Q 01/05

Which author wrote the 1959 novel that Psycho was adapted from?

A) Ira Levin

B) Robert Bloch

C) Richard Matheson

D) Ray Bradbury

Answer · why

B) Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch sold the screen rights to an anonymous bidder and learned only after the deal had closed that the buyer was Alfred Hitchcock.

Q 02/05

The character of Norman Bates was loosely inspired by which real Wisconsin murderer?

A) H. H. Holmes

B) Albert Fish

C) Ed Gein

D) Charles Starkweather

Answer · why

C) Ed Gein

Ed Gein was arrested in 1957 not far from where Psycho's novelist was living; the author said what struck him most was that a killer could go unnotice...

Q 03/05

In Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho, how much cash does Marion Crane steal from her employer?

A) $5,000

B) $15,000

C) $40,000

D) $100,000

Answer · why

C) $40,000

$40,000 in cash, which Marion hides in a folded newspaper; after the murder Norman tosses the paper unopened into her car trunk and never learns what ...

Q 04/05

In which city does Psycho open?

A) Tucson

B) Bakersfield

C) Fresno

D) Phoenix

Answer · why

D) Phoenix

Phoenix was to be introduced in one unbroken helicopter shot gliding down to a hotel window, but the aerial shots came out too shaky, so the opening w...

Q 05/05

In Psycho, the Bates Motel sits a short drive from which fictional California town?

A) Fairvale

B) Santa Mira

C) Bodega Bay

D) Haddonfield

Answer · why

A) Fairvale

Fairvale is where Marion's boyfriend Sam keeps his hardware store; she is only about fifteen miles short of it when the rain drives her off the highwa...