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Quiz about Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum Quiz

Some of my favorite movies are the "Charlie Chan" movies of the 1930s and 1940s, starring Warner Oland and Sidney Toler. Here is my first quiz on the "Chan" movies: "Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum".

A multiple-choice quiz by wwwocls. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
wwwocls

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
345,949

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which actor plays Charlie Chan in "Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum"? Hint

Roland Winters

Sidney Toler

Victor Sen Yung

Warner Oland

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Question 2 of 10

2. The movie starts with the conviction and escape of criminal Steve McBirney. What is McBirney's favorite way of wasting time, which he does in the courtroom? Hint

Meditation

Doodling

Making paper dolls

Math problems

3. While on the lam, McBirney and his henchman, Grenock, invade Dr. Cream's Wax Museum. Dr. Cream shows McBirney, Grenock and Dr. Cream's young assistant, Lily Latimer, an exhibit featuring McBirney and his old partner, Butcher Dagon. How did their partnership end? Hint

McBirney shot Butcher Dagon.

Dr. Cream shot Butcher Dagon.

Grenock shot Butcher Dagon.

Butcher Dagon committed suicide.

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Question 4 of 10

4. Why has Jimmy Chan played hooky from his law college? Hint

He has a hot date in town with a Chinese maid.

He hasn't really played hooky. He's flunked out of school and is afraid to tell his Dad.

One of his teachers has recommended a "long holiday" from school.

Mary Bolton and Dr. Cream have sought him out to entice Charlie to the Wax Museum.

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Question 5 of 10

5. What old case are Charlie and criminologist Otto Van Brom going to discuss on the radio? Hint

The Jack the Ripper case

The Mike Hannigan case

The Marc Lawrence case

The Joe Rock case

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Question 6 of 10

6. How is Otto Von Brom killed? Hint

Poisoned dart

Knife in the back

Electrocuted

Shot

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Question 7 of 10

7. How does Charlie know that Lily Latimer has used the wire cutters to cut the electricity to Dr. Von Brom's chair? Hint

When he tries to pick up the wire cutters, he gets the same cut Lily had gotten.

Charlie saw Lily using them earlier.

He smells Lily's perfume on the wire cutters.

Charlie sees dirt smudged on Lily's hands and identical dirt on the cutters.

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Question 8 of 10

8. The quilled toothpick used to shoot the poison dart is stolen during what distraction? Hint

Lights turned off by Lily Latimer

Wax figure of Charlie Chan lit on fire

Jimmy Chan in the chess automaton

Smashed window by Dr. Cream

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Question 9 of 10

9. One of our suspects is Butcher Dagon, after plastic surgery. He has killed Dr. Von Brom and he then kills Steve McBirney. How does Charlie trick Dagon into revealing himself/herself? Hint

He shoots a non-poisoned dart into Dagon's neck.

He pretends to electrocute Dagon in Dr. Von Brom's chair.

He gets Dagon to cut a finger on the wire cutters.

Charlie fakes his own death.

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which of the suspects is our killer/Dagon in disguise? Hint

Mrs. Rock

Tom Agnew

Dr. Cream

Carter Lane

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which actor plays Charlie Chan in "Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum"?

Answer: Sidney Toler

The incomparable Sidney Toler took over the role of Charlie Chan from the incomparable Warner Oland after Oland died in 1938. "Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum" was his fifth film as the Oriental detective.

2. The movie starts with the conviction and escape of criminal Steve McBirney. What is McBirney's favorite way of wasting time, which he does in the courtroom?

Answer: Making paper dolls

McBirney has the habit of cutting paper dolls. This is shown twice in the film, including the opening court room sequence. One wonders who has given scissors to a man on trial for murder!

Answer: McBirney shot Butcher Dagon.

Supposedly, McBirney shot Dagon 13 times and dumped his body in Lake Michigan.

4. Why has Jimmy Chan played hooky from his law college?

Answer: Mary Bolton and Dr. Cream have sought him out to entice Charlie to the Wax Museum.

Dr. Cream, at the urging of Steve McBirney, has set up a phony challenge to get Charlie Chan to Dr. Cream's Wax Museum. McBirney wants to kill Chan out of revenge for Charlie's testimony that sent him up. Cream, feeling that Jimmy Chan was a better way to lure Charlie, brought newspaperwoman Mary Bolton along to entice Jimmy to get his Dad to accept the challenge.

5. What old case are Charlie and criminologist Otto Van Brom going to discuss on the radio?

Answer: The Joe Rock case

Years before, Joe Rock was in an honest enterprise with criminals Dagon and McBirney. Butcher Dagon framed Rock for a crime Dagon committed and Rock was sent to the gallows. McBirney, a friend of Rocks, supposedly killed Dagon in revenge.

6. How is Otto Von Brom killed?

Answer: Poisoned dart

The good doctor is dispatched by a poisoned dart fired from a quilled toothpick (what is a quilled toothpick?) laced with the deadly poison, Tonga.

7. How does Charlie know that Lily Latimer has used the wire cutters to cut the electricity to Dr. Von Brom's chair?

Answer: When he tries to pick up the wire cutters, he gets the same cut Lily had gotten.

Lily knows that McBirney's plan to electrocute Charlie will expose their dirty dealings so she cuts the wires connected to the chair that Charlie was in originally, which now seats Dr. Von Brom.

8. The quilled toothpick used to shoot the poison dart is stolen during what distraction?

Answer: Jimmy Chan in the chess automaton

Because he isn't supposed to be there in the first place, Jimmy is hiding in the chess automaton in order to listen in on the events of Dr. Von Brom's murder. He makes a movement that sweeps chess figures off the board and brings Charlie and the suspects over to investigate. In the confusion, the killer snags and destroys the toothpick.

9. One of our suspects is Butcher Dagon, after plastic surgery. He has killed Dr. Von Brom and he then kills Steve McBirney. How does Charlie trick Dagon into revealing himself/herself?

Answer: He shoots a non-poisoned dart into Dagon's neck.

Charlie shoots a harmless dart into Dagon's neck, presumably laced with the same poison that Dagon has used to kill Von Brom, thus forcing him/her out into the open out of fear of dying from the poison.

10. Which of the suspects is our killer/Dagon in disguise?

Answer: Tom Agnew

Tom Agnew, really Butcher Dagon after plastic surgery, kills both Dr. Von Brom and Steve McBirney under threat of his new identity being exposed.

Source: Author wwwocls

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