Q 01/05

What battle cry does Evelyn Couch shout as she rams the car that stole her parking space?

A) Geronimo

B) Towanda

C) Tallulah

D) Boadicea

Answer · why

B) Towanda

Towanda is the fearless alter ego Idgie adopts in Ninny's stories. Evelyn borrows the name, and when two young women take her space she rams their car...

Q 02/05

What did Fannie Flagg add at the end of her novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe?

A) A Threadgoode family tree

B) The café's recipes

C) A map of Whistle Stop

D) Photographs of the real café

Answer · why

B) The café's recipes

The café's recipes close the book, presented as Sipsey's own, fried green tomatoes included. Six years later Flagg turned them into a full Whistle Sto...

Q 03/05

Before writing novels, Fannie Flagg was best known as a frequent panelist on which 1970s TV show?

A) Password

B) Hollywood Squares

C) Match Game

D) The $10,000 Pyramid

Answer · why

C) Match Game

Match Game had her writing answers on cards, though undiagnosed dyslexia made her doubt for years that she could be a writer. She usually sat bottom r...

Q 04/05

Fannie Flagg chose a stage name because her birth name already belonged to which Oscar-winning actress?

A) Anne Bancroft

B) Patricia Neal

C) Joanne Woodward

D) Shirley Booth

Answer · why

B) Patricia Neal

Patricia Neal, who won her Oscar for Hud, was already on the books at Actors' Equity, so the young actress from Birmingham had to register under a new...

Q 05/05

The fictional Whistle Stop Cafe was loosely based on a real cafe in which Alabama suburb?

A) Irondale

B) Bessemer

C) Leeds

D) Homewood

Answer · why

A) Irondale

Irondale, just east of Birmingham, is where Flagg's great-aunt Bess ran a small café beside the railroad tracks. Bess was the model for Idgie.