Abbott and Costello Meet the Collective Trivia Quiz

Posted Sunday August 22, 2010

The Rules of the Game:

• You can use any resource to find your answers - the internet, books, anything.
  
• Points are scored on a pari-mutuel basis. Each question being worth 100 points, divided by the number of correct answers for that question.
  
• Do not post your answers here to the comment section of this blog! People will steal your answers and laugh at you. EMAIL your answers to me at vigilante407@gmail.com. Please make sure you number your answers correctly to correspond with the questions. Also, please send all your answers together in one email! Otherwise, only the answers in the first email I get will count.
  
• The contest will end in seven days (one week) at 11:59pm on Saturday, August 27, 2010.
  
• And please remember that only you can prevent Forrest Tucker!
  

And here we go with this week's quiz:

1. This radio show had a character that was touted as being able to rip a crocodile's jaws apart or break the back of an anthropoid ape. What was the name of this radio show?
   

   
   

2. This fictional character was known for his brutality and his marksmanship. His very presence caused men to get out of his way and made women seclude themselves. His final, famous battle was noted for two gunshots. What is the first and last name of this fictional character?
   

   
   

3. What is the name of the animated series in which you would find the characters pictured below?
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   

   
   

4. What is the name of the fictional television series that was canceled after four episodes when the host planned to modernize the garage of homeowner Don Lee (using a backhoe and forty pounds of TNT)?
   

   
   

5. In what motion picture would you find a character who claimed "I saw two men carrying no man!"?
   

   
   

6. "Hot Stuff" and "Bummers" were regular features of what magazine?
   

   
   

7. What was the name of the product, which when introduced in the late 1880's, featured a label that offered a $500 reward for anyone who could provide evidence of any impurity or alteration in the product?
   

   
   

8. What is the name of the performing group shown in the photograph below?
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   
   
   

9. According to a poster, what motion picture did NASA claim could set the space program back by at least fifty years?
   

   
   

10. The cover of this classic album features a spindly man in a room that is empty save for a hanging light and the window he is looking out of. A different reflection peers back in the window and a neon sign reading "The Dark" can be seen, along with a crescent moon. What is the title of this album?
    

Collective Trivia Quiz II: Electric Boogaloo

Posted Sunday August 15, 2010

The Rules of the Game:

• You can use any source for your answers. You do not have to just rely on your memory.
  


• Points are scored on a pari-mutuel basis. Each question being worth 100 points, divided by the number of correct answers for that question.
  


• Do not post your answers here to the comment section of this blog! People will steal your answers and laugh at you. EMAIL your answers to me at vigilante407@gmail.com.


• Please make sure you number your answers correctly to correspond with the questions. Also, please send all your answers together in one email! Otherwise, only the answers in the first email I get will count.
  


• The contest will end in seven days (one week) at 11:59pm on Saturday, August 21, 2010.
  


• And please remember that only you can prevent Forrest Tucker!
  

And here's this week's quiz:

1. What is the name of the big screen character that avowed "I'll run on this river if I'm the only passenger on the boat!" Please be complete and give the character's full name, not his nickname.
   
   

2. Guests say a lot of odd things on The Tonight Show. (You know, the real one with Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson or Conan O'Brien?) In fact, one guest once told Johnny that he was going to be promoting unsportsmanlike conduct for kids in Craters of the Moon, Idaho. What was the first and last name of that guest?
   

3. What are the first and last names of the two men featured in the photograph below? Please give their character names, not their actual names.
   
   


4. This fictional super-hero is probably the only one who came into existence because he was a little clumsy and dropped a screwdriver at a very inopportune moment. He was able to retrieve it but wasn't able to get out of the Atlas rocket he was working on before it was launched. After a near-death experience, what was the codename adopted by this fictional super-hero?
   
   
   

   
   

5. Thomas Kinkade is probably the modern master of tacky Christmas ornamentation. His "The True Meaning of Christmas" Narrative Santa Figurine is no exception. Along with recording the narrative that plays with the statuette, he even includes a recreation of one of his own paintings in the piece, hanging on the wall above the fireplace. The fireplace also has a stocking hanging above it as well. What name is on that stocking? Please be complete.
   
   
   

   
   

6. Back in the late seventies, Fan Club Corporation of America had a sweet deal: If you joined the Official Hardy Boys Fan Club AND the Official Nancy Drew Fan Club, you got a free door banner for your room! What a bargain! If you were to have joined both clubs, how much would it have cost to pay for a year's membership?
   
   

7. Leapin' Lizards, Sandy! The still below is from a cliffhanger chapter play of the forties. What is the complete title of that movie serial?
   
   
   
8. What were the last number one single of the seventies on the Billboard Hot 100, and the first number one single of the eighties on the Billboard Hot 100? Please be complete.
   
   

9. What is the name of the friendly, gun-toting character who promoted ecological awareness with the motto "Give a larbage, throw out your garbage"? As always, please be complete.
   
   
   

10. The photograph below shows a section of the play area of a classic TV-themed board game. What is the complete name of that board game?

As always, good luck to everyone, and keep 'em flying!