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Quiz about Shining Through Pt II
Quiz about Shining Through Pt II

"Shining Through" Pt. II Trivia Quiz


We're still following this 1992 David Seltzer film chronologically, in Part II of the quiz. I hope there are no "gotcha" questions. I've tried to stick to the plot, characters, and actors.

A multiple-choice quiz by sundancer415. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
sundancer415
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
302,598
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
8 / 10
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165
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Question 1 of 10
1. Who was Linda Voss's contact in Berlin for getting messages in and out? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Why was Linda fired from Herr Drescher's employ? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What city was Linda supposed to be from, as part of her cover identity? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The broken remnants of what musical instrument, presumably her cousin's, did Linda find in the empty basement at 99 Kinderstrasse? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What animal ran wild in the streets of Berlin, having escaped from the zoo during the bombing? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. How did Linda Voss learn all of her spy techniques? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Why did Ed Leland wear a bloodied bandage around his neck when he went to Berlin (disguised as a Nazi officer) to find Linda? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Who shot Linda Voss? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Where did Linda hide the microfilm during her escape from Germany? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. After departing the train, and while trying to cross the border from Germany to safety in Switzerland, Ed carried the ailing Linda in his arms and was shot. In what way was he wounded? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Who was Linda Voss's contact in Berlin for getting messages in and out?

Answer: a fishmonger

Linda's only success using the "note in the fish's mouth" technique was in locating her two aunts and her niece; the fishmonger found out they were living in the basement at 99 Kinderstrasse. The fish shop was the scene of several close calls for Linda and the fishmonger, almost being discovered by Nazi officers.

Her clever (but ridiculous) spy purse wasn't exactly designed by "Q" at MI6, which caused part of the problem. Patrick Winczewski played the handsome and helpful fishmonger.
2. Why was Linda fired from Herr Drescher's employ?

Answer: She served raw doves for his swanky dinner.

Despite the fact that she whipped up a perfect strudel, Linda failed abysmally in her culinary preparations for Herr Horst Drescher's state dinner. She served the cold cucumber soup heated, spilled soup on one of his guests (Herr Dietrich, played by Liam Neeson), and burned the doves on the outside while leaving them raw on the inside. Who could blame him for firing her? German actor Roland Nitschke portrayed the imposing Horst Drescher.
3. What city was Linda supposed to be from, as part of her cover identity?

Answer: Dusseldorf

This was her excuse for serving the cucumber soup hot instead of cold. (Herr Drescher: "The cucumber soup is supposed to be cold!" Linda: "We serve it hot in Dusseldorf.") Her background came up again a few hours later when Herr Dietrich gave her a ride, quizzed her about her upbringing in Dusseldorf, and hired her to be his children's nanny.

Melanie Griffith is the daughter of Tippi Hedren (of Hitchcock's "The Birds"). Her first credited film was "Night Moves," when she was 16 years old. She's been married to three men, twice to Don Johnson, once to actor Steven Bauer, and currently to Antonio Banderas. She has had children with all three husbands.
4. The broken remnants of what musical instrument, presumably her cousin's, did Linda find in the empty basement at 99 Kinderstrasse?

Answer: a flute

From the beginning of the movie, Linda spoke of her female cousin, whom she had never met, but who played the flute. We even saw a picture of the cousin holding the flute. Linda dreamed aloud of one day being able to bring her two aunts and cousin out of Berlin, and her cousin would play for her at Carnegie Hall. (This was Linda Voss's primary motivation for becoming a spy, but she also desperately wanted to help the Allies' effort to bring down Hitler's regime.) In Berlin, overjoyed at finding out where her relatives were hiding, Linda arrived at 59 Kinderstrasse only to find the basement empty, but with evidence that they had indeed lived there.

She found pieces of a flute, which brought her to tears, knowing what must have happened to her relatives.
5. What animal ran wild in the streets of Berlin, having escaped from the zoo during the bombing?

Answer: a zebra

Herr Dietrich's two children, Linda's charges as a nanny, had been begging her to take them to the Berlin zoo. Linda used that as an opportunity to find her relatives, a mere five blocks away. However, just as she found the empty basement and broken flute, the bombing began on the streets above her. People were fleeing in panic, screaming as buildings buckled in flames around them. Herr Dietrich's young daughter pointed at the zebra running wild, obviously frightened out of its wits and without a clue as to where to go. The cinematography of this almost black-and-white "ravages of war" scene was breathtaking.

Jan De Bont was Director of Photography for "Shining Through". He worked with Michael Douglas again on "Jewel of the Nile". De Bont's first directorial effort was the enormously popular "Speed".
6. How did Linda Voss learn all of her spy techniques?

Answer: from watching movies

This was Linda's quirky characteristic, one that endeared her to the BBC Interviewer as well as to Ed Leland and, presumably, the audience. Surprisingly, most of the techniques Linda learned from the movies actually did help Ed and her in their spying!

Besides "Working Girl," for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, Melanie's other popular films included "Pacific Heights" with Michael Keaton and Mathew Modine, "Body Double," with Craig Wasson, and "Milk Money" opposite Ed Harris. She has been nominated five times for the Golden Globe award.
7. Why did Ed Leland wear a bloodied bandage around his neck when he went to Berlin (disguised as a Nazi officer) to find Linda?

Answer: as an excuse for his inability to speak German

Ed carried a small card explaining that he had been wounded in the throat and, therefore, couldn't speak. He used the ploy in both trips to Berlin to try to get Linda out. As Ed's partner said of him earlier in the film, "He has a tin ear for languages. He graduated cum laude from Harvard but flunked right out of Berlitz."
8. Who shot Linda Voss?

Answer: Margrete von Eberstein

Linda deduced that Margrete, who had been her best friend, was a double-agent when Linda went to Margrete's apartment, after fleeing Herr Dietrich's home. Margrete crossed the street to retrieve the microfilm from where Linda had hidden it. While she was gone, Linda saw a Nazi soldier's boots and uniforms in Margrete's closet and a picture of Margrete with a handsome Nazi officer. Upon Margrete's return to the apartment, she found Linda hiding, pulled a gun, and shot Linda in the stomach.

They struggled for the gun and it went off, killing Margrete. Wounded, Linda hid in the laundry chute while the Nazis stormed the apartment looking for her.

She lost consciousness and fell one flight into the huge laundry basket below where Ed and Sunflower (Sir John Gielgud) later found her, saving her life.
9. Where did Linda hide the microfilm during her escape from Germany?

Answer: in her glove, in the palm of her hand

Linda told the BBC Interviewer that she learned the trick from a movie she had seen, 'Espionage Agent' with Brenda Marshall. (He responded, chuckling, with something like, "Why am I not surprised?") She also told him she hid it there knowing that a doctor would find it if she were taken to the hospital, but that it was unlikely an enemy checking her for weapons would look there. She was right.

Linda Voss's microfilm contained pictures of blueprints for a German munitions plant and a map with its location, which later aided the Allies in their air attack on Germany.
10. After departing the train, and while trying to cross the border from Germany to safety in Switzerland, Ed carried the ailing Linda in his arms and was shot. In what way was he wounded?

Answer: His knee was shattered and his lung was punctured.

We learned of Ed's injuries at the end of the taping session, in Linda's interview for the BBC production. Then Linda asked if the interviewer and crew would like to meet her husband. (Up to that point the audience didn't know whether Ed survived the gunfire and if so, whether Ed and Linda married.

He did, and they did.) Ed -- Michael Douglas, also appropriately aged -- limped onto the BBC stage. Then Linda asked if she could bring her two sons up "so they can be on t.v." One of those two young men was Michael Douglas's son in real life, Cameron.

His resemblance to his father is as striking as Michael's is to his father, the great actor, Kirk Douglas.
Source: Author sundancer415

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