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) Gordon

Answer · why

C) Charly

Charly, stylised CHAЯLY on its posters, won its star the Academy Award for Best Actor; he had bought the film rights himself to be sure of the part.

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 bought the rights because television parts he had created, such as Days of Wine and Roses, went to other actors on film. The gamble wo...

Q 03/05

What name does Charlie give his finding that artificially raised intelligence fades in proportion to its increase?

A) The Nemur–Gordon Curve

B) The Algernon–Strauss Syndrome

C) The Algernon–Gordon Effect

D) The Nemur–Strauss Paradox

Answer · why

C) The Algernon–Gordon Effect

The Algernon–Gordon Effect is Charlie's own discovery, made in a race against time: the mouse is already failing, and the paper tells Charlie his own ...

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 handed the script to Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and the pill makes Charlie quit his jan...