1. Answer: B. Lon Chaney Jr. starred as the Wolf Man. According to the documentary on The Wolf Man DVD, the script for The Wolf Man was influenced by writer Curt Siodmak’s experiences in Nazi Germany. Siodmak had been living a normal life in Germany only to have it thrown into chaos and he went on the run when the Nazis took control, just as the film’s protagonist Larry Talbot finds his normal life thrown into chaos and himself on the run once he is turned into a werewolf. Also, the wolf man himself can be seen as a metaphor for the Nazis: an otherwise good man who is transformed into a vicious killing animal who knows who his next victim will be when he sees the symbol of a pentagram (i.e., a star) on them.

2. Answer: D. Marlene Dietrich was only nominated once for an Oscar – Best Actress for Morocco (1930). She lost out to Marie Dressler (Min and Bill).

3. Answer: C. Billy Wilder was nominated for Best Director and Best Writing (along with Raymond Chandler) for the 1945 noir classic Double Indemnity. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, and took home none.

4. Answer: A. Over his long career in Hollywood, Waxman was nominated for twelve Oscars, and he won back-to-back statuettes for Sunset Blvd. (1950) and A Place in the Sun (1951).

5. Answer: C. Erich Wolfgang Korngold composed the opera Die tote Stadt (German for The Dead City) in 1920, when he was only 23 years old. Initially hugely popular upon its release, the opera was banned by the Nazis and has only begun to resurface from obscurity. An aria from the work — Glück das mir verblieb (German for My happiness that remained) – was used in 1998’s The Big Lebowski. The version on the Lebowski soundtrack was conducted by Korngold himself.

6. Answer: A. Peter Lorre played Bond villain “Le Chiffre” in a 1954 television adaptation of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale. Lorre’s unique accent has been parodied by Mel Blanc in many Warner Bros. cartoons, and is even the inspiration for the voice of the “Boo Berry” breakfast cereal cartoon. Watch a Warner Bros. parody of Peter Lorre and Edward G. Robinson in the Bugs Bunny cartoon, “Racketeer Rabbit”.

7. Answer: D. Karl Freund was the cinematographer for 149 episodes of “I Love Lucy” (1951-1956) He is credited with the development of the three-camera system used to shoot television sitcoms today. He used innovative camera techniques on the German classics The Last Laugh (1924) and Metropolis (1927).

8. Answer: A. Conrad Veidt’s most famous role was the Gestapo Maj. Strasser in Casablanca, despite his flight from Hitler’s Nazi regime in 1933.

(Sources: The Internet Movie Database, The Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.)