About This Quiz
Can you imagine Laurence Olivier as Don Corleone? Or Burt Reynolds as Sonny? Neither could we (and it could have been so). Take this quiz to test your knowledge of the cinematic classic.Sonny was gunned down at the tollbooth on the Long Beach Causeway.
Because he owns poppy fields in Turkey, Virgil Sollozzo is known as The Turk.
Apollonia Vitelli was Michael Corleone's first wife. They married in Sicily.
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Francis Ford Coppola directed "The Godfather" series.
Marlon Brando won best actor for playing the role of Vito Corleone, and Robert De Niro won best supporting actor for the same role in "The Godfather: Part II."
Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" was originally published in 1969.
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Michael, Sollozzo and McCluskey meet at Louis' Restaurant on White Plains Road in the Bronx, New York.
Johnny Fontane croons "I Have But One Heart" at Connie's wedding.
Vito Corleone's last name was Andolini before coming to America.
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"Leave the gun; take the cannoli."
Clemenza's sauce includes oil, garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, red wine and sugar, but not onions.
Tessio betrays the Corleone family and sets up the hit on Michael.
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All three men wanted to play the role of Don Corleone, but Coppola had Brando in mind.
Hyman Roth is said to be based on the real-life crime figure Meyer Lansky.
Michael and Kay see "The Bells of St. Mary's" at Radio City Music Hall.
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The Corleone phone number was Longbeach-4-5620, which Michael dialed from his father's hospital room.
Connie's bridal purse contains $20,000 to $30,000 "in small bills — cash."
Coppola appears in all three "Godfather" films, as baby Michael Rizzi and as Mary Corleone.
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Francis Ford Coppola insisted on "Mario Puzo's The Godfather," to credit the author.
Seven people in the cast won Oscars for their roles in "The Godfather" (and five more were nominated).
The AFI selected Vito Corleone's line "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" as the No. 2 movie quote, behind "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from "Gone With the Wind."
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The Five Families were the Barzini, Corleone, Cuneo, Stracci and Tattaglia families.
A USC vs. Notre Dame football game is on TV when Michael visits Hyman Roth.
Uncredited, George Lucas put together the montage about the war between the Five Families as a favor to Coppola.
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Bruno Kirby plays the young Clemenza role in "The Godfather: Part II."
Because Corleone was too developed, Michael's exile was filmed in the Sicilian town of Savoca.
Graphic designer S. Neil Fujita, who designed Truman's Capote's "In Cold Blood" cover, created the well-known logo for Puzo's "The Godfather" novel.
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"I believe in America," says Amerigo Bonasera when asking Don Vito Corleone for a favor.
Talia Shire and Francis Ford Coppola are brother and sister.
Tom Hagen is appointed consigliere after Genco.
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