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1.	The opening scene of The Birds takes place in which city?
		Seattle
		San Francisco
		Los Angeles
		San Diego

2.	Socialite Melanie Daniels has arrived at a pet store, to pick up what kind of bird?
		canary
		parakeet
		mynah bird
		budgerigar

3.	Mitch Brenner comes into the same store. What type of bird is he looking for?
		love birds
		cockatiels
		strawberry finches
		African Grey parrots

4.	Mitch has seen Melanie before. Where?
		library
		charity auction
		golf club
		courtroom

5.	Melanie apparently likes pulling practical jokes. She landed up in court because of one that resulted in:
		a plate glass window being smashed
		a lot of eggs thrown at a florist’s
		a policeman getting covered in cement
		a car being pushed off a cliff

6.	Melanie gets the lovebirds and goes to drop them off at Mitch’s apartment. Where has Mitch gone for the weekend?
		Monterey
		San Rafael
		Bodega Bay
		Santa Cruz

7.	In Bodega Bay, Melanie asks the post office clerk for the name of Mitch’s sister. He and his wife have a discussion about whether it is:
		Kelly or Tammy
		Alice or Lois
		Lisa or Laura
		Sandra or Deborah

8.	Melanie didn’t bring a change of clothes to Bodega Bay. What colour is her outfit?
		blue
		orange
		green
		brown

9.	What is the name of Mitch’s sister?
		Amy
		Betty
		Cathy
		Donna

10.	What type of bird is the first (but not the last) to attack Melanie?
		seagull
		pelican
		swan
		crow

11.	After the seagull attack, Mitch takes her into a nearby restaurant. What is the restaurant’s name?
		the Waves
		the Breeze
		the Waters
		the Tides

12.	Mitch’s mother Lydia is played by which actress?
		Angela Lansbury
		Jessica Tandy
		Jessie Royce Landis
		Cloris Leachman

13.	Mitch has a client who shot his wife in the head six times. What did she do?
		pay the dog more attention than him
		ask that he wash the dishes
		change the channel while he was watching a ball game
		being late to go out for dinner

14.	Lydia read a story about Melanie in the gossip column. What was it?
		she had an affair with a married Italian prince
		she gate-crashed the Governor’s Ball while drunk
		she jumped naked into a fountain
		a party she hosted was raided by the police

15.	Melanie has to stay overnight with Annie, an old flame of Mitch’s. What is her occupation?
		schoolteacher
		pharmacist
		nurse
		motel operator

16.	It’s Cathy’s birthday. How old is she turning?
		nine
		ten
		eleven
		twelve

17.	Melanie tells Mitch she has several jobs – or at least that she does different things on different days. What is not one of them?
		working for the Travelers’ Aid at the airport
		taking a course in General Semantics at Berkeley
		working as a hostess for a restaurant
		chairman of a group sending a Korean boy through school

18.	What business does Melanie’s father own?
		a gold mine
		a newspaper
		a department store
		a railway

19.	What game are the children playing at the birthday party when the birds attack?
		pin the tail on the donkey
		blindfold taste test
		blind man’s bluff
		piñata smashing

20.	That night, thousands of birds fly into the Brenner residence through the:
		French windows
		chimney
		bay window
		screen door

21.	The next day, Lydia goes to see Dan Fawcett to discuss their chickem problems. What’s the first hint that not all is well at the Fawcett place?
		a feather floating down from an upstairs room
		broken teacups hanging from the armoire
		a picture of Dan and his wife smashed on the floor
		hundreds of scratch marks on the door

22.	Melanie drives to the school to pick up Cathy, but finds that the children are busy singing a song. What song are they singing?
		Shoo Fly, Don’t Bother Me
		Risseldy Rosseldy
		On Top of Old Smoky
		This Old Man

23.	Melanie waits outside until the song is finished, completely unaware that hundreds of crows are gathering right behind her on the:
		swings
		slide
		monkey bars
		jungle gym

24.	The name of Lydia’s deceased husband – and Mitch and Cathy’s father – is:
		Bob
		Frank
		Henry
		Bert

25.	Cathy and Melanie stop a help another schoolgirl. Unable to catch up with the others, they seek refuge in:
		a car
		a telephone booth
		a church
		an outhouse

26.	Mrs Bundy, local ornithologist, doesn’t believe the birds are attacking, and in any case it wouldn’t be possible to wipe them off the earth. How many birds does she say there are in North America?
		two billion, six hundred million breeding land birds
		three thousand, three hundred and twenty five per square mile
		five billion, six hundred million, in the summer
		five billion, seven hundred and fifty million

27.	The gulls launch an attack on Bodega Bay while Melanie and Mitch are in the Tides. The first person we see them attack is:
		a gas station attendant
		a mother and her two children
		a postman
		a man (Alfred Hitchcock) walking two small dogs

28.	Where is Cathy during the attack on Bodega Bay?
		the Brenner house
		the stone church
		the Tides
		Annie’s house

29.	The next morning, in what is possibly the dumbest decision by anyone in a movie ever, after everything that has happened, a character hears rustling in a distant room upstairs and decides to go and investigate alone without telling anyone. Which character?
		Lydia
		Cathy
		Melanie
		Mitch

30.	Bonus Question: Of the following, which is not true?
		Tippi Hedren had to spend a week in the hospital recovering from a breakdown after filming the scene where the birds attack her en masse
		Hitchcock repeatedly berated Taylor for allowing his Australian accent to creep into his performance
		Veronica Lambert, who played Cathy Brenner, grew up to play the role of Lambert in Alien
		the woman featured on the poster for the birds is not Tippe Hedren, but Jessica Tandy