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  15 Questions: Deathtrap Multiple Choice Quiz    
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I must have seen this 1982 film about a hundred times on cable when I was a teenager. See if you can remember some details about it.
Average, 15 Qns, enfranklopedia, Sep 11 05
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  Deathtrap Quiz Challenge    
Multiple Choice
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Questions about the 1982 plot twisting movie mystery.
Average, 15 Qns, GRIMMGENIE, Feb 11 05
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What was the name of the next door neighbor psychic?

From Quiz "Deathtrap"





Deathtrap Trivia Questions
1. What character did Michael Caine play?

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Answer: Sidney Bruhl

2. After the disastrous opening night of his new Broadway play, Sidney drunkenly takes the train home, to upstate New York. Where does he live?

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Answer: Easthampton

Both Montauk and Sag Harbor are mentioned in the film, but the Bruhl estate is located in Easthampton, NY.

3. Dyan Cannon played Sidney's wife, what was her name?

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Answer: Myra

4. How did Sidney's wife die?

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Answer: She had a heart attack

5. Myra Bruhl has a debilitating medical condition. What is it?

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Answer: a weak heart

Sidney and Clifford take advantage of Myra's cardiac condition: they know that an appropriate fright will kill her where she stands. She has a massive coronary while Clifford chases her around the house with apparent intent to kill.

6. What character did Christopher Reeve play?

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Answer: Clifford Anderson

7. After Sidney apparently kills Clifford Anderson (Christopher Reeve), he tells Myra that he plans to conceal the body right on their own property. Where?

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Answer: in the vegetable patch

Sidney: "We'll bury him, behind the garage. [pause] No! In the vegetable patch. Easier digging." I've always wondered about this burial bit. Since Sidney and Clifford faked their whole fight, and Clifford's "death," how did Sidney bury Clifford alive, presumably in front of Myra, without actually suffocating him? Hmmm...

8. What weapon was finally used to kill Clifford?

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Answer: Crossbow and arrow

9. Once Myra is dead, Sidney and Clifford begin their new life together. Clifford is hard at work on a new play, which he claims is based on his experiences in a previous job. Where was Clifford's alleged job?

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Answer: a welfare office

Clifford tells Sidney that he is writing a play based on his experiences in a welfare office, and even cites some specific examples of the characters and the pathos that he is striving to capture on the page. This is all a series of lies: Clifford is actually writing a thriller called "Deathtrap," which is based on the murder of Myra Bruhl that he and Sidney orchestrated only weeks before.

10. What character actor played lawyer Porter Milgrim?

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Answer: Henry Jones

He is best known for playing LeRoy in The Bad Seed but has also appeared in '9 to 5', 'Arachnophobia' and 'The Grifters'.

11. What actress played the psychic?

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Answer: Irene Worth

Best known for playing Grandma Kurnitz in 'Lost in Yonkers'.

12. Helga Ten Dorp (Irene Worth), the neighborhood psychic -- and yes, I know how weird that sounds -- tells the Bruhls that she will soon be appearing on a televised talk show. Who's the host of the show in question?

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Answer: Merv Griffin

We never get to see the broadcast, but later dialogue tells us that Helga's appearance on "The Merv Griffin Show" didn't go very well. By the end of the film, Helga turns out to be a much more integral character than her early appearances suggest!

13. What was the name of Sidney's most successful play?

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Answer: The Murder Game

14. Sidney lied to Clifford when he talked to him on the phone and told him that he too was busy writing a play. What was the title he first gave his made up play after seeing how his wife was reacting?

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Answer: The Frowning Wife

Later on when Clifford was in the house, Sidney changed it after calling it 'The Drowning Wife' by mistake.

15. After Myra's death, Porter informs Sidney how much money he stands to gain from her estate and life insurance policy. How much is it?

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Answer: $1,000,000

Sidney originally tells Clifford that the amount he stands to inherit is "minimal," but he later admits that he was lying: Sidney is about to come into "about a million dollars," according to his own dialogue.

16. How many main characters are in the play 'Deathtrap'?

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Answer: 5

17. Sidney's study doubles as an arsenal of sorts. With which weapon does he mortally wound Clifford at the end of the film?

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Answer: a crossbow

Sidney shoots Clifford in the back with a single crossbow bolt. Clifford drops like a rock, but later regains consciousness just long enough to swing an axe at Sidney's neck. Since Helga Ten Dorp steals the "Deathtrap" play for herself, it's reasonable to assume that Sidney and Clifford killed each other.

18. Sidney's first fantasy of killing Clifford was with what weapon?

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Answer: Mace

19. After Myra's death, Helga pays a visit on Sidney, ostensibly to borrow something. What does she ask to borrow?

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Answer: candles

She pretends to want candles, but this is pretense: she really comes over to warn Sidney that Clifford is going to attack him...and of course, she turns out to be right. It's a good thing she borrowed those candles, though -- they come in awfully handy in the climax of the film!

20. What is unusual about the hat that Helga wears throughout the film?

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Answer: It has reflectors on it.

Helga wears a "reflector cap," since she is a late-night jogger, and it seems to fit her perfectly. She even wears it to the premiere of "her" play, despite the fact that she is wearing an evening gown!

21. What is the last line of the film?

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Answer: "Waste not, want not!"

Seymour Starger, formerly Sidney's agent, says to his new client Helga on the opening night of "Deathtrap": "Helga, baby, that play you wrote is gonna make us a fortune!" Helga, seemingly (and surprisingly) possessed of no more of a conscience than Sidney or Clifford, responds with "Waste not, want not!"

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