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It seems to be the trend to create a trivia puzzle. There's been a whole bunch from JeepDC, and more from -TwoCs-, Joe Friday, and Lady Coot and Isisfan, ... So I thought we'd join them. Hopefully this one won't be ambiguous.
Monty Python has a cult following. It seems you either love it or hate it. There's a trend in my son's school to quote various scenes in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", just like there was 30 years ago when it first came out. It surprises me that it's still popular today. There's definitely been a revival with the musical Spamalot. Anyway here's the puzzle:
A) The Norwegian Blue Parrot, who formerly pined for the fjords, has:
- 0 - Ceased to be
- 1 - Gone to meet his maker
- 4 - Kicked the bucket
- 5 - Shuffled off his mortal coil
- 3 - All of the above
- 2 - All of the below
B) Sir Arthur is requested by the Knights who say "Ni" to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with:
- 9 - A herring
- 8 - A pair of scissors
- 7 - A nail file
C) Mr Neutron - the most powerful man in the universe - enjoys drinking:
- 3 - Whiskey
- 2 - Hot Chocolate
- 5 - Cup of tea
D) What number shalt thou count to launch the holy hand grenade:
E) What kind of cheese is available in the Cheese Shop:
- 1 - Cheddar and Stilton
- 4 - Illchester, and Gruyere
- 6 - Wenslydale, Edam & Camenbert
- 0 - Just Limburger
- 2 - None (The shop is uncontaminated by cheese)
F) What kind of pet license does Praline want to buy:
G) An accountant wants to change his career to a:
- 8 - Banker
- 4 - Lion tamer
- 1 - Stunt man
- 9 - Ski instructor
H) In the Spam Sketch what's on the cafe menu:
- 4 - Egg and spam;
- 5 - Egg bacon and spam;
- 3 - Egg bacon sausage and spam;
- 2 - Spam bacon sausage and spam;
- 9 - Spam egg spam spam bacon and spam;
- 8 - Spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
- 6 - Lobster Thermidor au Crevettes with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam;
- 1 - All of the above
J) Always look on the *what* side of life
K) What is *not* in the chocolate box made by Whizzo Chocolate Company:
- 8 - Crunchy Frog
- 5 - Cockroach Cluster
- 4 - Vanilla Creme
- 9 - Anthrax Ripple
- 7 - Spring Surprise
L) In "How to feed a goldfish" the fish gets:
- 5 - Gazpacho soup then some sausages with spring greens, sauteed potatoes and bread and gravy
- 0 - Ants eggs
M) Which is a Python quote:
- 5 - "Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government"
- 6 - "My hovercraft is full of eels"
- 8 - "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow"
- 7 - "You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down at the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week"
- 0 - "You see, our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful. And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in chartered accountancy they are a positive boon."
- 9 - All of the above
N) Which is not a Python quote:
- 9 - "You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity"
- 4 - "And this week on 'How to do it' we're going to show you how to play the flute, how to split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, how to irrigate the Sahara Desert and make vast new areas of land cultivatable, but first, here's Jackie to tell you all how to rid the world of disease"
- 3 - "Igor, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?"
- 6 - "I'll bite your kneecaps off"
P) Which is not a Python quote:
- 7 - "I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers"
- 0 - "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- 6 - "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?"
- 2 - "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear..."
- 1 - "Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour?"
Q) Where did the following quote originate: "All right ... all right ... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what HAVE the Romans ever done for US?"
- 1 - Life of Brian
- 9 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- 8 - The Monty Python TV episodes.
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