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Number 21, about in what TV production Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer played a married couple decades after The Sound of Music, is totally irrelevant to one's knowledge of this movie! Throw it out!!!
lpadilla 12/12/10 5:01 pm
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| 1. | Our first introduction to Maria shows her singing and twirling atop a hill when she SHOULD be: | ||
| Back at the university | |||
| Traveling to her new job as a governess | |||
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Back at the abbey | ||
| On a bus to Vienna | |||
| 2. | The Sound of Music is takes place in: | ||
| 1940s Prague | |||
| 1930s Budapest | |||
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1930s Salzburg | ||
| 1940s Munich | |||
| 3. | According to the other nuns at the abbey, the troublesome Maria could manage to do all but what? | ||
| Throw a whirling dervish out of whirl | |||
| Outpester any pest | |||
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Make you want to hurl | ||
| Drive a hornet from its nest | |||
| 4. | Georg von Trapp is a retired: | ||
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Captain in the Imperial Navy | ||
| Major in the Imperial Army | |||
| Colonel in the Austrian Air Force | |||
| He was an entertainer, not a military man! | |||
| 5. | Good thing Maria has "confidence in me" - she's going to need it. She will be the new governess to ______ children!! | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | |||
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7 | ||
| 6. | How does Captain von Trapp summon his children? | ||
| Clapping his hands | |||
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Blowing a whistle | ||
| Yelling for them | |||
| He doesn't - he prefers not to interact with them | |||
| 7. | The first day on the job, and Maria has already had to deal with mischievous children. What HAVEN'T they tried by the end of the first day? | ||
| Convince Maria to arrive late for dinner and slurp her soup loudly | |||
| Put a frog in her pocket | |||
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Put spiders in her bed | ||
| Put a pinecone on her chair at dinner | |||
| 8. | The Captain refuses to allow Maria to make play clothes for the children - but she manages to do it anyway, while he is away in Vienna. How does she get the material for the clothes? | ||
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She uses the fabric from her old bedroom drapes | ||
| She uses the material she was going to use to make her own clothes | |||
| She orders some fabric and forges the Captain's signature on the order form | |||
| Eh, who needs "play clothes"? She allows them to play in their uniforms | |||
| 9. | Uncle Max is looking for an undiscovered singing group to "pluck out of obscurity". Where does he want to introduce them to the public? | ||
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Salzburg Folk Festival | ||
| Budapest Spring Music Festival | |||
| Vienna Festival | |||
| Schubert Festival | |||
| 10. | Upon his return to his estate, The Captain, Mr. "Discipline First", first sees his children... | ||
| Standing in line formation, perfectly well-behaved | |||
| Doing cartwheels on the veranda | |||
| Singing for Maria | |||
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Falling out of a canoe | ||
| 11. | A party is thrown in the honor of Baroness Elsa Schraeder. How does Georg manage to irk Nazi official Herr Zeller at said party? | ||
| By refusing to "heil Hitler" / gesture | |||
| By refusing to speak to him / giving him the cold shoulder | |||
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By hanging an Austrian flag in the entryway instead of a Nazi one | ||
| By introducing him by the wrong name | |||
| 12. | Maria and Georg let those lovin' feelings show while: | ||
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Demonstrating to the children how to dance the Laendler | ||
| Singing Edelweiss with the children | |||
| Watching the children sing good night to the crowd at the party | |||
| Elsa is greeting the party guests | |||
| 13. | When the meddling Elsa points out that Maria and Georg seem to be in love with each other, Maria: | ||
| Runs downstairs and confesses her feelings to Georg | |||
| Takes a trip to the hills near the abbey where she can clear her mind | |||
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Runs away to the abbey and goes into seclusion | ||
| Hops on a bus to Vienna for a weekend so she can decide how to proceed | |||
| 14. | The children attempt to visit Maria at the abbey. The Captain wants to know why they were late for dinner, suspecting they were doing something they shouldn't have been. The children lie and say they were: | ||
| Rehearsing for the folk festival | |||
| Out swimming | |||
| Picking out a wedding present for Captain and the Baroness | |||
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Picking berries | ||
| 15. | So, Georg finally gets rid of that pesky Elsa and he and Maria confess their lovin' feelings. He wants to know who he should ask for permission to marry her. She suggests: | ||
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The children | ||
| Mother Superior | |||
| The other nuns at the abbey | |||
| Uncle Max | |||
| 16. | Poor Liesl. Her former boy toy Rolfe is now giving her the cold shoulder. As it turns out, that's because he's now involved with: | ||
| Louisa | |||
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The Third Reich | ||
| Liesl's classmate | |||
| A man, baby! | |||
| 17. | Refusing to accept a commission in the German Navy, the Captain decides the family will leave Austria in secret. Who alerts Herr Zeller to their plan? | ||
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Franz, the butler | ||
| Rolfe, Liesl's former love interest | |||
| Helga, the housekeeper | |||
| Uncle Max | |||
| 18. | Where do the von Trapps initially hide from the Nazis? | ||
| Under a canoe near their lake | |||
| In the glass gazebo | |||
| In the crowd at the Salzburg film festival | |||
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At the abbey | ||
| 19. | How do they escape Austria? | ||
| They drive over the border into Italy | |||
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They hike over the mountains to the Swiss border | ||
| They board a train into Hungary | |||
| They don't...they are captured. | |||
| 20. | How do those clever nuns thwart the Nazis' plans to chase/capture the von Trapps? | ||
| They let the air out of the Nazis' car tires | |||
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They remove parts from the Nazis' car so it won't start | ||
| They put banana peels on the stairs | |||
| They move extra slowly so the von Trapps have time to escape from the abbey's cemetery | |||
| 21. | Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer later co-starred as a married couple in a TV production of: | ||
| The African Queen | |||
| Our Town | |||
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On Golden Pond | ||
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |||
| 22. | Which von Trapp child later found some TV success as a popular superhero? | ||
| Kurt (Duane Chase) | |||
| Brigitta (Angela Cartwright) | |||
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Frederich (Nicholas Hammond) | ||
| Louisa (Heather Menzies) | |||
| 23. | How many Oscars did The Sound of Music win? | ||
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5 | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | |||
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