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1.	The opening scene of Psycho takes place in which city?
		Wichita
		Phoenix
		San Diego
		Denver

2.	Psycho’s opening scene is unusually precise about when it takes place. When is that?
		Wednesday, February 4, 3:18 p.m.
		Tuesday, August 23, 4:41 p.m.
		Friday, December 11, 2:43 p.m.
		Thursday, July 1, 1:38 p.m.

3.	Tomorrow’s the day Mr Cassidy’s little girl is getting married. What is he buying her as a gift?
		a car
		a diamond necklace
		a cruise around the world
		a house

4.	How much money is Marion given to take to the bank?
		$20,000
		$30,000
		$40,000
		$50,000

5.	Marion decides instead to take the money and leave town. Spooked after an encounter with a policeman, she buys a new car. What is the name of the dealership?
		Fresno Freddie
		Tucson Ted
		California Charlie
		Arizona Arnie

6.	Marion checks into the Bates Motel. What name does she use?
		Mary Williams
		Maria Peters
		Marianne Davies
		Marie Samuels

7.	The Bates Motel is only fifteen miles from the town Sam lives in. What is the town’s name?
		Fairvale
		Springwood
		Crystal Lake
		Haddonfield

8.	The Bates Motel has the same number of cabins as it has vacancies. How many cabins are there at the Bates Motel?
		eight
		ten
		twelve
		fourteen

9.	Norman Bates shows Marion around her room. He is too embarrassed to say which word?
		toilet
		closet
		bathroom
		bed

10.	Mrs Bates refuses Norman’s request to bring strange young girls in for supper... by candlelight, she supposes, in the cheap erotic fashion of cheap erotic minds. And then what? After supper?
		music?
		dancing?
		kissing?
		seduction?

11.	Where does Marion hide the money?
		in the Bible
		folded up in a newspaper
		in her suitcase lining
		in the toilet cistern

12.	The parlor of the Bates Motel is decorated all over with:
		cats
		flowers
		babies
		birds

13.	What is Norman’s hobby?
		taxidermy
		knitting
		photography
		butterfly collecting

14.	According to Bates, what role does a mother fulfill in a boy’s life?
		his best friend
		his comfort in life
		his anchor that keeps him from going adrift
		the pillow he puts his head down on

15.	Marion tells Norman her real surname. What is it?
		Swann
		Crane
		Finch
		Crowe

16.	After grappling with her conscience, Marion decides to go back to Phoenix with the money in the morning. But she is gruesomely murdered:
		in the shower
		in the parlor
		in the closet
		in her bed

17.	Marion’s sister Lila appears, concerned about Marion’s disappearance. Lila is played by which actress?
		Anne Baxter
		Vera Miles
		Barbara Bel Geddes
		Suzanne Pleshette

18.	The name of Marion’s boyfriend is:
		Charles Oakley
		John Kovac
		Mark Rutland
		Sam Loomis

19.	A private investigator appears on the scene, after Marion and the missing money. His name is:
		Arbogast
		Halliday
		Devereaux
		Vandamm

20.	The next victim of Mrs Bates is:
		Sam
		Vera
		Arbogast
		Sherriff Chambers

21.	Mrs Chambers helped Norman pick out the dress his mother was buried in. What colour was it?
		periwinkle blue
		lavender pink
		emerald green
		primrose yellow

22.	Mrs Bates poisoned and herself with:
		cyanide
		Prussic acid
		strychnine
		arsenic

23.	Where does Norman take his mother to hide?
		the attic
		the fruit cellar
		the toolshed
		the outhouse

24.	Lila and Sam check into the Bates Motel, to look for evidence that Marion was there. Where do they find it?
		the shower
		the windowsill
		the toilet
		the writing desk

25.	Lila sneaks into the Bates house and looks around Mrs Bates’ bedroom. Of the many strange and creepy things in the room, what is not one of them?
		all of the shoes are clean and polished
		the dressing table is covered with recently-used cosmetics
		a mink coat draped across the rocking chair
		the imprint of a body on the bed

26.	Lila then enters Norman’s child-like room. Which Beethoven symphony is on the record player?
		No. 6, Pastoral
		No 9, Choral
		No. 3, Eroica
		No. 5

27.	What is the last thing Lila looks at in Norman’s room?
		a book
		dismembered dolls
		Norman’s sketches
		a jar of fingernails

28.	Norman as his mother arrives to attack Lila, but is stopped at the last second by Sam. As he is grappled, Norman screams “I’m ______ Bates.”. What is Mrs Bates’ first name?
		Gloria
		Agnes
		Eleanor
		Norma

29.	What is the last shot in the movie?
		a shot of Norman with a voiceover by Mrs Bates, condemning her own son
		Lila and Sam exiting the police station
		Marion’s car being dragged out of the swamp
		a skull, superimposed over Norman’s face

30.	Bonus Question: Of the following, which is not true?
		Psycho was the first Hollywood movie to show a toilet flushing on screen
		while on set, Alfred Hitchcock would continually refer to Anthony Perkins as “Master Bates”
		the car Marion drives to the Bates motel is the same car that was used by the Cleaver family in Leave it to Beaver
		to get the right scream from Janet Leigh, Alfred Hitchcock arranged for the hot water to be turned off just as Mother attacked