Stranger than Fiction Trivia

1. What is the name of Will Ferrell's character in this movie?

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Answer: Harold Crick

The character of Harold Crick is a very plain man with an unexciting job, a kind of dull and unexciting life that most of us can sympathize with in our humdrum day to day existence. However, the events of the movie are about to turn his life completely upside down.

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Answer: Baker

Ana Pascal, one of the women Harold is auditing, works at her own bakery. She went to Harvard, and during the late night study gruops with her friends she would bake for them so they wouldn't get hungry. That's when she realized that she was better suited to be a baker, and she dropped out.

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Answer: IRS auditor

Auditing exemplifies having to deal with a life of numbers. However, Harold will be finding that there is a lot more to life than the safe world of his numbers.

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Answer: An apple

Every day Harold runs at the same pace and the same time to his bus stop, barely getting there on time. He always carries a green apple in his mouth.

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Answer: Karen Eiffel

Karen Eiffel is an award-winning author who is writing her masterpiece. But even she doesn't know her writing is so good it's narrating someone's real life.

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Answer: Works for the IRS

Harold works as a tax collector for the IRS, which doesn't make him many friends. Ana Pascal and the customers at her bakery boo him, yelling "Tax man!"

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Answer: To kill Harold

All of Karen's books ultimately end with her main characters being killed. But can she go through with her plans when she finds out Harold is quite real?

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Answer: His watch

Harold's watch stops functioning, and when he asks for the time, the man who gives it to him has a watch that is three minutes fast. This causes Harold to get to the bus stop early (which he never does), and it makes him run into the street to save a boy who is riding his bike.

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Answer: Death and Taxes

"Death and Taxes" is to be her masterpiece. When Karen appears on a book talk show, the ditsy host swears the name of the book is "Death in Texas".

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Answer: Ocean waves

Every day Harold monotonously puts away files, scraping them against each other. The narrator describes the sound of them like a deep endless ocean, which Harold actually does think they sound like.

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Answer: Brushing his teeth

Karen's narration of what she writes in her book, a narration that would normally be reserved for us in the audience, is heard by her main character, Harold. The expression on Harold's face as he looks at the toothbrush, convinced it is talking to him, is priceless! Little does he know that this voice will drastically change his whole existence.

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Answer: Play the guitar

Professor Hilbert asks Harold many questions so he can eliminate different stories to find out who his narrator is. One of the questions he asks is if he has any ambition or dream. Harold says he wishes his life was more musical. He's always wanted to play the guitar.

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Answer: Wednesday

Continuing with the theme of the extraordinary happening in the ordinary world, Harold's story starts in the middle of the week, when usually nothing special happens. Nothing will be ordinary for Harold after this, though.

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Answer: Karen Eiffel

Karen Eiffel is a famous author who has a reputation for killing off all the main characters in her books, which doesn't make Harold comfortable.

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Answer: "Little did he know..."

Professor Hilbert gets interested because he has done papers and seminars based on the phrase "Little did he know...". He is convinced a professional author is talking about Harold because of this simple phrase.

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Answer: Poison

Karen Eiffel has many ideas for killing off Harold Crick, because in all of her books that's what she does with her characters. She imagines herself jumping off a building and crashing her car over the barrier into the water.

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Answer: A variety of flours

As part of Harold's breakout from his mundane existence, he woos a bakery owner named Ana Pascal. In a cute pun, he brings her flours for baking.

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Answer: Doing large math problems in his head

Whenever one of Harold's co-workers has a tough math problem, they ask him and he answers right away. This skill gets messed up when the narrator is constantly saying things, and he can't concentrate, which shocks his co-workers.

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Answer: Getting hit by a bus

He is supposed to die while saving a child from being run over by a bus, but thankfully Karen has a last minute change of heart. Harold only gets seriously injured and gets his happy ending after all!

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Answer: Integer

Harold says what his favorite word is when Professor Hilbert is questioning him to find out what type of story he is in.

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