'M*A*S*H' - 'Fallen Idol' Trivia Quiz

Answer: Alan Alda

This should come as no surprise to fans of 'M*A*S*H'. Hawkeye wrote and directed some of the most thought-provoking episodes in the show's history, including 'Dear Sigmund', 'Comrades in Arms' (also from the sixth season) and the Emmy-award winning 'Inga'. Alda was nominated for an Emmy for his writing on this episode, but did not win the award.

Answer: Crayons

Radar is greeted at the door of the nurse's tent by Lieutenant Perry, who is wearing only a towel. She asks Radar if he 'has anything for [her]', to which Radar can only give a stuttering response. Of course, she is only requesting her mail, but Radar has a penchant for misunderstanding individuals of the opposite sex.

Radar next delivers mail to the Swamp. Hawkeye requests a letter that smells of lilacs, but only gets a letter from his congressman that was accidentally dropped in the Colonel's horse corral. BJ receives an envelope from home that apparently contains notes from his wife and his baby daughter Erin...at least one of whom used a crayon.

Answer: A hot lover

'I don't think that this place is turning out to be that great an experience for me,' says Radar. He continues, 'I mean I work under terrible pressures, and there's lots of death and destruction and stuff, but other than that I don't think I'm getting much out of it.'

Radar is hoping that the army will make a man out of him...hence the desire to become 'a hot lover' (or even a cold one, he doesn't care).

Answer: The Pink Pagoda

Radar eventually accepts Hawkeye's advice and immediately leaves for Seoul, despite BJ's advice to the contrary. Hawkeye will, of course, live to regret providing this advice to Radar.

Incidentally, the Pink Pagoda is also mentioned in the season five episode called 'The Korean Surgeon'. Apparently, this place must have been *the* spot in Seoul during the war.

Answer: Shoulder

'What a dumb, stupid thing. I sent him into the middle of a war on a date!' Hawkeye says, angrily, after examining Radar in triage. Hawkeye insists that he will operate on Radar, and in the O.R. he demands quiet as he operates on Radar's shoulder (and partially, his chest).

Charles insists on knowing 'why we are being treated to this inordinant demand for silence?' BJ responds, 'I'll explain that later Charles while I'm sitting on your chest so Hawkeye can beat you with both fists!'

Answer: Charles

After an evening at Rosie's bar, Hawkeye can hardly tell which way is up. He and BJ return to the Swamp rather late (or early, if you prefer) and, as if on cue, the 4077th receives more casualties. Hawkeye joins the other surgeons in the O.R., but before long he has to run outside to vomit, forcing Winchester to take over (but only after the Colonel insists!)

Answer: Ninny

Radar makes it known that he is very disappointed in Hawkeye for letting him down, after all, Hawkeye is Radar's role model. Hawkeye responds:

'Look, you can't lay all that on my shoulders. Don't you know how much this place stinks? Don't you know what it's like to stand day after day in blood? In the blood of children? I hate this place, and if I can't stand up to it to your satisfaction, then the hell with it. How dare you? The hell with your Iowa naivete and the hell with your hero worship and your teddy bear and while you're at it the hell with you! Why don't you grow up for crying out loud?! I'm not here for you to admire! I'm here to pull bodies out of a sausage grinder, if possible, without going crazy! Period!'

Radar has no response, except to begin crying, provoking Hawkeye to call him a 'ninny'.

Answer: Father Mulcahy

'I am incensed! I am outraged! Where's your decency man, your humanity?! I'm acrimonious! I'm not a man given to physical demonstrations of emotion, but let me tell you, I am persuaded to violence!' the good Father says. Mulcahy proceeds to kick the stove in the Swamp, an act that he finds 'particularly unsatisfying', as it is 'entirely possible that [he has] broken [his] toe!'

Colonel Potter and Margaret storm in after Father Mulcahy, both with angry speeches of their own. Unfortunately, Margaret is unable to deliver her speech. Hawkeye leaves to go speak to Radar immediately after the Colonel has his say, which includes the great phrase 'bellicose barrelfull of bull-durham'.

Answer: No

Hawkeye: 'And if you really have to worship the ground I walk on, I guess I can take it.'

Radar: 'Well, that's okay. Um, I'd just as soon not.'

Hawkeye: 'Well, okay. That's nice too.'

It seems that Radar has grown up. He no longer looks at Hawkeye as a hero, but rather as a fellow man and a colleague. To solidify and symbolize this new relationship, Hawkeye gives Radar his beer and takes Radar's Grape Nehi in return.

Answer: False

No way, man! Hawkeye salutes several people, sometimes in jest, other times out of respect. Among the respectful salutes: Hawkeye salutes Radar in the latter's final episode ('Goodbye, Radar'); Hawkeye salutes Father Mulcahy after pinning captain's bars on him ('Captains Outrageous'); Hawkeye, along with BJ, salutes Colonel Potter in the very last episode ('Goodbye, Farewell and Amen').

I salute you for taking this quiz, thank you. I hope you enjoyed it and will try more of my 'M*A*S*H'-related quizzes (and, indeed, some of my other quizzes) in the future.