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Answers:

1. The opening credits, which are a pendulous three minutes, focus on:
a plane in flight
sand dunes
bandages
a brush, painting
 
2. Hana (Juliette Binoche) believes she is cursed because everyone who gets close to her, dies. How does her friend Jan die?
she is shot by a sniper
her ambulance is strafed by a fighter plane
her car drives over a mine
she kills herself
 
3. The English Patient’s only possession is a copy of:
Herodotus’ The Histories
Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia
Thucycides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wars
Homer’s The Odyssey
 
4. Katharine (Kristin Scott Thomas) is interested in Almasy (Ralph Fiennes) because she wanted to meet the man who wrote such a long paper with so few:
words
adjectives
emotions
insights
 
5. Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe) has no:
ears
fingernails
thumbs
heart
 
6. Hana and the English Patient establish themselves in an abandoned villa, unaware that there is a mine hidden:
behind the bookcase
inside the grandfather clock
under the bed
in the piano
 
7. Caravaggio is a thief. When he first meets Hana, he steals:
eggs
money
morphine
stockings
 
8. Caravaggio claims to live two blocks apart from Hana, in which city?
Montreal
Chicago
Nice
Warsaw
 
9. Almasy claims to like silence on long desert journeys, but in reality he is always:
humming
whistling
drumming
singing
 
10. By profession, Almasy is a:
geographer
archaeologist
painter
spy
 
11. Kip (Naveen Andrews) is
Hindu
Muslim
Sikh
Parsi
 
12. Katharine and Almasy begin their affair. While they are sharing a bath, what does Almasy say he hates most?
a lie
frivolity
intoxication
ownership
 
13. Kip and the English Patient have a shared pleasure. What is it?
jazz
tinned pineapple
condensed milk
the works of Rudyard Kipling
 
14. Geoffrey (Colin Firth)’s affectionate name for Katharine is:
pumpkin
sausage
monkey
pussycat
 
15. Almasy and Katharine continue their affair at a Christmas party, during the singing of which carol?
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
O Come All Ye Faithful
Joy to the World
Silent Night
 
16. Almasy claims the hollow at the base of Katharine’s throat as his own. What is it called?
the suprasternal notch
the occipital maxillary
the laryngeal prominence
the manubrium
 
17. Caravaggio was a spy working for the Allies. His codename was:
Beaver
Moose
Grizzly
Wolverine
 
18. Kip and Hana fall in love. Kip takes Hana to see:
paintings in a church
Etruscan ruins
a palazzo
catacombs under the town
 
19. The English Patient is actually:
Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
 
20. Kip has to defuse a bomb. Its serial number is:
KKIP1923
KKIP1945
KKIP2600
KKIF3000
 
21. On VE Day, Kip’s sergeant Hardy is killed by a bomb hidden in:
a statue
a belltower
a fountain
a lamppost
 
22. How does Geoffrey attempt to kill himself, Almasy and Katharine?
by crashing his plane
by driving over a cliff
by shutting them all in a cave
by triggering a landslide
 
23. Almasy takes the dying Katharine to:
the Cave of Swimmers
the Cave of Divers
the Cave of Fishers
the Cave of Sailors
 
24. How many Academy Awards did The English Patient win, including Best Picture?
seven
eight
nine
ten
 
25. Bonus Question: In the Seinfeld episode ‘The English Patient”, what movie does Elaine keep trying to see instead of the English Patient?
Blimp: The Hindenburg Story
Sack Lunch
Prognosis Negative
Chow Fun
 




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