McMurphy

After Billy commits suicide due to Nurse Ratched threatening to tell his mom that he slept with a hooker in the institution, McMurphy attempts to strangle Nurse Ratched to death. The guards save her and and he gets a lobotomy. When the Chief discovers that his best friend has been given a lobotomy, the Chief smothers McMurphy to death with a pillow, believing that he'd be better off dead than living with a lobotomy.

21. What game was played outside between the patients and the employees of the hospital?

From Quiz One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Answer: basketball

22. Who escapes at the end of the movie?

From Quiz Questions About "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Answer: The Chief

When McMurphy learns that his actions caused him to be sentenced to more time in the institution, he decides to try to escape. He attempts to lift a hydrotherapy fountain, planning to throw it through the window and escape. When he fails to do so, he attempts to convince the Chief to do it. At first the Chief does not do it. However, by the end of the movie, the Chief and McMurphy have become good friends. When McMurphy dies, the Chief, inspired by McMurphy's confidence and wanting to do what McMurphy would have wanted them to do, successfully lifts the fountain, throws it through the window, and escapes.

23. When McMurphy imagines the World Series game, he says the pitcher's in trouble. Who's the pitcher?

From Quiz 'Cuckoo's Nest' for Fans

Answer: Sandy Koufax

I'm guessing McMurphy was a Yankees fan.

24. What was the name of the boat used during the fishing trip?

From Quiz One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Answer: Hyak

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