Some Like it Hot Quizzes

Some Like it Hot Quiz 1

1 Who directed the film?
Frank Capra

Victor Fleming

George Cukor

Billy Wilder
2 What is the setting of the film at the beginning?
Chicago

New York

Florida

San Francisco
3 When was the film released?
1962

1942

1950

1959
4 Who plays Joe?
Jack Lemmon

Tony Curtis

Bob Hope

Burt Lancaster
5 Who plays Jerry?
Tony Curtis

Cary Grant

Walter Matthau

Jack Lemmon
6 In which decade does the film take place?
1950s

1900s

1930s

1920s
7 What instrument does Joe play?
The piano

The trumpet

The upright bass

The saxophone
8 What instrument does Jerry play?
The fiddle

The upright bass

The guitar

The trumpet
9 Where is the speakeasy that Joe and Jerry first work at?
Behind the screen at a movie theater

In the back of a convenience store

In a fake funeral parlor

In a church
10 Who rats out Spats Columbo to the police?
Toothpick Charlie

Mr. Mozzarella

Johnny Seesaw

Jerry
11 What are the men carrying in the coffin in the back of the hearse?
Joe and Jerry's instruments

Thousands of dollars

The body of Toothpick Charlie

Bottles of liquor
12 Who plays Spats Columbo?
James Cagney

Edward G. Robinson

Pat O'Brien

George Raft
13 What does the investigator order to drink at the speakeasy?
Scotch coffee

Manhattan

Glass of milk

Vodka tonic
14 What does Jerry want to use his first speakeasy paycheck for?
A trip to the dentist

A bike

A dinner out

A trip to Florida
15 What does Joe want to use his first paycheck for?
Gambling at the dog race

A nice bottle of wine

A prostitute

A night at a hotel
16 Where do Joe and Jerry hide during the raid?
Behind the bar

Under the piano

In a nearby garage

On a fire escape
17 What does Joe want to sell for money after the raid?
His and Jerry's instruments

Jerry's watch

His hat

His and Jerry's overcoats
18 Who wrote the screenplay?
William Wyler

Robert Theoren

Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond

Michael Logan
19 Who first tells Jerry about the job in Florida?
Toothpick Charlie

Nellie

Sig

Sugar
20 What is Sweet Sue's role with the band?
She wrote all the songs

She is their manager

She is the lead singer

She is the bandleader
21 What is Bienstock's role?
He is the manager

He is the conductor

He wrote the music

He is their agent
22 What is the rate for the college gig that Joe accepts over the Florida one?
50

10

12

20
23 Whose car do Jerry and Joe borrow for the college gig?
Sugar's

Toothpick Charlie's

Sig's

Nellie's
24 Who is gambling in the garage where Nellie's car is kept?
Toothpick Charlie

Sugar Kane

Spats Columbo

Bienstock
25 How does Spats Columbo find out that Jerry and Joe are there?
Jerry screams like a girl when the men get shot

They see the shadows of the men

Joe drops the upright bass and it makes a noise

Jerry knocks the gas hose out of the car

17. What conflicts arise between Joe and Jerry when they both compete for Sugar in Florida

What part is this in? Part 1, 2,3, or 4?

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Give some examples of Jerry and Joe's behavior and character before their "transformation."

Joe is Jerry’s best friend, a tenor saxophone player who uses his considerable charm to manipulate women (and Jerry) into doing whatever he wants. At the start, Jerry is staring at the women in the chorus line at the speakeasy, and in contrast to...

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Joe and Jerry, when they assume female identities, both become better people. Give examples of this and comment why you think it happened.

Before donning drag, Jerry was a worrywart, a practical and put-upon sidekick to the more risk-taking and liberated Joe. He has fun, but he doesn't know how to loosen up; his idea of a good use of his meager musician's paycheck is going to the...

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Some Like it Hot

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