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  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil   great trivia quiz  
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"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is an excellent movie based on the book and true story written by John Berendt. If you've seen this movie or read the book, you will recognize some of the colorful characters that are a vital part of this story.
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  Think You Know the "Garden"?    
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How well do you know the movie, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"?
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Trivia Questions
1. This movie, which is filmed on location, takes place in what quaint southern town?

From Quiz Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Answer: Savannah, GA

We are first introduced to Savannah on a bus ride into the city where the main character learns some history about the town. "Welcome to Savannah!"

2. What is the murder defendant's name?

From Quiz Think You Know the "Garden"?

Answer: Jim Williams

Jim is one of the main characters, played by a wonderful actor, Mr. Kevin Spacey.

3. What is the main character's name?

From Quiz Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Answer: John Kelso

The main character is a writer from New York covering an annual Christmas party for Town & Country magazine. John Cusack plays "that Yankee", John Kelso. John Berendt wrote the book.

4. Finish the quote: "I don't need your permission, not really." "Then why are you ____ it?"

From Quiz Think You Know the "Garden"?

Answer: soliciting

When John tells Sonny and Jim that he is going to write the book about the crime, Jim realizes that John needs his influence to gain the opportunity to talk with certain people.

5. What is unusual about Mr. Glover's walking Patrick?

From Quiz Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Answer: Patrick died two years after Mr. Bowen and Mr. Glover walks an empty leash.

Mr. Glover, a law firm porter, is paid $15 a week to walk Mr. Bowen's labrador, Patrick, in accordance to Mr. Bowen's will. When the writer asks Jim why Mr. Glover doesn't walk the university mascot, Uga, instead, the reply is "Well ... then who would walk Patrick?"

6. Which character does Alison Eastwood, the real life daughter of director Clint Eastwood, play in the film?

From Quiz Think You Know the "Garden"?

Answer: Mandy

Clint's daughter plays Mandy Nicholls in the film.

7. After the Christmas party, the writer is awakened by sirens. When he investigates why, we learn his gracious host "Jim Williams shot somebody." Whom did Jim shoot?

From Quiz Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Answer: Billy

Jim Williams hired Billy to work part-time in his auto shop. Billy is known to get drunk and/or high and when he does, he becomes a different person. On the night Jim shoots Billy, Billy has been drinking, becomes belligerent and threatens Jim with first a broken bottle - which is witnessed by the writer - and later with a gun.

8. When Luther doesn't eat, the waitress in the diner hollers, "Luther's not eatin'!" What bit of advice does she give the writer?

From Quiz Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Answer: Let's just put it this way, if I were you, I wouldn't drink the water today.

Our writer is having breakfast in the diner when he meets Luther Driggers, who has live horse flies tied to his sweater and carries a small, brown vial. Although an explanation is never given as to why Luther is carrying around the brown vial, the waitress tells us that he says it's enough poison to kill everyone in the county, and I thought the flies were an interesting way to announce to the world that one is just plain weird.

9. What type of flower does Mandy say they "are all out of"?

From Quiz Think You Know the "Garden"?

Answer: Petunias

"Petunias are nice...they're pretty, they smell nice, and after a few days you just throw them out. Sound like what you're looking for? Sorry, we're all out of petunias."

10. Jim Williams takes the writer into the garden of good and evil where they meet Minerva, the wife of the late Dr. Louis Buzzard, "the foremost VooDoo practitioner in Beaufort County." What does Minerva instruct Jim to do?

From Quiz Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Answer: Write the departed's name seven times on a piece of paper, fold it twice, and put it in his pocket.

He must also get a picture and sew the mouth closed with birds' blood and beg his forgiveness every single day. "To unnerstand the livin', you got to commune with the dead."

11. The night before the annual Christmas party, we meet Mandy Nicholls, with whom the writer develops a relationship. She becomes his tour guide to Savannah and eventually his assistant in obtaining answers to the shooting mystery. Who plays Mandy?

From Quiz Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Answer: Alison Eastwood

At the end of the movie, we learn that the relationship between John and Mandy becomes serious enough to keep John in Savannah longer than temporarily. Incidentally, Alison Eastwood, Clint Eastwood's daughter, also sang the title song at the beginning and end of the movie.

12. What color are the roses John gives to Chablis?

From Quiz Think You Know the "Garden"?

Answer: Pink

"Chablis...that's a interesting name." "Yeah, I got it off a wine bottle...it's a show name."

13. Sonny Seiler, Jim Williams' attorney, is played by Jack Thompson. The real Sonny had a part in the movie, as well. What role did Sonny Seiler play?

From Quiz Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Answer: Judge Samuel White

Sonny Seiler was Jim William's attorney throughout all four original trials, each time working diligently to prove Jim's innocence. There were three mistrials before Sonny could prove that the police department did a shoddy job of collecting evidence and Sonny finally succeeded at obtaining a not guilty verdict at the fourth trial.

14. Who says, 'It's better to be on the edge of a party, don't you think?' while sitting on the steps at Joe's Christmas party.

From Quiz Think You Know the "Garden"?

Answer: Mandy

She is on the steps with her drink when John is leaving to go back to the carriage house.

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