Q 01/05

At the end of Sorry, Wrong Number, what does Mrs. Stevenson realize about the murder plot she overheard?

A) The police staged it

B) She is the intended victim

C) It was a radio drama

D) It already happened

Answer · why

B) She is the intended victim

She is the intended victim: the unnamed client who hired the two men is her own husband, away on a sudden business trip. She works it out only as some...

Q 02/05

Which actress earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination as the bedridden wife in the 1948 film Sorry, Wrong Number?

A) Barbara Stanwyck

B) Bette Davis

C) Joan Crawford

D) Olivia de Havilland

Answer · why

A) Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck received her fourth and final Best Actress nomination for the part, playing a spoiled heiress who cannot leave her bed. The Academy g...

Q 03/05

The first radio star of Sorry, Wrong Number later played meddling mother Endora on which 1960s sitcom?

A) The Munsters

B) I Dream of Jeannie

C) Bewitched

D) The Addams Family

Answer · why

C) Bewitched

Bewitched made her a television favourite from 1964 to 1972 and brought six Emmy nominations. On radio she had played Mrs. Stevenson again and again, ...

Q 04/05

In Sorry, Wrong Number, what noise do the two plotters count on to drown out their target's screams?

A) Church bells

B) A factory whistle

C) A thunderstorm

D) A passing train

Answer · why

D) A passing train

A passing train crosses a nearby bridge at the chosen minute, and the plotters trust its roar to cover any cry. It rumbles past right on schedule in t...

Q 05/05

Which famous director and radio star called Sorry, Wrong Number the greatest single radio script ever written?

A) Alfred Hitchcock

B) Cecil B. DeMille

C) John Huston

D) Orson Welles

Answer · why

D) Orson Welles

Orson Welles knew the writer's work first-hand: he had performed another Lucille Fletcher thriller on his own radio show, and the play's original star...