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1 During which war is the movie set?
Answer: World War II

This film shows the details of World War II that were kept behind the closed doors of the concentration camps.
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What is the Italian name for 'Life is Beautiful?'




2 How does Guido first meet Dora?
Answer: She falls off the upper level of the barn and lands on him

She falls on him and they land in the hay.
3 What is the Italian name for 'Life is Beautiful?'
Answer: La Vita è Bella

The Italian name translates exactly to the English name.
4 What does he say to her?
Answer: 'Buon giorno Principessa!'

He says this line throughout the movie. Even Giosue picks it up.
5 Guido and Giosué decide they will ban people from their bookstore. Who will they ban?
Answer: Spiders and Visigoths

Giosué hates the spiders, and Guido states that he hates the Visigoths.
6 What does Guido call Dora's fiance?
Answer: The jerk the eggs fell on

After Guido accidentally hits him over the head with a flower planter he runs down to check on him and puts his six eggs in the man's hat. When he goes to put his hat back on, the eggs break on his head.
7 What is the name of uncle Eliseo's horse?
Answer: Robin Hood

8 How many eggs did Guido take from the basket of eggs?
Answer: 6

At first Guido says he'll take two eggs, then changes his mind to take six.
9 When Guido asks his uncle why he didn't cry for help when the 'barbarians' were robbing him, what is his response?
Answer: Silence is the most powerful cry

10 Who plays the character of Rodolfo?
Answer: Amerigo Fontani

Guido calls Rodolfo: "The jerk the eggs fell on!"
11 What composer does Guido go to see at the theatre, knowing Dora will be in the audience as well?
Answer: Offenbach

Guido spends the whole performance staring up at Dora in the balcony.
12 What is the answer to Dr. Lessing's riddle, 'If you say my name, I won't exist anymore?'
Answer: Silence

Dr. Lessing asks Guido this right before he leaves, and Guido answers it while he is in line for check-up at the concentration camp.
13 Who paints 'Achtung! Cavallo ebreo' on Eliseo's horse?
Answer: Nazi sympathizers

They call the horse Jewish.
14 What does Giosué think he'll win after the end of the 'game?'
Answer: A real tank

The reason Giosué stayed with the 'game' was so he could get the real tank in the end.
15 Why does Dora get sent to the concentration camp?
Answer: She chooses to go

Dora makes them stop the train that Guido, Giosue, and Eliseo are on so she can come aboard. She wants to be close to her family.
16 What does Giosué think the Germans turn the Jewish children into?
Answer: Buttons and soap

Giosué is right in thinking they turn children into buttons and soap, but Guido makes him think he is wrong so he won't be scared.
17 Who does Guido recognize at the camp?
Answer: Dr. Lessing

Dr. Lessing, a man he befriended at his uncle's hotel, winds up being the doctor who gives the prisoners their checkup.
18 When Giosué is eating dinner with the German children, what does he say in Italian to almost blow his cover?
Answer: Thank you

Guido runs in and saves Giosué by pretending that he taught him that word.
19 What does Guido tell Giosue he'll win if they get 1000 points?
Answer: A tank

Guido tries to convince Giosue that everything is a game so he won't be frightened.
20 What does Giosue refuse to do, which ends up saving his life?
Answer: Shower

Whenever anyone was told they were going to have a shower they were gassed.
21 What does Giosue hear they make out of the Jews who are killed?
Answer: Soap and buttons

When Giosue is playing with the other children after their arrival at the concentration camp, they tell him that the prisoners are thrown into an oven and their bodies are used for the production of soap and buttons.
22 Who dies in the film?
Answer: Guido and Eliseo

Eliseo is gassed and Guido is shot.
23 Who finds Giosue at the end of the film?
Answer: An American soldier

Giosue is the only one left at the camp when the war ends. When he comes out of hiding he is greeted by two American soldiers in a tank.