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  The Ultimate The Money Pit Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Do you know "The Money Pit"? Here are ten questions about this funny film from 1986. Enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, jlp937, Mar 13 06
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  The Money Pit Test Your Knowledge    
Multiple Choice
 23 Qns
This is a quiz about the movie 'The Money Pit' starring Tom Hanks. Have fun!
Average, 23 Qns, gumnutgirl16, Mar 06 05
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  Fall into "The Money Pit"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This 1986 comedy stars Tom Hanks and Shelley Long. This movie introduces us to a couple conned into buying a mansion. It's a fixer-upper to say the least. By the way, if you haven't seen this movie many times or recently, it will be tough. Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, littleryanroo, Jun 15 06
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How much money did Walter and Anna have to pay for the house?

From Quiz "The Money Pit"





The Money Pit Trivia Questions
1. Who says this? "The point is you get to capatalize on another human being's misfortune."

From Quiz Fall into "The Money Pit"

Answer: Jack

When Walter and Anna need a home, Jack, Walter's real estate agent tells him about a million dollar house going for only $200,000. Walter questions the motive behind this low price. Then Jack tells him it doesn't matter why it's so cheap and that he should take advantage of the situation.

2. Who plays the lead characters Walter Fielding Jr. and Anna Crowley?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Shelley Long and Tom Hanks

The chemistry created between these two translated into magic on the screen.

3. Who co-stars with Tom Hanks?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Shelley Long

4. Who says this? "Well let me see. If I sell everything I own, maybe I can buy you lunch."

From Quiz Fall into "The Money Pit"

Answer: Walter

Jack asks Walter if he can get $200,000 by Friday to buy the house. Walter makes it very clear that he is broke.

5. What was the name of the band that Walter represented, that wanted to change their name?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Cheap Girls

This group of characters were men who dressed as women. They wanted to change their name to Meryl Streep, however, Walter warned them of the possibility of a lawsuit.

6. What was the name of the rich, blonde, band conductor?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Max

He was the cause of Walter and Anna almost breaking up for good.

7. Who says this? "I got on the short line once. It was for farm vehicles."

From Quiz Fall into "The Money Pit"

Answer: Anna

After Walter and Anna tour the house, they talk about whether or not they should buy it. Trying to convince Anna the house will be great, he tells her about the short line at Motor Vehicles. He says that you get on the long line that "reaches to Spain". Then he says you see a small line, "but you don't get on that line 'cause you think something must be wrong with it."

8. Walter and Anna purchased the house for ___________ ?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: $200,000

Jack Schnittman, the overweight realtor, said that this house just came on the market and that it was a million dollar home. Walter said he thought that it had to be to good to be true, he was right.

9. What is Walter's last name?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Fielding

10. What is happening to Anna when Walter shocks himself on the doorbell?

From Quiz Fall into "The Money Pit"

Answer: She gets stuck in the mattress

Anna and Walter get Carlos and Estelle's bed when they buy the house. Anna sits on the edge of it and the mattress slowly collapses towards the floor with her in it.

11. What was the name of Anna's ex-husband, played by Alexander Godunov?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Max

Max was conceited and full of himself. He was known as the Maestro to the orchestra members. Alexander Godunov died of alcohol poisoning in 1995.

12. What is Walter doing while parts of the ceiling are falling on Anna?

From Quiz Fall into "The Money Pit"

Answer: Fixing the stairs

The first day Walter and Anna move in, Walter falls through a "tricky step". He attempts to fix it with a hammer and nails. The pounding causes parts of the ceiling to fall on Anna's head.

13. What were the names of the contractors who worked on the house?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Shirk Brothers

Art and Brad Shirk ran a carpentry and plumbing business. Every time anyone would ask when something would be done they would all say "two weeks".

14. How much money did Walter and Anna have to pay for the house?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: $200,000

The house was a lemon.

15. Why doesn't Walter pick up Anna from the train station after her rehearsal?

From Quiz Fall into "The Money Pit"

Answer: He's stuck in the floor

After Walter gets off the phone with Montgomery Shrapp (the permit guy), he steps into a hole in the floor. He doesn't know the hole is there because it is covered by an area rug. Anna gets a ride home and finds Walter in the floor. Trying to help him, she pulls on the rug, but it doesn't work. It just causes him to fall through to the first floor.

16. How much money had Walter Fielding Sr. stolen from his clients?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: $2.9 million

Walter says this amount when he is reading the letter from his father at the beginning of the movie, telling him of his new marriage.

17. How far away was the house from the city?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: 1 hour

Walter: 'Don't take your coat off' Anna: 'Where are we going' Walter: 'We're going to look at a house, an hour away from here...'

18. Who says this? "I'd help you with that, but somebody stepped on all my fingers."

From Quiz Fall into "The Money Pit"

Answer: Walter

When Anna is attacked by the raccoon, he races up the stairs, causing them to collapse. Not knowing the stairs are out and that Walter is hanging from the edge, Anna steps on Walter's fingers. Later that night when Anna is making up the bed, Walter doesn't help because his fingers are bandaged.

19. What was the name of the old lady who sold them the house?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Estelle

It is written on a tree.

20. Walter and Anna agree to split the cost of the house. Where does Walter get his half?

From Quiz Fall into "The Money Pit"

Answer: Benny

Anna asks Walter where he is going to get his half of the money for the house. Walter tells Anna that he is "going to the top" - to the one who "sold 22 million records last year".

21. Who did Walter get the $200,000 from?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Benny

He was a rock star, and Walter saved him a lot of money.

22. Walter receives a letter and picture from his father telling him the news of his marriage. Where does Walter's father get married?

From Quiz Fall into "The Money Pit"

Answer: Rio de Janeiro

The very first scene of this movie takes place in Rio de Janeiro, where we see Walter's father marry a young woman.

23. What was the name of the young rock star that Walter went to to borrow the money to buy the house?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Benny

Walter wanted Benny to loan him the $200,000 because he helped him save five times that much in taxes that year. He had to talk to him like a child to get what he wanted.

24. How much tax did Walter save Benny?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: 10 times

Walter: 'I saved you ten times on tax last year' Benny: 'So what...'

25. When Walter was stuck in the floor the first night, after repairs were started on the house, what did he say he thought that he saw during an hallucination?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: The Care Bears

He was counting the money for the permit man and he fell through a hole in the floor and got stuck. This is one of the funnier scenes in the film.

26. How long did the workers keep saying the house would take?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: 2 weeks & two weeks

They always said it would be finished in two weeks but it took over six months.

27. How much money did Walter have to give the plumber just to get started?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: $5,000

If he did write the cheque he would have driven away.

28. What did the plumber's brother, the carpenter, say Anna was?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Good looking wool

He was hitting on her, and saying she was 'Good looking wool'.

29. What kind of pills did one of the workers say Anna was out of?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Birth Control Pills

Worker: 'Oh, and you're out of birth control pills' he then hands the empty packet to Anna.

30. What was Walter most thrilled about getting fixed?

From Quiz The Money Pit

Answer: Stairs

When Walter sees the stairs, he begins to cry and jump around.

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