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Quiz about MASH   The Light That Failed
Quiz about MASH   The Light That Failed

'M*A*S*H' - 'The Light That Failed' Quiz


BJ is given a copy of a very popular mystery book and the entire 4077th is on edge trying to discover 'whodunnit'. Who did do it? Was it the butler? Let's find out...good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by thejazzkickazz. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
188,902
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
995
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 174 (8/10), Guest 97 (10/10), Guest 24 (10/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. The 4077th is stuck in a supply crunch again, and everyone is annoyed by it. Along with a shortage of light bulbs, what other item in the operating room have they completely run out of in this scene? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. As if on queue to break up the frustration and monotony, a supply truck arrives at the compound. Unfortunately, it carries nothing that the dwellers of the 4077th need for a cold winter. Which of these items is not one that Hawkeye mentions is in this rather awkward shipment? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Colonel Potter, obviously annoyed at this errant shipment of summer supplies, accosts the driver of the supply truck. Potter demands to know who signed the orders for these supplies. Which popular character actor plays the nonchalant supply truck driver? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Along with the shipment of supplies has come a largely empty mailbag. In fact, the bag contains only a single item, a package for BJ. In the package is a copy of which of these marvelous mystery books? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Who is the well-esteemed mystery author responsible for the fabulous tome that BJ, and the rest of the 4077th, now is able to partake? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. As the book circulates throughout the camp, sometimes one page at a time, we see scenes of certain individuals enjoying various segments of the book. Which of these pairs of characters actually reads a portion of the book aloud, one to the other? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. As BJ approaches the end of the book he discovers something awful...the last page is missing! While the rest of the M*A*S*H-ites panic, BJ calms them with an announcement that he has already figured out whodunit. Who is BJ's first culprit? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Back in the post-op ward, Charles is tending to a patient suffering from pain. Because of the dark conditions, Charles mistakenly provides the patient with what substance in place of morphine? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Desperate for a solution to whodunit in the mystery novel, and unable to come up with a proper culprit, BJ has cleverly decided to call the author of the book. Where has the author been living for the past 60 years? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. By the end of the episode are the camp-members provided with a satifying answer to the mystery of whodunit?



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The 4077th is stuck in a supply crunch again, and everyone is annoyed by it. Along with a shortage of light bulbs, what other item in the operating room have they completely run out of in this scene?

Answer: Sutures

While Klinger plays musical light bulbs in the operating room, the surgeons all bicker (particularly Charles) about the lack of supplies. Particularly worrisome is the lack of both 4.0 and 3.0 silk. Hawkeye must resort to using Klinger's sewing thread for sutures.
2. As if on queue to break up the frustration and monotony, a supply truck arrives at the compound. Unfortunately, it carries nothing that the dwellers of the 4077th need for a cold winter. Which of these items is not one that Hawkeye mentions is in this rather awkward shipment?

Answer: Bathing suits

They've also received an ice cream churn, but no bandages, sutures, heating oil or gel foam. Hawkeye suggests that there are also probably 'a thousand gallons of suntan lotion'.
3. Colonel Potter, obviously annoyed at this errant shipment of summer supplies, accosts the driver of the supply truck. Potter demands to know who signed the orders for these supplies. Which popular character actor plays the nonchalant supply truck driver?

Answer: Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall is one of my favorite character actors and one that all fans of movies would recognize on sight. He has been a cast member in such films as 'Midnight Run', 'Say Anything...', 'Air Force One', 'Boogie Nights', 'The Truman Show', 'Rush Hour', 'The Insider', 'Magnolia', 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' and many others. It seems as if every Hollywood director wants Hall in their films!

His words of wisdom to Colonel Potter: 'You know Colonel, if I was you, I'd look on the bright side...summer is just six months away.'
4. Along with the shipment of supplies has come a largely empty mailbag. In fact, the bag contains only a single item, a package for BJ. In the package is a copy of which of these marvelous mystery books?

Answer: The Rooster Crowed at Midnight

'Another brain-teasing, spine-chilling whodunit from the prize winning pen of Abigail Porterfield', reads the cover. We never are allowed to discover who sent BJ the book, but no matter, it's a godsend to the camp.
5. Who is the well-esteemed mystery author responsible for the fabulous tome that BJ, and the rest of the 4077th, now is able to partake?

Answer: Abigail Porterfield

Obviously, Abigail Porterfield is supposed to be another Agatha Christie, but parellel is not suggested by the characters. Initially, BJ is somewhat selfish about his book, but later he doles out portions of his book to everybody in the camp, even including the normally snobbish Charles, in order that they may also indulge.

By the way, are books really this hard to come by at the 4077th (even for Charles)? I guess these are the questions that should not be asked, for fear of destroying the levity of the episode.
6. As the book circulates throughout the camp, sometimes one page at a time, we see scenes of certain individuals enjoying various segments of the book. Which of these pairs of characters actually reads a portion of the book aloud, one to the other?

Answer: Charles and Margaret

Charles reads a particularly lurid section of the book from chapter three to Margaret. An excerpt:

'As the wind howled through the stately old elms, Jessica's heart ached with longing for the young Randolph. She could best be described as a prize thoroughbred; swift, hot-blooded, and highly responsive to the whip. And yet, Randolph was her equal, a raging stallion. To call him merely virile would be to damn with faint praise. Jessica remembered that exciting interlude in his garden when he'd suddenly appeared through the hedge. "Wench, you make my blood boil," he whispered, he whispered passionately. "Ever since I first laid eyes on your silken limbs and your ripe, golden bosom, I vowed to make you mine." Jessica knew in her woman's heart, that if it weren't for Lord Cheevers' cold-blooded murder, she'd be standing before the panting Randolph, her flimsy black negligee in tatters, her nakedness a golden-tinted paradise illuminated only by flickering candlelight.' (There is a pause in the reading here as Charles and Margaret glance nervously at each other. 'It's just amazing how much heat one of those things (a candle) can give off,' says Charles, as he loosens up his coat.) 'Rendering under this towering Caesar of the maiden's boudoir, that which is rightfully Caesar's! In her mind's eye, Jessica saw him aflame with passion, unable to bridle his all-consuming lust he moved toward here nearer and nearer...'

It's at this point that Margaret shouts, 'Major stop! I'll read the rest myself!' Charles is perplexed, wondering why Margaret would want him to stop reading at this climactic moment. 'But he's unbridled!' Shouts Charles. This is precisely why Margaret wants Charles to stop. Margaret seemingly does not want Charles himself to become 'unbridled'. As Charles gets up to leave, Margaret bids him good night. Charles responds, 'Good night, Jessica.'
7. As BJ approaches the end of the book he discovers something awful...the last page is missing! While the rest of the M*A*S*H-ites panic, BJ calms them with an announcement that he has already figured out whodunit. Who is BJ's first culprit?

Answer: Homer Butterfield

The Reverend Homer Butterfield is the culprit, according to BJ. 'He's not a real reverend,' says BJ, 'Don't you remember how confused he became on scriptures the day of the foxhunt?' Hawkeye responds incredulously, 'That was after he fell off the horse. Besides he's nearly 90!' BJ retorts with a chuckle, 'He says he's nearly 90. But can you expect the truth from a madman who's already killed eleven people, two pigs and a canary?'

BJ later announces that it couldn't have been Butterfield, he was at sea. Later, BJ theorizes that it was not butterfield but the nephew Randolph Armbruster.
8. Back in the post-op ward, Charles is tending to a patient suffering from pain. Because of the dark conditions, Charles mistakenly provides the patient with what substance in place of morphine?

Answer: Curare

Curare, a substance which paralyzes the muscles, is the substance Charles injects into the poor patient. Hawkeye and BJ arrive and immediately go to work on reversing the effects of the curare, providing the patient with prostigmin and atropine. Meanwhile, Charles stands nearby complaining about the darkness and suggesting that if the poor man were to die 'it would be the worst thing that ever happened to me'.
9. Desperate for a solution to whodunit in the mystery novel, and unable to come up with a proper culprit, BJ has cleverly decided to call the author of the book. Where has the author been living for the past 60 years?

Answer: Sydney, Australia

BJ finds Agnes Porterfield's address in the book jacket, she has been living in Sydney for 60 years (and is now 97 years old). He is able to make contact with her via the phone, and asks her has committed the murder. Ms. Porterfield announces that the culprit is Mr. Cheever's stepson, Avery Updike.

It seems that there were too many people between himself and his inheritance (35 people in total), and he was planning to kill them all.
10. By the end of the episode are the camp-members provided with a satifying answer to the mystery of whodunit?

Answer: No

Even Ms. Porterfield's answer to the mystery is incorrect, at least, according to Colonel Potter. Avery Updike was apparently locked in a closet when the murder took place. Alas, we will never know who murdered poor Sir Winslow.

Anyhow, does it really matter? No...what matters is that you played, and hopefully enjoyed, this quiz. Thank you for playing...please feel free to try some of my other stuff.
Source: Author thejazzkickazz

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