Pass the Buck Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sam Rockwell

The movie was directed by Frank Darabont. It also starred Tom Hanks, James Cromwell, Patricia Clarkson and Bonnie Hunt. It was about a prison guard who has an interesting encounter with a death row inmate John Coffey, who has healing powers. Coffey was imprisoned for allegedly raping and killing two girls. It was shown that he was innocent and the crime was committed by Wild Bill. Bill is shown to be a serial killer and a mad man.

John Coffey was blamed for Wild Bill's crime!

Sam Rockwell has acted in movies such as 'Moon', 'Matchstick Men' and 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'.

Answer: One armed man

'The Fugitive' was directed by Andrew Davis and also starred Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward and Tom Wood. The one armed man's name was Fredrick Sykes and was played by Andreas Katsulas. Julianne Moore had a small part in the movie too. It was based on a TV show. The main plot of the movie revolved around a man who is wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his wife. He then escapes the prison and tries to prove his innocence by finding the man who did it. Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this movie. It was nominated for Best Picture too. It was critically acclaimed!

Dr. Richard Kimble was blamed for Fredrick's crime!

Answer: Ethan Hawke

The movie was directed by Antoine Fuqua. It starred Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Eva Mendes, Snoop Dogg and Tom Berenger. It was about a rookie police officer who uncovers the corrupt side of cop life while riding with his assigned lead Detective Alonzo Harris. Hawke was nominated for an Oscar for his performance while Denzel won Best Actor for his performance in this movie.

Alonzo Harris wanted the rookie to blame the outlaw for provocation and his shooting!

Ethan Hawke has acted in movies such as 'Taking Lives', 'Sinister', 'Before Sunrise' and 'Before Sunset'. He was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing the script to 'Before Midnight'.

Answer: Frank Costello

The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese. It won the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars. It also starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Sheen, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin and Vera Farmiga. DiCaprio played a cop who goes undercover into the gang of Frank Costello and gathers evidence to form a case against him that could lead to an arrest, but what he doesn't know is that there is a mole in the police force who works for Costello. Martin Scorsese finally won an Oscar for this movie after being nominated for movies like 'Taxi Driver', 'Raging Bull' and 'The Aviator'.

Jack Nicholson has acted in movies such as 'The Shining' and 'About Schmidt'. He won an Oscar for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Terms of Endearment' and 'As Good As It Gets'.

Answer: Denzel Washington

The movie was directed by Norman Jewison. It also starred Deborah Kara Unger, Vicellous Reon Shannon and Liev Schreiber. It was about a boxer, Rubin Carter, who gets sent to prison wrongly and from there fights against the system that imprisoned him with the help of someone really unexpected. It was based on a true story.

Denzel has acted in movies such as 'Training Day' and 'Deja Vu'. He has won Oscars for his performances in movies such as 'Training Day' and 'Glory'. He also gave excellent performances in 'Flight' and 'Malcolm X'. He starred opposite Angelina Jolie in the thriller 'The Bone Collector'.

Answer: In the Name of the Father

It was about a group of four men who were wrongly convicted of being involved in the 1974 IRA's Guildford pub bombings. The bombings took the life of five people. The movie focused on their life in prison among outlaws and also a lawyer's battle to get them out of there.

It was a critical success and was nominated for plenty of Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Actress at the 66th Academy Awards.

Answer: Tommy

Tommy is played by Gill Bellows. He tells Andy (Robbins) and Red (Freeman) that he had a cellmate in a previous prison who was responsible for the murders that Andy was convicted of committing. Tommy is then killed under the orders of the warden as he does not want Andy to be free. Earlier, we are shown that Andy helps Tommy with his education.

It is shown that Tommy is imprisoned for burglary.

Answer: Heath Ledger

'The Dark Knight' was directed by Christopher Nolan. It was a sequel to his movie 'Batman Begins'. It starred Morgan Freeman, Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine and Maggie Gyllenhaal. In the movie, Gotham is being terrorized by the Joker and his main aim is to take down Batman. The movie ends with the death of Harvey Dent for which Batman agrees to take the blame, because he doesn't want the city of Gotham to know that Harvey Dent had turned into a villain.

Batman agreed to take the blame!

Heath Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for this role. He has acted in movies such as 'A Knight's Tale' and 'Monster's Ball'. He acted in the acclaimed Ang Lee movie 'Brokeback Mountain' which was nominated for multiple Oscars. He died before the release of 'The Dark Knight'.

Answer: Tom Hardy

The movie was the last installment in the 'Dark Knight' trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan. This movie added to the cast Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle and Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate. In this movie, Bane terrorizes the city and Batman has to save it. Gordon is shown to want to read the speech he wrote which reveals all the truth about what happened to Harvey but Bane reads it while he terrorizes the city with a nuclear strike.

Tom Hardy has acted in movies such as 'Warrior', 'Lawless' and 'This Means War'. He acted in another Nolan hit called 'Inception' opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and Marion Cotillard.

Answer: Matt Damon

The movie was a part of the 'Bourne' series which included movies such as 'The Bourne Identity', 'The Bourne Ultimatum' and 'The Bourne Legacy'. It was about a former CIA employee Jason Bourne who is haunted by his past employment and consequences of his job there. In the movie, Ward Abbot (played by Brian Cox) is guilty of being a mole. He orders the murder of some CIA officials who found out about this secret and then frames Bourne. Bourne is shown to record a conversation that implicates Abbot.

Bourne is blamed for crimes that Abbot was responsible for!

Matt Damon has acted in movies such as 'Ocean's Eleven', 'We Bought A Zoo' and 'Elysium'. He won an Oscar for writing the movie 'Good Will Hunting' with Ben Affleck, in which he also acted. He has also starred in 'Invictus' and 'The Departed'.