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  MASH   popular trivia quiz  
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This is one of the greatest comedies ever. How well do you know it?
Tough, 10 Qns, faulker1126, Jan 27 09
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  Mixed 'M*A*S*H', The Movie   top quiz  
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Let's see what you remember about one of the funniest movies ever.
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This is one of my all-time favorite movies! There are one or two questions that can be answered by the book or the television show.
Average, 10 Qns, ParrotTalkBack, May 20 04
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  'M*A*S*H' - The Movie   popular trivia quiz  
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You know the T.V. show, but how much do you know about the movie it was based on? One of the greatest military films ever.
Tough, 15 Qns, bigox, Oct 13 17
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What two people who wrote the music and lyrics to "Suicide is Painless"?

From Quiz "MASH"





M*A*S*H Trivia Questions
1. The movie 'M*A*S*H' was released in 1970. What did the title stand for or mean?

From Quiz Mixed 'M*A*S*H', The Movie

Answer: Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

Mobile Army Hospitals have been in use in one form or another every since there have been wars. When medics on the battle field couldn't patch a soldier up to be returned to duty, the soldier was sent off to the hospital which would be as close as a mile or so from the front. Robert Altman directed this movie. He wanted it to remind viewers of Vietnam, which was still very much in the news when the filming was going on. The symbol on the posters for this movie showed a woman's shapely legs, feet in high heels. The legs led to a fist with two fingers raised in a V, the peace sign. On the index finger there was an Army helmet. The posters and the TV series showed the letters 'MASH' seperated by asterisks but the title screen in the movie did not.

2. What two historical figures are quoted at the beginning of the movie?

From Quiz MASH

Answer: MacArthur and Eisenhower

The MacArthur speech was about coming home from Korea and retiring. The quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower read, "I will go to Korea."

3. Who does Hawkeye Pierce drive to the 4077th?

From Quiz 'M*A*S*H' - The Movie

Answer: Duke Forrest

Duke mistakes Hawkeye for an enlisted driver and the two of them take the jeep to the camp. The opening scene of the film.

4. What is an "Oklahoma"?

From Quiz MASH

Answer: A pair of eights, a ten of spades, a deuce and a five

As quoted by Trapper while playing poker. Many quotes were lost in the shuffle in scenes with many people. This was a concept Robert Altman wanted to use often. It added even more to the chaos that is war.

5. The lyrics of the opening theme song were written by Mike Altman, director Robert Altman's son. How old was he at the time?

From Quiz M*A*S*H

Answer: 14

Reportedly, Mike Altman made more money from the movie than his father did.

6. Where is the first place the two surgeons go when they arrive at the 4077th?

From Quiz 'M*A*S*H' - The Movie

Answer: The mess tent

The other soldiers and officers mistake them for men who have been separated from their unit and are simply looking for something to eat.

7. What two people who wrote the music and lyrics to "Suicide is Painless"?

From Quiz MASH

Answer: Johnny Mandel and Mike Altman

Mike Altman was only fourteen when he wrote the words.

8. The movie is based on what author's novel by the same name?

From Quiz M*A*S*H

Answer: Richard Hooker

All of the characters are composites of people Hooker knew, met casually, worked with, or heard about.

9. What does Duke tell Lt. Colonel Blake that he and Captain Pierce have been doing 'all afternoon'?

From Quiz 'M*A*S*H' - The Movie

Answer: Boozing

Blake replies, 'good, you'll be working near the front line.'

10. According to the PA announcement, what were to be removed to make rooms look clean?

From Quiz MASH

Answer: Pictures, postcards, nude calenders, etc.

One of many announcements used in the background throughout the film.

11. Which actor played the same character in BOTH the movie version and TV series of "M*A*S*H"?

From Quiz M*A*S*H

Answer: Gary Burghoff (Radar)

Radar loves all animals, but only in the television version of "M*A*S*H", not in the movie or book versions.

12. Who played Radar O'Reilly in the film?

From Quiz 'M*A*S*H' - The Movie

Answer: Gary Burghoff & Burghoff

Gary Burghoff was the only cast member of the film to return for the same role in the T.V. show. Tim Brown, who played Corporal Judson in the movie, was in the first few episodes of the show portraying Spearchucker Jones. His character was eliminated mid-season, as the Army had no black surgeons in Korea during the war.

13. What was the Painless Pole character's real name?

From Quiz MASH

Answer: Walt Waldoski

Painless was the 4077th's dentist. He is the key to the theme song. His experience with the "Black Capsule" leads to a brilliantly hilarious series of events.

14. Rene Auberjonois, who played Father Mulcahy, later became well-known for playing which "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" character?

From Quiz M*A*S*H

Answer: Odo

You wouldn't think the soft-spoken Father Mulcahy and the gruff Odo were played by the same man, but it goes to show Auberjonois' incredible talents.

15. What is the name of the Korean boy who works in the mess tent and spends most of his time in the Swamp?

From Quiz 'M*A*S*H' - The Movie

Answer: Ho Jon

'You make a mean martini, Ho Jon,' Hawkeye says. "Finest kind."

16. What was Painless's rank?

From Quiz MASH

Answer: Captain

Hawkeye, Trapper, and Duke were also Captains. For the record, Frank Burns was a Major, Henry Blake was a Lt. Colonel, and Hot Lips was a Major.

17. "M*A*S*H" and another film satirizing a recent American war were released the same year. Which was this other film?

From Quiz M*A*S*H

Answer: Catch-22

"Catch-22", based on a bestselling novel, featuring a huge cast, and boasting director Mike Nichols fresh from his success with "The Graduate" (1967), was expected to be the more successful film. When the reverse proved true, Robert Altman hung a banner in his office reading: "Caught-22."

18. Who does Henry Blake appoint as Chief Surgeon?

From Quiz 'M*A*S*H' - The Movie

Answer: Trapper

Despite Trapper clocking Frank Burns, Henry decides to make him Chief Surgeon.

19. A gunshot is heard. Hot Lips O'Houlihan said: 'Oh my God! They've shot him.' Then Colonel Blake yelled back at her: 'Hot Lips, you incredible nincompoop.' Finish Colonel Blake's quote.

From Quiz Mixed 'M*A*S*H', The Movie

Answer: It's the end of the quarter.

This was the infamous football game between General Hammond's team and Colonel Blake's doctors. Hot Lips was a cheerleader on the sidelines. The shot heard was to indicate the end of the quarter but she thought someone on the field had been shot. There was a lot of money bet and each team had 'ringers', personnel transferred into the units just for their football playing abilities. Fred Williamson played Dr. 'Spearchucker' Jones, the MASH unit's 'ringer' who helped them win the very controversial game.

20. What was "Me Lay" Marston's primary profession?

From Quiz MASH

Answer: Anesthesiologist

We discovered Me Lay in Tokyo. He was found in the operating room when Hawkeye and Trapper operated on the Senator's son.

21. When Hot Lips wanted to discuss the nurses on Hawkeye's shift, what was Hawkeye pretending to be eating?

From Quiz M*A*S*H

Answer: Lobster

Hawkeye hailed from Crabapple Cove, Maine, where lobsters abound.

22. Who does Frank Burns blame for the death of the soldier in the hospital?

From Quiz 'M*A*S*H' - The Movie

Answer: Boone

'It's too late, you've killed him Boone.' Burns refuses to admit that sometimes a patient just isn't going to make it.

23. "We are the pros from __________."

From Quiz MASH

Answer: Dover

This was a quote from the visit to Tokyo. It was used by both Trapper and Hawkeye with various members of the staff in the Tokyo hospital. It was used when anyone asked who they were and what they were doing there.

24. Hawkeye's nickname was given him by his father, after a fictional character from which novel?

From Quiz M*A*S*H

Answer: Last of the Mohicans

This bit of info isn't actually mentioned in the movie, but it's in the book and Hawkeye frequently mentions it in the TV show. It was Hawkeye's father's favorite novel.

25. What type of beer was Trapper drinking when Duke and Hawkeye first met him?

From Quiz 'M*A*S*H' - The Movie

Answer: Pabst

He pops open a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon and tells them he's from Boston.

26. Hot Lips O'Houlihan said: 'I wonder how such a degenerated person ever reached a position of authority in the Army Medical Corps.' What was the response to her inquiry?

From Quiz Mixed 'M*A*S*H', The Movie

Answer: Father Mulcahy: 'He was drafted.'

Hot Lips was talking to Father Mulcahy at the time she said the line. She was in charge of the nurses and expected order and discipline. Unfortunately for her, she got neither and was the butt of many jokes. The director, Altman, did not want to hire Kellerman originally because she was too good looking. He wanted a frumpier head nurse.

27. What was Trapper's real name?

From Quiz MASH

Answer: John McIntyre

We learned this after Hawkeye figured out who Trapper was when he intercepted a pass thrown by Trapper. They played football against one another in college.

28. In the New Era Hospital and Whore House, Hawkeye sees a well-dressed man walk into the establishment. What is his response?

From Quiz M*A*S*H

Answer: Whispers, "Is that a client?"

The Geisha girl then laughs at him. In fact, the Geisha girl laughs at everything.

29. When Walt 'Painless Pole' Waldowski decides to commit suicide, what method does Trapper suggest?

From Quiz 'M*A*S*H' - The Movie

Answer: black capsule

'Painless' thinks he is a homosexual and wants to kill himself. The others go along with it as a gag, knowing he'll snap out of his depression.

30. What was the last thing heard at the end of the movie?

From Quiz MASH

Answer: Oriental gong

The sound was used periodically throughout the film. "That is all"...Bong!

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