Houdini Quiz

What were the financial terms of Houdini’s “actor’s contract”?

• $1,000 per week + half the profits

• $1,500 per week + half the profits

• $2,000 per week + all the profits

• $1,500 per week + no profits

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What was Houdini’s undercover agent’s name?

• Quentin Locke

• Arthur Conan Doyle

• George Rennan

• Walter

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What would Bess do when there was a romantic movie scene her husband had to act out?

• Stay on set

• Leave the set

• Watch from a distance

• Join the scene

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What was the name of the first feature-length film which Houdini starred in?

• The Man from Beyond

• The Grim Game

• The Great Escape

• The Magic Show

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What was the name of the movie where Houdini was frozen in Arctic ice for 100 years?

• The Grim Game

• The Man from Beyond

• The Great Illusion

• The Frozen Escape

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Define the vocab word: Hoax

• Soot

• Trick

• Nonsense

• Spirit

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Which famous author did Houdini become friends with?

• George Rennan

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Margery Crandon

• Sarah Bernhardt

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Approximately how many books were in Houdini’s book collection?

• 3,000

• 4,000

• 5,000

• 6,000

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What was the Chinese Water Torture Cell?

• An escape from a locked box

• An illusion with a tank of water

• A trick with disappearing water

• A levitation act

What did Houdini do at cemeteries he visited all over the world?

• He performed magic tricks

• He would leave flowers and repair tombstones of magicians

• He held séances

• He wrote letters to the deceased

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