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White Heat Quiz Challenge - How Much Do You Know? | Movies

'White Heat' is one of James Cagney's greatest films and an all-time classic!

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

Author
tjoebigham

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
35,965

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
645

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 15

1. What is the full name of Cagney's psychotic gangster? Hint

Brick Davis

Tom Powers

Rocky Sullivan

Arthur Cody Jarrett

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Question 2 of 15

2. Who directed 'White Heat'? Hint

Michael Curtiz

Raoul Walsh

John Huston

William Wellman

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Question 3 of 15

3. Who played his criminal mother? Hint

Margaret Hamilton

Beulah Bondi

Marjorie Main

Margaret Wycherly

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Question 4 of 15

4. What were Jarrett and his gang robbing at the beginning of the film? Hint

A bank

An airplane

A gas station

A train

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Question 5 of 15

5. What gang member was injured during the robbery, and would later die? Hint

Zuckie

Cotton

Het

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Question 6 of 15

6. Who was Cody's treacherous wife, and who played her? Hint

Anna, Yvonne DeCarlo

Phyllis, Barbara Stanwyck

Verna, Virginia Mayo

Elsa, Rita Hayworth

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Question 7 of 15

7. Who played police undercover man Hank Fallon, and what was his alias? Hint

Burt Lancaster, Steve Thompson

Fred MacMurray, Walter Neff

Edmond O'Brien, Vic Pardo

John Garfield, Leo Morse

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Question 8 of 15

8. What movie did Jarrett, Ma and Verna watch at the drive-in when escaping police pursuit? Hint

Blood On The Sun

High Sierra

Task Force

Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Question 9 of 15

9. What was different about Herbert, one of Cody's cellmates? Hint

He was black

He was deaf

He was schizophrenic

He was blind

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Question 10 of 15

10. Who shot and killed Cody's Ma? Hint

Big Ed

Cotton

Fallon

Verna

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Question 11 of 15

11. What was the target of Cody's last caper? Hint

A Brink's armored car

Fort Knox

A chemical plant

Saks Fifth Avenue

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Question 12 of 15

12. What Greek myth did Cody use to explain how they would enter their target? Hint

The Trojan Horse

Jason and the Argonauts

Hero and Leander

Theseus and the Minotaur

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Question 13 of 15

13. What TV series did the writers of 'White Heat' later create? Hint

Starsky and Hutch

Charlie's Angels

Baretta

Kojak

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Question 14 of 15

14. How did Cody die? Hint

beheaded

strangled

blew himself up

electrocuted

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Question 15 of 15

15. And what were his final words? Hint

'Heeelp Meee!'

'Made it, Ma! Top O' The World!'

'Rosebud!'

'I ain't so tough!'

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the full name of Cagney's psychotic gangster?

Answer: Arthur Cody Jarrett

Cagney played Powers in 'The Public Enemy' and Sullivan in 'Angels With Dirty Faces', both in the 30's, as well as Davis in 'G-Man', where he played a lawyer who became a fed to avenge a friend's murder.

2. Who directed 'White Heat'?

Answer: Raoul Walsh

Walsh made many a classic including 'High Sierra' and two Cagney films,'The Strawberry Blonde' and 'A Lion Is In The Streets'. Huston never worked with Cagney as did Curtiz and Wellman.

3. Who played his criminal mother?

Answer: Margaret Wycherly

English-born Wycherly was magnificent as Jarrett's flinty, yet devoted {mother;} Cagney's reaction to her death in prison is unforgettable.

4. What were Jarrett and his gang robbing at the beginning of the film?

Answer: A train

On it was Federal currency they were peddling to the postwar European black market.

5. What gang member was injured during the robbery, and would later die?

Answer: Zuckie

'Zuckie' Zuckerman was the one scalded by steam from the train when Cody killed an {engineer;} Bo Creel joined the gang later.

6. Who was Cody's treacherous wife, and who played her?

Answer: Verna, Virginia Mayo

Mayo also starred in Walsh's 'Colorado Territory'(Walsh's western remake of 'Sierra') and 'Captain Horatio Hornblower', and co-starred again with Cagney in 'The West Point Story'.

7. Who played police undercover man Hank Fallon, and what was his alias?

Answer: Edmond O'Brien, Vic Pardo

O'Brien was a fixture in many of the film noir classics, including 'D.O.A.', 'The Killers' and 'A Double Life'. He was hilarious in 'The Girl Can't Help It' and won an Oscar for 'The Barefoot Contessa'.

8. What movie did Jarrett, Ma and Verna watch at the drive-in when escaping police pursuit?

Answer: Task Force

'Task Force' was another Warners film, directed by Delmer Daves.

9. What was different about Herbert, one of Cody's cellmates?

Answer: He was deaf

He was known as 'The Reader' for his lip-reading ability, which he used for Cody.

10. Who shot and killed Cody's Ma?

Answer: Verna

Big Ed and Verna had an affair behind Cody's back, but it was Verna who killed Ma. And she got away with it, too, by lying to Cody that Big Ed did it!

11. What was the target of Cody's last caper?

Answer: A chemical plant

A Brink's car was robbed in real life in the {50's;} James Bond's foe Goldfinger planned the Fort Knox heist.

12. What Greek myth did Cody use to explain how they would enter their target?

Answer: The Trojan Horse

Cody's 'Trojan Horse' was an old gas truck where he and his gang hid in when entering the plant to rob the payroll.

13. What TV series did the writers of 'White Heat' later create?

Answer: Charlie's Angels

Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts (who wrote 'White Heat' from a story by Virginia Kellogg) are best known for 'Charlie's Angels'.

14. How did Cody die?

Answer: blew himself up

Trapped on one of the plant's fuel tanks, and shot by Fallon, Cody blew himself to bits rather than be captured!

15. And what were his final words?

Answer: 'Made it, Ma! Top O' The World!'

One of the great exit lines in any movie!

Source: Author tjoebigham

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