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  More About Eve   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Yes, there's still more to "All About Eve"! Test your knowledge.
Average, 15 Qns, robertogee, Nov 02 06
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  "All About Eve" - A Classic   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Based upon a short story titled "The Wisdom Of Eve", this well-written, black and white movie remains among the best in film history. Just how much do you know about it?
Average, 10 Qns, freddy_krueger, Jul 21 12
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  Quotes from "All About Eve"   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Joseph L. Mankiewicz wrote a brillant screenplay. Can you finish these great quotes?
Average, 10 Qns, quaxo, Dec 13 04
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  All About "All About Eve"   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is a tribute to Sam Stagg's book of the same title and it is one of my favorite films. The quiz contains material outside the film's theatrical release. Have fun!
Average, 10 Qns, quaxo, Dec 14 04
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  All About Eve    
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This is one of my favorite movies! Enjoy this quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, Margofan, Jan 07 21
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Jan 07 21
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trivia question Quick Question
Where did Eve Harrington work before coming to New York?

From Quiz "More About Eve"




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All About Eve Trivia Questions
1. Where did Eve Harrington work before coming to New York?

From Quiz More About Eve

Answer: brewery

She was paid $500 to leave town for having an affair with her boss.

2. Which two Hollywood actresses played the lead female characters of Eve Harrington and Margo Channing?

From Quiz "All About Eve" - A Classic

Answer: Anne Baxter and Bette Davis

Claudette Colbert was originally to play the character of Margo. Colbert was forced to pull out of the movie after rupturing a disc in her back while filming "Three Came Home".

3. Karen has brought Eve backstage for the first time and Eve says: "You can breath it can't you? Like _________."

From Quiz Quotes from "All About Eve"

Answer: some magic perfume.

Eve has seen every performance of the play.

4. The opening of "All About Eve" takes place at an awards ceremony. What was the name of the award?

From Quiz All About "All About Eve"

Answer: Sarah Siddons

Antonette Perry is the Tony Award, Academy Award is the Oscar and Golden Globe is the Foreign Press Award.

5. What actress was originally supposed to play the part of Margo Channing?

From Quiz All About Eve

Answer: Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert was supposed to play the role of Margo until she ruptured a disk in her back, on the set of "Three Came Home".

6. Where did Karen Richards meet Lloyd Richards?

From Quiz More About Eve

Answer: Radcliffe

He had come to lecture on drama.

7. When Eve auditioned for the part of Margo's understudy, what was said of her performance?

From Quiz "All About Eve" - A Classic

Answer: It had fire and music

This comment was said by Lloyd Richards, and later made Margo fly off the handle in a jealous rage.

8. Margo is hurriedly dressing to accompany Bill to the airport and can only find one earring and Bill says: "Real diamonds in a wig, __________."

From Quiz Quotes from "All About Eve"

Answer: the world we live in.

Bette continued the scene wearing only one earring. Perhaps she did start a fashion.

9. The film is based upon a short story. What is the title?

From Quiz All About "All About Eve"

Answer: The Wisdom of Eve

The original story was supposedly based upon a true story about the actress Elisabeth Bergner, our Margo.

10. Margo Channing's first stage appearance, in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", propelled her to stardom. How old was she?

From Quiz More About Eve

Answer: 4

According to Addision, "She made her first stage appearance, at the age of four, in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'. She played a fairy and entered - quite unexpectedly - stark naked. She has been a star ever since."

11. Which character said this famous line: "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night"?

From Quiz "All About Eve" - A Classic

Answer: Margo Channing & Margo

Bette Davis, along with Anne Baxter, was nominated for Best Actress Oscar for her role.

12. Bill is getting ready to leave for Hollywood. He asks Birdie "What do you want me to tell Tyrone Power?" Birdie's reply is " _________."

From Quiz Quotes from "All About Eve"

Answer: Just give him my phone number. I'll tell him myself.

Thelma Ritter was excellent as the ex-vaudevillian/maid.

13. Who wrote the original short story?

From Quiz All About "All About Eve"

Answer: Mary Orr

Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone With The Wind". Mary Shelly wrote "Frankenstein" and Lillian Hellman wrote "Watch on the Rhine" and many other stories, plays and screenplays.

14. What future movie star had been previously fired by the producer?

From Quiz All About Eve

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Monroe was late for rehearsals and no one knew her at the time this picture was made.

15. How long, from her introduction to Margo, does it take Eve Harrington to win her Award for Distinguished Achievement in the theatre?

From Quiz More About Eve

Answer: 9 months

Karen Richards says, "It's June now. That was - early October... only last October. It was a drizzly night, I remember I asked the taxi to wait..."

16. Which future Hollywood icon played the small part of Miss Caswell?

From Quiz "All About Eve" - A Classic

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Monroe later went on to star in movies such as "Some Like It Hot" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

17. Unbeknownst to Margo, Eve has placed a call to Bill in California, to be connected at midnight New York time, for his birthday. Part of the conversation from Margo is "In a tin can, cellophane, or ___________, I want you home."

From Quiz Quotes from "All About Eve"

Answer: wrapped in a Navajo blanket

"Well if you won't say it to me then sing it! Oh Bill, it's your birthday." Margo was a little confused.

18. The original screenplay was written by?

From Quiz All About "All About Eve"

Answer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Preston Sturges wrote the dialogue for "Imitation of Life". Herman Mankiewicz, Joe's brother wrote "Citizen Kane" with Orson Welles.

19. "You can always put that _____ where your heart ought to be."

From Quiz All About Eve

Answer: award

Ironically in 1973, Anne Baxter presented Bette Davis with the Sarah Siddons Award.

20. Where is Eve originally from?

From Quiz More About Eve

Answer: Wisconsin

"I guess it started back home. Wisconsin, that is. There was just mum and dad - and me."

21. Which character helps Eve boost her career by making Margo miss a performance?

From Quiz "All About Eve" - A Classic

Answer: Karen

Karen, played by Celeste Holm, makes sure that Margo misses her performance by making sure there isn't enough gas in the car for them to make it in time. This leads to Eve having the chance to take over as the lead role for one night.

22. Max Fabian, the producer in the film, was played by?

From Quiz All About "All About Eve"

Answer: Gregory Ratoff

All of the other actors were considered for the same part.

23. What year was this movie released in the US?

From Quiz All About Eve

Answer: 1950

24. Bill Sampson, in the film's opening, is on his way to Hollywood to direct a film for what famous producer?

From Quiz More About Eve

Answer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Zanuck produced "All About Eve" for 20th Century Fox.

25. What is the name of the play Margo starred in throughout the movie?

From Quiz "All About Eve" - A Classic

Answer: Aged In Wood

Eve played her understudy in the play, towards the end of the film.

26. Lloyd and Karen have just arrived for the start of the party and Lloyd detects something is up and he says: "The general athmosphere is very ___________. What has or is about to happen?"

From Quiz Quotes from "All About Eve"

Answer: Macbethish

The martinis start to flow! On with the party.

27. Who was the part of Lloyd Richards played by?

From Quiz All About "All About Eve"

Answer: Hugh Marlowe

Robert Young ("Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D.") was considered for the part of Bill Sampson. Richard Carlson who looks a lot like Hugh Marlowe was in "Hold That Ghost" and Patrick Knowles was in "Robin Hood". All of them are fine actors.

28. What was the name of the actress who plays Phoebe at the very end of the picture?

From Quiz All About Eve

Answer: Barbara Bates & Bates

29. Birdie, Margo's assistant, says, "There was nothing he didn't know". To whom is she referring?

From Quiz More About Eve

Answer: A ventriloquist

Birdie was in vaudeville before becoming Margo's assistant.

30. Where did Eve say she left her heart?

From Quiz "All About Eve" - A Classic

Answer: In the theatre

Margo later said, in reponse to her speech; "You can always put that award where your heart ought to be".

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