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North By Northwest | 25 Question Movie Multiple Choice Quiz

Made between 'Vertigo' and 'Psycho', this classic comedy-thriller is one of Hitchcock's most beloved films.

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
64,117

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
18 / 25

Plays
3226

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 73 (21/25), Guest 96 (9/25), daveguth (20/25).

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Question 1 of 25

1. What is the name of Cary Grant's character? Hint

John Robie

Johnny Aysgarth

Roger O. Thornhill

Devlin

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Question 2 of 25

2. What is Grant's character's line of work? Hint

banking

psychiatry

insurance

advertising

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Question 3 of 25

3. What tune plays in the hotel at the beginning? Hint

'Friendship'

'Over The Rainbow'

'It's A Most Unusual Day'

'That's Entertainment'

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Question 4 of 25

4. What is the name of the 'agent' the bad guys mistake Grant's character for? Hint

Matt Helm

George Kaplan

Maxwell Smart

Derek Flint

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Question 5 of 25

5. What is the real name of the head of the spy ring? Hint

Auric Goldfinger

Phillip Vandamm

Emilio Largo

Max Zorin

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Question 6 of 25

6. How do the villains plan to kill the hero ? Hint

poison him

force him to drive drunk

shoot him

strangle him

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Question 7 of 25

7. What is the make of the car Grant's character drives? Hint

Mercedes-Benz

Cadillac

Ford

Rolls-Royce

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Question 8 of 25

8. What is the name of the sergeant at the police station where Grant's character is held for drunk driving? Hint

Nick Fury

Mike Hammer

Emil Klinger

Theo Kojak

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Question 9 of 25

9. What happens to Grant's character upon meeting the real Townsend at the U.N. ? Hint

he's killed

he kills Vandamm

Townsend turns him in

he's framed for Townsend's murder

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Question 10 of 25

10. What train does Grant's character board to escape?

Answer: (Three Words)

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Question 11 of 25

11. Whom does he meet on the train? Hint

Marion Crane

Madeleine Elster

Alicia Huberman

Eve Kendall

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Question 12 of 25

12. Where does the female lead send Grant's character next? Hint

Chicago

a Midwest cornfield

San Franscisco

Seattle

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Question 13 of 25

13. What happens to Grant's character when he gets there? Hint

he's run over by a car

a cropduster attacks him

a farmer shoots him

a bus picks him up

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Question 14 of 25

14. What tune does Grant's character whistle after he meets the female lead again? Hint

Dancing In The Dark

Somewhere In The Night

Where Or When

Singin' In The Rain

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Question 15 of 25

15. Where does Grant's character meet the bad guys again? Hint

a museum

a cocktail party

an art auction

an airport

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Question 16 of 25

16. What Hitchcock regular plays the 'Professor'? Hint

Charles Laughton

Joseph Cotten

Leo G. Carroll

Claude Rains

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Question 17 of 25

17. Where does the climax of the film take place? Hint

Sacramento

Los Angeles

Mount Rushmore

San Diego

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Question 18 of 25

18. What sculptor created it? Hint

Henry Moore

Gutzon Borglum

Paul Manship

Auguste Rodin

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Question 19 of 25

19. Where is the all-important microfilm hidden? Hint

a pack of cigarettes

a Ford convertible

a television set

a Mexican sculpture

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Question 20 of 25

20. The hero of the film is shot and killed.

True

False

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Question 21 of 25

21. How is the female lead to be killed? Hint

garroted

shot

dumped from a plane

knifed

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Question 22 of 25

22. Eva Marie Saint had already won an Oscar for her debut in 'On The Waterfront'. What other cast member would go on to win a future acting Oscar? Hint

James Mason

Josephine Hutchinson

Adam Williams

Martin Landau

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Question 23 of 25

23. Where does Hitch make his cameo? Hint

in the crop duster

in the U.N.

on the train

trying to board a bus

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Question 24 of 25

24. What working title for this film was inspired by the climactic scene? Hint

The Man in Washington's Ear

The Man in Jefferson's Hair

The Man on Roosevelt's Glasses

The Man In Lincoln's Nose

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Question 25 of 25

25. What play does the title of this film come from? Hint

Julius Caesar

Hamlet

Macbeth

King Lear

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the name of Cary Grant's character?

Answer: Roger O. Thornhill

The other character names are from Grant's other Hitchcock films: 'Suspicion', 'Notorious' and 'To Catch A Thief'. The 'O', by the way, stands for nothing, as did the 'O' in David O. Selznick, under whose aegis Hitch made his American debut.

2. What is Grant's character's line of work?

Answer: advertising

Grant's Thornhill is the typical 50's 'man in the gray flannel suit'.

3. What tune plays in the hotel at the beginning?

Answer: 'It's A Most Unusual Day'

Very appropriate, considering what happens!

4. What is the name of the 'agent' the bad guys mistake Grant's character for?

Answer: George Kaplan

When Thornhill calls out to a bellboy who is paging Kaplan, the villains think he *is* Kaplan, and kidnap him. The irony is that Kaplan is a non-existent name created to divert the villains from the real spy in their midst!

5. What is the real name of the head of the spy ring?

Answer: Phillip Vandamm

Played by James Mason, Vandamm poses as diplomat Leo Townsend.

6. How do the villains plan to kill the hero ?

Answer: force him to drive drunk

Though they get him drunk and almost kill him, Thornhill escapes.

7. What is the make of the car Grant's character drives?

Answer: Mercedes-Benz

You can see the famed Mercedes hood ornament in several shots.

8. What is the name of the sergeant at the police station where Grant's character is held for drunk driving?

Answer: Emil Klinger

The name foreshadows Thornhill's fate at film's end.

9. What happens to Grant's character upon meeting the real Townsend at the U.N. ?

Answer: he's framed for Townsend's murder

Townsend is knifed in the back to keep him from identifying Vandamm to Thornhill, and Thornhill is blamed for it.

10. What train does Grant's character board to escape?

Answer: Twentieth Century Limited

Back when trains still were popular...

11. Whom does he meet on the train?

Answer: Eve Kendall

Eva Marie Saint plays the double agent who works for the CIA.

12. Where does the female lead send Grant's character next?

Answer: a Midwest cornfield

Where the film's most famous scene happens.

13. What happens to Grant's character when he gets there?

Answer: a cropduster attacks him

The cropdusting biplane tries to mow him down, but he escapes at almost the last moment when it hits a fuel truck.

14. What tune does Grant's character whistle after he meets the female lead again?

Answer: Singin' In The Rain

Well, after all, it is an MGM picture! (The only one Hitch did for the studio!)

15. Where does Grant's character meet the bad guys again?

Answer: an art auction

He also meets Eve there, not yet knowing she's on his side. He escapes by creating a ruckus.

16. What Hitchcock regular plays the 'Professor'?

Answer: Leo G. Carroll

Best known for the 'Man From U.N.C.L.E.' TV series, Carroll also starred in 'Spellbound' and 'Strangers On A Train'.

17. Where does the climax of the film take place?

Answer: Mount Rushmore

Just outside Rapid City, South Dakota.

18. What sculptor created it?

Answer: Gutzon Borglum

The Danish-born Borglum's best known work.

19. Where is the all-important microfilm hidden?

Answer: a Mexican sculpture

The film's 'MacGuffin,' or red herring.

20. The hero of the film is shot and killed.

Answer: False

Blank cartridges are in the gun Eve shoots him with. Though it is discovered, the gun saves Thornhill's life again when a housekeeper shoots it at him.

21. How is the female lead to be killed?

Answer: dumped from a plane

Thornhill saves her, though, and they escape down Mount Rushmore (actually a studio mock-up).

22. Eva Marie Saint had already won an Oscar for her debut in 'On The Waterfront'. What other cast member would go on to win a future acting Oscar?

Answer: Martin Landau

Landau won for his campy Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's 'Ed Wood'.

23. Where does Hitch make his cameo?

Answer: trying to board a bus

Right after his name ends the credits, there he is, getting a bus door slammed in his face.

24. What working title for this film was inspired by the climactic scene?

Answer: The Man In Lincoln's Nose

Thornhill was originally to hide in Lincoln's nostril and sneeze!

25. What play does the title of this film come from?

Answer: Hamlet

'I am but mad north-northwest,' said the Danish prince. And Thornhill did fly north in a Northwest Orient plane!

Source: Author tjoebigham

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