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Answer: His mother's farm

Kal-El's ship lands right outside the Kent farm in Smallville, Kansas. His adoptive mother, Martha (Eva Marie Saint), drives her truck to the crash site and brings her son back to the farmhouse where he grew up.

Answer: Scrabble

As Superman's ship approaches his mother's farm, everything in her home rattles and shakes, including a Scrabble board that has not been cleared off.

Answer: red

This is apparently a bit of an in-joke for the comic book fans who know that Krypton, Superman's home world, orbited a red star. One has to wonder, though, how and why a single star on that ceiling would have been colored red when Clark was a child -- he didn't learn that he came from a world in a red star system until he was in his late teens. Oh, well.

Answer: He buries it.

I can't for the life of me imagine why Clark would bury the spacecraft, rather than disposing of it in any of the other manners I've suggested. If you bury something, someone can discover it someday. I'm just saying.

Answer: He is Perry's nephew.

Richard certainly seemed like a nice guy, but I saw no reason why it was important for him to be Perry's nephew.

Answer: beer

Jack Larson, who plays the bartender in this scene, played Jimmy Olsen in "The Adventures of Superman" in the 1950s. There's a mildly touching moment when, after Superman saves Metropolis, Larson's character and Huntington's character share a celebratory embrace. Jimmy, meet Jimmy!

Answer: "Great Caesar's ghost!" [Perry White]

Perry (Frank Langella), Clark's boss at the "Daily Planet", finally gets to say the line for which his character, in the comic books, has always been famous. Neither Jackie Cooper (from the first four Superman films) nor Lane Smith (from the "Lois and Clark" TV show) ever got the chance to throw out that particular exclamation.

Answer: Genesis

The out-of-control shuttle is attached to the 747 carrying Lois Lane, until Superman separates the two craft with his heat vision.

Answer: Gertrude

The yacht is presumably named for Gertrude Vanderworth, the elderly multi-millionaire whom Lex married, and from whom he inherited great wealth after her death. Gertrude is played by Noel Neill, who also played Lois Lane in the "Adventures of Superman" television series.

Answer: Jimmy

Jimmy brings the fax over to Clark and Richard, saying that he would recognize Lois' handwriting anywhere. The message contains the coordinates of Lois' present position.

Answer: a piano

Lois' son Jason shoves a piano across the room and fatally crushes Brutus. This is the moment in the film where the audience is given positive proof -- by way of the utilization of superhuman strength -- that Superman is Jason's father, so the less said about that, the better.

Answer: True

Given Superman's phenomenal strength, he would likely kill an ordinary human with a single swing. Even when he's "de-powered" on Luthor's island, he never gets a chance to strike back at any of the men beating him. Poor guy.

Answer: both

Lois whispers the truth about Jason's parentage in Superman's ear, then kisses him. Jason, before leaving with his mother, trots back to the hospital bed and kisses his father (though it's doubtful he knows that's who he is!) on the forehead.

Answer: White

Okay, let's see if I have this right. Jason is the result of the brief love affair that Lois had with (a de-powered) Superman in the film "Superman II". Just after the end of that film, Superman leaves to look for Krypton. (I say "just after" since Clark Kent seems shocked that Lois is a mother; hence, he must never have seen her pregnant.)

Five years later, Lois has a son who looks more like a six-year-old than a four-year-old, but...okay. Lois is engaged to marry Richard White, but she's clearly been pushing off the actual wedding. The boy calls Richard "Daddy", and the three live together.

How in the world is Jason's last name "White" if Lois and Richard aren't married yet? Did Richard adopt the boy?

This is all very confusing.

Answer: both

Christopher Reeve played Superman in the 1978 Richard Donner film, as well as its three (inferior) sequels. He died on 12 October 2004. His wife, Dana, died of lung cancer on 6 March 2006.