Some like it hot

A

Before watching

Classify the following words attending to four possible categories:

Musical (+)
Informal Use (+)
Food (+)
  • pal
  • Jell-O
  • rain check
  • pastry
  • buttermilk
  • herring
  • conductor
  • Bull bass
  • hot
  • bow
  • fiddle
  • spat
  • coleslaw
  • hood
  • booze
  • bandstand
  • pheasant
B

After watching

Sugar Kane - ____________
Spats - ____________
Daphne - ____________
Josephine - ____________
Jerry - ____________
Joe - ____________
Osgood - ____________
Junior - ____________

  • bass player
  • sax player
  • gangster
  • lead singer
  • Jerry's female alias
  • Millionaire
  • fake millionaire
  • Joe's female alias
2

After watching

I want another cuppa coffe!

  • The man wants a cup of normal coffee.
  • The man wants a cup of spiked coffee.
  • The man wants a cup of whisky.
2

After watching

Did any of the following events happen in the end?

Jerry is hit by a truck
Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks
The stock market crashed
Lake Michigan overflowed
The Brooklyn Dodgers leave New York

5

After watching

Jerry: Look at that! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. 
They must have some sort of built-in motors.

Jerry is:

  • talking about a locomotive.
  • talking about a possible role model for walking in stilettos.
  • talking about a gorgeous woman walking along the train platform.
6

After watching

Daphne: We wouldn't be caught dead with men. Rough, hairy beasts! Eight hands. 
And they...they all just want one thing from a girl.
Beinstock: (indignantly) I beg your pardon, Miss!


  • Daphne is trying to say that she is not interested in men.
  • Daphne is trying to hide the fact that she is a man.
  • Daphne is trying to pull Beinstock's hair and upset him.
7

After watching

“There's something funny about those girls”

Funny means:

  • gorgeous
  • mysterious
  • strange
  • interesting
8

After watching

Daphne mentions a surprise party because she's planning to:

  • invite more girls to her bed
  • tell Sugar the truth about him
  • drink alcohol and eat
8

After watching

How old is Sugar going to be in June?

  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
8

After watching

Sugar describes the man of his dreams. He is:

  • Rich, has a yatch, wears glasses, gentle sweet and helpless
  • Sweetheart, with shapely ankles, young and plays the bass
  • Blonde, tall, strong, handsome and he wears a moustache
11

After watching

Daphne and Sugar run to the room to meet Josephine after their bath at the beach. Daphne wants

  • to tell her about the rich Junior
  • Sugar to discover that Junior is Josephine
  • Sugar to discover that Josephine is actually in the bath
14

After watching

Osgood gives Daphne as an engagement present:

  • a pearl necklace
  • a bracelet
  • an earring