For those of you who took the Thanksgiving Day quiz, and anyone else who stumbled into this thread, below are 25 more questions to test your knowledge of random, useless, entertainment factoids. High scores on the prior quiz topped out at 75% correct. As usual, answers will be posted after Christmas, but anyone who’d like their quiz scored earlier should send me the entire cut-and-pasted quiz with your answers in bold.
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In the movie Risky Business, the group of sex workers at the house party included:
a. Helen Hunt
b. Dana Delany
c. Megan Mullally
d. Teri Hatcher -
Decades after scaring children in the Wizard of Oz, Margaret Hamilton was on TV pitching coffee for:
a. Maxwell House
b. Chuck Full of Nuts
c. Eight O’clock Coffee
d. Sanka -
In the Meatloaf song, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, the baseball announcer is voiced by:
a. Phil Rizzuto
b. Vin Scully
c. Lindsey Nelson
d. Curt Gowdy -
The “father” of the MTV Roasts would be The Dean Martin Roasts, which itself is the “son” of the original roasts which took place at which famous NYC location?
a. The Rainbow Room
b. The Friars’ club
c. The NY Athletic Club
d. Tavern on the Green -
Alicia Witt is a talented actress, a gorgeous brown-eyed ginger, and a highly proficient:
a. Flutist
b. Pianist
c. Violinist
d. Celloist -
Who recorded a kick-ass cover of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance?
a. Demi Lovato
b. The New Pornographers
c. Halestorm
d. Avril Lavigne -
In the romantic comedy The Goodbye Girl (1977), who starred opposite Richard Dreyfuss?
a. Teri Garr
b. Jo Beth Williams
c. Marsha Mason
d. Farrah Faucett -
Complete the following Dave Matthews Band song lyric:
“Bear ate his head…”
a. “…made his mouth feel sandy.”
b. “…had it with a shandy.”
c. “…made him feel quite randy.”
d. “…thought it was a candy.” -
Which Coen Brothers movie features the classic line, “Ain’t this place a geographical oddity?”
a. Fargo
b. Raising Arizona
c. Barton Fink
d. O Brother, Where Art Thou? -
As a college student in Illinois, Melissa McCarthy narrowly escaped serious harm when:
a. She was at a friend’s home when it was hit and destroyed by a tornado.
b. She wandered outside of her dorm during a blizzard while blackout drunk and fell asleep in the snow, but fortunately was spotted by a passerby not long after.
c. She was at an off-campus party where gunfire was exchanged. Six people were wounded and two were killed.
d. She and her friends were returning to Carbondale from a Chicago concert when the driver fell asleep, hit the guardrail, and they careened back into traffic, after which they were struck four times by other cars. No one was killed, but she was the only one in the car not seriously injured. -
In 2018, a framed Banksy print was partially shredded immediately after being sold at auction. What was the print’s prophetic image?
a. A sunset
b. A person pouring water on a campfire
c. A child releasing a balloon
d. A car driving away -
In the mid-1980s, which restaurant chain used the marketing slogan, “Where’s the beef?”
a. Burger King
b. Wendy’s
c. Ponderosa
d. Bonanza -
Prior to marrying in 1988, Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan had previously been in long-term relationships with other actors. Which pair below are their prior dating partners?
a. Elizabeth Shue and Keifer Southerland
b. Courtney Cox and Chris Meloni
c. Jamie Gertz and David Spader
d. Nancy McKeon and Kevin Bacon -
Who wrote I’m a Believer?
a. Mickey Dolenz
b. Steve Harwell
c. Neil Diamond
d. Carol King -
From what movie comes the line, “Are you saying Jesus Christ couldn’t hit a curveball?”
a. Bull Durham
b. Major League
c. The Bad News Bears
d. A League of Their Own -
Who wrote the pop song Gloria (1982)?
a. Laura Branagan
b. Tyler Dane
c. Carly Simon
d. Bernie Taupin -
In which movie does a parent serve raw corn-on-the-cob as a dinner side?
a. The Addams Family
b. Caddyshack
c. Wargames
d. Mr. Mom -
In All in the Family and The Jeffersons, the first name of George’s and Louise’s son was:
a. Lamont
b. Latrell
c. Lionel
d. Leroy -
The Big Chill featured which future star whose screen time was limited to lying dead in a casket?
a. James Woods
b. Ted Danson
c. Kevin Costner
d. Woody Harrelson -
Geraldo Rivera first made a name for himself in 1972 by reporting widespread abuse at:
a. St. Francis Children’s Hospital (Hartford, CT)
b. Thomaston State Prison (ME)
c. The Good Shephard’s Homes (group homes in AL and MS)
d. Willowbrook State School (Staten Island) -
What was memorable about the halftime show for Super Bowl XXIII (1989)?
a. It was presented in 3D, with the viewer needing special glasses to see the special effects.
b. There was a wardrobe “malfunction” involving Janet Jackson and Justine Timberlake.
c. A rogue, uninvited skydiver parachuted onto the field during the show.
d. The motorized stage stalled after the show, causing the 3rd Quarter to start 28 minutes late. -
In the early 1990’s, the extreme sports kids’ show Nickelodeon Guts was hosted by:
a. Patton Oswalt
b. Kevin James
c. Mike O’Malley
d. Will Sasso -
Speaking of Nickelodeon, the late 90s and early new Millenium brought us a cartoon eponymously named for this creature:
a. ManBear
b. CatDog
c. BatHawk
d. SlugBug -
Select theaters gave patrons scratch-and-sniff cards upon admittance to which movie, so that viewers could enhance their experience through prompt-driven “Odorama”?
a. Around the World in Eighty Days
b. Eraserhead
c. Polyester
d. Dr. Dolittle -
Who was not part of the inaugural VH1 Divas concert (1998)?
a. Gloria Estefan
b. Shania Twain
c. Whitney Houston
d. Mariah Carey
