Pop Culture Trivia Questions XIV

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In his canine fantasies, what kind of plane does Snoopy's doghouse turn into when he fights the Red Baron?

       a. Sopwith Camel
       b. Sopwith Beagle
       c. Sopwith Charlie
       d. Sopwith Spitfire


Oddly enough, Tarzan's pet named Cheeta was not actually a pet cheetah. What was it?

       a. A chimp
       b. A bobcat
       c. A macaw
       d. An elephant


Although she was British, Vivien Leigh won her two Oscars for playing women from what part of the world?

       a. Latin America
       b. US South
       c. France
       d. Rome


Name the movie in which Al Pacino offers the following dating tips - "In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."

       a. Scarface
       b. The Godfather
       c. Donnie Brasco
       d. Dick Tracy


Who once said, "I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should've been more specific" and "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat"?

       a. Lenny Bruce
       b. Richard Pryor
       c. Lily Tomlin
       d. Chris Rock


I kid you not. What talk show host stormed off his show on February 11, 1960, after NBC censors edited out a toilet joke?

       a. Steve Allen
       b. Groucho Marx
       c. Jack Paar
       d. Joey Bishop


It's said that Ken Osmond went on to become Alice Cooper ... or maybe a porn star. In fact, he ended up becoming an LAPD cop and was decorated for valor after he was shot. But as a child star, he played Eddie Haskell on what TV series?

       a. Leave It To Beaver
       b. Dick Van Dyke Show
       c. The Munsters
       d. My Three Sons


We hope he fired his agent. In the 1960s, Jerry Van Dyke decided to star in "My Mother the Car" and pass on what other role?

       a. Rob Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show
       b. Gilligan in Gilligan's Island
       c. Ruben Kincaid on The Partridge Family
       d. Ward Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver


The Wellingtons sang what show's theme song, and once appeared on it as Bingo, Bango, Bongo and Irving, aka the Mosquitoes?

       a. Batman
       b. The Flintstones
       c. Gilligan's Island
       d. The Beverly Hillbillies


The program test report for what NBC show found the characters "smug, superficial and self-absorbed", adding that "this group did not really care about each other the way real friends would"?

       a. Frasier
       b. Seinfeld
       c. Friends
       d. Mad About You


After Survivor Heroes vs. Villains, who set a record for most days played on Survivor, at 114?

       a. Amanda Kimmel
       b. Parvati Shallow
       c. Sandra Diaz-Twine
       d. Rupert Boneham


Coined by Mike Godwin, Godwin's Law says that the longer an online discussion goes, the more likely that someone will automatically lose the argument by bringing up somebody. Who?

       a. Adolf Hitler
       b. Jesus Christ
       c. Ayn Rand
       d. Bill Gates


What fictional character was born on July 1, 1899, in Princeton, New Jersey, and served with the Belgian army in World War I?

       a. Indiana Jones
       b. The Shadow
       c. James Bond
       d. Hercule Poirot


Of Calvin and Hobbes, which is the stuffed tiger?

       a. Hobbes
       b. Calvin
       c. Both
       d. Flowers is pretty


Had "Leave It To Beaver" been named for the Beaver's real name, what would it have been called?

       a. Leave It To Theodore
       b. Leave It To Walter
       c. Leave It To Percy
       d. Leave It To Evelyn




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