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Quiz: Accountants in pop culture
Test your knowledge of the most famous accountants in film and TV with our pop culture quiz.
1. In Succession (2018–23), CFO Karl
Muller (David Rasche) heads to
Türkiye with Roman Roy (Kieran
Culkin) and Jamie Laird (Danny
Huston) to broker a business deal.
What happens during the trip?
A. They are swindled.
B. Their plane crashes.
C. They are taken hostage.
D. They are mugged.
2. In Breaking Bad (2008–13), how
does accountant Skyler White (Anna
Gunn) help her husband, Walter
White (Bryan Cranston) in his
criminal activities?
A. She operates a laser tag business
as a front for his drug operation.
B. She blackmails her brother-in-law
Hank Schrader (Dean Norris)
to keep him quiet.
C. She launders Walter’s drug
money through a car wash.
D. She extorts US$622,000 from
lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob
Odenkirk) to pay Walter’s tax debt.
3. In the first Ghostbusters (1984)
movie, accountant Louis Tully
(Rick Moranis) has a party. What is
notable about it?
A. At the party, he convinces Dana
Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) to let
him do her taxes.
B. The party celebrates his sixth
anniversary as an accountant.
C. He gets drunk and announces that
his clients are committing fraud.
D. He invites his clients to the party,
so he can write off the expenses.
4. In the movie Stranger Than Fiction
(2006), IRS agent Harold Crick (Will
Ferrell) hears a voice narrating his
life, and it tells him he is going to die.
How does Harold react to this news?
A. He takes guitar lessons.
B. He decides to eat pancakes
at every meal.
C. He quits his job.
D. He asks his neighbour, Anna
(Maggie Gyllenhaal), out on a date.
8. In the movie The Untouchables
(1987), who was the real-life
inspiration for IRS agent Oscar
Wallace (Charles Martin Smith)?
A. Frank J. Wilson
B. James H. Wilkerson
C. William D. Mitchell
D. George E. Q. Johnson
5. In Parks and Recreation (2009–15),
what does accountant Ben Wyatt
(Adam Scott) do when he has time
off “between jobs”?
A. He invents a board game,
The Cones of Dunshire.
B. He runs for city council.
C. He makes calzones
three times a day.
D. He starts a youth football league.
6. In the US TV series The Office
(2005–13), what is accountant
Kevin Malone (Brian
Baumgartner) known for?
A. He is surprisingly
good at baseball.
B. He invents a new number,
“Keleven”, to help
balance the books.
C. He plays the drums in a
Duran Duran cover band.
D. He marries a woman he
met on the internet.
7. In the movie The Accountant (2016),
protagonist Christian Wolff (Ben
Affleck) uncovers a dangerous
financial conspiracy when he takes
on what kind of company as a client?
A. A pharmaceutical company
B. A hedge fund
C. A multi-national conglomerate
D. A robotics and AI research firm
9. In the movie Midnight Run (1988),
why does accountant Jonathan “the
Duke” Mardukas (Charles Grodin) go
on the run?
A. He witnessed a murder.
B. He’s been framed for murder.
C. He has embezzled US$15 million.
D. He has stolen US$3 million
in uncut diamonds.
10. In the movie Office Space (1999),
what bothers shy accountant Milton
Waddams (Stephen Root) the most?
A. People often take his red
stapler and move his desk
around the office.
B. He is denied a piece of cake at
colleague Peter Gibbon’s (Ron
Livingston) birthday party.
C. He is fired without warning.
D. Peter did not include him in his
plan to hack the company.
11. In Marvel’s Daredevil (2015–18) who
kills villainous accountant Leland
Owlsley (Bob Gunton)?
A. Matt Murdock aka Daredevil
(Charlie Cox)
B. Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll)
C. Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio)
D. Madame Gao (Wai Ching Ho)
12. In Ted Lasso (2020–23),
what does the CFO of KJPR,
Barbara (Katy Wix), collect?
A. Antique teapots
B. Snow globes
C. Owl ornaments
D. Jane Austen first editions
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