Q 01/05

To become honorary Newfoundlanders in Come From Away's bar scene, stranded passengers must kiss which kind of fish?

A) A cod

B) A salmon

C) A herring

D) A mackerel

Answer · why

A) A cod

A cod, often a frozen one, is held up to each newcomer's lips in the real screech-in ceremony. Only a native Newfoundlander can officiate at a proper ...

Q 02/05

In Come From Away, Gander's Claude is sitting in which Canadian coffee chain when he first hears of the 9/11 attacks?

A) Second Cup

B) Tim Hortons

C) Coffee Time

D) Country Style

Answer · why

B) Tim Hortons

Tim Hortons, the chain a hockey player co-founded in Ontario, is where the news reaches Claude. Newcomer Janice is the one who brings it to him.

Q 03/05

In Come From Away, which rare apes do Bonnie and her husband Doug discover in the hold of a grounded plane?

A) Gorillas

B) Orangutans

C) Gibbons

D) Bonobos

Answer · why

D) Bonobos

Bonobos, two of them, were the rarest animals stranded in the holds, alongside pets including an epileptic cat with its medicine strapped to its crate...

Q 04/05

In Come From Away, what becomes of passengers Nick and Diane after meeting while stranded in Gander?

A) They opened a pub

B) They wrote a book

C) They got married

D) They settled in Gander

Answer · why

C) They got married

They got married, and the finale brings the couple back to Gander for a reunion ten years on. The real Nick and Diane met on a diverted flight and sle...

Q 05/05

Which streaming service released the filmed stage version of Come From Away a day before 9/11's twentieth anniversary?

A) Apple TV+

B) Netflix

C) Paramount+

D) Prime Video

Answer · why

A) Apple TV+

Apple TV+ bought the film in April 2021, weeks before it was shot on Broadway in front of an invited audience of 9/11 survivors and frontline workers.

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