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The Original 'Scarface' Trivia Quiz

Forget De Palma's overstuffed remake. The original 30's version of 'Scarface' is still the best of 'em all!

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
39,173

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

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1088

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who directed the original 'Scarface'? Hint

Michael Curtiz

William Wellman

Howard Hawks

Mervyn LeRoy

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Question 2 of 10

2. What hard-boiled novelist worked on the script? Hint

W. R. Burnett

Dashiell Hammett

Horace McCoy

Raoul Whitfield

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is the main symbol of the film?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who played rival gangster Gaffney? Hint

Peter Lorre

Boris Karloff

Bela Lugosi

Sydney Greenstreet

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Question 5 of 10

5. What was the name of Tony's sister for whom he had incestuous feelings? Hint

Marie

Francesca

Sandy

Lucy

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Question 6 of 10

6. What was the activity that made George Raft's Guino Rinaldo, Tony's right-hand man, so memorable? Hint

blinking an eye

chewing a toothpick

flipping a coin

rolling little steel balls

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Question 7 of 10

7. Where does Gaffney get mowed down? Hint

a deserted highway

on church steps

a bowling alley

a barber shop

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who played Tony's brainless secretary? Hint

John Qualen

Vince Barnett

Percy Helton

Frank McHugh

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Question 9 of 10

9. What did the sign outside Tony's apartment say? Hint

57 Varieties

Hasn't Scratched Yet!

Time To Re-Tire

The World Is Yours

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who produced 'Scarface'? Hint

Howard Hughes

Darryl F. Zanuck

David O. Selznick

Jack L. Warner

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who directed the original 'Scarface'?

Answer: Howard Hawks

Well before he made such classics as 'His Girl Friday', 'The Big Sleep' and 'Red River', and using a flamboyant style he would never show again.

2. What hard-boiled novelist worked on the script?

Answer: W. R. Burnett

Burnett's benchmark 'Little Caesar' had already reached the screen by the time he teamed with Ben Hecht and Seton I. Miller, among the first of a long line of screenplays he would pen, including 'The Great Escape'.

3. What is the main symbol of the film?

Answer: an X

As hinted by the title, the film is based on Al 'Scarface' Capone, and the 'X' motif, signifying murder, connects to Tony Camonte's own cross-shaped facial scar.

4. Who played rival gangster Gaffney?

Answer: Boris Karloff

After his breakthrough role as the Frankenstein monster, Karloff was in demand. Though sterotyped as a movie monster or villian, he proved his acting prowess in a multitude of roles through the years.

5. What was the name of Tony's sister for whom he had incestuous feelings?

Answer: Francesca

Ann Dvorak played 'Cesca'.

6. What was the activity that made George Raft's Guino Rinaldo, Tony's right-hand man, so memorable?

Answer: flipping a coin

The coin-flipping gesture became Raft's trademark, even being spoofed in Billy Wilder's classic farce 'Some Like It Hot', where Raft asks a waiter doing it 'Where'd you pick up that cheap trick?'

7. Where does Gaffney get mowed down?

Answer: a bowling alley

The 'X' motif struck again when Gaffney marked the score card with an 'X' for a strike.

8. Who played Tony's brainless secretary?

Answer: Vince Barnett

Barnett was the film's comic {relief;} remember when a shot coffe urn wet him in the rear? And in 1947's 'The Killers' he was indelible as Charlston, the little hood who tried to warn Burt Lancaster against two-timing Ava Gardner.

9. What did the sign outside Tony's apartment say?

Answer: The World Is Yours

It was the motto on a Cook's Tours neon {sign;} it also showed up in the De Palma remake.

10. Who produced 'Scarface'?

Answer: Howard Hughes

'Scarface' was one of the first pictures produced by {Hughes;} his best-known production would be 'The Outlaws', which he also directed, notorious for using Jane Russell's cleavage(she'd go on to better films).

Source: Author tjoebigham

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