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Where does Hooker go after he and his partner Luther find themselves "in the money"?
An art museum
A burlesque show
Hooker's girlfriend works as a dancer at a burlesque theater. After he and Luther score big, he offers to take her out and spend $50 on her.
The racetrack
To visit his mother
How does Hooker lose his share of the score he makes with Luther?
One spin of the roulette wheel
Hooker takes his girlfriend to a gambling parlor, where he loses everything at the roulette wheel. Needless to say, she's not pleased.
One hand of poker
A bad bet at the racetrack
Another grifter takes it
What is Lonnegan's signature expression?
"Make my day."
"Trust me, kid."
"Not today."
"Ya follow?"
When Lonnegan gives directions to his crew, he often ends with the question, "Ya follow?" They know better than to say no.
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Why does Lonnegan put out a hit on Hooker and Luther?
They unknowingly stole money from his crime syndicate.
Luther and Hooker con a man out of the money he's carrying, not knowing he works for Lonnegan. They're shocked when their haul turns out to be $11,000.
His mistakenly believes they killed one of his men.
He learns they are trying to set him up for a major con.
He thinks they are trying to take over his racket.
What kind of business does Billie run above the carousel?
A bookstore
A speakeasy
A brothel
Billie's primary business is a brothel, but on a slow night, sometimes the girls do enjoy a ride on the carousel.
A daycare
Who is Henry Gondorff hiding from?
His ex-wife
Federal agents
Gondorff tells Hooker that he had to go underground after he conned a senator on a stock deal. He only gets back into the game to help Hooker get revenge on Lonnegan.
The ex-partner he cheated
The Chicago police
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What sign of recognition do Gondorff, Hooker and their gang use with each other?
They wink their right eye.
They tug on their left ear.
They tap their right temple.
They brush the right side of their nose.
Gondorff, Hooker and the con men they hire lightly brush the side of their nose to signal various things, including letting each other know the plan is on track. It's a simple gesture that no one else would notice or find odd.
How do Gondorff and Hooker get Lonnegan interested in their scheme?
Hooker tells Lonnegan he wants to take over Gondorff's business and needs his help and financing.
After Lonnegan isn't able to pay his debt to Gondorff after the poker game, Hooker goes to Lonnegan's compartment, supposedly to collect the money. He then "hooks" Lonnegan by telling him he has a plan to take over Gondorff's off-track betting operation and offers Lonnegan an opportunity to get in on the action.
They ask Lt. Snyder to approach him with a proposal.
Lonnegan hears about the opportunity while visiting Billie's establishment and asks to meet them.
They pay the train conductor to approach him.
Why is Hooker so determined to con Lonnegan, in particular?
Lonnegan stole his girlfriend.
Lonnegan had his friend Luther killed.
After Luther and Hooker accidentally steal money belonging to Lonnegan's crime syndicate, Lonnegan sends his hit men to kill them. Hooker manages to escape, but Luther is killed.
Lonnegan conned his father several years earlier.
Lonnegan fired him for stealing.
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Why is Hooker not impressed with Gondorff when they first meet?
Gondorff speaks badly of his friend Luther.
Gondorff is much older than he expected.
Hooker learns that Gondorff is much less experienced than he had been led to believe.
Gondorff is hung over.
Hooker arrives to find Gondorff badly hung over from a binge the night before. Only a cold shower and an icy face bath can bring him around.
How does Hooker realize someone has broken into his room?
A slip of paper he placed in the door has fallen to the floor.
When he leaves his room, Hooker puts a small slip of paper between the door and the frame, at the bottom where it won't be noticed. When he returns and finds that the paper is on the floor, it is clear that someone has opened the door.
The door is ajar.
The light he left on has been turned off.
He hears a noise coming from inside.
How does Gondorff purposely annoy Lonnegan during their poker game?
He pretends to be a novice player.
He makes disparaging remarks about the area where Lonnegan grew up.
He pretends to be drunk and continually calls him by the wrong name.
Gondorff purposely sets out to infuriate Lonnegan with his boorish behavior. His apparent drunkenness and other obnoxious actions don't seem quite as annoying, though, as his refusal to call Lonnegan by his real name.
He makes fun of Lonnegan's accent.
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What is the name of the con game Gondorff and Hooker use on Lonnegan?
The hook
The game
The wire
The guys choose an old con called the wire because it has been out of use for several years and their target is unlikely to suspect that anything is amiss. It involves receiving the results of horse races over a ticker-tape and then announcing the race as if it were being run live.
The play
What physical affliction does Lonnegan have?
He limps.
Lonnegan walks with a somewhat pronounced limp. This prompts him to use a cane and move a bit slowly.
His left eye twitches.
He stutters.
His hands shake.
How does Gondorff get accepted into Lonnegan's poker game?
He befriends one of the other players.
He bribes the train's conductor.
Shortly after boarding the train, Gondorff asks the conductor about getting into the high-stakes game. His first offer isn't quite enough - "That will get you first alternate, sir" - but when he forks over more cash, he's in.
He pays a $1,000 entry fee.
He pretends to be someone else.
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What is "the sheet"?
A list of experienced con artists who are available for work
Kid Twist, who serves as a sort of general manager for the con, consults the sheet when he begins to look for people to hire. From there, he chooses the best guys for each role.
A list of people Lonnegan has had killed
A list of the federal charges against Gondorff and Hooker
Instructions on how to work the complicated race track ticker tape
Why does Lonnegan have no money to pay his poker debt?
He secretly has gone broke.
He lost it in an earlier game and hoped to win it back.
He left it in his train compartment.
Billie picked his pocket.
Gondorff plans to gain an advantage over his victim by embarrassing him, which also provides an opportunity for Hooker to go to Lonnegan's compartment and set up the wire story. Lonnegan is completely unaware that Billie has deftly lifted his wallet when she bumped into him in the corridor.
Why does Gondorff drink gin during his poker game with Lonnegan?
He doesn't like bourbon.
So no one can tell he's cut it with water.
Gondorff wants Lonnegan to think he's very drunk, so he splashes gin on himself and rinses his mouth with it before pouring out half the bottle and adding water. This enables him to appear to drink heavily without actually consuming much alcohol.
He knows it's Lonnegan's favorite drink.
He knows Lonnegan hates the odor and it will annoy him.
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What are Gondorff and Hooker's fake names during the con?
Shaw and Kelly
Gondorff goes by the name of Shaw and Hooker chooses Kelly as his pseudonym. The names give them an affinity with Irishman Lonnegan, while protecting their real identities.
Kelly and Morgan
Shaw and King
Rowan and Martin
What does Lonnegan have to provide for Gondorff before the poker game can begin?
A jacket
A bottle of gin
A tie
As part of his plan to appear boorish and obnoxious, Gondorff shows up with a jacket but no tie. Lonnegan gives him one, and Gondorff promptly wipes his mouth on it. Boorish indeed!
A line of credit
What does Gondorff call Hooker?
Sport
Kid
Gondorff treats Hooker with respect, but never lets him forget who is older and wiser. He uses the nickname Kid with affection.
Champ
Slugger
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How does Gondorff win the poker game?
He out-cheats Lonnegan.
Gondorff goes into the game knowing that Lonnegan is a good player, but he also cheats. The only way to be assured of beating him is to cheat better, and that's exactly what Gondorff does.
He bluffs well enough that Lonnegan folds.
He gets his men to have the train evacuated so the game must end with the current leader declared the winner.
The game ends in a tie and they flip a coin to determine the winner.
The con against Lonnegan involves past-posting the results after a sporting event has ended. What is the sport?
Greyhound racing
Bicycle racing
Auto racing
Thoroughbred racing
Gondorff and his guys set up a phony off-track betting parlor where patrons can wager on horse races from across the country. They follow live races as they happen, then provide a fake post-to-post call after they know the actual results.
Why is Lt. Snyder chasing Hooker?
Hooker gave him counterfeit money.
Back in Joliet, Snyder demanded a bribe from Hooker, but Hooker had already gambled away his share of the winnings. He pays Snyder off in counterfeit money, which Snyder soon realizes.
Hooker slept with his wife.
He's using him to find Gondorff.
He thinks Hooker killed Luther.
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How does Hooker meet Loretta?
Gondorff introduces them.
He eats in the diner where she works.
Loretta catches Hooker's eye when he begins eating in the diner where she works as a cashier and waitress. At first she shows no interest, but eventually she warms up to him.
She is one of Billie's prostitutes.
He goes to the strip club where she works.
When Lonnegan wants to do a second test run, how does Gondorff avoid having to make a big payoff to him?
He shuts down the window before Lonnegan can place his bet.
Gondorff knows he can't afford to lose thousands of dollars in a payout to Lonnegan, yet the con depends on showing Lonnegan once again that Kelly's system works. The solution is to have other patrons hold up the line long enough that the window is closed just as Lonnegan reaches it.
He closes the betting parlor early.
He pays him in counterfeit money.
He fakes the race results.
Why does Hooker's relationship with Loretta not work out?
She leaves him when she finds out he's a con artist.
He leaves her for Billie.
She turns out to be his cousin.
She is a hit woman who was hired to kill him.
When Hooker meets Loretta, he has no idea who she really is, but the same can't be said of her. When they run into each other in an alley and Gondorff's man shoots her between the eyes, Hooker learns that she is really Loretta Salino, a mob hitwoman hired by Lonnegan to kill him.
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Why does Hooker not take his share of the winnings from the Lonnegan con?
He knows he'd just gamble it away.
Having lost his earlier score in a gambling parlor, Hooker realizes the money wouldn't last or make him happy. Besides, for him, the con was never about the money or getting rich. It was about getting revenge on Lonnegan for Luther's murder.
He feels he doesn't deserve the money.
He tells Gondorff to give it to Luther's widow.
Snyder takes it from him.
Who is assigned to take Lonnegan out of the betting parlor when the con is over?
Hooker
Billie
Snyder
The guys not only need to get Lonnegan out of the betting parlor before the chaos subsides, they also need to get Lt. Snyder out of the picture. By assigning Snyder to take care of Lonnegan, they make him feel important, while also clearing both of them out of the area immediately.
Luther
Where does the movie take place?
Chicago
Al Capone, John Dillinger -- Chicago in the 1930s was awash with mobsters. That makes it the perfect setting for a movie about gangsters and con artists who try to out-cheat each other.
Las Vegas
New York
St. Louis
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Why is Salino not successful in killing Hooker?
Hooker kills Salino first.
Hooker escapes down an alley and hides in a dumpster.
Salino is killed by someone Henry asks to secretly protect Hooker.
Even though Hooker denies he is being stalked by Lonnegan's men, Gondorff realizes he is in danger. Without telling Hooker, he arranges for one of his men to keep an eye on him, so when Salino reaches for a gun, she is immediately taken out by Hooker's guardian angel.
Salino kills Luther, mistakenly believing he is Hooker.
What does Hooker splurge on after he and Luther make their big score?
A pinstripe suit
After scoring big, Luther goes home to his family, but Hooker goes shopping. Looking spiffy in a fancy new suit, he promises his stripper girlfriend an expensive night on the town.
A new car
A fancy dinner for him and his girlfriend
A trip to New York
Why doesn't Lonnegan win his $500,000 bet?
He buys a win ticket but the horse comes in second.
Lonnegan is told to "place" his money on a horse named Lucky Dan, but he assumes the horse will win and bets accordingly. In racing terms, the horse that comes in second is said to have "placed," and only after he has made the bet and the race has started does he learn that he should have bet on Lucky Dan to come in second.
The window closes before he can place his bet.
He misunderstands the name of the horse and bets on the wrong one.
Gondorff suspects his money is counterfeit and refuses to take it.
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What is the word the characters use to refer to the person they intend to con?
The victim
The sucker
The player
The mark
The target of a con could certainly be considered a sucker or a victim. However, in the parlance of "The Sting," he's called a mark.
How do Hooker and Gondorff escape at the end of the con?
They slip out the back door amid massive confusion when the phony feds arrive.
They pretend to be shot and killed.
When it appears that Hooker has betrayed him, Gondorff pretends to shoot him in the back, after which the phony FBI agents pretend to shoot Gondorff. Once Lonnegan and Snyder are safely out of the building, the two men get up and begin to celebrate their victory
They shoot their way out and leave in a waiting car.
They disguise themselves and simply walk away.
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