Q 01/05

What secret from his boxing days makes Sean Thornton refuse to fight his brother-in-law in The Quiet Man?

A) He killed an opponent

B) He threw a title bout

C) He lost his licence

D) He promised his mother

Answer · why

A) He killed an opponent

He killed an opponent in the ring, a younger married man, and swore off fighting out of guilt. His silence about it is why Mary Kate takes him for a c...

Q 02/05

The storm kiss from The Quiet Man plays on television in which Steven Spielberg film?

A) Raiders of the Lost Ark

B) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

C) Close Encounters of the Third Kind

D) Empire of the Sun

Answer · why

B) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial plays the storm kiss on a TV set, complete with the older film's main theme melody. Spielberg's film arrived thirty years a...

Q 03/05

How much did John Ford pay in the 1930s for the film rights to the magazine story The Quiet Man?

A) $10

B) $100

C) $1,000

D) $10,000

Answer · why

A) $10

$10 was all John Ford paid for the rights to the 1933 story. Its author got $2,500 more when a studio took the project on, and a final $3,750 once the...

Q 04/05

In The Quiet Man, what does Sean do with the dowry money once he gets it?

A) Bets it on a horse

B) Gives it to the priest

C) Burns it in a boiler

D) Buys drinks for the village

Answer · why

C) Burns it in a boiler

Burns it in a boiler, and Mary Kate helps him do it. The couple wanted the custom honoured, never the cash, so she walks home proud while the two men ...

Q 05/05

Which relatives of star John Wayne appear on screen during the horse race sequence in The Quiet Man?

A) His parents

B) His grandchildren

C) His brothers

D) His children

Answer · why

D) His children

His children, four of them, all turn up at the race, uncredited. Two of the four even get a moment with Maureen O'Hara's Mary Kate before the riders s...