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1 What is Bob afraid of?
Answer: All of the these answers

Bob is afraid of germs everywhere! That is why he uses tissues to hold onto things throughout most of the movie.
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2 What does Bob dress as when he goes to the answering service center in "What About Bob?"?
Answer: a detective

Bob dressed as a detective when trying to find out where his doctor went away on vacation.
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3 What is Bob's last name?
Answer: Wiley

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4 What type of fish is Gil?
Answer: gold

Gil is a goldfish that Bob takes everywhere with him. Bob is worried about Gil's welfare.
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5 What is the first name of Dr. Marvin's wife in "What About Bob?"?
Answer: Fay

Fay was Dr. Marvin's loving wife.
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6 What kind of pet does Bob have?
Answer: Fish

It was a goldfish.
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7 Bob is disturbed to find that Dr. Marvin is leaving today for a month-long vacation with his family. Which of his colleagues will be available if Bob needs help before Leo returns after Labor Day?
Answer: Dr. Harmon

Dr. Harmon is never seen in the film, but his name is mentioned at least four times: once by Dr. Marvin in the scene described above, once by Betty (the answering service operator) who reminds Bob that "Dr. Harmon is taking his (Marvin's) calls," and twice during the three-way phone conversation involving Bob, Betty and Leo. Tomsky is the director of the asylum and Fensterwald is the colleague that referred Bob to Leo. Phil is the doctor who treats Leo following his breakdown.
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8 Where does the "shrink" vacation?
Answer: Lake Winnepesaukee

Lake Winnapasake is located in New Hampshire.
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9 What is the name of Anna's friend who owns the sailboat in "What About Bob?"?
Answer: George Starks

Bob takes his first sailing trip tied to the mast of George's boat!
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10 What is the pet's name?
Answer: Gil

Bob carried Gil in a jar around his neck when he travelled.
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11 What are Leo Marvin's kids' names?
Answer: Anna and Sigmund

Sigmund is also called Siggy.
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12 When Bob ate dinner with the Marvin family in "What About Bob?", what was the main course?
Answer: chicken

Bob raves over Fay's chicken dinner with such enthusiasm that Dr. Marvin gets furious.
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13 What is the full name of Bob's psychiatrist, played by Richard Dreyfuss?
Answer: Dr. Leo Marvin

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14 What does Bob say in the beginning to make him feel better? I feel _______, I feel _________, I feel ________.
Answer: good, great, wonderful

Bob wakes up and says this to himself over and over again, until he gets to Dr. Marvin's office.
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15 What does Bob say while on the bus during his trip to the lake in "What About Bob?"?
Answer: "False alarm."

Bob feels that he may vomit, but it turns out to be a false alarm!
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16 What is the title of the innovative new book written by the psychiatrist?
Answer: Baby Steps

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17 After discovering the location of the Marvin's vacation home, Bob "baby-steps" his way to the bus station, and heads for New Hampshire. What request does Bob make of the older gentleman seated next to him on the bus?
Answer: "Punch me, knock me out."

The man quickly finds another seat, leaving Bob and Gil both alone and conscious. By the time the bus approaches Lake Winnipesaukee, all the other passengers have moved as far away from Bob as possible.
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18 What time is it on the clock, as Bob is leaving his house?
Answer: 1:15

The clock is right beside the dog. They show a glimpse of it before he leaves.
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19 What is the title of the book Dr. Marvin was promoting in "What About Bob?"?
Answer: Baby Steps

Who could forget the famous lines Bob uttered after leaving his new psychiatrist's office ... "Baby step to the elevator. I am in the elevator. Ahhhhhhhhhh."
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20 What is the reason Bob claims that he and his wife got divorced?
Answer: She loved Neil Diamond

Bob says, "There are two kinds of people in this world...those who like Neil Diamond and those who don't. My ex-wife loved Neil Diamond."
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21 After finding Leo in town, Bob cries and whines until Leo agrees to speak with him; not in person, but by phone. Bob is to buy his return ticket to New York and wait two hours for Leo's call. The pay-phone where Bob is to wait is located where?
Answer: Coffee shop

Bob drives everybody in the coffee shop crazy as he watches the clock baby-step towards 4:00. Lucky for him the coffee shop is owned by the Guttmans, who despise Leo for 'stealing' their dream home. They kill two birds with one stone; get Bob out off their shop, and aggravate Leo, by delivering Bob directly to his house.
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22 What actor plays the role of Bob?
Answer: Bill Murray

Bill Murray also stars in "Groundhog Day" and "Osmosis Jones".
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23 After Dr. Marvin leaves for vacation to Lake Winnipesaukee in "What About Bob?", what television show is playing that makes Bob call the switchboard?
Answer: The Brady Bunch

"The Brady Bunch" can make anyone cry!
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24 What are the names of the psychiatrist's two children?
Answer: Anna and Sigmund

Is it just a coincidence that a psychiatrist would have a son named Sigmund? They called him Siggy.
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25 What is the last "therapy" Dr. Marvin uses on Bob?
Answer: Death

Dr. Leo Marvin then sues Bob after he writes a book about death therapy. Dr. Marvin really is trying to kill Bob, Bob just doesn't understand.
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