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  "In Harm's Way " - Part 3   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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If you played Parts 1 and 2 of this quiz about John Wayne's WWII heroics in the Pacific, you met 20 members of the all-star cast. You might be interested in finding out what happened to them.
Easier, 10 Qns, rblayer, Dec 24 04
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  "In Harm's Way "- Part 1   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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With over 30 well-known and not-so-well-know cast members, this 1965 Otto Preminger film begins on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The questions will deal with the members of the all-star cast.
Average, 10 Qns, rblayer, Mar 12 12
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  "In Harm's Way" - Part 2   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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The Pearl Harbor attack is over and the Pacific saga continues with questions concerning ten more all-star cast members.
Average, 10 Qns, rblayer, Dec 24 04
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  In Harm's Way    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about a really good US Navy movie, hope you enjoy it!
Easier, 10 Qns, mastercheeze, Dec 07 17
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trivia question Quick Question
Who was the Commanding Officer of the Marines in the movie?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way"





In Harm's Way Trivia Questions
1. What happened to Liz Eddington, the cheating Navy wife?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way " - Part 3

Answer: Killed in a car wreck

Liz and her Air Corps lover went over a cliff in a convertible, while racing back to town after the Japanese attack began.

2. Captain Rockwell Torrey is relieved of his command for not 'zig-zagging' when his ship took a torpedo, and he sustained a broken arm. While getting x-rayed he meets a Navy nurse played by Patricia Neal. What is her character's name?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way" - Part 2

Answer: Maggie

Fourteen years earlier, Patricia Neal and John Wayne 'fought' World War II together, as naval officers in 1951's "Operation Pacific".

3. The movie begins at a Navy Officer's Club dance on the evening of December 6, 1941. A beautiful, but highly intoxicated woman is dancing with an Air Corps pilot. What is her character's name?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way "- Part 1

Answer: Liz

Barbara Bouchet played the drunken and promiscuous Liz Eddington. Born during World War II in Reichenberg, Sudentenland, Germany, Bouchet recently appeared as Mrs. Schermerhorn in 2002's "Gangs of New York".

4. Who played Captain Torrey?

From Quiz In Harm's Way

Answer: John Wayne

He was promoted to Admiral later in the movie.

5. How does the beautiful Navy nurse, Analee Dorne die in the movie?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way " - Part 3

Answer: Suicide

The flirtatious nurse ignored Maggie's warnings about Captain Eddington, and was raped on a beach. When Eddington refused to believe that she might be pregnant, she overdosed on pills.

6. Commander Egan Powell, played by veteran actor Burgess Meredith, shares quarters with Capt. Torrey. What is Powell's ex-wife?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way" - Part 2

Answer: An actress/singer

Powell resents paying alimony to someone making "half a million bucks" a year. Meredith's versatile acting career spanned roles from the Penguin on TV's "Batman" to "Rocky" and "Grumpy Old Men".

7. Lieutenant Mac McConnell is dancing with his wife at the Officer's Club. She reminds him that he has duty at 6 a.m. What duty does Mac have the following morning?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way "- Part 1

Answer: Ship's officer commanding

Tom Tryon portrayed the young naval officer. He went on to become a bestselling novelist with the publication of "The Other" in 1972.

8. What was Burgess Meredith's occupation in the Navy?

From Quiz In Harm's Way

Answer: Intelligence Officer

He played a Reserve Officer that was a movie writer in his civilian job.

9. What happened to actor Brandon de Wilde's character, Jere Torrey?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way " - Part 3

Answer: Killed in battle

Lt. Torrey was killed in action when a Japanese destroyer rammed his P.T. boat.

10. Capt. Torrey is surprised when Maggie tells him that her roommate is dating his son, who is a Navy ensign. Torrey had divorced his wife and had not seen his son since he was a baby. What actor played Ensign Jeremiah Torrey?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way" - Part 2

Answer: Brandon De Wilde

De Wilde was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of the young boy, Joey, in the classic western "Shane". Tragically, he was killed in an automobile accident when he was only thirty years old.

11. Navy Captain Rockwell Torrey, played by John Wayne, is shaving when a Marine appears at the entry to his ship's cabin. What does Torrey order for breakfast?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way "- Part 1

Answer: Bacon and eggs

Torrey is a seasoned Naval Academy graduate who is second-generation Navy. At the time of his death, in 1979, Wayne held the record for actors in a leading role at 142. In 1971 he turned down the title role in "Dirty Harry", which went to Clint Eastwood.

12. What type of vessel was Captain Torrey's son assigned to?

From Quiz In Harm's Way

Answer: PT Boat

Jared died in an attack.

13. What happens to Captain Paul Eddington, played by Kirk Douglas?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way " - Part 3

Answer: His plane is shot down

After learning of Analee Dorne's suicide, Eddington, still bearing the nurse's scratch marks on his face, checks out an airplane for a one-way mission. Torrey's chief-of-staff locates the Japanese fleet, but is shot down by enemy fighters.

14. What was the character's name of Nurse Maggie Haynes' roommate who was dating the young Ensign Jeremiah Torrey?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way" - Part 2

Answer: Annalee Dorne

British-born actress Jill Haworth played the role of the beautiful, young Navy nurse. When she was a young teenager, director Otto Preminger cast her in the role of Karen, to play opposite Sal Mineo in 1960's "Exodus".

15. Captain Torrey finds his executive officer sleeping on a sofa, fully dressed with an empty liquor bottle nearby. Who plays Commander Paul Eddington?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way "- Part 1

Answer: Kirk Douglas

Paul's philandering wife Liz is the main reason for his heavy drinking. Douglas has starred in over 80 films, but turned down two movie parts that won Best Actor Academy Awards. He was offered William Holden's part in 1953's "Stalag 17" and Lee Marvin's role in 1965's "Cat Ballou".

16. The second CINCPAC in the movie was played by whom?

From Quiz In Harm's Way

Answer: Henry Fonda

The second CINPAC was the famous Admiral Nimitz.

17. How did Intelligence Officer Commander Egan Powell, played by actor Burgess Meredith meet his demise?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way " - Part 3

Answer: Killed in a sea battle

Poor Reserve Intelligence Officer Egan Powell, a Hollywood screenwrtier, was more comfortable in front of a typewriter than on the bridge of a warship.

18. Admiral Broderick's public relations officer, Commander Neal Owynn, was played by Patrick O'Neal. What was his character's profession before the war?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way" - Part 2

Answer: Congressman

The popular television and movie character actor passed away in 1994. His last movie role was as Navy Captain Adams in Steven Seagal's 1992 film "Under Siege".

19. As he boards his destroyer, Lt. Mac McConnell is greeted by an improperly dressed crewman. What actor played the sloppy enlisted man?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way "- Part 1

Answer: Slim Pickens

Mac asked the enlisted crewman to "crawl back into a uniform". Pickens was born Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. in 1919, and was a real live cowboy before taking up acting. He is perhaps best remembered as Major "King" Kong, the U.S. Air Force pilot who waved his cowboy hat as he rode a nuclear bomb dropped on the U.S.S.R. in the classic 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb".

20. What happens to Commander Burke, played by Carroll O'Connor?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way " - Part 3

Answer: Killed in action

Admiral Torrey chose Burke's heavy cruiser as his flag ship for the final sea battle. Unfortunately, the old 'swayback' was sunk and there were very few survivors.

21. Torrey had to advise Mack O'Connell's wife, Bev, played by Paula Prentiss, that her husband's ship had been sunk, and that he was missing in action. What job is she performing when she receives the bad news?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way" - Part 2

Answer: Lookout

Bev McConnell is spotting aircraft at a remote island outpost when she is visited by Torrey. Prentiss was one of the original "Stepford Wives", co-starring with Katharine Ross in the 1975 thriller. She married actor Richard Benjamin in 1961.

22. Liz Eddington and her pilot lover wake up on the beach as the first wave of Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor. Who played the Air Corps officer?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way "- Part 1

Answer: Hugh O'Brian

Liz and the pilot perish in a car wreck as they speed back to town. Although he has appeared in dozens of film roles, O'Brian seem to be forever attached to his television series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp", which ran from 1955 to 1961.

23. What was the type of the ship John Wayne and Kirk Douglas were assigned to?

From Quiz In Harm's Way

Answer: Heavy Cruiser

All US Navy Ships are USS. Navy ships are named after famous people, famous battles, and us cities, to name a few.

24. What is Admiral Broderick's PR man, Commander Neal Owynn, doing when last seen in the film?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way " - Part 3

Answer: Looking in a mirror

Captain Paul Eddington had repeatedly slapped Commander Owynn for spying for Admiral Broderick. Eddington and Commander Powell had flipped a coin to decide who had the honor of running Owynn off the island.

25. Realizing the mistake of relieving Torrey of his command, the Navy promotes him to admiral and assigns him to a task force. What actor played the four-star admiral that advised Torrey of his new assignment?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way" - Part 2

Answer: Henry Fonda

Fonda, in the role of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, explained the circumstances, "Well, we all know the Navy's never wrong. But in this case, it was a little weak on bein' right".

26. On the morning of December 7, 1941, a crew member aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Cassidy advised Lt. Mac McConnell that their radio was picking up what sounded like plane-to-plane chatter in Japanese. What actor played this crew member?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way "- Part 1

Answer: Larry Hagman

The young communications officer did not seem terribly concerned with the radio traffic. The same year that he played Navy Lt. Cline, Hagman became Tony Nelson in a six year run on television's "I Dream of Jeannie". It was another 13 years before we met J.R. Ewing on "Dallas".

27. What was the name of the big operation being planned and executed throughout the movie?

From Quiz In Harm's Way

Answer: Skyhook

Military operations always have cool names. For example Operation Rolling Thunder, Operation Market Garden, Operation Just Cause and recently Operation Iraqi Freedom.

28. Where is Mack McConnell at the movie's end?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way " - Part 3

Answer: Hospital ship

Mack and Torrey were two of the very few survivors of the sinking of Torrey's flagship. Mack received burns to his hands but was still alive when the film ended.

29. What future Academy Award winner portrayed Colonel Gregory, the commander of a detachment of para-marines?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way" - Part 2

Answer: George Kennedy

Kennedy won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in 1967's "Cool Hand Luke". The incorrect answers were his co-stars in this film. Kennedy went on to play the bumbling police detective Ed Hocken in the "Naked Gun" comedy films.

30. What Navy admiral did actor Franchot Tone portray?

From Quiz "In Harm's Way "- Part 1

Answer: Kimmel

Tone, a suave leading man of the 1930s, portrayed the unfortunate Navy Admiral Husband Kimmel. Ten days after the Pearl Harbor attack, Kimmel was removed from command and replaced by Admiral Chester Nimitz. Later investigations into the attack found Kimmel guilty of errors of judgement and of not properly coordinating army-navy efforts to defend Hawaii. He took early retirement in May, 1942.

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