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Marathon Man Trivia Quiz

Released in 1976, "Marathon Man" is a suspense thriller involving a student caught between a Nazi war criminal, a double agent, a suspicious girlfriend and his own family. Best played if you have watched the film. Warning contains SPOILERS

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

Author
stredman

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
388,018

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
257

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who are the three main stars in "Marathon Man"? Hint

Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider

Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Albert Brooks

Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw

Al Pacino, John Cazale and James Broderick

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which character from the movie is 'the marathon man'? Hint

Janeway

Szell

Babe

Doc

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Question 3 of 10

3. Dr Szell is in America to retrieve some valuables held by his late brother. What valuable items is he trying to collect? Hint

Cash

Oil paintings

Diamonds

Gold bullion

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Question 4 of 10

4. When Szell tortures Babe, what excruciating method does he use? Hint

Kneecapping

The rack

Tooth drilling

Denailing

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Question 5 of 10

5. After retrieving his brother's safety deposit box, Dr Szell trys to get its contents valued, but is recognized by two shoppers. From where do they remember him? Hint

London

Auschwitz

Paris

Berlin

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Question 6 of 10

6. While torturing Babe, Dr Szell mentions that he suffers from alexia. What is alexia? Hint

A skin rash

Colour blindness

An eye abnormality

Inability to understand written words

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Question 7 of 10

7. What relationship exists between Babe and Doc? Hint

Brothers

Cousins

Father and son

Not related

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Question 8 of 10

8. Doc is killed during the movie. How does he die? Hint

Gunshot

Car accident

Fall

Knife wound

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Question 9 of 10

9. Early in the movie Dr Szell's brother is killed, which means Szell must come to America to access their safety deposit box. How did his brother die? Hint

A fall from a high balcony

Drowning near the Statue of Liberty

Shot by a holocaust survivor

In a fiery crash after a car chase

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Question 10 of 10

10. Alas, Dr Szell doesn't survive until the end of the movie. What is the cause of his death? Hint

Shot by Babe

Hit by a taxi

Shot by Janeway

Fell on his own knife

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who are the three main stars in "Marathon Man"?

Answer: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider

Laurence Olivier (Dr Szell) was undergoing treatment for cancer during filming, but still managed to collect a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor. Olivier survived his cancer and passed away in 1989 from renal failure.

2. Which character from the movie is 'the marathon man'?

Answer: Babe

Dustin Hoffman (Babe), lost fifteen pounds and ran up to four miles per day to get in shape for the role. Hoffman was 38 years old when the movie was filmed, but his character was a much younger graduate student.

3. Dr Szell is in America to retrieve some valuables held by his late brother. What valuable items is he trying to collect?

Answer: Diamonds

Dr Szell has taken the diamonds from Jews who were imprisoned in Germany during WW2. The Americans suspect that he will try to retrieve them.

4. When Szell tortures Babe, what excruciating method does he use?

Answer: Tooth drilling

The torture scene had to be shortened as film preview audiences felt sick during screening. The scene is still enough to haunt me each time I visit the dentist.

5. After retrieving his brother's safety deposit box, Dr Szell trys to get its contents valued, but is recognized by two shoppers. From where do they remember him?

Answer: Auschwitz

Writer William Goldman based Lawrence Olivier's character Dr Szell on Dr Josef Mengele who was the head SS doctor at Auschwitz.

6. While torturing Babe, Dr Szell mentions that he suffers from alexia. What is alexia?

Answer: Inability to understand written words

Usually occurring in adulthood, alexia is the loss of the ability to read.
During the torture scene, Szell indicates he is afflicted with alexia. Alexia is a brain disorder related to dyslexia. During filming Laurence Olivier who played Szell was suffering from cancer and the medications he was taking made it hard to remember more than one or two lines at a time.

7. What relationship exists between Babe and Doc?

Answer: Brothers

Doc (Roy Scheider) is Babe's older brother, who is killed by Dr Szell, who thinks Doc said something to Babe before he died, thereby drawing Babe into the plot.

8. Doc is killed during the movie. How does he die?

Answer: Knife wound

Doc's meeting with Dr Szell does not end well as Szell has a large knife hidden up his sleeve with which he inflicts a fatal wound.

9. Early in the movie Dr Szell's brother is killed, which means Szell must come to America to access their safety deposit box. How did his brother die?

Answer: In a fiery crash after a car chase

Szell's brother is involved in a road rage incident which results in a race through the streets of New York and a collision between the two elderly racers and a fuel tanker and the deaths of both drivers. Road rage at its finest!

10. Alas, Dr Szell doesn't survive until the end of the movie. What is the cause of his death?

Answer: Fell on his own knife

After Dr Szell retrieves the diamonds from the bank he is captured by Babe and forced into a pump house in Central Park. A fight ensues and Babe throws the diamonds down the stairs into the water below and in his desperation to retrieve them, Szell falls down the stairs and impales himself on the knife he has hidden up his sleeve.

Source: Author stredman

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