The Coen Brothers Quiz


So you think you know the Coen Brothers and their movies?  Take the quiz below and test your wits!

1. In The Big Lebowski, Donny Kerabotsos’ first name is actually Theodore, not Donald. *
2. When Barton Fink takes the Gideon Bible out of the desk drawer in his hotel room, the passage he reads is Daniel 2:5. *
3. Joel and Ethan Coen have an older sister named Debbie who is a doctor in Israel. *
4. When Marva Munson utters the words, Mene mene tenkel parsin, in The Ladykillers, she’s actually quoting a verse from the biblical Book of Daniel fortelling the downfall of the Babylonian empire. *
5. In real life, George “Baby Face” Nelson, the bipolar bank robber in O Brother, in 1933 actually robbed the First National Bank in Brainerd, Minnesota, where the movie Fargo is set. *
6. In Raising Arizona, the factory where H.I. McDonnough works after he marries Edwina and leaves his life of petty crime is called Hudsucker Industries. *
7. In Burn After Reading, before he was the manager at Hardbodies gym, Ted had been a Greek Orthodox priest for 14 years. *
8. The line, “If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass a- hoppin’” appears in both Raising Arizona and The Hudsucker Proxy. *
9. When the Coen brothers were growing up in the suburbs of Minneapolis in the mid-1960s, there actually was a rabbi named “Minda” who served at one of the local synagogues. *
10. Francis McDormand’s father and sister are both ordained Disciples of Christ ministers. *
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