"E.T. the Extra Terrestrial" 101 Quiz

Answer: Beer

In one scene, while Elliott was away at school, E.T. walked around the house and tried to find something to do. He opened up the refrigerator and looked for something to eat or drink. He came upon potato salad and ate a little bit of it but threw it on the floor, since he did not like the taste.

He came upon a can of beer, popped it open, and started to drink it down while Elliott's dog, Harvey, watched him. E.T. really liked the beer so he continued to chug down some more. A couple of minutes later, Mary went into the kitchen and noticed a bunch of beer cans laying around but she did not know how they got there. Beer was all E.T. drank in the movie.

Answer: Gertie

Gertie sat down to watch some T.V. and E.T. was in the room with her. E.T. walked around the T.V. while Gertie tuned in and sounded out some words, such as "basket", "bandit", and "ball". The narrator, of the show, told the viewers that all the words began with the letter "b".

When E.T. heard this, he said "be" and this surprised Gertie, since she did not know E.T. could talk. Gertie told him, "good!" E.T. then said to Gertie, "Be good." A couple of other phrases that E.T. learned, in the movie, were "E.T. phone home" and "I'll be right here."

Answer: Mexico

The night after Elliott claimed he saw something outside, he and his family sat at the dinner table. Elliott insisted that he saw something in the back yard but his mom, Mary, told him he had to have imagined it. Elliott, Mary, and his two siblings, Michael and Gertie, continued to talk.

The subject of Elliott's father came up and Mary asked Elliott if he'd spoken to his father about what he said. Elliott remarked that he could not speak to his dad since he was in Mexico with a woman named Sally.

This upset Mary since her husband, father to all three of her children, had left her for another woman and they were separated. Michael chided Elliott for bringing up their father in front of Mary.

Answer: True

Unlike most movies, director Stephen Spielberg decided to have real life doctors, instead of actors, act in "E.T. The Extra Terrestrial" in scenes where Elliott and E.T. required medical attention. These scenes happened right after Mary first saw E.T. in her bathroom, as he had a pale complexion and looked like he was near death. Spielberg stated that he wanted to make the scenes look as real as possible and felt the best way to accomplish this was to hire real doctors.

Answer: Cowgirl

We first found out that Gertie was dressing up as a cowgirl for Halloween when she told Mary this, at the dinner table, near the beginning of the film. When Halloween approached, Gertie was shown, in her cowgirl costume, ready to go trick or treating. Gertie snuck out of the house and went to a secret location that her mother did not know about at all.

When Mary took a picture of Michael, Elliott, and "Gertie", she did not realize that "Gertie" was actually E.T. since E.T. wore a white sheet. Gertie told Elliott and Michael that she would wait for them, at a drop off point, where Elliott and E.T. would ride a bicycle, into the woods, to help set up a device to call for a spaceship to take E.T. home.

Answer: California

Elliott decided to find out where E.T. was from, so he got an atlas and a book, on outer space, for E.T. to use to help tell him where his home was located. Elliott decided that, to help E.T., he would show him where his home was located. He used an atlas but Michael told him a better visual would be the globe. Elliott got the globe and pointed to the state of California and told E.T. that was where they were located. Elliott asked E.T. where he was from and E.T. pointed out the window. Elliott used his book, on outer space, and pointed to the planet Earth and informed E.T. this was "home." E.T. did not give Elliott a specific answer as where his home planet was located.

Answer: Gertie

Right after E.T. said "Be good", Mary got a phone call from the principal of the school where Elliott attended (for more information on E.T.'s first words, see the "Interesting Info" section for question two). The principal told Mary that Elliott had gotten into trouble and that she had to come pick him up. Mary went to Gertie and told her she had to pick up Elliott, from school, and asked her if she would be alright home alone. Gertie told Mary that E.T. could talk but Mary thought she meant Elliott so she told Gertie that Elliott could talk.

Answer: Raccoon

Elliott stayed out, on Halloween night, and tried to get the device to work to call for a spaceship to pick up E.T. It appeared as if the device did not work and Elliott told E.T. that he could take care of him and nobody would ever hurt him. In Elliott's next scene, he arrived back home, right as Mary filed a report that he had gone missing. Elliott told Michael that E.T. was all alone, in the forest, and he had to find him. Michael assured Elliott he would locate E.T. and bring him back home. Michael rode his bike, into the forest, and encountered him down by the creek.

When he got to E.T. you could clearly see a raccoon, right next to E.T.'s body, since the animal had rings around its eyes. Michael scared the raccoon away and brought E.T. back home.

Answer: Science

As Elliott's teacher lectured about the science plan that day (to dissect frogs), he picked up a drawing of Elliott's (it was a picture of E.T.) but immediately put it back on Elliott's desk. Elliott's teacher told the students to place cotton balls, laced with a sedative, into the jars that had frogs in them so that the students could dissect the frogs. Elliott decided that he did not want to do this so he released his frog, from the jar, and told him to go back to the forest.

Other students followed suit and all the frogs leaped out of the classroom within a matter of minutes. Elliott's teacher took him to the principal's office and Elliott was punished.

Answer: Lamp

Elliott decided that he wanted to stay home from school, one day, to interact with E.T. some more and find out more about him. He decided to fake being ill and claimed, to his mom, that he had a fever. Elliott had a thermometer, right beside his bed, and turned on a lamp in his room, and put the thermometer alongside the lamp to make it look like he had a temperature.

When Mary checked the thermometer reading, she told Elliott that he was hot. Mary went off to work and kissed Elliott on the forehead.

She reminded him that he was not to watch any television while she was gone.