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Quiz about Theres No Escape
Quiz about Theres No Escape

There's No Escape Trivia Quiz


The premise of many a good movie is that Act 1 introduces protagonists (we as movie-goers care about) work themselves into a hopeless situation where there is no escape (end of Act 2) but of course there is (end of Act 3). Here are ten no-escapers.

A multiple-choice quiz by 1nn1. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
1nn1
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
360,993
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
1669
Awards
Top 5% quiz!
Last 3 plays: Guest 209 (6/10), ramses22 (8/10), Guest 142 (8/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. In the 1950s, World War II movies where allied personnel were trapped in prison camps with no prospect of escape, were very popular. "Stalag 17" (1953) with William Holden was a classic movie that fits the bill. No one had escaped from Stalag 17. One of the prisoners was tipping off the guards of escape plans. Who was the culprit? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "The Great Escape" (1963) was an excellent movie, where eventually three inmates did escape, despite Colonel von Luger, the commandant, telling the senior British officer, Group Captain Ramsey, "There will be no escapes from this camp." In a spectacular chase scene, which actor tried to escape by jumping a high barbed wire fence on a motorbike? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "Hogan's Heroes" (1965-71) was a comedy television series that was, in some ways a parody of the "No Escape" war movies. Who was the actor that portrayed Colonel Hogan?
(Note: This actor suffered an untimely death when he was murdered in 1978.)
Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. "Stepford Wives" (1975) was based on a 1972 novel of the same name by Ira Levin. In the movie, the town of Stepford had wives and mothers that were placid and submissive to their husbands. This scared the protagonist who tried to escape but could not. In 1975 this role was played by Katharine Ross. Who portrayed the same role, Joanna Eberhart in the 2004 version? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Disaster movies were all the rage in the '70s. Irwin Allen (The Master of Disaster) produced both "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) and "The Towering Inferno (1974). From the latter movie which two actors both wanted top billing? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "Midnight Express" is a 1978 movie based on the true story of Billy Hayes, an American who tried to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. Billy is sentenced to thirty years in an inescapable Turkish prison. Billy eventually escapes (he catches the Midnight Express) to write the book on which the film was made. Who portrayed Billy in the movie? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Sometimes there does not need to be cells and barred windows to show there is no escape. In a television series (1999-2007), a minor character wants to escape from his "organisation" in New Jersey and move to Florida, and despite bribing the boss, Tony, handsomely, is told by Silvio, he made a life-long commitment and cannot leave the organisation. Knowing there was no escape despite the pressing needs of his family, his only "solution" was to take his own life. What is the name of the TV series? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" was a 1975 movie based on the Ken Kesey novel of the same name. Randle McMurphy is horrified that the inmates of a mental institution are mainly volunteers yet there is no escape from Nurse Ratched and the barred windows and locked doors of Oregon State Hospital, in which they are "imprisoned". One person does finally escape at the end of the movie. Which inmate is it? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Nearly every James Bond movie is predicated on a villain getting Bond into an inescapable situation. In which Sean Connery Bond movie do we hear Emilio Largo (the villain of course) tell Bond, "Now there is no escape for you"? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. "Alien" (1979), was a movie that paradoxically was set in space, yet there was no escape from an alien on a claustrophobic space craft. From which actor did the alien emerge in the "chest-burster" scene? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In the 1950s, World War II movies where allied personnel were trapped in prison camps with no prospect of escape, were very popular. "Stalag 17" (1953) with William Holden was a classic movie that fits the bill. No one had escaped from Stalag 17. One of the prisoners was tipping off the guards of escape plans. Who was the culprit?

Answer: Security/Price (Peter Graves)

Sefton (William Holden) was considered the prime suspect as he had no intention of trying to escape as he openly traded with the enemy for luxuries. After he was badly beaten on suspicion, he proved the stool pigeon was Sgt Price (Security) who was killed by German guards who did not know he was a mole. Sefton then escaped with Dunbar to be the first (& second) to leave Stalag 17, the prison camp from which there was supposedly no escape.
2. "The Great Escape" (1963) was an excellent movie, where eventually three inmates did escape, despite Colonel von Luger, the commandant, telling the senior British officer, Group Captain Ramsey, "There will be no escapes from this camp." In a spectacular chase scene, which actor tried to escape by jumping a high barbed wire fence on a motorbike?

Answer: Steve McQueen (Hilts - The Cooler King)

Steve McQueen became a star after this movie. His character was nicknamed the Cooler King which is where he ended up at the end of the movie and was not one of the three escapees. The film is based on the book with the same name, written by Paul Brickhill, and is (the book that is) a non-fiction account of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Zagan Poland.
3. "Hogan's Heroes" (1965-71) was a comedy television series that was, in some ways a parody of the "No Escape" war movies. Who was the actor that portrayed Colonel Hogan? (Note: This actor suffered an untimely death when he was murdered in 1978.)

Answer: Bob Crane

Bob Crane was Col. Robert E. Hogan who led a group of men who could seemingly leave Stalag 13 at will to sabotage enemy operations outside the camp. While no-one officially escaped, any of the prisoners under Hogan's command could have escaped at any time. Werner Klemperer played the incompetent camp Commandant Klink who believed no-one could escape. John Banner played the equally incompetent Sgt Schultz ("I know nothin'"). Richard Dawson played Cpl Newkirk and went on to chair American game shows before his death in 2012.
4. "Stepford Wives" (1975) was based on a 1972 novel of the same name by Ira Levin. In the movie, the town of Stepford had wives and mothers that were placid and submissive to their husbands. This scared the protagonist who tried to escape but could not. In 1975 this role was played by Katharine Ross. Who portrayed the same role, Joanna Eberhart in the 2004 version?

Answer: Nicole Kidman

*SPOILERS follow*
This was a genuine creepy movie where normal intelligent wives in Stepford were replaced by clones who were submissive to their husbands' needs. No-one escaped. There was some differences in plot lines between the two movies but the critics appear to have been kinder to the 1975 version. Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close and Bette Midler were all in the 2004 version. Julia Roberts appeared in neither.
5. Disaster movies were all the rage in the '70s. Irwin Allen (The Master of Disaster) produced both "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) and "The Towering Inferno (1974). From the latter movie which two actors both wanted top billing?

Answer: Steve McQueen and Paul Newman

Irwin Allen was known for "No Escape" disaster movies. As both McQueen and Newman wanted top billing in "The Towering Inferno", the credits were arranged so Newman appeared in the upper right part of the screen, whilst McQueen's name appeared in the lower left. (This was the first time this type of billing had been conducted but it was not the last). Also each star demanded the same number as lines as the other, which meant that one had to shoot additional scenes to equalise the dialog. William Holden and Faye Dunaway starred in the same movie, whilst Hackman and Borgnine starred in "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972). Newman and Redford appeared together in "The Sting"(1973) which was shot in the year between the two disaster movies.
6. "Midnight Express" is a 1978 movie based on the true story of Billy Hayes, an American who tried to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. Billy is sentenced to thirty years in an inescapable Turkish prison. Billy eventually escapes (he catches the Midnight Express) to write the book on which the film was made. Who portrayed Billy in the movie?

Answer: Brad Davis

Brad Davis portrayed Billy Hayes in the movie. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role and he won a Golden Globe. He died in 1991 after contracting AIDS and dying from an intentional overdose in an assisted suicide The movie deviates from the book in portraying the Turkish people harshly, for which the movie producers subsequently apologized. Ironically, the real Billy Hayes, who was imprisoned in an inescapable prison out lived Brad Davis who played a role of a prisoner with no prospect of escape: In 2012 Billy Hayes retired as a writer aged 65.
7. Sometimes there does not need to be cells and barred windows to show there is no escape. In a television series (1999-2007), a minor character wants to escape from his "organisation" in New Jersey and move to Florida, and despite bribing the boss, Tony, handsomely, is told by Silvio, he made a life-long commitment and cannot leave the organisation. Knowing there was no escape despite the pressing needs of his family, his only "solution" was to take his own life. What is the name of the TV series?

Answer: "The Sopranos"

Eugene Pontecorvo, played by Robert Funaro, was a made man in the Soprano crew, who could not escape from Tony Soprano, his boss because he took an oath which was a lifetime commitment. The Sopranos has been regarded as the greatest television series of all time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America called it the best-written series in television history.
8. "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" was a 1975 movie based on the Ken Kesey novel of the same name. Randle McMurphy is horrified that the inmates of a mental institution are mainly volunteers yet there is no escape from Nurse Ratched and the barred windows and locked doors of Oregon State Hospital, in which they are "imprisoned". One person does finally escape at the end of the movie. Which inmate is it?

Answer: "Chief" Bromden (Will Sampson)

*SPOILERS* Randle McMurphy is a sane petty criminal sent a mental institution. He tries to increase the quality of the lives of the inmates but fails against the will of Nurse Ratched. He tries to escape but fails and is lobotomized for his disruptiveness.

The Chief, thought initially thought to be deaf and dumb, is strong enough to lift the hydrotherapy unit (which Randle could not), throw it through the barred window and escape.
9. Nearly every James Bond movie is predicated on a villain getting Bond into an inescapable situation. In which Sean Connery Bond movie do we hear Emilio Largo (the villain of course) tell Bond, "Now there is no escape for you"?

Answer: "Thunderball" (1964)

Emilio Largo, despite by being in the most successful Bond film between 1962 and 1972, was arguably a "lesser" Bond villain as SPECTRE's Number 2 man. Adolfo Celi an Italian was cast as Largo, but his voice was dubbed by Robert Rietty. In the movie, Largo does not survive, but the spectre of SPECTRE lives on (Sorry couldn't resist that). Oh by the way, Bond escapes.
10. "Alien" (1979), was a movie that paradoxically was set in space, yet there was no escape from an alien on a claustrophobic space craft. From which actor did the alien emerge in the "chest-burster" scene?

Answer: John Hurt (Kane)

The alien emerged from Kane's chest in what "Empire" Magazine in 2007 "voted as one of the most memorable moments in film". In 2008, "Alien" was named as the seventh-best science fiction genre film by the American Film Institute, and by Empire magazine as the 33rd-greatest movie of all time.

This was the first major role for Sigourney Weaver, and was the not the last time she played a tough woman.
Source: Author 1nn1

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