1. What did Bonasera (Salvatore Corsitto) ask the patriarch of the Corleone family (Marlon Brando) for in the film's opening sequence?

2. There were a couple of reasons why the Don didn't give Bonasera exactly what he wanted. One was because Bonasera didn't ask him for the favor as a friend. What was the other reason?

3. Why did Bonasera go to the police before he went to the Don?

4. True or False: The Don's wife (Morgana King) was the godmother to Bonasera's only child?

5. What did Bonasera do for a living?

6. What was Paulie (John Martino) referring to when he remarked, "if this was somebody else's wedding..."?

7. What did the Don thank Nazorine (Vito Scotti) for besides the cash gift he gave his daughter (Talia Shire)?

8. What was Luca Brasi (Lenny Montana) doing when his character was introduced?

9. Fill in the blank: Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) told his wife (Tere Livrano) that no Sicilian could refuse __________ from the Godfather on the day of his daughter's wedding.

10. What was Tom's relationship to the Don?

11. What was Sonny Corleone (James Caan) doing behind a closed door when Tom told Sonny that his father wanted to see him?

12. How did the Don get Johnny Fontane (Al Martino) out of the personal-service contract he signed with a bandleader?

13. Fill in the blank: The Don told Johnny that a man who didn't __________ could never be a real man.

14. Why did Jack Woltz (John Marley) refuse to give Johnny a part in the new war film he was making?

15. Apart from the problems he said he'd have with the union, what did Tom say he'd do if Jack didn't give Johnny the part he wanted?

16. True or False: Jack refused to give Johnny the part even after his horse was decapitated?

17. Why didn't the Don give Sollozzo (Al Lettieri) the money he needed?

18. How much money did Sollozzo say the Corleone family could have made in the first year alone if they went into the narcotics business together?

19. Where did Sollozzo get the heroin he sold?

20. How did Sonny upset his father during the meeting?

21. What was Sollozzo's nickname?

22. Complete the following quote: When Michael (Al Pacino) asked Kay (Diane Keaton) what she wanted for Christmas, she replied, "just…"

23. Fill in the blank: The Don thought he could get some inside information about the Tattaglias if they thought ________ .

24. Where did the blood that was found on Luca Brasi's body come from?

25. True or False: Fredo (John Cazale) was the only eyewitness to the attempt that was made on his father's life?

26. How did Michael find out that his father had been shot?

27. What movie did Michael take Kay to see at Radio City Music Hall?

28. There were a couple of reasons why the Don's bodyguards were asked to leave the hospital. The first reason had something to do with the hospital's policy on the number of visitors it allowed. What was the other reason?

29. How did Michael thank Enzo (Gabriele Torrei) for standing guard with him outside the hospital?

30. What did Capt. McCluskey (Sterling Hayden) say and/or do when Michael asked him how much Sollozzo was paying him to set up his father?
31. True or False: Paulie was gunned down because he was the person who set the Don up to be assasinated. But that wasn't the hit that evened the score?

32. It was Clemenza's (Richard Castellano) idea to hide the gun that Michael used to kill Sollozzo and Capt. McCluskey behind a toilet. But he wan't the person who hid it, someone else did. The question is; did anyone else know about it?

33. Why did Michael think he could get away with gunning down a New York City Police Captain?

34. What did Clemenza want Michael to do after he shot Sollozzo and the Police Captain?

35. What restaurant was Michael told to wait in front of, and what restaurant was he taken to?

36. True or False: Michael shot Captain McCluskey in the throat before he shot him in the head?

37. The headline, "Mobster Barzini Questioned in Underworld Feud" appeared on the front page of which of the following newspapers?
  A. The Daily Mirror
  B. The Journal American
  C. The New York World Telegram
  D. The Sun

38. Why did Sonny send Fredo to Las Vegas?

39. What did a group of children see Sonny do near an open fire hydrant?

40. We'll give you the answer to this one, you give us the question - Because it could have proved that he had knowledge of Michael's whereabouts.

41. True or False: The attendant that took Sonny's change at the toll booth was killed by a stray bullet?

42. How did Bonasera repay the Don after Sonny's death?

43. Fill in the blank: The Don swore on the souls of his grandchildren that he would not __________ at the meeting that brought together the heads of several organized crime families.

44. What did the Don say he learned at the meeting?

45. What was the Don referring to when he remarked, "mention it, (but) don't insist"?

46. Why did Michael remove Tom from the position of consigliere when he took over for his father?

47. The contract that Fontane signed to appear five times a year at the casino that Michael's family owned erased the debt he owed. It also stipulated some other obligation. What did that involve?

48. Who approached Michael about the meeting he was warned about?

49. How did each of the following characters die?
  A. Apollonia (Simonetta Stefanelli)
  B. Carlo (Gianni Russo)
  C. Moe Green (Alex Rocco)
  D. The Godfather

50. Who was the last person to see the Don alive?

51. True or False: Sal Tessio's (Abe Vigoda) last words were, "tell Mike it was only business. I always liked him"?

52. Why did Carlo think Michael would spare his life?

53. What was the last question in the film, and to whom was it addressed?

54. There were two foreign languages spoken in the film. One was Italian. What was the other?

55. Place the following quotes in chronological order:
  A. "I don't like violence. I'm a businessman. 
  Blood is a big expense."
  B. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't 
  refuse." (The first time those words were  
  spoken)
  C. "What are you worried about? If I
  wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already."
  D. "Where have all the men gone?"
  "They're all dead from vendettas."
Answers
.
1. He wanted the men that beat and raped his daughter killed because their three-year jail sentence had been suspended.

2. He didn't think the men should be murdered because they didn't kill his daughter.

3. He didn't want to be in the Don's debt. But when the judicial system failed him, he had no other choice.

4. True

5. He was an undertaker.

6. He was referring to how tempted he was when he saw how much cash the Don's daughter received for her wedding.

7. Nazorine made the cake that was served at the reception.

8. He was practicing what he was going to say to the Don because he didn't want to screw up when he thanked him for the invitation to his daughter's wedding.

9. A request

10. He was his personal lawyer, his consigliere, and his adopted son.

11. He was having sex with one of the bridesmaids.

12. He made the bandleader an offer he couldn't refuse. He told him that either his brains or his signature would be on the new contract that was drawn up.

13. Spend time with his family

14. Because Fontane made him look like a fool when he ran off with one of his proteges.

15. He also told Jack that he'd use his newspaper people to report that one of his top stars was using heroin.

16. False

17. The Don told Sollozzo that he would have lost the political friends he had if he got involved in the narcotics business.

18. $3,000,000 - $4,000,000

19. He had fields in Turkey to grow the poppy, and then the poppy was sent to the plants he had in Sicily.

20. He let Sollozzo know what he was thinking.

21. The Turk

22. "You"

23. Luca Brasi wasn't happy with the way the Corleones were doing business.

24. Brasi was stabbed in the hand right before he was strangled to death.

25. False, the Don was gunned down in the street in broad daylight.

26. Kay spotted a newspaper headline that read, "Vito Corleone Feared Murdered."

27. The Bells of St. Mary

28. They were interfering with the hospital's service.

29. Enzo couldn't light the cigarette he needed after the Tattaglias' hitmen drove away because his hand was shaking, so Michael lit it for him.

30. He broke Michael's jaw with his fist.

31. True, the hit on Bruno Tattaglia (Tony Giorgio) canceled out the hit on the Don.

32. Yes

33. He knew the newspaper people on his father's payroll could make McCluskey look like a dishonest cop.

34. He wanted him to drop his hand to his side, and to let the gun "slip out." He also wanted him to walk out of the place real fast, and not to look anybody directly in the eye.

35. Michael was picked up in front of Jack Dempsey's Restaurant. He was taken to Louis' Italian-American Restaurant in the Bronx.

36. True

37. A

38. He wanted him to learn the casino business.

39. Sonny assaulted Carlo in the street for the beating he gave his sister.

40. Why didn't Tom take the letter that Kay wanted him to pass along to Michael?

41. False, he lowered himself in the booth before the first shot was fired.

42. He concealed Sonny's wounds so the family could have an open casket funeral.

43. Be the one to break the peace.

44. Barzini (Richard Conte) was the man behind everything that happened, not Tattaglia.

45. Tom asked the Don if he wanted him to insist that Tattaglia's drug middlemen have clean records.

46. Because Tom wasn't a wartime consigliere.

47. He had to get other entertainers to appear there, as well.

48. Sal Tessio

49. A. Died in the explosion that destroyed Michael's car. B. Strangled to death. C. Shot in the eye. D. Died of either a heart attack or a stroke.

50. Michael's son, Anthony (Anthony Gounaris)

51. False, his last words were, "Tom, can you get me off the hook for old times sake?"

52. Because Michael told him that his punishment would be getting kicked out of the family business. He also said, "you think I'd make my sister a widow?"

53. Kay asked Michael if he had anything to do with Carlo's death when he agreed to answer one question about his affairs.

54. A Priest spoke Latin when he read a few words at the Baptism for Connie's son.

55. B, C, A, D
Compiled by Philip Cerreta
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