Q 01/05

What did Hitchcock's father sell from the shop the future director was born above in 1899?

A) Fruit and vegetables

B) Books and newspapers

C) Tobacco and sweets

D) Bread and pastries

Answer · why

A) Fruit and vegetables

Fruit and vegetables, with poultry on the side: William Hitchcock was a greengrocer and a stern one, and his son recalled a lonely childhood above the...

Q 02/05

In Hitchcock's favourite childhood story, what did a policeman do to him at his father's request?

A) Made him sweep the floor

B) Locked him in a cell

C) Fined him a penny

D) Marched him home handcuffed

Answer · why

B) Locked him in a cell

Locked him in a cell, briefly, with a warning that this was what happened to naughty boys; Hitchcock said the sound of that door closing left him with...

Q 03/05

Hitchcock broke into silent films doing what job for an American studio's new London branch?

A) Operating a camera

B) Painting scenery

C) Designing title cards

D) Writing film reviews

Answer · why

C) Designing title cards

Designing title cards: his evening drawing classes got him hired when the American firm Famous Players-Lasky opened a studio in Islington, and by 1925...

Q 04/05

Which silent melodrama, shot near Munich in 1925, was Hitchcock's first feature as director?

A) The Mountain Eagle

B) Champagne

C) The Farmer's Wife

D) The Pleasure Garden

Answer · why

D) The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden won warm advance reviews, but distributor C. M. Woolf thought it had no commercial appeal and held up its British release until 19...

Q 05/05

Which silent thriller about a Jack the Ripper-style killer gave Hitchcock his first hit and his first cameo?

A) Easy Virtue

B) The Lodger

C) The Ring

D) Downhill

Answer · why

B) The Lodger

The Lodger was nearly shelved after a private screening went badly; a young critic, Ivor Montagu, was brought in to help recut it, and the reworked fi...