'M*A*S*H' - 'Of Moose and Men' Quiz | Television

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1. Hawkeye and Frank are returning home to the 4077th, when suddenly they encounter a roadblock. Hawkeye is unable to stop his jeep in time, and he accidentally rams an army Colonel's vehicle, making him very angry.

Answer: False

As a matter of fact, Hawkeye does not ram the Colonel's jeep, but rather splashes him with mud when the tire of his jeep hits a large muddy puddle. Despite the fact that this mishap was purely accidental, the colonel is livid, and takes down Hawkeye's name and unit.

Naturally, the cowardly Frank is not supportive of Hawkeye at all! In fact, Frank is the one who gives the Colonel Hawkeye's name and unit!

2. What is the name of the Colonel in question who seems to have a vendetta against the uncouth and unprofessional Hawkeye?

Answer: Colonel Spiker

Colonel Spiker is played by actor Tim O'Connor, who shows up in the season nine episode as Captain Norman Traeger, M.D. I'm not sure which character is more curmudgeonly between the two of them!

O'Connor's most recognizable role on television was as the regular character Elliott Carson on the 1960's series 'Peyton Place'. He was also a regular character in the short lived series 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'.

3. With Hawkeye away, BJ must find someone else to sit with in the mess tent, and he chooses a surly looking Sergeant Zale. Unfortunately, Zale is in a dour mood, as he has just received a letter from his wife asking for his forgiveness, she has cheated on him. After chatting with BJ about it briefly, how does Zale do himself an injury?

Answer: Punches a wood stove

Zale manages to break his hand after punching the wood stove, but fortunately there's a doctor or two in the house!

Zale complains about his wife cheating, especially seeming to regret that it was with the man next door. Zale seems sore that his next door neighbor has borrowed a power drill and never returned it.

4. Hawkeye and Frank return to the 4077th, bearing wounded. Colonel Potter makes the command decision that Frank will work on the Korean wounded while Hawkeye takes care of the cantankerous colonel he encountered earlier. Frank then proceeds to complain that Hawkeye 'always gets the cowboys and I get stuck with the Indians'. An offended Colonel Potter claims that he is one-quarter Indian. What Native American people does he claim in his ancestry?

Answer: Cherokee

When Frank learns that Colonel Potter is one-fourth Cherokee is response is: 'Oh. How.'

Colonel Potter is not the only annoyed colonel in this scene. Colonel Striker, who is among the wounded, insists on being transferred to the 121st Evac Hospital, but Colonel Potter nixes this idea.

5. After a hurried session in the O.R., we return to Zale who is now bandaged and still crestfallen. BJ helps Zale compose a letter to his wife in response to her bombshell about having cheated on him. Here we learn Zale's wife's name, what is it?

Answer: Hillda

Her name is 'Hillda with two Ls', Zale says. Zale wants to get out the poison pen, but BJ suggests a much more forgiving tone. Zale is at his wit's end, he claims to have treated his wife like a queen, buying her everything from a beavercoat to bowling shoes, and putting her brother through college. 'I paid for every tooth in her mother's head,' Zale continues, amusingly.

The man is obviously a devoted husband.

6. Now the scene shifts to Frank and Radar, who are inspecting some of the locals who regularly frequent the 4077th. Walking down the line, Frank suspects each person, no matter how mundane their occupation, and treats each local with great contempt. What item does Frank buy from a certain Mr. Park, a local peddler, during this careful shakedown?

Answer: A cigarette lighter shaped as a gun

Frank effectively interrogates and searches all of the dangerous locals, including the laundress, a houseboy and Mr. Park. He confiscates a ham sandwich from the boy, and also finds the gun lighter on Mr. Park's person. After Radar explains that the 'gun' is really a lighter, Frank bargains for it.

Initially Radar, on behalf of Mr. Park, asks for $10, and Frank offers $5 in return. Radar goes to $7.50, and Frank counters with 'six and not a penny more'. Radar claims, 'I can't say six in Korean.' Frank responds, 'Well then say five and 100 pennies.' Radar then tricks Frank by saying, 'Six and 100 pennies,' and Frank agrees. '$7', Radar then says, with a smile.

7. BJ comes to Radar's office looking for Zale, and finds Radar involved in an intense game over the phone with his pal Sparky. What game are the two of them playing long distance?

Answer: Battleship

Radar is ecstatic when he sinks Sparky's carrier, winning the game. After he gets off the phone, BJ asks if Radar has seen Zale, but Radar is not aware of the Sergeant's whereabouts. BJ notices that Radar is eating mushy ice cream, and asks Radar if he likes Chinese food and walks in the rain. Apparently, BJ is feeling nostalgic about home, because his wife likes all these things (including mushy ice cream).

8. In the post-op ward, Hawkeye tends to his patients, including that certain cantankerous Colonel that he encountered earlier in the episode. Does the Colonel thank Hawkeye for saving his life on the operating table?

Answer: No

Colonel Striker does not thank Hawkeye, but he does 'let him off the hook' for earlier having splashed him with mud. Striker suggests that Hawkeye is just doing his job, as he does when he commands his artillery unit. Nobody ever thanks him for that dirty job, he comments. Hawkeye takes the opportunity to facetiously thank the stubborn Colonel for not pressing charges against him.

9. BJ continues to search for Sergeant Zale, and finally finds him in the hut of a local woman. It seems that Zale has taken her as his 'moose' in revenge for what his wife has done to him. What does he call his moose?

Answer: Sooky

Though he can't speak a word of Korean, and she likewise cannot speak any English, they seem to get along very well. 'She practically reads my mind,' Zale claims. But when Sooky takes his hand and holds it to her face, he quickly withdraws it, blandly saying, 'I wasn't thinking that.'

BJ helps convince Zale to forgive his wife with a very comforting letter he has prepared.

10. Frank's paranoia about the locals goes a bit too far when he decides to dig up a 'bomb' that he has witnessed some Koreans burying near the camp. What food item is in this vessel Frank unearths?

Answer: Kimchi

Kimchi, a spicy, pickled cabbage dish popular in Korean cuisine, is the deadly culprit here. Hawkeye and BJ make fun of Frank as he digs up the jar with the kimchi. BJ pokes at Frank, who has found 'fresh dirt', by saying, 'I saw that. It was with Paul Muni and Luise Rainer.' (An allusion to 'The Good Earth'!)

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