THE SAMMY QUIZ

The following questions relate to the original 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run?  To see the correct answer, place your cursor over the answer here to the right of each question.  (If the answers do not appear, click here for a complete list.)

1. What type of column did Sammy Glick write at the New York Record?  (a) gossip (b) radio  (c) lonelyhearts (d) drama

2. From what writer did Sammy "borrow" the text for his first column?  (a) F. Scott Fitzgerald  (b) Rudyard Kipling  (c) Somerset Maugham  (d) Ernest Hemingway

3. What was the name of Laurette Harrington's aviatrix friend? (a) Billie Rand  (b) Rita Royce (c) Babe Lynch (d) Sidney Fineman

4. What was the name of Julian Blumberg's wife?  (a) Mabel (b) Brenda (c) Rose (d) Blanche

5. In the novel, what was the name of Sammy's brother? (a) Israel (b) Seymour (c) Isidore  (d) Shmulnik

6. What is the nickname of the Italian boy who used to beat Sammy up and later worked for him in Hollywood?  (a) Lucky  (b) Sheik (c) Baby  (d) Red

7. What was the name of the first film script bearing the name of Samuel Glick? (a) Monsoon  (b) It Can't Happen Here  (c) Girl Steals Boy  (d) Deadline

8. What was the title of Sammy's proposed movie starring Spencer Tracy and Marlene Dietrich? (a) Titanic (b) Summer Carnival  (c) Young Tom Jefferson  (d) Fate Worse Than Death

9. What ride at Ocean Park did Kit insist on riding seven times?  (a) ferris wheel  (b) Tunnel of Love (c) roller coaster (d) parachute jump

10. In New York he was a peddler, but what was Sammy's father in the old country?  (a) professor  (b) diamond cutter (c) scientist (d) rabbi