"The Number 23" (2007) Trivia Quiz

Answer: He is an animal control officer.

Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey) works for the Animal Control Department. His job is to round up stray animals and respond to "unidentified scavenger sightings".

Answer: Agatha Sparrow

Agatha Sparrow (Virginia Madsen) is Walter's wife. On Walter's birthday, Agatha has a mild cold and asks Walter if she hates him. Walter replies, "As much as the day I met you."

Answer: Fingerling

The main character in the novel is Detective Fingerling. As Walter continues to read the novel, he begins to identify with the character Detective Sperling.

Answer: nasty evil dog

Walter responds to a call about a stray dog in a Chinese restaurant. Walter nearly captures the dog, but it escapes, but not before managing to bite Walter on the arm.

Answer: Topsy Kretts

Initially, Walter is reluctant to read the book as he would rather wait until the movie comes out. Later, as Walter becomes more engrossed with the book, he tries to find out more about Topsy Kretts, but apparently Topsy produced the novel independently and has written nothing else.

Answer: Suicide Blonde

Detective Fingerling finds the Suicide Blonde in her apartment preparing to hang herself. He persuades her to forget about hanging herself. She talks about her obsession with the number twenty-three. At the time, Fingerling is puzzled by the number mystery, yet it incubates in his mind.

Answer: graveyard

Walter follows Ned to the grave site of Laura Tollins. Ned belongs to Barnaby the gardener and it's revealed that Ned's nickname is "Guardian of the Dead".

Answer: Kyle Finch

Walter believes that the psychology professor, Kyle Finch, is in reality, the author of the book, "The Number 23". Kyle relates to Walter how difficult it is being in prison and denies being the murderer of Laura Tollins. He says that she was taken from him.

Answer: Walter Sparrow

Agatha has discovered that Walter spent time in a mental institution, after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. At the time of his institutionalisation, Walter's writings are dismissed as graphomania and an obsession with numerology.

Answer: all of these

With a little bit of manipulation, Walter begins to see the number twenty-three in practically everything. He was born on February 3rd at 11:12. Converting the letters in the dog's name, it adds up to twenty-three. The street address of the bookstore is 599.