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  Enemy at the Gates   great trivia quiz  
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A quiz on the wonderful WWII movie.
Average, 10 Qns, ladymacb29, Dec 04 02
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  Test yourself! Enemy at the Gates Quiz    
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I saw this movie the very first showing of it in Connecticut and I absolutely loved it, it is a perfect movie, the best since 'Gladiator'. SPOILER ALERT! If you have not seen this movie, go no further!
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  'Enemy at the Gates': the Basics    
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This quiz is on the movie 'Enemy at the Gates' and is composed of some simple questions about the movie. Have fun.
Average, 10 Qns, Teej417, May 09 12
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Danilov tells Tania that she is more important behind a desk than behind a rifle because:

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Enemy at the Gates Trivia Questions
1. Which actor played the part as political officer Danilov?

From Quiz 'Enemy at the Gates': the Basics

Answer: Joseph Fiennes

Fiennes was also the main character in 'Shakespeare in Love'.

2. Vassili lived near what mountain range?

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Answer: Urals

He was a poor shepherd boy who knew how to shoot well.

3. What does Vassili do to hide his breath so the wolf does not see him?

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Answer: Puts snow in his mouth

Vassili learns his shooting from his grandfather and becomes the best sniper in the history of the Red Army, possibly the world.

4. Who did he see, but not meet, on the train to Stalingrad?

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Answer: Tania

He thought she was so beautiful, he was scared to talk to her. Towards the end of the movie, he tells her that he saw her and says that she had been reading a book.

5. What does Danilov say the people of Russia need to win the war?

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Answer: Hope

Nazi and German propoganda was spread heavily through Russia, the Russian people believed they could not win, the Germans promised them food and shelter, but they were really met with a barrel of a gun.

6. What day does Vassili arrive in Stalingrad?

From Quiz 'Enemy at the Gates': the Basics

Answer: September 20th, 1942

The battle started on August 21, 1942 when the German Sixth Army launched its drive towards the Volga River (the river that Stalingrad was located on). By November, the Germans had isolated the Russian forces into four pockets of Stalingrad, but still the Russians fought on.

7. In what year does the majority of the film take place?

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Answer: 1942

The latter-half of the year.

8. Where is the yellow sand from that Sacha (the little boy), sees on Major Koenig's boots?

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Answer: Chemical factory

The poor Russian boy cleans the snipers shoes in exchange for chocolate, which was on rations and could not be gotten in the war ravaged city of Stalingrad. He later tells Vassili this information.

9. What does Vasilli tell Danilov to wait for before he shoots?

From Quiz 'Enemy at the Gates': the Basics

Answer: An explosion.

If he waited for an explosion then the other Germans would not hear the gunshots.

10. What does Danilov tell Sacha's mother when Sacha had been killed?

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Answer: He had gone over to the Germans.

The Major killed Sacha because Sacha had told the Soviets things that he had been told not to talk about.

11. Danilov tells Tania that she is more important behind a desk than behind a rifle because:

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Answer: She speaks German

She has a collection of German books in her shelter 'I don't think they would like it if I went back to HQ with a German book under my arm.' 'I have some Marx as well.'

12. How many other snipers die in total while helping Vassili?

From Quiz 'Enemy at the Gates': the Basics

Answer: 4

One dies under the crashed plane. Another dies in the building being bombed by planes. A third dies after being captured, put in a German uniform, and shot by the fourth to die, who is shot while jumping from building to building.

13. Tania studied ____ at the Moscow University.

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Answer: German

Danilov transferred her to headquarters when he heard this as she could translate the messages the Soviets were intercepting. He promised to give her old unit 6 people for every one they sent to headquarters to be a translator.

14. Vassili learned to shoot by hunting wolves, but why does he shoot his enemies in the eye?

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Answer: To not damage the 'fur'

'That's where I learnt to shoot, from hunting wolves with my grandfather, I shot them in the eye so we could sell the fur.'

15. Who told Krushchev that the soldiers needed hope?

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Answer: Danilov

The other men had given suggestions like making examples of the bad men or hurting their families, but Danilov said that the soldiers really needed examples to follow.

16. What is the LAST thing that Danilov wants to do for Vassili?

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Answer: Show him where the Sniper is

After feeling guilty for betraying Vassili by questioning his loyalties, he wants to do one last thing to redeem himself. 'Let me do this one last thing for you Vasili...'

17. What amazes Vassili the most about the German sniper, Major Konig?

From Quiz 'Enemy at the Gates': the Basics

Answer: The major doesn't relocate after each shot.

Major Konig was played by Ed Harris.

18. What was the name of the Major who Vassili was trying to kill (and who was trying to kill Vassili)?

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Answer: Koenig

The Major was a nobleman from Bavaria playing cat and mouse with a shepherd from the Urals. And the shepherd won.

19. Why did Vassili's Russian metal-toothed friend, Koulikov, get his teeth knocked out?

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Answer: He was in Germany

He is tortured for being in Germany when the Nazi's turn on Stalin. He explains that it was Comrade Stalin that sent him there. For blaming their leader, the NKVD knock all his teeth out, leaving him with a set of metal teeth. 'There was no sickle, but there was a hammer.'

20. What factory does Vassili use to get around?

From Quiz 'Enemy at the Gates': the Basics

Answer: The tractor factory

The Chemical factory was where Major Konig waited for Vassili. The tractor factory is usually how Vassili gets around. This factory is seen when Vassili is trapped by the Major and all the glass falls down around him.

21. Ludmilla was killed in what type of building?

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Answer: Department store

She was scared when the planes started flying overhead bombing the department store, got up to run and was shot by the sniper who was hiding inside.

22. What does Major Koenig do to draw Vassili into his trap?

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Answer: Hangs Sacha

'I'm sorry for what I'm gonna have to do, but you did break our promise.' After catching the young boy trying to get back to Vassili and tell him the Major's plan, Koenig hangs the boy in the old train station to draw out Vassili.

23. Who did not die in the movie?

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Answer: Mother Filipov

Danilov raised his head so that Vassili could find out where the Major was hiding. Vassili killed the Major near the railroad. Ludmilla died in the department store when she got scared and was shot by a sniper.

24. The German Assassin carries two medals, one is the iron cross, the other, a silver cross with cross-swords; it is not his, why is it so important to him?

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Answer: It belongs to his son

The killing of his son by Russian soldiers explains his hatred for Vassili, this is why he got involved in the hunt for the ghost assassin.

25. One reason Major Konig came to get Vassili was because the Germans needed their best sniper to get rid of Vassili. What was the other reason Konig came?

From Quiz 'Enemy at the Gates': the Basics

Answer: His son had died.

The movie says that his son was a lieutenant who died during the first days of the battle.

26. In the first scene of the movie, what was Vassili aiming at?

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Answer: a wolf

Vassili was too scared, and did not pull the trigger. The wolf then started to attack the horse Vassili and his grandfather had tied up to lure the wolf from hiding.

27. 'This is Stalingrad, it is a symbol, if this city falls, the whole country will fall with it, I want our boys to...'

From Quiz Enemy at the Gates

Answer: Resist & resist

Nikita Kruschev demands victory for Stalin and Russia. 'Stalingrad is nothing more than a burning pile of rubble, but it is a symbol, it must never fall.'

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