# 🤠 Trivia: Clint Eastwood  
**🗓️ Used:** 2025-06-13

## 🧠 Regular Questions

### 1. What Western TV series gave Clint Eastwood his early fame?  
**Answer:** Rawhide  
- “Before he shot bandits, he wrangled cattle.”  
- “Clint’s first job: hat, horse, hard stare.”  
- “Rawhide: now in emotional leather.”  
- “Six seasons of grit and growls.”  
- “From trail dust to film dust.”

### 2. Which character did Eastwood famously play in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy”?  
**Answer:** The Man with No Name  
- “But with all the attitude.”  
- “Silent, stylish, and 100% deadly.”  
- “He’s got no name, but all the presence.”  
- “Because names are for talkers.”  
- “Wanted: for minimalism and murder.”

### 3. What film did Clint Eastwood direct and star in that won Best Picture in 1992?  
**Answer:** Unforgiven  
- “A Western apology with bullets.”  
- “He aged like wine. Angry, dusty wine.”  
- “The final cowboy curtain call.”  
- “Unforgiven, but unforgettable.”  
- “Even his remorse wears a ten-gallon hat.”

### 4. In what 1971 film does Eastwood play a psycho cop with a huge gun?  
**Answer:** Dirty Harry  
- “Do you feel lucky? Well, *do* ya, punk?”  
- “Public safety with a side of threats.”  
- “Dirty Harry: cleaning up crime the old-fashioned way.”  
- “He hates paperwork. Loves mayhem.”  
- “HR would not approve.”

### 5. Which war film directed by Eastwood shows the Japanese perspective of Iwo Jima?  
**Answer:** Letters from Iwo Jima  
- “Yes, Clint made a *nuanced* war film.”  
- “Subtitled and surprisingly respectful.”  
- “The quiet side of carnage.”  
- “History, honor, and heartbreak in kanji.”  
- “Even his films wear combat boots.”

## ✍️ Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

### 1. Eastwood served as the mayor of ______, California.  
**Answer:** Carmel  
- “Because *governor* was too mainstream.”  
- “Town motto: ‘Speak softly, glare hard.’”  
- “He ran on a platform of squinting.”  
- “Welcome to Carmel: population Clint.”  
- “Mayor Eastwood: No red tape, just rope.”

### 2. In *Gran Torino*, Eastwood’s character is a retired ______ veteran.  
**Answer:** Korean War  
- “Get off his lawn or get off this planet.”  
- “He growls more than he speaks.”  
- “Gran Torino: one car, one grudge.”  
- “Eastwood vs. modern society.”  
- “He doesn’t do TikTok.”

### 3. Eastwood composed the music for his film *Million Dollar ______*.  
**Answer:** Baby  
- “Punches, pain, and piano.”  
- “From uppercuts to upper keys.”  
- “He makes you cry while you bleed.”  
- “Yes, Clint plays music too. Stop it.”  
- “He’s the Swiss Army Knife of drama.”

### 4. The final film in the “Dollars Trilogy” is *The Good, the Bad and the ______.*  
**Answer:** Ugly  
- “Spoiler: he’s not the ugly one.”  
- “Stare-offs that last longer than your career.”  
- “Three men. One cemetery. Infinite squints.”  
- “The title is the plot.”  
- “Morality: optional. Style: essential.”

### 5. Eastwood won his second Best Director Oscar for *Million Dollar ______.*  
**Answer:** Baby  
- “He directs pain like a maestro.”  
- “Two Oscars, zero mercy.”  
- “Million Dollar sob-fest incoming.”  
- “He didn’t pull punches. Or tears.”  
- “The saddest boxing movie not about boxing.”

## ❓ Multiple Choice Questions

### 1. [Difficulty: 1]  
What phrase is famously associated with *Dirty Harry*?  
- A. “Say hello to my little friend.”  
- B. “Yippee-ki-yay, [expletive].”  
- C. “Go ahead, make my day.”  
- D. “I’m too old for this…”  
**Answer:** C. “Go ahead, make my day.”  
- “The most threatening coffee order ever.”  
- “Clint said it. Crime reconsidered.”  
- “Perfect for Mondays and mobsters.”  
- “He made *your* day worse.”  
- “Every cop movie copied this moment.”

### 2. [Difficulty: 2]  
Which of these Clint Eastwood films is NOT a Western?  
- A. Pale Rider  
- B. The Outlaw Josey Wales  
- C. Mystic River  
- D. High Plains Drifter  
**Answer:** C. Mystic River  
- “More Boston, less bronco.”  
- “Still brooding. Less dust.”  
- “From saddles to secrets.”  
- “The horses were replaced with guilt.”  
- “Still gritty, just wetter.”

### 3. [Difficulty: 3]  
What actor played Clint Eastwood’s partner in *In the Line of Fire*?  
- A. Denzel Washington  
- B. John Malkovich  
- C. Jeff Daniels  
- D. Tommy Lee Jones  
**Answer:** B. John Malkovich  
- “Eastwood vs. Malkovich: a whisper battle for the ages.”  
- “One mumbles, the other plots.”  
- “The showdown of subtle psychosis.”  
- “Fewer bullets, more stress.”  
- “Just enough crazy to cancel each other out.”

### 4. [Difficulty: 3]  
Clint Eastwood directed *Flags of Our Fathers*, focusing on which historical battle?  
- A. Normandy  
- B. Pearl Harbor  
- C. Iwo Jima  
- D. Midway  
**Answer:** C. Iwo Jima  
- “Yes, he made *two* Iwo Jima films. Calm down.”  
- “One battle, two viewpoints, infinite sadness.”  
- “Flags: not the waving kind.”  
- “You’ll cry, then salute.”  
- “Honor, trauma, and Eastwood’s stare.”

### 5. [Difficulty: 4]  
What film did Eastwood direct and star in at age 91?  
- A. The Mule  
- B. Cry Macho  
- C. Trouble with the Curve  
- D. Richard Jewell  
**Answer:** B. Cry Macho  
- “Yes, he’s still acting. No, he will not retire.”  
- “Cry Macho: Clint’s AARP revenge flick.”  
- “Old man. New mustache. Same squint.”  
- “Wrinkles don’t slow bullets.”  
- “He’s still tougher than you. Deal with it.”

### 5. [Difficulty: 4]  
What movie did Eastwood star with a monkey?  
- A. The Mule  
- B. Every Which Way But Loose  
- C. Trouble with the Curve  
- D. Richard Jewell  
**Answer:** B. Every Which Way But Loose  
- “Yes, he’s still acting. No, he will not retire.”  
- “Monkey Man.”  
- “Old man. New mustache. Same squint.”  
- “Wrinkles don’t slow bullets.”  
- “He’s still tougher than you. Deal with it.”

