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"North by Northwest" (1959)

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North by Northwest 1959 game quiz
"This is a quiz about Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 movie, "North by Northwest." It starred Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason."

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1. What is Roger Thornhill's (Cary Grant) secretary's first name?
    Sally
    Brenda
    Maggie
    Gretchen


2. What are the names of the men Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) met at the Oak Bar in the Plaza Hotel?
    Larry Wade, Victor Lane and Robin Weltner.
    Larry Wade, Thomas Kern and Leonard Glass.
    Herman Weltner, Larry Wade and Fanning Nelson.
    Robert Nelson, Ernest Tubman and Victor Lane.


3. What are the last names of the henchmen who kidnapped Roger Thornhill from the Plaza Hotel?
    Licht and Vincent
    Valerian and Licht
    Goetz and Schect
    Verlock and Leonard


4. In the film, the Townsend estate was located in what Long Island town?
    Port Washington
    Bay Shore
    Oyster Bay
    Glen Cove


5. What Broadway theater was Thornhill planning to go to before he was abducted? He mentioned it to Vandamm (James Mason).
    Pantages
    New Amsterdam
    Belasco
    Winter Garden


6. Who portrayed Roger Thornhill's lawyer?
    Dale Van Sickel
    Les Tremayne
    Edward Platt
    Frank Wilcox


7. Who portrayed Nassau County detective, Lieutenant Harding?
    Kurt Kasznar
    Stanley Adams
    Howard Negley
    Patrick McVey


8. What did Thornhill's mother say to the two men who followed her and her son in the elevator?
    "You gentlemen aren't the bad men who are chasing my son, are you?"
    "You gentlemen aren't really trying to kill my son, are you?"
    "You gentlemen aren't really going to kill us , are you?"
    "You gentlemen aren't as bad as my son says you are, are you?"


9. Who portrayed the ticket clerk who tips off the police that Thornhill is at his ticket window in Grand Central Terminal?
    Ned Glass
    Lou Walters
    Arnold Stang
    Sid Gorman


10. What did Thornhill say to Eve the "O" stood for in his initials?
    "Zero"
    "Nothing"
    "Oh, you kid!"
    "Oh, wouldn't you like to know!"


11. At the auction, what was Roger Thornhill's last bid before he was taken away by the police?
    Two Thousand.
    Thirteen dollars.
    Three thousand.
    Twenty-five Hundred.


12. Which is the famous movie gaffe, or mistake, seen in "North by Northwest"?
    Cary Grant looks at the camera during the love scene.
    In the cafeteria, a boy in the background plugs his ears with his fingers just before Eva Marie Saint fires her gun.
    In the U.N., an extra trips on something and nearly falls.
    Leonard (Martin Landau) has two different ties on in his first scene.


13. Think carefully now! On how many Hitchcock films did film composer Bernard Herrmann work? This counts all films that he was credited or worked on, even if the work wasn't used.
    10
    7
    8
    9


14. On the airport tarmac, when Thornhill asked the Professor (Leo G. Carroll) what Vandamm "is up to," the Professor replies that he is a what?
    An importer-exporter of government secrets.
    A smuggler of stolen antiques.
    A spy for an unknown foreign enemy.
    The leader of an international ring of art thieves.


15. Leo G. Carroll appeared in how many Hitchcock movies?
    4
    6
    5
    3


16. After leaving Vandamm's house, when Roger picks-up the fleeing Eve in the car he stole, what does he say to Eve, referring to the statuette she had in her lap?
    "I see you've got the pumpkin."
    "Good catch, darling!"
    "I like your taste in art."
    "I see you've brought a friend along."


17. What is on the microfilm in the statuette?
    United States secret military communication codes
    Nuclear reactor plans
    It is never said
    Hydrogen bomb plans


18. In the scene where Leonard (Martin Landau) reveals Eve's deception to Vandamm, where did Leonard say he found the gun Eve used to shoot at Thornhill?
    In her luggage
    Under her pillow
    In her purse
    In her bureau


19. What did Roger write on the matchbook he threw down to Eve?
    "They're on to you. I'm in your room."
    "Don't get on the plane. I'm upstairs."
    "They know about you. I'm in your bedroom."
    "They're going to kill you. Come upstairs now."


20. What is the last thing Roger says to Eve in the top berth of the train compartment at the end of the film?
    "Come along, Mrs. Thornhill!"
    "Isn't this where we started?"
    "Now, where were we?"
    "I know, but I'm sentimental."

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