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