Answers to Quiz 13 on Scrooge (1970), Starring Albert Finney

  1.  What is unusual about Scrooge's conversation with the boy, on Christmas morning, in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

Instead of addressing the boy from a window, Scrooge encounters the boy after stepping outside, onto the street.

 2.  What does Scrooge tell the boy to do, on Christmas morning, in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

To wake the butcher, and have him open his shop, and to meet him there with the prize turkey.

 3.  In how many minutes does Scrooge tell the boy that he will meet him at the butcher's shop, on Christmas morning, in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

In ten minutes.

 4.  How does Scrooge get downstairs, on Christmas morning, in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

He slides backward down the handrail, all the way from the top to the bottom.

 5.  How much money does Scrooge give the boy, before sending him to the butcher, on Christmas morning, in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

Two Pounds.

 6.  How much money does Scrooge promise to give the boy, if he does what he asks him to, on Christmas morning, in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

Half a Crown.

 7.  What is the equivalent of the amount of money mentioned in Question 6, above, in pre-decimal British Pounds, Shillings, and/or Pence?

One eighth of a Pound (two Shillings and six Pence, or two and a half Shillings).

 8.  What is convenient about the amounts of money Scrooge gives (and promises to give) the boy, on Christmas morning, in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

Scrooge is able to give the boy two Pounds in the form of two Sovereigns (coins worth one Pound each); and a Half Crown was a single coin, in circulation since 1549, during the reign of King Edward VI.

 9.  What is unusual about the way the prize turkey is delivered to the Cratchits, in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

Scrooge escorts the boy who helped him buy the turkey, to the Cratchit residence, while the boy pulls a sled with the turkey on it.

10.  What do the signs say, on the front of the butcher's shop, in this adaptation of A Christmas Carol?

"Prize Capons" and "A. Twilley."


Quiz and Answers by William Mortensen Vaughan