Q 01/05

Which later cross-dressing comedy finished second to Some Like It Hot in the American Film Institute's 2000 poll of the funniest films?

A) Mrs. Doubtfire

B) Tootsie

C) Victor/Victoria

D) The Birdcage

Answer · why

B) Tootsie

Tootsie was the runner-up. The winner had a rocky start of its own: a first preview audience in Pacific Palisades barely laughed, and only a second sc...

Q 02/05

Which song with a 'boop-boop-a-doop' hook does Marilyn Monroe sing in Some Like It Hot?

A) Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

B) I Wanna Be Loved by You

C) My Heart Belongs to Daddy

D) Bye Bye Baby

Answer · why

B) I Wanna Be Loved by You

I Wanna Be Loved by You was the 1928 hit of Helen Kane, widely seen as the model for Betty Boop; she sued the cartoon's makers for stealing her singin...

Q 03/05

Which dance does Jack Lemmon's character perform until dawn with his millionaire admirer in Some Like It Hot?

A) Charleston

B) Foxtrot

C) Tango

D) Rumba

Answer · why

C) Tango

Tango: the pair pass a rose from mouth to mouth as they dance to a Cuban band, and by morning Lemmon's character has accepted a proposal of marriage.

Q 04/05

Which pressure group judged Some Like It Hot 'seriously offensive' to traditional standards of morality in 1959?

A) The Catholic League

B) The Moral Majority

C) The Legion of Decency

D) Citizens for Decent Literature

Answer · why

C) The Legion of Decency

The Legion of Decency, the Catholic film watchdog, heard 'outright smut' in the dialogue, but its disapproval did the film no harm: it was one of the ...

Q 05/05

In the final scene of Some Like It Hot, Joe, Jerry and Sugar escape the gangsters in what?

A) A hearse

B) A motorboat

C) A sleeper train

D) A taxi

Answer · why

B) A motorboat

A motorboat is waiting at the pier to run them out to a millionaire's yacht; on the way Joe pulls off his wig and owns up to Sugar, who wants him anyw...