Q 01/05

What did Dolly Parton click together on the set of 9 to 5 to create the theme song's typewriter beat?

A) Her fingernails

B) A pair of teaspoons

C) Two ballpoint pens

D) Her bracelets

Answer · why

A) Her fingernails

Her fingernails, long acrylic ones, gave Dolly Parton a clacking rhythm, and she built the song around it on set. Her album credits even list her on v...

Q 02/05

In 9 to 5, what does Violet Newstead accidentally put in Franklin Hart's coffee instead of sweetener?

A) Sleeping pills

B) Laxative powder

C) Rat poison

D) Drain cleaner

Answer · why

C) Rat poison

Rat poison came in a box nearly identical to the sweetener, so a distracted Violet grabbed the wrong one. Hart never drank it: his desk chair malfunct...

Q 03/05

Which US president wrote in his diary that 9 to 5 was funny but its pot-smoking scene made him mad?

A) Jimmy Carter

B) Ronald Reagan

C) Gerald Ford

D) George H. W. Bush

Answer · why

B) Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan watched the comedy with Nancy on Valentine's Day 1981, weeks after taking office. He felt the scene endorsed the drug for young viewers ...

Q 04/05

9 to 5 was the second-biggest box office hit of 1980, behind which other 20th Century Fox release?

A) The Blues Brothers

B) Coal Miner's Daughter

C) Smokey and the Bandit II

D) The Empire Strikes Back

Answer · why

D) The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back took about $209 million in North America, roughly double the office comedy's $103 million. One studio released both, giving it...

Q 05/05

Which comedian played Violet Newstead, the widowed supervisor passed over for promotion, in 9 to 5?

A) Lily Tomlin

B) Carol Burnett

C) Goldie Hawn

D) Bette Midler

Answer · why

A) Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin played Violet, a twelve-year veteran who once trained Franklin Hart and still gets treated like his secretary. Jane Fonda cast her after l...