"North by Northwest" (1959) Trivia Quiz

Answer: Maggie

Maggie was expertly played by Doreen Lang who had already been in a previous Hitchcock film, "The Wrong Man", and then she later appeared in "The Birds" as the frightened mother in the cafe.

Answer: Herman Weltner, Larry Wade and Fanning Nelson.

Larry Wade was played by Robert Shayne, who was famous for playing Inspector Henderson on the George Reeves television series "Superman."

Answer: Valerian and Licht

Valerian was portrayed by Adam Williams, Licht by Robert Ellenstein. Both have been seen in numerous television guest roles. As a note of interest, in the original screenplay, Licht is one of the people in the cropduster plane. We were to see his body in the burning plane, but it was never filmed.

Answer: Glen Cove

The actual estate where the entrance and house exteriors were filmed is Old Westbury Gardens in Old Westbury, Long Island. It is still used for film and television location shooting, and is open to the public for tours. The interiors were shot in a Los Angeles studio.

Answer: Winter Garden

When Thornhill is tossed into the car in a drunken stupor, if you listen closely, you can hear him singing "I've Grown Accustomed to Your Bourbon." Perhaps he was planning to see "My Fair Lady" at the Winter Garden that night, before he was abducted.

Answer: Edward Platt

Edward Platt went on to portray the "Chief" on TV's "Get Smart."

Answer: Stanley Adams

Stanley Adams is best known to "Star Trek" fans as Cyrano Jones in the episode entitled "The Trouble With Tribbles."

Answer: "You gentlemen aren't really trying to kill my son, are you?"

According to her 'official' Jessie Royce Landis was about ten months younger than Cary Grant, the actor portraying her son in the movie! However there is some evidence that she was actually 6 years older than she claimed.

Answer: Ned Glass

Ned Glass later appeared as Sol Cooper in the '60s television series "Julia."

Answer: "Nothing"

Thornhill's initials were printed on his personalized matchbook cover. He told Eve, "My trademark, R.O.T."

Answer: Three thousand.

The head auctioneer was portrayed by Les Tremayne, who has appeared on television many times, and has done voiceover work in movies and animated children's programs. Among his credits is his narration of the U.S. version of "King Kong vs. Godzilla."

Answer: In the cafeteria, a boy in the background plugs his ears with his fingers just before Eva Marie Saint fires her gun.

I wonder how that kid felt, seeing himself make that protective, but all-too-psychic, reflex every time the film was shown.

Answer: 9

If you count his non-musical work on "The Birds" and his rejected work on "Torn Curtain" the total adds up to nine. In total, "The Trouble With Harry", "The Wrong Man", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "Vertigo", "North by Northwest", "Psycho", "The Birds", "Marnie" and "Torn Curtain."

Answer: An importer-exporter of government secrets.

Leo G. Carroll went on to portray the role of Mr. Alexander Waverly on the TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.", and previously was "Topper" on the TV series of the same name.

Answer: 6

Leo G. Carroll was in "Rebecca" (1940), "Suspicion" (1941), "Spellbound" (1945), "The Paradine Case" (1947), "Strangers on a Train" (1951), and lastly in "North by Northwest" (1959).

Answer: "I see you've got the pumpkin."

When Roger called the statuette a pumpkin, he was alluding to the famous pumpkin, from the Alger Hiss spy case, which had microfilm hidden inside it's hollowed-out shell.

Answer: It is never said

This was just another of Hitch's MacGuffins, which is an object that gives the characters motivation, but doesn't necessarily mean much of anything. It is irrelevant what is on the microfilm, so no one mentions it.

Answer: In her luggage

Although Eve pulled the gun from her purse just before she shot at Roger, it later, if we believe Leonard, ended up in her luggage.

Answer: "They're on to you. I'm in your room."

Hitchcock wisely keeps the camera pointing down on Eve to give us Roger's point of view during the entire scene. Her hand holding the open matchbook flinches when she is startled by Leonard, letting us know just how nervous she is.

Answer: "I know, but I'm sentimental."

This line was in response to Eve saying, "Oh, Roger, this is silly!" Then there is a quick cut to the train entering a tunnel, which was Hitchcock's sly reference to the newlywed's latest activity, as it wasn't in Lehman's screenplay. As an interesting note, in the original screenplay and in this scene, Eve often called Roger just "Thornhill." That changed when the movie was shot. Also, in this last scene, a shot of Roger's left hand with "Band-Aids" on each finger was in the screenplay, but not filmed.