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1.	The Academy Award-winning song that plays over the opening credits of High Noon is:
		Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’
		Bury Me Not In The Lone Prairie
		Along the Navaho Trail
		Tumbling Tumbleweeds

2.	The movie opens on which member of the Miller gang?
		Frank Miller, played by Ian McDonald
		Ben Miller, played by Sheb Wooley
		Jack Colby, played by Lee Van Cleef
		Jim Pierce, played by Robert Wilke

3.	In a small New Mexico Territory town, Marshal Will Kane is hanging up his badge to marry ___________, played by Grace Kelly.
		Lucy Edwards
		Amy Fowler
		Jill McBain
		Tess Millay

4.	The name of the town, never said but visible on the side of the telegraph office at the train station, is:
		Shinbone
		Rock Ridge
		Hadleyville
		Chisholm

5.	High Noon takes place on a:
		Monday
		Wednesday
		Saturday
		Sunday

6.	Amy Fowler is a:
		Methodist
		Quaker
		Baptist
		Mormon

7.	On hearing that Frank Miller has been released on some technicality, how many coffins does the barber think he’ll need, at least, no matter how you figure?
		two
		three
		four
		five

8.	Judge Mettrick, who sentenced rank Miller to death is leaving town. A similar thing happened to him eight years ago in Indian Falls, and he escaped death only through the intercession of a lady of somewhat dubious reputation and the cost of:
		a very handsome brooch that once belonged to his mother
		very handsome watch that once belonged to his mother
		a very handsome ring that once belonged to his mother
		a very handsome pendant that once belonged to his mother

9.	Will and Amy may be headed for the shortest marriage in history. Amy is upset that Will wants to stay and fight, and goes to the train station to buy a ticket to:
		Denver
		Kansas City
		St Louis
		Albuquerque

10.	Deputy Sheriff Harvey Pell believes Kane is angry at him because:
		he is young and shows up the older Kane
		he was friends with Frank Miller
		he talked about Kane after drinking too much in the saloon
		he is with Kane’s former girlfriend

11.	Harvey Pell is played by:
		Lloyd Bridges
		Rod Steiger
		George Kennedy
		Richard Widmark

12.	The hymn being sung in church is to the tune of:
		Goodbye Dolly Gray
		The U.S. Marines Hymn
		John Brown’s Body
		The Yankee Doodle Boy

13.	The hotel clerk doesn’t like Kane because:
		he sent his son to prison
		the place was always busy before he was around
		he is friends with Frank Miller
		he is jealous of Kane’s relationship with Helen Ramirez

14.	Helen Ramirez puts down Harvey, in comparison to Kane: “You're a good looking boy, you have _____________, but he is a man. It takes more than ____________ to make a man, Harvey.”
		a healthy strong chest
		big broad shoulders
		good sturdy arms
		a young handsome face

15.	Kane goes to the church to recruit some deputies, but is told to get out of town because it will be bad for business. As he leaves the church, the children outside are playing:
		tag
		red rover
		tug of war
		follow the leader

16.	Amy goes to see Helen, thinking she is the reason that Kane is staying behind. Helen says she is leaving town, and advises Amy:
		Not to leave, to get a gun and to fight
		To take Kane with her
		To leave on the noon train
		To run, to get away as far as she can

17.	Kane goes to visit his predecessor and mentor, Matt Howe. Howe tells Kane at he will be alone, because this has happened too suddenly and people have to talk themselves into _______.
		standing up for others, and themselves
		keeping the peace
		law and order
		justice

18.	What’s the name of the only person to show up to help Kane, only to chicken out once he realises there is no one else?
		Percy Mettrick
		Jonas Henderson
		Sam Fuller
		Herb Baker

19.	It is one minute to noon. What is Will doing?
		cleaning and loading his gun
		telling the young kid to go on home
		releasing the town drunk
		writing his last will and testament

20.	Ben Miller is young and impatient. He demonstrates this by smashing a storefront window and stealing:
		a knife
		a pair of boots
		a lady’s bonnet
		a bottle of liquor

21.	Of the Miller gang, who is the first to die?
		Frank Miller
		Ben Miller
		Jack Colby
		Jim Pierce

22.	Amy shoots Pierce from where she is hiding, in the:
		haberdashery
		judge’s chambers
		general store
		Marshal’s office

23.	The Miller gang dead, Kane’s last act before he rides out of town with Amy is:
		to give his badge to Harvey, saying “You deserve this”
		to give his badge to the new arriving sheriff, with a sarcastic “Good luck”
		to grind his badge under his foot
		to throw his badge on the ground

24.	Most of High Noon occurs in real time. From what time does the movie time begin to synchronise with real time, culminating at High Noon?
		10:35
		10:40
		10:45
		10:50

25.	Bonus Question: Despite High Noon’s classic status today, at the time of its release it was controversial as being an allegory for the struggle against McCarthyism. It was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost out to:
		From Here to Eternity
		The Quiet Man
		The Greatest Show on Earth
		An American in Paris