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  Death Becomes Her Quiz Challenge   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A much forgotten (and in my opinion, much underrated) 1992 movie, "Death Becomes Her" was a comedic commentary on superficiality. Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, and Goldie Hawn all take to their roles with relish! See how much of the film you can recall.
Average, 10 Qns, Lovepuddin, Aug 30 17
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Lovepuddin
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  Tough Death Becomes Her Trivia   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about the character of Madeline Ashton, played by the Oscar award-winning Meryl Streep. Have fun.
Tough, 10 Qns, melliegrubber, Feb 07 13
Tough
melliegrubber
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Death Becomes Her Trivia Questions
1. When we are first introducted to Madeline Ashton (played by Meryl Streep), what is she doing?

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Answer: Performing in a Broadway musical

The show was called 'Songbird' and was a musical version of the Tennessee Williams play 'Sweet Bird of Youth'. It was not very well received, with the majority of the audience leaving before the finale. Madeline did star in a thriller that a bitter Helen watches repeatedly years later, in which Madeline's character is garrotted. The movie appears to be called "Dark Window" as shown on a poster littering the wall of Helen's apartment.

2. Where is Madeline Ashton from?

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Answer: Newark

When Helen is talking to Ernest during her book party, she reassures Ernest that it was Madeline's fault that they broke up. Helen says, "She's a woman. A woman Ernest. From Newark, God's sakes". Madeline overhears all of this and realises Helen isn't as nice and soft as she used to be.

3. Helen Sharp, played by Goldie Hawn, was a struggling writer for many years. A book on what subject eventually propelled her to stardom?

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Answer: Beauty secrets

People attending the opening of the book were amazed to find out that she was fifty years old. Later, of course, we discover this is due to the effects of the potion of immortality.

4. Madeline tries everything to make herself look younger. What does she say does nothing for her anymore?

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Answer: Make up

Anna, the woman working on Madeline's face at a high-class doctor's surgery, says that she could do Madeline's make up herself because she couldn't do anymore surgery on Madeline. Madeline explodes, saying make up doesn't work anymore. She tells Anna that she has no idea what it's like because Anna has 22 year-old skin.

5. Dr. Ernest Menville (played by Bruce Willis) began his career as a plastic surgeon of some renown. After years of marriage to Madeline, what does he eventually become?

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Answer: Undertaker

Helen tells Ernest that it is the years of marriage to a cruel Madeline that resulted in Ernest losing his talents as a plastic surgeon. Madeline referred to Ernest as "Ghoul!" and, in one hateful tirade, describes him as being as dead below the waist as his clients. His secret was spray paint - mannequin paint to be exact - to give his 'clients' a lifelike appearance; understandably some family members weren't too thrilled to hear this. He later confessed to Helen that he would give anything to be able to operate again.

6. Madeline has had several affairs during her marriage. What is her current boyfriend's name?

From Quiz Death Becomes Her

Answer: Dakota

Madeline is in a relationship with Dakota, a man many years her junior. But when she discovers that he is cheating on her with a young woman, Madeline gets very upset. Dakota tells her to find someone her own age because they look ridiculous together.

7. Lisle Von Rhuman (played by Isabella Rossellini), the leader of the immortals, is fond of saying what phrase upon her clients drinking the potion of immortality?

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Answer: Siempre Viva!

It is Spanish for 'Live Forever.' She says this to her many clients because, after taking the potion, they will be attached to their bodies for a very, very long time.

8. When Madeline returns home after becoming young, she changes out of her wet clothes into a black body suit. She then grabs a sheer robe to go over it. What colour is the robe?

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Answer: Pink

I think this a beautiful outfit that looks spectacular on Meryl. She is about to leave the house again when she and Ernest get into a fight and she falls down the stairs.

9. How old was Lisle?

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Answer: 71 years old

She described those who had taken the potion of immortality as "creatures of the spring", not having seen an autumn or winter in years. When asked to guess Lisle's age, Madeline ventured "38? 28...23"? Lisle was not impressed as she believed herself to look considerably younger than Madeline's first guess.

10. Madeline goes to see a doctor about her broken neck. When the doctor tells her that her heart isn't beating, and that her temperature is below 80, she passes out. Where does she wake up?

From Quiz Death Becomes Her

Answer: in the morgue

Ernest tries to find a doctor for his wife after she passes out, but when he returns to the room, he finds it empty. He asks the nurse where Madeline is, and she tells him Madeline was taken to the morgue. Upon hearing this he yells, "The morgue! She'll be furious!". I think that would have to be one of my favorite lines in the whole movie.

11. Complete this quote by Madeline. "These are the _______ that make life worth living".

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Answer: moments

Madeline says this after she shoots Helen in the stomach. But Helen also drank the potion, so she can't die either. Helen and Madeline then proceed to duel with shovels.

12. Why do Madeline and Helen urge Ernest to take the potion of immortality too?

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Answer: So that Ernest could perform maintenance on Madeline and Helen forever

After the spray paint Ernest applied to their dead bodies starts to peel, Madeline and Helen concoct a scheme to keep him alive forever, to do touchups, anytime the paint covering their bodies failed. Madeline and Helen did beg Ernest to drink the potion so that he would not die after falling from Lisle's rooftop, but not because they cared about him, only so he would be able to take care of their crumbling bodies.

13. What ultimately happens to Dr Ernest Menville?

From Quiz Death Becomes Her

Answer: He moves on with his life, dying 37 years later.

After 50, Ernest meets his wife, has two sons and four daughters, goes on to become a brilliant academic and rugged outdoorsman and opens the Meville Marriage Conuselling Clinic, the Menville Center for the Study of Woman, and a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous. He often tells his friends and family 'tall tales' about the living dead in Beverly Hills. The minister at the funeral says he has, in his own way, learned the secret of eternal life, living on in the memories of those left behind. Madeline is not impressed, retorting "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." Ernest does fall from the roof of Lisle's castle but, fortunately for him, falls into the castle's indoor swimming pool.

14. At the end of the movie, which finger does Helen say Madeline lost?

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Answer: her index finger

Helen is angry that Madeline lost a can of spray paint. She asks Madeline where she last saw it. Madeline asks Helen to tell her when that question ever helped her find something that she lost. Helen reminds her of the time she lost her index finger.

15. What ultimately becomes of Madeline and Helen?

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Answer: They fall to pieces.

After leaving Ernest's funeral, Helen slips on a can of spray paint that Madeline had accidentally dropped on the top of a staircase, on the way into the church. Just before falling, Helen manages to grab a bemused Madeline and as they hit the bottom of the stairs, they break into pieces. As their disembodied heads finally come to a rest, Helen asks sarcastically if Madeline remembers where they'd parked their car.

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