Q 01/05

Under what one-word title was Flowers for Algernon filmed in 1968, its poster printing the R backwards?

A) Genius

B) Progress

C) Charly

D) Algernon

Answer · why

C) Charly

Charly, stylised CHAЯLY in its marketing, won its star the Academy Award for Best Actor and was written for the screen by Stirling Silliphant.

Q 02/05

Which actor bought the film rights to Flowers for Algernon after playing Charlie Gordon on television in 1961?

A) Jack Lemmon

B) Cliff Robertson

C) George C. Scott

D) Rod Steiger

Answer · why

B) Cliff Robertson

Cliff Robertson won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1968 film, a part he had first played in a 1961 anthology-television episode.

Q 03/05

What IQ does Charlie Gordon demonstrate before the operation, in both versions of Flowers for Algernon?

A) 68

B) 75

C) 85

D) 95

Answer · why

A) 68

Charlie's IQ of 68 triples after the surgery, and his early progress reports are riddled with spelling errors that fade as his mind sharpens.

Q 04/05

Where does Charlie Gordon work in the 1959 Flowers for Algernon novelette, before the novel moved him to a bakery?

A) A hospital

B) A factory

C) A school

D) A diner

Answer · why

B) A factory

A factory is the novelette's setting for Charlie's menial job, where co-workers Joe Carp and Frank Reilly pose as his friends while mocking him.

Q 05/05

Which sitcom's 2013 episode 'Flowers for Charlie' puts its janitor on an intelligence pill, parodying Keyes's novel?

A) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

B) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

C) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

D) Parks and Recreation

Answer · why

A) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia had Charlie Day describe the episode as Charlie getting smarter 'in a Limitless style', and the pill makes him quit ...