The World According To Garp | 25 Question Movie Multiple Choice Quiz

Answer: 'When I'm Sixty-Four'

This image also closes out the film, and 'When I'm Sixty-Four' plays behind the closing credits, as well.

Answer: Nothing

Baby Garp is as naked as the day he was born.

Answer: true

Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy wed in 1942, and remained married until her death in 1994.

Answer: Terribly Sorry

When he first meets Helen Holm (Mary Beth Hurt), Garp tells her that his initials stand for 'Terribly Sexy,' adding, 'It used to 'Terribly Shy,' but I changed it.' Some twelve years later, he tells a teenage babysitter that it now stands for 'Terribly Sad,' adding, 'It used to be 'Terribly Sexy,' but it changed.' The babysitter disagrees with him, though...

Answer: Technical Sergeant

Jenny never learned the first name of Technical Sergeant Garp, the dying soldier who became, somewhat without his consent, the biological father of her son...so she did the best she could with the information she had.

Answer: Everett Steering Academy

Muirfield Academy was a rival school -- we saw the Steering wrestling team take them on early in the film. Dog's Head Harbor is the name of Jenny Fields' family manor. Eastland Academy was the school on TV's 'The Facts of Life.' =)

Answer: The tailgunner chair

It's stated several times that Technical Sergeant Garp was a tailgunner in World War II. His plane was shot down during a raid on Germany circa 1943.

Answer: Bonkers

Cushie and Pooh are the daughters of Stew Percy, the owner of the dog in question. Years later, Garp returns the favor and bites Bonkers' ear off!

Answer: Basketball

Garp, bored at the basketball practice his mother has dragged him to, spots a boy wearing interesting headgear and follows him into wrestling practice. He's mesmerized by what he sees, and basketball is left in the dust.

Answer: To impress a girl

Garp notes that Helen Holm constantly reads, and adds that she would probably only marry a man who was a writer. She agrees with that theory, and his course instantly becomes clear.

Answer: 'The World According To Garp'

'Magic Gloves' is the first short story we see Garp successfully complete, and 'Procrastination' is his first novel. We see a window display for his second novel, 'The Second Wind of the Cuckold,' in the scene where Garp first lays eyes on the young man who will soon become his wife's lover...and therefore make him a cuckold. Clever, hmm?

Answer: An airplane crashes into it.

A single-engine prop plane, presumably suffering catastrophic mechanical failure, plows right into the side of the house. Garp takes this as a good sign -- 'The odds of another plane hitting this house are astronomical!' -- and agrees right then and there to buy the house.

Answer: Apache

Garp: 'Apache, Helen. Not even *Shakespeare* gets translated into Apache.'

Answer: The Philadelphia Eagles

More specifically, Robert Muldoon was a tight end, and his jersey bore the number 90.

Answer: piss people off

Said after Garp goes off on a reckless driver who constantly speeds and ignores stop signs in Garp's neighborhood. The driver responds by trying to run down Garp and Roberta with his truck!

Answer: 'Paradise Lost'

John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost"; Helen's student's name is Michael Milton. Garp finds the boy's name amusing: "'Michael Milton'? Sounds like a flavor at a gay ice cream parlor. 'Strawberry Swirl.' 'Chock Full o' Chocolate Mocha.' 'Michael Milton.'"

Answer: Writing

Garp: 'I'm only a natural at two things: wrestling, and being a family man.' Garp seems, in fact, rather unlike many professional writers -- he got into the trade for somewhat dubious reasons (as opposed to feeling 'driven' to write), and was able to drop it completely at a relatively young age without missing it at all. Many writers would probably envy him for that.

Answer: 'The home of the Dave' for 'The home of the brave' (the last words of the American national anthem)

After Garp warns Walt to be careful of the undertow while swimming in the ocean, he comes to believe that there is a monster called The Under Toad hiding beneath the waves. (This metaphor is actually used to great effect in the novel, but it only gets a passing reference in the film.) When Walt asks what this 'gradual school' is where his mother teaches, Garp explains with a smirk that it's 'where you gradually realize that you don't want to be in school anymore.' Helen later refers to Michael Milton as one of her 'gradual students' without even cracking a smile -- that's how deeply ingrained the 'Walt-ism' has become.

The 'home of the Dave' mistake, I must admit, is not a Walt-ism at all, but a Frank-ism: that's how I used to sing the anthem when I was a child, for some reason, and no one could talk me out of it. =)

Answer: The Ellen James Society

'Sexual Suspect' is the name of Jenny Fields' best-selling book; 'Black Snow' is the name of a short story Michael Milton has written for Helen's class; and Roberta Muldoon is John Lithgow's character's name. The Ellen James Society, in the movie, is an ultra-radical feminist coalition who have taken the name of a woman who, as a child, was raped and mutilated. What that says about the Atlanta-based early-nineties band is for you to decide.

Their albums include 'Reluctantly We' and 'The Survivors Parade.'

Answer: Walt

Walt is killed in the car accident in the Garps' driveway, the poor little bugger. Duncan survives, but loses an eye. Jenny, their third child, isn't conceived until well after the car accident, and she is still alive and well at film's end. John is not the name of any of the Garp children, but rather Garp and Jenny's publisher.

Answer: Garp is temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.

The precise details of the accident are both lengthy and not entirely appropriate for a family site, so we won't go into them here. Garp suffers no paralysis as a result of the accident, but since his tongue has been seriously damaged, and his jaw has been wired shut, he is unable to speak for what is presumably a period of many weeks. Being reduced to scribbling out his thoughts on a small notepad is obviously reminiscent of the Ellen James Society, an irony that is not lost on Roberta the first time she witnesses her friend trying to communicate in this manner. Duncan, the surviving son, loses an eye. And as for the exact appendage that Michael Milton loses...well, let's just say that he's going to miss it.

A lot.

Answer: 'I never needed a father!'

Given that Jenny dies in the very next scene, it's especially sad that she missed the chance to hear her son express this sentiment.

Answer: Amanda Plummer

Plummer would go on to play Lydia Sinclair, the true love of Williams' Henry "Parry" Sagan, in 1991's 'The Fisher King'...but hey, you already know this, since you've taken my quiz on that movie. =) Jenny Wright played the adult Cushie Percy, Garp's nubile next-door neighbor. Kinski and Lane have both acted with Williams (in 'Father's Day' (1997) and 'Jack' (1996), respectively), but neither of them are in 'The World According To Garp.'

Answer: 'I'm flying.'

As a boy, Garp was obsessed with flying, mostly because his father was 'a flyer.' After having been shot multiple times at close range by an enraged 'Ellen Jamesian' (his former neighbor Pooh Percy, in fact), he is loaded onto an EMT helicopter to get him to a hospital as quickly as possible.

He looks out the window and says to Helen, 'I'm flying.' He's still alive and smiling as the camera pulls away, but since he dies in the novel, I'd say his chances of survival are pretty slim.

Answer: 'Rhinestone'

George Roy Hill directed all of the above except for 'Rhinestone,' which was directed by Sydney Pollack.