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Noel Coward's 1944 film is a fascinating portrait of a London family between the World Wars, depicting triumph, tragedy and simple home values.

A multiple-choice quiz by sancho_pft. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
sancho_pft

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
249,283

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
174

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 151 (10/10), Guest 94 (10/10), Guest 51 (9/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Frank Gibbons, a recently discharged soldier, returns home from World War I and is the central character of the film. Who plays him? Hint

David Niven

Stanley Holloway

Robert Newton

John Mills

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the name of the headstrong wayward daughter around whom much of the film revolves? Hint

Sarah

Ada

Sophie

Queenie

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Question 3 of 10

3. Frank Gibbons is delighted to find an old wartime comrade living next door. What is the name of this old pal? Hint

John 'Jack' Harris

Henry Thomas

"Lefty" Doran

Bob Mitchell

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the name of the Gibbons' cat? Hint

Tiger

Percy

Pusskins

Tom

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Question 5 of 10

5. Frank's sister lives with them, is frequently unwell and has many arguments with Frank's mother. What is her name? Hint

Sarah

Sophie

Sadie

Sylvia

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which character is often spoken of - and sometimes even spoken to - but never appears and never speaks? Hint

Norah, Bob's wife

Gertie, Frank's mother

Tilda, the maid

Horace, Frank's brother

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Question 7 of 10

7. Bob Mitchell's sailor son falls in love with Queenie. What is his name? Hint

Billy

Sam

Tommy

Harold

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Question 8 of 10

8. The Gibbons' other daughter, Violet, marries a friend of her brother Reg. What is he called? Hint

Gordon MacIver

Sam Leadbetter

Henry Goodman

Ernest Peacock

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Question 9 of 10

9. The Gibbons' son Reg marries his childhood sweetheart Phyllis. What happens to them? Hint

They emigrate to Australia.

Reg loses his job and commits suicide.

Phyllis runs off with her dance partner.

They are both killed in a car crash.

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Question 10 of 10

10. Queenie, having run off with a married man, soon finds herself alone. Who rescues her and brings her home? Hint

Reg

Frank

Billy

Sam

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Frank Gibbons, a recently discharged soldier, returns home from World War I and is the central character of the film. Who plays him?

Answer: Robert Newton

Writer and producer Coward managed to coax a subtle, understated performance from Newton, who by the time of the film already had a drinking problem and a reputation for being a difficult actor to work with.

2. What is the name of the headstrong wayward daughter around whom much of the film revolves?

Answer: Queenie

Queenie, played by Kay Walsh, frequently expresses her dissatisfaction with her boring middle-class life, before running off with a married man.

3. Frank Gibbons is delighted to find an old wartime comrade living next door. What is the name of this old pal?

Answer: Bob Mitchell

Although in different regiments, they served together on the Western Front, and Frank is overjoyed to find a old drinking partner right next door!

4. What is the name of the Gibbons' cat?

Answer: Percy

"Perce" arrives with the Gibbons family as they move in and is unceremoniously thrown out of the back door after having his paws buttered to stop him straying!

5. Frank's sister lives with them, is frequently unwell and has many arguments with Frank's mother. What is her name?

Answer: Sylvia

Sylvia always seems to have a permanent cold, and a air of putting up stoically with untold discomforts.

6. Which character is often spoken of - and sometimes even spoken to - but never appears and never speaks?

Answer: Norah, Bob's wife

When Frank first meets Bob again, Norah is "a bit under the weather". For the 20 years of the film poor Norah suffers a variety of illnesses and accidents and is never seen, although in one scene eveyone waves goodbye to her through the window!

7. Bob Mitchell's sailor son falls in love with Queenie. What is his name?

Answer: Billy

Billy Mitchell - played by John Mills - falls instantly in love with Queenie, but she is only interested in having fun, and even rejects his marriage proposal.

8. The Gibbons' other daughter, Violet, marries a friend of her brother Reg. What is he called?

Answer: Sam Leadbetter

Sam Leadbetter first appears as a radical Socialist, but after his marriage to Violet, becomes, in Queenie's words, a "boring, middle-class husband and father".

9. The Gibbons' son Reg marries his childhood sweetheart Phyllis. What happens to them?

Answer: They are both killed in a car crash.

After Reg's marriage to Phyllis - a major sequence in the film - they rather disappear from the story, until Violet arrives to advise her parents that on a Sunday afternoon trip down to Kent, Reg, Phyllis and their children are all killed in a tragic car accident.

10. Queenie, having run off with a married man, soon finds herself alone. Who rescues her and brings her home?

Answer: Billy

Billy Mitchell is amazed to find Queenie running a cafe in the South of France. He brings her back to England, and they marry quietly in Portsmouth before returning to face Frank and Ethel Gibbons.

Source: Author sancho_pft

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