| A | B |
| Where and when does the movie open? | Princeton University: September, 1947 |
| Who broke the Japaneses code and built the A-bomb? | Mathematicians |
| Who was the student that thought Nash was the waiter? | Martin Hasen |
| Who was John's roommate? | Charles Hermon |
| What did John's English teacher tell him? | He was born of "two helpings of the brain" and "half a helping of the heart". |
| What did John feel like was the only way to distinguish himself? | To come up with a truly original idea. |
| What did John think classes were going to your mind? | To dull your mind |
| What Martin ask Nash at the pool hall? | "Whose's winning you or you?" |
| Where did John want to be placed for work? | in the Wheeler Labs |
| What was the significance of the "pen"? | It was an "achievement of a life time". |
| Who is the "Father of Modern Economics"? | Adam Smith |
| What two friends did Nash want to go with him to the Wheeler Labs? | Sol and Bender |
| What subject does Nash make a break through? | Governing dynamics |
| When Nash goes to the Pentagon, what does he help break? | The Russian code |
| What magazine was John on the cover? | Fortune |
| What did John say when talking to his class? | He said, "Personally, I think of class will be a waster of your and what infinitely worst my time." |
| Who was Nash approached by when leaving his office? | William Parcher ("Big Brother) |
| What department does Parcher work for? | Department of Defense |
| What department does Parcher tell John want to detonate an Atomic bomb on U.S. soil? | The New Freedom Department |
| How does the New Freedom Department communicate to its agents? | They communicate through codes within newspapers and magazines. |
| What was implanted in John's arm? | radio diode |
| What did the "radio diode" provide him? | An access code to use at the drop site. |
| What was the name of the student who came to see John in his office? | Alicia |
| What did Alicia tuck in John's pocket? | a napkin to use as a "handkerchief" |
| After John thought he had broken the code, where did he take the information? | He took it to the mailbox. |
| How did John get past the gate to the mailbox? | The radio diode gave him the code. |
| What was the name of Charles' niece? | Marcie |
| What circumstances have changed that make John want to quite his secret work? | Alicia is pregnant. |
| What did John go Harvard University to be? | Mathematics professor |
| Who tries to get John to avoid causing a scene? | Dr. Rosen |
| What type of hospital was John taken to? | Psychiatric hospital |
| Who did John think called the psychiatrist? | Charles |
| What was John's illness? | schizophrenia |
| When does the doctor think the hallucinations might have begun? | at graduate school |
| Who does John think Dr. Rosen is? | a Russian spy |
| Who has been covering for John's crazy behavior? | Bender and Sol |
| Where did they take Alicia? | To the mailbox where John makes his drops. |
| Who was picking up the packages that John would drop off? | Sol |
| Why John bleeding? | He was trying to find the "radio diode" in his arm. |
| How long did John have to endure the induces seizures? | 5 times a week for 10 weeks |
| Who did Sol almost sit on where he went to visit John on his porch? | Harvey |
| What did John feel was making it hard to solve problems and to see the solution? | the medication |
| What did John hide in his desk top hand draw? | The medication he would not take. |
| Where did Parcher take John went he found him in the woods? | to their secret warehouse |
| Who did John say was suppose to be watching the baby? | Charles |
| Why John say, "Alicia could not see Charles." but he could? | the injection of a chemical in his blood stream |
| What made John finally realize that Marcie, Charles, and Parcher were not real? | The little girl Marcie never ages. |
| Why John fear going back to the hospital? | He was afraid he would not come home. |
| What did Alicia and John feel could help elbow out his delusions? | by fitting in again at Princeton University |
| What was the statement John made? | "Everyone is haunted by the past"? |
| What was Nash being considered for in March of 1994? | the Nobel Prize |
| Why eat did John not want to eat in the faculty lounge? | He did not feel he was good enough.' |
| What happens in the faculty lounge that was so significant? | Everyone in there gives him a "pen", which means an "achievement of a lifetime." |
| What did John say when he received the Noble Prize? | John said that, "The most important discovery of his life is that only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found." |