Q 01/05

In North by Northwest, how do Vandamm's men first try to kill Roger Thornhill?

A) A staged drunk-driving crash

B) A poisoned martini

C) A push from a moving train

D) A bomb in his taxi

Answer · why

A) A staged drunk-driving crash

A staged drunk-driving crash. They pour a bottle of bourbon into him and send him down a cliff road at the wheel; he survives, is booked for drunk dri...

Q 02/05

Who plays advertising executive Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest?

A) Gregory Peck

B) Rock Hudson

C) Cary Grant

D) William Holden

Answer · why

C) Cary Grant

Cary Grant. A third of the way through filming he told Hitchcock it was a terrible script and that he still couldn't make head or tail of it, which wa...

Q 03/05

Who plays Eve Kendall in North by Northwest?

A) Grace Kelly

B) Kim Novak

C) Cyd Charisse

D) Eva Marie Saint

Answer · why

D) Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint. The studio pushed one of its own stars, Cyd Charisse, but Hitchcock insisted on Saint, then threw out its costumes and took her shopp...

Q 04/05

Who plays the suave villain Phillip Vandamm in North by Northwest?

A) George Sanders

B) James Mason

C) Claude Rains

D) Laurence Olivier

Answer · why

B) James Mason

James Mason. His silky spy first appears in a borrowed Long Island mansion, posing as its owner, so that when Thornhill brings the police back the nex...

Q 05/05

Who plays Leonard, Vandamm's watchful henchman, in North by Northwest?

A) Robert Vaughn

B) Anthony Perkins

C) Martin Landau

D) Peter Graves

Answer · why

C) Martin Landau

Martin Landau. He plays the henchman as devoted to his boss and jealous of Eve; Hollywood's censors repeatedly asked for the script's "flavor of homos...