The Bizarre Mr. Bean Trivia Quiz

Answer: The person he is copying off of has bad handwriting

I witnessed a similar occurrence when I took the SATs in high school. I watched a student attempt to copy off another, then panic when she realized that each person in the room had a different test (the number of questions in the section didn't match, and the person copying answers still had questions left when the person honestly taking the test finished).

The scene was not unlike Bean's--quick erasing, rapid fire answering, and attempts to keep writing after "Time" had been called.

Answer: The steak is served raw

The E. Coli scare has pretty much ruined it for this traditional dish, seasoned raw ground beef. I used to like it, but haven't tried it in years.

Mr. Bean has no idea what "steak tartare" is and initially tries to act as though he enjoys it, while hiding pieces in the sugar bowl, a lady's handbag, and down a musician's pants. He later confronts a waiter about it, complaining angrily, and is brought a fresh new plate of raw beef.

Answer: Covers his head with a wastebasket, stabs him with a pencil, and listens to how he says "Ow"

This is how Bean caught the thief--dumped a wastebasket on his head, then tackled him and stabbed him with a pencil until the police came. So, to identify him in the lineup, he recreated the environment.

Answer: A lion

One of my all-time favorite "Mr. Bean" scenes. Mr. Bean finds the department store Nativity scene and has a little fun with it. He starts out with the cow mooing and donkey braying, then adds sheep, a sheep dog, a moving van, a brigade of soldiers, a robot, a tank, and a dinosaur. Finally, the baby Jesus is carried to safety by a helicopter with a giant magnet before the clerk arrives with a policeman (fortunately for Bean, a plastic policeman).

Answer: A picture hook

A classic scene. The girlfriend walked Bean over to a jewelry store window and pointed excitedly at the ring in the display, and Bean misunderstood her as pointing at the drawing of the man giving the girl the ring, so he bought the picture and wrapped it separately. The hook for hanging it on the wall was in the ring box.

Answer: A cough drop

The porter clears his throat "Ahem" and holds out his hand when Bean doesn't tip him immediately. Bean "mistakes" the gesture as a sore throat. On the other hand, I have often wanted to do the same thing when someone is overly insistent for a tip.

Answer: He fashions a bikini out of clay and puts it on the model

He cannot stand to look at the nude body, but he can get the clay to fit perfectly to her body (looking at, and I would assume, touching, the nude model in the process). No, try not to think too much while watching Mr. Bean!

Answer: 3,427

In this great segment, Mr. Bean accidentally hits his ball off the green. When he goes to pick up the ball to put it back, the course operator indicates that is against the rules. He then proceeds to hit the ball off the course completely, down the street, into a bus, down a sewer grate, into a garbage can (which is then dumped into a garbage truck), into a lady's grocery bag, onto a child's ice cream cone... you get the idea. Later that night, as the course is closing, he finally cuts a section of grass around the ball, hitches a ride back to the course, carries the whole section back to the green, places it next to the hole, and hits the ball into the hole, uttering a triumphant "Yes!".

He then writes down the score--3,427 strokes--on the card.

Answer: He got his hand stuck in a teakettle

A fantastic scene that shows Mr. Bean's inherent selfishness perhaps better than any other. While in line at the hospital, he gooses a man two places front of him, causing a fight to break out between the man and a person directly behind him, and resulting in Mr. Bean going to the front of the line.

He takes a chair from an old man with a cane, switches his number with a lady in a body cast, and tries all sorts of other ways to subvert the system. His interactions with the lady in the body cast, in particular, are priceless.

Answer: Behold the Man Who is a Bean

The whole text is "Ecce Homo Qui Es Faba. Vale Homo Qui Es Faba" (the rest translating to "Farewell the man who is a Bean"). The instrumentation was originally composed as serious choral music.