Movie Trivia. TV Quizzes. Pop Culture Tests. Are You Game?

Comments for
How Well Do You Know: Lawrence of Arabia

Users are allowed and even encouraged to submit specific feedback about quizzes.
Please keep in mind that some of these comments may spoil individual quiz questions.

Looking for the quiz that goes along with these comments?
Find it here.

Comments are the sole responsibility of the person posting them.
By posting, you agree not to post comments that are off topic,
defamatory, obscene, abusive, threatening or an invasion of privacy.
Violators may be banned.

You must be logged in to post or rate comments.
Please log in or register.

Comments

For reference, click here reveal the answers for this quiz.
We know that you could sneak in through the comments page,
view the answers, and then take the quiz.
But nobody likes a cheater.

Answers:

1.	Lawrence of Arabia opens with Lawrence’s death in a:
		airplane crash
		suicide by jumping
		motorcycle accident
		friendly fire incident

2.	Who composed the memorable score for Lawrence of Arabia?
		Miklós Rózsa
		Maurice Jarré
		André Previn
		John Barry

3.	Where is Lawrence’s memorial service held?
		Westminster Abbey
		St Martin in the Fields
		St Paul’s Cathedral
		the Temple Church

4.	General Murray says he did not know Lawrence, who had some minor function on his staff in Cairo. Cut to Lawrence:
		typing a report
		staring through binoculars
		painting a map
		waiting outside an office

5.	Lawrence extinguishes a match with his fingers without flinching. What’s the trick?
		being dashed quick about it
		moistening his fingertips
		developing a thick skin
		not minding that it hurts

6.	Freddy, the Secretary of the Officer’s Mess, tells Lawrence that he’s a clown. Lawrence responds that we can’t all be:
		acrobats
		ringmasters
		lion-tamers
		human cannonballs

7.	It is General Murray’s considered opinion, and that of his staff, that the Bedouin are a nation of:
		sheep herders
		sheep stealers
		sheep fanciers
		sheep

8.	Lawrence explains to his guide Tafas that he is from a fat country:
		Oxfordshire
		Hampshire
		Buckinghamshire
		Bedfordshire

9.	Tafas is shot by Sharif Ali, who is played by:
		Horst Buchholtz
		Lino Ventura
		Alain Delon
		Omar Sharif

10.	Sharif Ali shot Tafas for drinking at his well. Lawrence proclaims that so long as the Arabs flight tribe against tribe, they will be a little people, ____________.
		a rotten people
		a silly people
		a weak people
		an awful people

11.	Lawrence arrives at Wadi Safra, where Prince Faisal is camped. Testing out the echoes, he sings what music hall song?
		I’m Henery The Eighth, I Am
		Hello Hello, Who’s Your Lady Friend?
		The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
		Oh! It’s A Lovely War

12.	According to Brighton, Britain is great because it has:
		discipline
		knowledge
		restraint
		organisation

13.	According to Prince Feisal, which Arab city had two miles of public lighting while London was still a village?
		Baghdad
		Cairo
		Cordoba
		Damascus

14.	Lawrence leads fifty Arabs across the Mefud Desert, the worst place God created. Which one falls off his camel?
		Majid
		Farraj
		Gasim
		Daud

15.	Lawrence wins the respect of the Arabs for rescuing Gasim, and is awarded with a set of white robes of:
		a Sherif of the Beni Hanifa
		a Sherif of the Beni Wadj
		a Sherif of the Beni Shehr
		a Sherif of the Beni Khalif

16.	The leader of the Howeitat, Auda, played by Anthony Quinn describes himself as a _________ to his people.
		grandfather
		river
		shepherd
		slave

17.	Lawrence explains that Auda will join Lawrence and loot Aqaba because it is his pleasure. Auda suggests that Lawrence’s mother mated with:
		a viper
		a jackal
		a scorpion
		a vulture

18.	Lawrence and Ferraj arrive in Cairo to pass on the news that they have taken Aqaba. What does Lawrence order at the bar?
		lemonade
		Pimm’s
		soda water
		gin and tonic

19.	Allenby reads Lawrence’s file, which describes him as all of the following except:
		undisciplined
		unpunctual
		unmanageable
		untidy

20.	Prince Feisal says to the journalist Jackson Bentley that mercy is a passion for Lawrence, but for him it is merely:
		convenience
		his upbringing
		a calculation
		good manners

21.	Lawrence explains to Bentley that Auda is old-fashioned and believes that cameras will steal his:
		soul
		thoughts
		virtue
		modesty

22.	Bentley asks Lawrence what attracts him personally to the desert. Lawrence responds that it is:
		quiet
		clean
		honest
		stubborn

23.	Auda must find something honourable as plunder. What honourable plunder does he find?
		a clock
		a treasure chest
		a rifle
		a white horse

24.	While the Arabs are arguing, Lawrence decides to bring the Arab Revolt to Daraa, where he claims to be:
		divine
		omniscient
		invulnerable
		invisible

25.	Shaken by his capture and torture, Lawrence heads back to Jerusalem where the English soldiers are settling in all right – in fact they have built a:
		bowling green
		cricket pitch
		squash court
		croquet lawn

26.	The unscrupulous General Allenby convinces the half-mad Lawrence to join his big push on Damascus. Lawrence says that the best of the Arabs won’t come for money, but will come for him, while standing in front of a mosaic of:
		Bellerophon
		Achilles
		Phaeton
		Icarus

27.	On seeing a column of retreating Turkish soldiers, what order does Lawrence give?
		“No mercy!”
		“No quarter!”
		“No prisoners!”
		“No surrender!”

28.	Lawrence and the Arabs take Damascus before Allenby arrives, and establish the Arab National Council. What does Allenby decide to do?
		besiege Damascus
		throw them out of the city
		cut off the water supply
		nothing

29.	The Arab National Council collapses, and the old men make peace. What does Feisal describe as the vices of old men?
		discussion and compromise
		experience and resignation
		mistrust and caution
		suspicion and fear of one’s own mortality

30.	Lawrence leaves for England, never to return to the desert. Dryden was the chief architect of the compromise between the English and the Arabs, and on the whole he wishes he’d stayed in:
		High Wycombe
		Tunbridge Wells
		Bishop’s Waltham
		Bognor Regis