Q 01/05

The Fried Green Tomatoes novel was published four years before the film. In what year?

A) 1983

B) 1985

C) 1987

D) 1990

Answer · why

C) 1987

Director Jon Avnet read it the same year, after producer Lisa Lindstrom insisted he read the whole book rather than a synopsis.

Q 02/05

What did Fannie Flagg include at the end of the novel?

A) A family tree of the Threadgoodes

B) The café's recipes

C) A map of Whistle Stop

D) Photographs of the Irondale Cafe

Answer · why

B) The café's recipes

The signature fried green tomatoes recipe is among them.

Q 03/05

Before she was a novelist, Fannie Flagg was best known as a regular panelist on which 1970s TV show?

A) Password

B) Hollywood Squares

C) Match Game

D) The $10,000 Pyramid

Answer · why

C) Match Game

She usually sat in the lower-right seat next to Richard Dawson.

Q 04/05

Fannie Flagg was born under what name, already registered by another actress?

A) Frances Fortenberry

B) Patricia Neal

C) Marion LeGore

D) Bess Jackson

Answer · why

B) Patricia Neal

She had an hour to pick a stage name; her grandfather suggested 'Fannie' because vaudeville comediennes used it.

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

Flagg's aunt Bess Fortenberry bought the real café in 1932 and ran it with two friends for four decades.