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Oppenheimer (Film & History) Trivia

Detonate your trivia skills by splitting atoms and box-office bombshells—from Manhattan Project secrets to Nolan’s blockbuster brilliance.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

In 2016 which drama directed by Kenneth Lonergan did Casey Affleck earn the Best Actor Oscar for playing a grieving uncle?

Manchester by the Sea

For her role as Kitty Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt received an Academy Award nomination in which category?

Best Supporting Actress

Alongside its uranium-235Little Boy” bomb, the Manhattan Project developed an implosion-type bomb using which other element?

Plutonium

Which university system operated the secret Los Alamos Laboratory under contract during the Manhattan Project?

University of California

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which explores J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the Manhattan Project, is based on which Pulitzer Prize–winning 2005 biography?

American Prometheus