Rope Quizzes

Rope Quiz 1

1 The film is based on:
Another film

A play

A poem

A short story
2 On which real life murderers are Phillip and Brandon based?
Leopold and Loeb

The Menendez Brothers

Bonnie and Clyde

Jack the Ripper and his friend
3 When was the film released?
1952

1935

1948

1929
4 Who wrote the play on which the film is based?
Patrick Marber

Lillian Hellman

Arthur Laurents

Patrick Hamilton
5 Who directed the film?
Stanley Kubrick

Arthur Laurents

George Cukor

Alfred Hitchcock
6 Who plays Rupert Cadell?
Rock Hudson

James Stewart

Gregory Peck

Cary Grant
7 Where does the film take place?
Los Angeles

New York City

Chicago

London
8 What are Brandon and Phillip doing when the film opens?
Professing their love for one another

Having a drink and discussing how they will kill a friend

Killing their friend, David Kentley

Trying to figure out how David Kentley disappeared
9 "No one ever feels safe in ________________"
Midtown

The dark

The middle of the day

New York
10 Who plays Brandon?
James Stewart

John Dall

Farley Granger

Sal Mineo
11 Who plays Phillip?
James Dean

Farley Granger

Montgomery Clift

Roddy McDowell
12 What was David Kentley's last drink?
Gin

Margarita

Red wine

Whiskey
13 Where did David Kentley go to college?
Dartmouth

Cornell

Harvard

Yale
14 What do Phillip and Brandon plan to do with David's body?
Sink it to the bottom of a lake

Keep it in the apartment

Burn it

Drive it off a cliff to make it look like suicide
15 What do Phillip and Brandon drink following the murder of David?
Gin and tonic

Whiskey

Wine

Champagne
16 Where do they store David's body?
In Brandon's bedroom

In the pantry

In a chest that used to hold a number of books

In the coat closet
17 What is David's relationship to Kenneth?
They used to be best friends

They were arch nemeses at school

They have never met

They used to be lovers
18 What "brilliant idea" does Brandon have about the chest?
They should eat dinner off of it

They should throw it into the Hudson

They are able to lock it so no one will be able to open it all evening

They should put it on the roof outside the window to keep David's body cold
19 Who plays Mrs. Wilson?
Edith Evanson

Ellen Corby

Joan Chandler

Constance Collier
20 What does Phillip notice right before Mrs. Wilson arrives?
David's coat is sitting on a chair nearby

The rope they used to kill David is hanging out of the box

Mrs. Wilson knew that David was coming over earlier

David's business card is sitting on the table
21 How does Mrs. Wilson respond to the news that they are serving dinner on the chest?
She refuses to make dinner under the circumstances

She immediately wants to look inside the chest

She is delighted and tickled by the unusual choice

She is skeptical and thinks it's "peculiar"
22 Who is Phillip surprised to hear is coming to the party?
Mrs. Atwater

Rupert Cadell

Janet

Kenneth
23 How does Mrs. Wilson feel about Mr. Cadell?
She feels sad that he has never married

She despises him

She admires and has a crush on him

She thinks he is an idiot, but loveable
24 Brandon feels that their murder of David is:
Horrifying

Artistic

Sad

Funny
25 Who is the first to arrive at the party?
Mr. Cadell

Mr. Kentley

Janet

Kenneth

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