Haunting Your Dreams: "Nightmare Alley" 2021 Quiz

Answer: Geek

The geek show was a traditional part of a carnival, and usually the most lurid. The carnival owner tells Stan that the best way to find a geek is to "pick up a broken drunk", not difficult because many men returned from World War I "addicted to the poppy". So he says the job is only temporary "until we get ourselves another geek", but then he provides the poor man with alcohol laced with opium until he has no choice.
The word "geek" is now considered extremely offensive and is taken here from the script.

Answer: Mind reading

Zeena and Pete use an elaborate word code that allows her to pretend to guess items and answer questions while blindfolded. "Each word has a number," she explains,"and that number leads you to a different word...People are desperate to tell you who they are. Desperate to be seen."

Answer: He drank poisoned alcohol.

Pete, an alcoholic, was trying to stop drinking, but Stan gave him a bottle of liquor. It was not clearly stated, but it appears that he drank wood alcohol or alcohol that had been poisoned.
The carnival owner had shown Stan that the wood alcohol, kept for pickling specimens like a two-headed calf for the side show, was kept in a red box, and the drinking alcohol in a blue box, and warned Stan not to mix them up. When Pete is found dead, Stan realizes that he might have given Pete a bottle from the red box.

Answer: A gun

Dr. Lilith Ritter, played by Cate Blanchett, is impressed by Stan's skills but still believes the act is a gimmick. She looks for a way to take advantage of him. She records all her analysis sessions and therefore has intimate information on many of Buffalo's rich and influential citizens.
Stan later tells Dr. Ritter that he deduced there was a gun in the bag because it was clearly very heavy for its size, and because she was an elegant woman he guessed that it was nickel-plated and had ivory handles. He got lucky with that part, but she was impressed with his perception.

Answer: Contact his dead son

Judge Kimball and his wife have been tormented with grief since the death of their son. Dr. Ritter, the psychiatrist, has seen Kimball professionally, and she offers to give him personal information about the judge to help him give a convincing reading.

Answer: He forced her to have an illegal abortion.

Dr. Ritter tells Stan that Grindle is an angry and unstable man, and he has been cruel to many women since Dorrie's death. She tells him that he's haunted by her loss. Before he engages Stan, he makes Stan submit to a lie detector test, and Stan then announces that the spirit of Dorris is in the room.

Answer: Molly dresses up as Dorrie.

Molly is uncomfortable about this ploy and doesn't want to do it, but Stan talks her into it. She dresses as Dorrie and stands at a distance, but Grindle realizes the fake and hits Stan. Stan beats Grindle to death and runs over Grindle's bodyguard.

Answer: She shoots at him.

Ritter does trick Stan by giving him a few singles, but she's keeping all the rest of his money. He's been drinking and is frantic. She taunts him and shoots at him, nicking him in the ear.

Answer: Yes

Stan does convince Judge Kimball and his wife Felicia that he has contacted their son, Julian, who died in World War I, and that they will one day be reunited. Felicia is so desperate for this reunion that she shoots her husband, and then herself.

Answer: Another carnival

Stan descends into full-blown alcoholism and is in dire straits. He finds another carnival and asks for a job, but the only one available is that of the geek. He breaks down and laughs hysterically. He answers, "Mister, I was born for it."