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1.
  'Swing Kids' Trivia    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
'Swing Kids' was such a great movie, and the soundtrack is great, too! This quiz should be fairly easy if you've seen the movie a couple of times! Good luck!
Average, 20 Qns, CAngel05, Apr 24 05
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CAngel05
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  "Swing Kid" Knowledge    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
How can people not love this movie?
Average, 15 Qns, Bloom-girl, Jul 21 02
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Bloom-girl
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  Swing Kids    
Multiple Choice
 5 Qns
This is about one of the best movies ever. Christian Bale is so hot, as is Noah Wyle...both of whom are in this movie. SPOILERS.
Average, 5 Qns, TommysCutieNA, Jul 20 02
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trivia question Quick Question
When Thomas comes home to dinner one night, after his boxing match with Emil, his parents have dinner guests over. Who are their guests?

From Quiz "'Swing Kids' Trivia"





Swing Kids Trivia Questions
1. What does Peter call his grandmother?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: Mama Klara

His grandmother was a little crazy - Frau Muller kept her away from company.

2. Who does Peter say was 'the original hepcat'?

From Quiz Swing Kids

Answer: Emil

He says this when Arvid acknowledges that the rumors about Amil joining the Nazis are true. Emil is played by Noah Wyle and is the biggest jerk of all.

3. What is the name of the Nazi block leader?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: Herr Hintz

Herr Knopp was the Gestapo officer who got Peter out of trouble; Muller was Peter's last name and Berger was Thomas's name

4. What is Peter's little brother's name?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: Willie & Willy & Willi

This is mentioned several times throughout the movie.

5. Which boy reports his own father?

From Quiz Swing Kids

Answer: Thomas

He turns into an evil Nazi! Argh.

6. Peter was studying to be a(n):

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: engineer

Peter: "I'm going to go to university; I'm going to be an engineer. There's a great demand for engineers right now."

7. How does Peter explain how he got the cut underneath his eye the night after they have a run-in with the man being chased by the Gestapo (at the beginning of the movie)?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: he fell down while dancing

His mother sees the cut and asks him who he's been fighting with. Peter says he fell while trying a new dance step: 'It's a wild dance.'

8. Who was the original hepcat?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: Emil

Emil was the first to join the HJ, Peter was then forced to join and Thomas joined to kepe Peter company.

9. What is the name of the code song between the swing kids?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: It Don't Mean a Thing

Peter is shocked when on of the HJ kids whistles it as he passes him. This makes him believe that no swing kid could ever really become a Nazi.

10. Which boy killed himself?

From Quiz Swing Kids

Answer: Arvid

Arvid killed himself after Thomas told him the Nazis were coming after cripples next. (Not that this was the reason).

11. What do Swing Boys refer to themselves as?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: cowboy

Swing Kids were obsessed with American movies - the HJ called them swing heine.

12. What is the name of the girl Peter likes?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: Evey

Evey is 'Peter's priss,' as Thomas calls her. Clara is Peter's grandmother.

13. What musician do the boys often refer to by his or her first name?

From Quiz Swing Kids

Answer: Benny Goodman

When Thomas criticizes swing music, he is reminded that Benny is Jewish.

14. When Evey showed up at the club, Peter told her she looked...

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: like gold

Peter spotted her in her red dress and when she asked how she looked, Peter said, "Like gold."

15. What deragatory name does Thomas call the girl that Arvid likes?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: faust

'Faust,' as they mention during a 'pop quiz,' is swing talk for an ugly girl.

16. What is Swing Kids slang for "ugly girl"?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: faust

"Peter's priss" is what Thomas calls Evey; "pansy" is what Thomas calls the HJ.

17. Which character is played by "ER"'s Noah Wyle?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: Emil & Emile

Emil is the traitor; 'he was the original hepcat,' as Peter and Thomas say, but now he is a Nazi.

18. What do Thomas and Peter attempt to steal for Arvid?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: a radio

Peter saw a Nazi take a radio from among the belongings they raided from a Jewish store; the Nazi then gave it to some lady who owns a pastry shop. Since it's not really hers anyway, Peter and Thomas decide to steal it for Arvid.

19. What is Frau Linge's married name?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: Bohlgren

It was mentioned ever so briefly when Peter made the second book delivery. Manglesdorf was the person Herr Knopp was looking for in the beginning of the movie.

20. What does the German word 'verrater' mean in English?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: traitor

Peter sees this written on the side of a store that a Jewish man used to own (this is where the Nazi takes the radio from).

21. How old is Willie?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: 9

He was three when their father was taken away, Peter had said "that was six years ago" when Willie asked why he had been arrested.

22. What is Thomas' last name?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: Berger

Thomas Berger, Peter Muller, and... well... Messer and von Walrath were characters in a Louis L'amour story.

23. Who does Thomas report?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: his father

Thomas turns in his father and almost threatens to report Peter.

24. What does Peter deliver as a job?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: books

He delivers rare books; later he finds that hidden inside the books are forged documents for Jewish families.

25. What is NOT a characteristic of a Swing Kid as explicitly mentioned in the beginning of the movie? They love...

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: American slang

They study slang in that little book they always have - it's a part of their secret swing language, but it isn't mentioned as being characteristic. And, okay, they probably don't love long hair, but they all have it.

26. What instrument does Peter mention that his father used to play?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: violin

You had to be paying pretty close attention to get that one... when Peter delivers a book to Frau Linge, he recognizes the classical music that she has playing. When she asks if he is a student of classical music, he replies no, that he thinks his father is the violinist.

27. What instrument did Peter's father play?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: violin

Peter says it when he takes Frau Linge the book and he's holding one in the picture Willie has.

28. What does Herr Knopp say when Peter is arrested in the club?

From Quiz "Swing Kid" Knowledge

Answer: Such a waste

Herr Knopp: "Such a waste - all that determination, for nothing."

29. Which character reports his father to the Nazis?

From Quiz 'Swing Kids' Trivia

Answer: Thomas

Thomas tells the HJ leaders that his father often complains about the state of political affairs in Germany, but he's too weak to do anything. The Nazis arrest his father anyway.

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