Norton Juster Quizzed on The Phantom Menace

July 23, 2012

The Phantom Tollbooth author recently appeared on NPR's "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" During the program, he was tasked with answering three questions about the Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace.

Host Peter Sagal reasoned that Juster was qualified to tackle this quiz because he wrote "The Phantom Tollbooth which is universally loved. George Lucas made The Phantom Menace, which is universally hated but made a boatload of money." Just before Sagal delivered the questions, Juster confessed that he had never watched the movie before. In the end, Juster prevailed (with a little "help" from Sagal) and managed to answer two out of three questions correctly.

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