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This 1971 film directed by Hal Ashby features an odd but charming love story between Harold, played by Bud Cort, and Maude, played by Ruth Gordon. Why odd? Harold is in his early 20s, while Maude is nearing 80 years of age.
6 quizzes and 65 trivia questions.
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  'Harold and Maude' (Part 5)   best quiz  
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This is the last of five quizzes covering the wonderful 1971 film 'Harold and Maude'. Please feel free to enjoy this quiz and its five predecessors ... fans of the film will not be disappointed!
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  'Harold and Maude' (Part 1)   great trivia quiz  
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For those of you who have seen this timeless classic, no introduction is necessary. For those who haven't, go watch the film...and then come back and take this quiz! If you want to take this quiz...take this quiz!
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  'Harold and Maude' (Part 3)   great trivia quiz  
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This is the third installment in what has become a wildly popular series of quizzes about 'Harold and Maude', that madcap 1971 film. You are invited to join the fun...good luck!
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  'Harold and Maude' (Part 4)   best quiz  
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This is the fourth installment in a series of quizzes meant to highlight a wonderful, cult film that is really worth a look. Watch 'Harold and Maude' and then take this quiz!
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  'Harold and Maude' (Part 2)   top quiz  
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This is the second installment in a series of quizzes which will take a close look at the 1971 film 'Harold and Maude'. So 'Don't Be Shy' just give this quiz a try...
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  Harold and Maude   great trivia quiz  
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Test your trivia knowledge about the best film ever made!
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What is the name of Harold's mother's hairdresser?

From Quiz "Harold and Maude"





Harold and Maude Trivia Questions
1. The film opens in a dark room, with the youthful Harold setting up one of his many mock suicide attempts. Accompanying the opening scene (and credits) is a tune by which great songwriter of the 1960s and 70s?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 1)

Answer: Cat Stevens

As a matter of fact, Cat Stevens wrote most of the songs for the 'Harold and Maude' soundtrack, and they are wonderful songs indeed. The opening scene is accompanied by the tune 'Don't Be Shy'. Cat Stevens was born Stephen Georgiou. Yusuf Islam became his new name in 1978 when he decided to end his career in folk music and become a Muslim.

2. What is the name of Harold's mother's hairdresser?

From Quiz Harold and Maude

Answer: Renee

When she gets on the phone, she asks 'Hello Faye? Be a dear and cancel my appointment with Renee this afternoon.'

3. Who appears briefly between Harold and Maude when they look on at the model trains during their visit to the amusement park?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 5)

Answer: Hal Ashby

Hal Ashby, the director of the film, appears standing between Harold and Maude for a brief moment while they view the toy train set at the park. The camera shows a close-up of Ashby first, and then pans out to display Maude, Ashby and Harold, respectively, standing behind a glass screen. Ashby disappears after the scene shifts to the trains and back to Harold and Maude. It's always fun to play the 'locate the director' game, isn't it? Cat Stevens also makes a brief cameo appearance at the second funeral. He is the man sitting in front of Maude.

4. After a lovely evening with Maude, Harold is forced to confront yet another potential date from the computer dating service, this time a young lady named Edith Phern. Edith works for a company that provides what vital resource?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 4)

Answer: Chicken feed

Edith is a file clerk, in charge of 'all the invoices in the Southwest', for 'Harrison Feed and Grain'. Her fascinating work intrigues Harold to such a degree that he is provoked to chop off his arm (not really, of course!)

5. Maude shows Harold several pieces of her own artwork. They include a lovely wooden sculpture that reminds one of the work of Barbara Hepworth. Her two paintings are called 'The Rape of Rome' and what other title?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 3)

Answer: Rainbow With Egg Underneath and an Elephant

In her 'The Rape of Rome' she has depicted Leda and the Swan (Zeus), which she claims to be a self-portrait. It's very much a representative piece. 'Rainbow With Egg Underneath and an Elephant' is more abstract, and quite surrealistic, and actually quite a nice work of art! Maude also is a practitioner of 'odorifics', which is a rather arcane and eccentric topic for this neophyte.

6. What birthday is Maude celebrating 'next Saturday'?

From Quiz Harold and Maude

Answer: 80th

Maude thought that after 80, 'you're just marking time.'

7. While Maude entertains a crowd playing some sort of game, Harold creates a small trinket with an inscription for his new 'girlfriend'. What does this little ornamental item say?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 5)

Answer: Harold loves Maude

Harold is still such a young, innocent boy. Maude very much appreciates the sentiment, however, as she is young at heart as well. After Harold hands Maude the trinket, she tosses it into the sea 'so she will always know where it is'. Following this scene...fireworks!

8. During their conversation in Maude's home, Maude reveals that she will reach what age on Saturday?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 3)

Answer: 80

And then she says something quite revealing for those who know the end of the film, namely, 'It's all going to be over on Saturday'. Harold, caught up in the moment, fails to question this comment by Maude.

9. Following the funeral, the two protagonists formally introduce themselves. What is Maude's full name?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 2)

Answer: Marjorie Chardin

Chardin...hmm, I believe that would make her French. We'll never know. She actually introduces herself as 'Dame Marjorie Chardin', but requests that Harold call her 'Maude'. Maude is portrayed by actress Ruth Gordon, whose career, if an uncredited role in the 1915 film 'The Whirl of Life' is counted, spanned 73 years (her last role was in the film 'Voyage of the Rock Aliens', released in 1988). She lived from 1896 until 1985, and spent much of her career writing stage and screen plays.

10. What method of 'suicide' does Harold choose for his first depicted attempt in the film?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 1)

Answer: Hanging

Harold's first suicide attempt of the film seems not to shock his mother at all. She simply asks rhetorically, 'I suppose you think that is very funny, Harold?' and then makes a phone call. In the background can be heard choking sounds from the bored boy...but somehow, I don't think this is the end of him.

11. What freelance profession did Maude participate in because she liked 'to keep in practice'?

From Quiz Harold and Maude

Answer: nude modeling

She modeled nude for Glaukas, an ice sculptor

12. One of Maude's little quirks is her penchant for stealing cars. What type of vehicle does Maude steal after walking out from the funeral at the church?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 2)

Answer: Volkswagon Bug

After chatting with Harold a bit, Maude wildly drives off in a light blue Volkswagon Bug. We soon discover that this is not her car, but rather the priest's car! Certainly it is a sin to steal a priest's car?

13. Harold's mother is played magnificently by Vivien Pickles, an English actress who has appeared in entirely too few films indeed! What is the last name that is shared by Harold and his exceedingly ostentatious mother?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 1)

Answer: Chasen

There is never any explanation for the family's wealth, but one must suspect old money in this case. Harold's mother is exceptionally well-heeled, and maintains a rather cosmopolitan air about her. Vivien Pickles plays her in such a way that pushes her beyond simple snooty pretentiousness, she is a bona fide snob!

14. What helpless life did Harold and Maude rescue?

From Quiz Harold and Maude

Answer: a tree

They transplanted the tree in the forest.

15. Harold's mother, distressed about his plans to marry, sends Harold off to see several specialists. With whom does he not have a meeting in this set of very funny scenes?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 5)

Answer: His school counsellor

Of course, none of these specialists approve of Harold's plans. Uncle Victor finds Harold's plans very strange, while the psychiatrist is curious about his second-generation Oedipal complex. The priest's speech is the most hilarious as he struggles to describe the withered features of the elderly anatomy.

16. Harold and Maude's plan to deter Victor from entering Harold into the military includes Maude posing as a war protestor. Harold pretends to attack Maude in offense of her protest, which includes a sign reading...?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 4)

Answer: Peace

In an outrageous scene, Harold 'attacks' Maude by calling her a 'commie bastard' and a 'parasite'. Maude calls Harold a 'degenerate'. Harold then threatens Maude with his shrunken head, which Maude tosses into the sea. Maude ends up falling into the sea after Harold charges her with her 'Peace' poster...effectively ending the young man's military service!

17. Though Harold's first 'suicide' did not seem to have much affect on his mother, he is undaunted. The second such attempt is rather gory, involving phony blood smeared all over which room of the house?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 1)

Answer: Bathroom

Harold's mother seems unaffected by all of his suicide attempts save this one. The mess he has created in her bathroom (we see Harold lying 'dead' in the bathtub, covered in mock blood) is clearly more upsetting to Mrs. Chasen than the fact that her son has an obvious mental problem! Her reaction in this scene is quite amusing!

18. What is Harold's uncle's name?

From Quiz Harold and Maude

Answer: Victor

19. Harold's plans are to culminate on Maude's birthday, which arrives on Saturday. In order to make the presentation acceptable, Harold has decorated Maude's walls with what paper cut-out items?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 5)

Answer: Flowers

Harold has apparently gotten over the morbid stage in his life; he chooses sunflowers (recall, Maude claimed she wanted to return in the next life as a sunflower). He also provides a cake and some organic champagne.

20. What old 'relic' in Maude's home reminds her of her past in Europe, where she claims to have participated in picket lines, rallies and political meetings?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 3)

Answer: An umbrella

Maude claims to have used her umbrella for defense. She also claims to have been 'dragged off by police' and 'attacked by the thugs of the opposition'. When asked what she was fighting for, Maude lists 'liberty, rights and justice'. She sounds like a true revolutionary, except that she does 'miss the kings'.

21. Which question from the survey does Harold's mother find 'distasteful'?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 2)

Answer: Do you find the idea of wife swapping distasteful?

Following the wife swapping question, Harold 'shoots himself', prompting his mother to say, irritatedly, 'Harold, please!' She then continues on with the questions.

22. Harold regularly visits a psychiatrist, played by G. Wood (of 'M*A*S*H' fame), during the film. During his first visit to the psychiatrist's office, what does Harold announce as his favorite hobby?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 1)

Answer: Attending funerals

The bald-pated G. Wood played General Hammond in both the film and television versions of 'M*A*S*H'. This seemingly distinguished gentleman plays a very straight-laced psychiatrist in 'Harold and Maude', and does so with a really cheesy rug!

23. Harold's Uncle was known as whose 'right-hand man'?

From Quiz Harold and Maude

Answer: General MacArthur

Uncle Victor lost his right arm in combat.

24. One of the best lines of the film comes at this point, when Maude relates a story about the French prisoner Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus had spent time at the Devil's Island, where he remarked about which lovely birds?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 4)

Answer: Seagulls

Maude's quote: 'Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany, he realized they had only been seagulls.' Quite profound.

25. After some conversation, Maude insists on some music, and she performs a number on her piano. Harold, who claims not to sing and dance, is instructed by Maude to begin playing a musical instrument. Which instrument does Maude choose for Harold?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 3)

Answer: Banjo

Maude has an entire closet full of musical instruments, but specifically chooses a banjo for Harold. How fitting! She instructs him to 'be impulsive' and 'fanciful' in his playing, and to 'let the music flow out' of him.

26. Following the third funeral attended by both Harold and Maude, they take a ride together over to Maude's humble abode. In what sort of contraption does Maude live?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 2)

Answer: Train car

Harold has no choice but to come home with Maude after the gloomy third funeral, held on a rainy day. You see, Maude has stolen Harold's hearse! (Harold's response to Maude's question, 'Your hearse?' 'Yearse!') Only an eccentric like Maude could live in a train car, I do believe.

27. After his visit to the psychiatrist, Harold is off to get a new vehicle. What sort of vehicle does the young man select for his driving pleasure?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 1)

Answer: Hearse

His big, black hearse is ideal for pursuing his favorite hobbie, attending funerals. What better way to arrive at a funeral than in a hearse? (Better to arrive in one than leave that way, I always say...) Harold's mother is suitably shocked by the hearse that she calls a 'monstrosity' and an 'ugly black horror'.

28. When Harold is talking with his psychologist, the doctor asks him how many suicides he's performed. What is Harold's answer?

From Quiz Harold and Maude

Answer: 15

Harold said that 15 was a 'rough estimate.'

29. Harold's next computer date/victim is a young lady named Sunshine Doré. How did Sunshine get her interesting name?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 4)

Answer: From her drama teacher

Sunshine was the name of her drama teacher; Louis Sunshine, to be exact. She is played very amusingly by Ellen Geer.

30. Back at home, Harold begins to practice on his instrument. He is interrupted by his mother, who has purchased a new car for her son. What sort of car has she bought for Harold?

From Quiz 'Harold and Maude' (Part 3)

Answer: Jaguar

Much to Harold's chagrin, his mother has had his hearse towed away, and in its place she has purchased a very sporty looking Jaguar. Harold makes quick work of this gift. Using his technical expertise with a blowtorch, he turns it into another hearse!

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