August 30, 2008



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Quiz: Movies from the 1940s

By Elissa Royal, March-April 2004





1. An oft-misquoted line from Casablanca comes from "You played it for her, you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it!" Which actor snarled those words?

  Dooley Wilson
  Claude Rains
  Humphrey Bogart
  Paul Henreid

2. James Cagney played the lead in what musical biography?

  Rhapsody in Blue
  Night and Day
  Yankee Doodle Dandy
  This Is the Army

3. Who, in addition to Orson Welles, is credited for writing the script for Citizen Kane?

  Herman Mankiewicz
  Julius Epstein
  Frank Capra
  Joseph Mankiewicz

4. Three major films in the '40s—Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity, and The Postman Always Rings Twice—are based on novels by:

  William Saroyan
  James M. Cain
  Dashiell Hammett
  Raymond Chandler

5. The theme from The Third Man is played on what instrument?

  mandolin
  oboe
  panpipe
  zither

6. "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!" These often-paraphrased lines are uttered by Mexican bandits in:

  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  The Outlaw
  Duel in the Sun
  Fort Apache

7. Henry Fonda received the Oscar for Best Actor in 1982 (On Golden Pond). However, some critics believe that his best performance was in a 1940s movie based on what John Steinbeck novel?

  Tortilla Flat
  East of Eden
  The Grapes of Wrath
  The Red Pony

8. The Academy bestowed two Oscars on disabled veteran Harold Russell (the only actor ever to win two Oscars for the same role) for his remarkable performance in:

  Edge of Darkness
  The Best Years of Our Lives
  Bataan
  The Purple Heart

9. Decades before The Graduate was advised to go into "plastics," another leading character is given the same advice and is told, "It's the chance of a lifetime," in the Frank Capra classic:

  Meet John Doe
  It's a Wonderful Life
  Sullivan's Travels
  Hail the Conquering Hero

10. Dinah Lord (Virginia Weidler), to the amusement of her sister, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn), plays and sings a rousing version of "Lydia, The Tattooed Lady" in what movie?

  The Philadelphia Story
  His Girl Friday
  Woman of the Year
  Adam's Rib