Q 01/05

What is Charles Foster Kane's dying word?

A) Rosebud

B) Xanadu

C) Susan

D) Mother

Answer · why

A) Rosebud

The newsreel producer sends reporter Jerry Thompson to find out what it meant.

Q 02/05

What is the name of Kane's Florida estate?

A) San Simeon

B) Manderley

C) Tara

D) Xanadu

Answer · why

D) Xanadu

Photographs of banker Otto Kahn's real Oheka Castle stood in for it on screen.

Q 03/05

Which newspaper does the young Kane buy to launch his career in yellow journalism?

A) The New York Chronicle

B) The New York Inquirer

C) The Daily Globe

D) The Morning Star

Answer · why

B) The New York Inquirer

He hires the best journalists in town, poaching most from the rival Chronicle.

Q 04/05

Which office is Kane running for when his affair with Susan Alexander is exposed?

A) President of the United States

B) Mayor of New York

C) Governor of New York

D) US Senator

Answer · why

C) Governor of New York

His rival Jim W. Gettys reveals the affair to Emily and the press, ending the campaign.

Q 05/05

Kane builds a large opera house for Susan in which city?

A) New York

B) Philadelphia

C) Boston

D) Chicago

Answer · why

D) Chicago

Leland is fired for writing a bad review of her debut there; Kane finishes the review himself.