How Much Do You Know About "The Dark Knight"? Quiz

Answer: "What doesn't kill you makes you stranger."

Director Chris Nolan had Joker give a different spin on a quote given by Friedrich Nietzsche. The original quote stated, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger".

Joker ended up putting what looked like a make-shift bomb in the man's mouth. It had a string attached, which Joker brought onto his getaway bus. When he drove off and the string was pulled, we only saw smoke come out of the "bomb". Since it was mentioned that "...what doesn't kill you..." we can assume that it made the banker stronger. After all Joker did like to mess with people's mentalities.

Joker did say "Gotham deserves a better class of criminals." later in the movie. At that point he was talking to one of the mobsters. He also claimed that the city was his.

Answer: Rachel

Rachel Dawes was a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne. She was a lawyer and fully stood for what Batman fought for. Rachel believed that good would prevail. She helped Harvey work on the case against the mob. She interrogated Lau (the man who flew with the mob's money to Hong Kong).

Rachel Dawes was played by the lovely Maggie Gyllenhaal. Maggie also had parts in "Riding in Cars with Boys", "40 Days and 40 Nights", and "Stranger Than Fiction".

Answer: Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman played Gordon in Nolan's 2005 "Batman" movie ("Batman Begins"). He also had roles in "Hannibal" (Mason Verger) and the "Harry Potter" series (Sirius Black).

Christian Bale played Batman, Aaron Eckhart played Harvey Dent, and Ron Dean played Detective Wuertz.

Answer: potato peeler

I am not sure if the potato peeler was Nolan's idea or Ledger's but it was a neat add in!

The potato peeler was the last item placed on the table, when the police stripped Joker's pockets. The officer also explained to Gordon that he had no real name and the only other thing they found in his pockets was lint.

Answer: Coleman Reese

Coleman Reese was an accountant who worked for Wayne Enterprises. We saw several scenes where Lucius Fox told him to re-do the bookkeeping. Fox exclaimed, "We wouldn't want the trust fund to run out, would we?"

Coleman had been sitting with the news anchor when Joker called the show. Joker decided that Batman revealing his true identity would take away his fun. Joker seemed to enjoy the cat and mouse chase with Batman. Joker asked why he should have all the fun, right before he explained he wanted Coleman dead.

Coleman Reese was played by Joshua Harto. Earlier in the movie Coleman confronted Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) and attempted to blackmail Bruce Wayne/ Batman. Fox wished him luck on that.

Answer: Intimidate

After the screen showed "Intimidate", guns come out of the front of the car and fire onto a nearby toll booth, also hitting a car. The booth and car burst into flames.

This all took place in the parking garage, when we met one of the big mobster/drug dealers. He and his pals were accompanied by rottweilers.

In this scene we also briefly saw the Scarecrow who had a bigger role in "Batman Begins". Scarecrow was played by Cillian Murphy.

Answer: Licking his lips

Heath Ledger added what looked like a nervous habit to his version of the Joker. Almost every (if not every time) you saw Joker he was randomly licking his lips. Many people interpreted this as him licking his facial scars. This was most noticeable in the interrogation scene, when Batman took over the questioning. Joker got a lot of close up shots when he turned the tables on Batman in this sequence.

Answer: "Oh! Can you just give me a minute?"

They were in the middle of a street in downtown Gotham. Joker was almost able to pull the mask off Batman, who was laying near the flipped over 18 wheeler that Joker had been driving. Joker was pulled off of Batman by soon-to-be Commissioner Gordon.

Answer: It was a custom

After Joker was arrested they did a normal search of his person. One of the officers reported their findings to Gordon by telling him that Joker had "No name, no other alias, clothing is custom, nothing in his pockets but knives and lint..."

Earlier in the movie, while talking to the mob Joker mentioned that "The suit wasn't cheap, you outta know ....you bought it." This was in retaliation to Maroni's remark "Just some freak clown in a cheap purple suit". He mentioned the "clown" when Lau (who was on the TV monitor) gave the mob the news that a portion of their money had been stolen from the bank.

Answer: "I'm going to tell them it was your idea."

Bruce and Alfred were leaving his brightly lit version of the Bat Cave when this was said. Bruce was on his way to the press conference Batman had Harvey Dent had set up. Bruce was teasing Alfred that he was going to let him take the blame for the creation of Batman.

Alfred Pennyworth was played by Michael Caine. He also played Alfred in the 2005 Batman ("Batman Begins") Another very good (and very funny) movie he had been in is "Austin Powers". He played Austin's father, Nigel Powers.


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