The Apartment trivia
The Apartment Mini Quiz
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Directed by Billy Wilder, what 1960 Jack Lemmon film was the last black-and-white movie to win Best Picture until Schindler's List?
Director Billy Wilder intentionally filmed The Apartment in black-and-white to emphasize the drab, bleak reality of corporate office life.
In what 1960 movie does Jack Lemmon lend his titular residence to executives, and famously use a tennis racket to strain his spaghetti?
The iconic racket scene humorously highlights Baxter's lonely bachelor lifestyle before he falls for the company's elevator operator, Fran Kubelik.
Why does office worker C.C. Baxter lend his home to executives in the movie The Apartment?
Baxter allows four different managers to use his home for extramarital affairs in exchange for glowing performance reviews to boost his corporate climb.
How does protagonist C.C. Baxter famously use a tennis racket in the movie The Apartment?
Since 1960s tennis rackets used wooden frames and natural gut strings, Baxter's improvised kitchen tool could withstand boiling pasta water without melting.
How does clerk C.C. Baxter discover his boss is secretly seeing Fran in The Apartment?
Baxter realizes the truth at an office party when Fran lets him use her cracked compact mirror, the exact item he had found in his flat and returned to his married boss.