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| 1. | Sideways starts out with a title card stating the day of the week. That day is: | ||
| Tuesday | |||
| Sunday | |||
| Friday | |||
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Saturday | ||
| 2. | At the house of Jack's fiance (Christine), Miles is asked to pick his favorite of two sample desserts ("if pressed"). He chooses: | ||
| The white cake | |||
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The dark cake | ||
| The apple pie | |||
| The chocolate mousse | |||
| 3. | A small "speciality press" is considering publishing Miles' book. What is this publisher's name? | ||
| Enigma | |||
| Clue | |||
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Conundrum | ||
| Thesaurus | |||
| 4. | As Miles and Jack are driving, Jack praises the new draft of Miles' book. Evidently not having even read it, which part does he claim is "vastly superior" to the old one? | ||
| The opening | |||
| The rising action | |||
| The character development | |||
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The ending | ||
| 5. | Jack and Miles pay a visit to Miles' mother. What reason does Miles cite for this to Jack? | ||
| Miles wants to ask his mother to come with them on their trip | |||
| Miles has to borrow some money from his mother | |||
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Miles' mother's birthday is the next day | ||
| Miles hasn't seen his mother since 1997 | |||
| 6. | It is stated or implied several times during the film that Miles and Jack first met at this place: | ||
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At college | ||
| A wine tasting | |||
| A movie set | |||
| An acting class | |||
| 7. | Miles and Jack stay at a motel during most of their wine tasting tour. This motel's name is: | ||
| The Unfriendly Possum | |||
| The Sly Fox | |||
| The Hitching Post | |||
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The Windmill | ||
| 8. | At their first visit to the Hitching Post, Jack mentions how he met Christine. The location of this meeting was: | ||
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The restaurant where Christine worked | ||
| A singles bar | |||
| Miles' wedding party | |||
| A wine tasting | |||
| 9. | During this same dinner, Miles tells Jack about Maya (Virginia Madsen). What is Maya's ex-husband's occupation? | ||
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University professor | ||
| Bartender | |||
| Lawyer | |||
| Winery owner | |||
| 10. | During their first day touring wine country, Jack upsets Miles with this unfortunate revelation, previously unknown to Miles: | ||
| Miles' ex-wife is pregnant | |||
| Miles' ex-wife is coming to Jack's wedding | |||
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Miles' ex-wife has re-married | ||
| Miles' ex-wife and Jack had an affair | |||
| 11. | Jack and Miles go to dinner with Maya and Stephanie (Sandra Oh). What does Miles threaten to do if anyone orders Merlot? | ||
| Drink it all | |||
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Leave the restaurant | ||
| Call the police | |||
| Reveal to the women that Jack is getting married on Saturday | |||
| 12. | After Stephanie invites Jack and Miles to her home for dessert, Jack notably utters a sound that can roughly be transcribed as: | ||
| MEOOWWWWWW | |||
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|
ARAHRR-RAAAARRRRRHH | ||
| WOOF-WOOF-WOOF | |||
| ZZZZIIIIIIIPP | |||
| 13. | Miles and Maya discuss Miles' book. Miles states that the title is: | ||
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The Day After Yesterday | ||
| Tomorrow Never Lies | |||
| The Weeks Before My Life | |||
| The Day Before Today | |||
| 14. | While describing his book, Miles discloses that it ends like a mystery of the type written by this author: | ||
| Arthur Conan Doyle | |||
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Alain Robbe-Grillet | ||
| Agatha Christie | |||
| R. L. Stine | |||
| 15. | During their conversation, Maya declares herself the "Queen of" something to Miles. If we take her at her word, then what is she the queen of? | ||
| Essays | |||
| The world | |||
| Procrastination | |||
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Typos | ||
| 16. | Finally unable to contain himself, Miles calls his agent to find out if his book has been sold to the publisher. The agent has a hyphenated last name, probably in the service of quirkiness. What is the last name? | ||
| McDougall-Courtland | |||
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Berman-Silverman | ||
| Exxon-Valdez | |||
| Gore-Lieberman | |||
| 17. | After Miles goes berserk at the wine tasting, Jack helps him leave the room and explains his behavior to the crowd with this lie: | ||
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Miles' mother just died | ||
| Miles' wife just died | |||
| Miles is "a very sick man" | |||
| Miles has Tourette's Syndrome | |||
| 18. | Miles attributes the phrase "a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea" as having been written by a famous American writer. Who is it? | ||
| Norman Mailer | |||
| Gore Vidal | |||
| Dan Quayle | |||
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|
Charles Bukowski | ||
| 19. | While the waitress, Cammi, is flirting with Jack, Miles asks where the bathroom is. He is told that it is located right by this large stuffed animal: | ||
| Giant python | |||
| Bear | |||
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Buffalo | ||
| Moose | |||
| 20. | When Jack tells Miles about fleeing from waitress Cammi's angry husband, he recollects that he had to take a short cut through a farm. What type of animal inhabited this location? (as Jack says, "those suckers are mean!") | ||
| Pig | |||
| Beaver | |||
| Turkey | |||
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Ostrich | ||
| 21. | As the waitress and her husband make love on their bed, we spot a television set behind them that broadcasts two notable political figures standing side-by-side. Who are they? | ||
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George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld | ||
| George W. Bush and John Kerry | |||
| George H. W. Bush and Wendell Wilkie | |||
| George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice | |||
| 22. | Jack and Christine are married in a church during one of the film's last scenes. What is the religious denomination of the ceremony? | ||
| Egyptian Coptic Christian | |||
| Greek Orthodox | |||
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Armenian Orthodox | ||
| Episcopalian | |||
| 23. | Miles' occupation is noted throughout the film. We finally see him at work near film's end. What does he do? | ||
| Librarian | |||
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School teacher | ||
| Postal worker | |||
| Gardener | |||
| 24. | The very last shot of the film, before the screen fades to black, is of: | ||
| A car going down a highway | |||
| A book being slammed shut | |||
| An open door about to close | |||
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A hand knocking on a door | ||
| 25. | Three of the following four actors or directors received an Academy Award nomination for their work on the film. Which of these four did not? | ||
| Alexander Payne | |||
| Thomas Haden Church | |||
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Paul Giamatti | ||
| Virginia Madsen | |||
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