Pop Culture Trivia Questions XX

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Disney caught a lot of flack when this hero looked too much like Tom Cruise and not enough like Omar Sharif. In fact, the character was actually the son of a Chinese tailor. Who?

       a. Ali Baba
       b. Aladdin
       c. Sinbad
       d. Nemo


Elmo Lincoln is credited with being the first person to play what Edgar Rice Burroughs character in the movies?

       a. Dracula
       b. Sherlock Holmes
       c. Tarzan
       d. James Bond


Recognized for "Showgirls", who was the first person to show in person to accept a Razzie Award?

       a. Halle Berry
       b. Tom Green
       c. Paul Verhoeven
       d. Demi Moore


The last cigarette ad on TV appeared on December 31, 1971, for Virginia Slims, during what show?

       a. The Tonight Show
       b. Starsky and Hutch
       c. Mork and Mindy
       d. Happy Days


No, he wasn't banned in Finland for not wearing pants (it was just a budget cut back at the Helsinki school board). Who?

       a. Sylvester the Cat
       b. Donald Duck
       c. Porky Pig
       d. Roger Rabbit


MGM forced Lucille LeSueur to adopt a stage name picked through a "Movie Weekly" contest, which was won by Mrs. Marie Tisdale of Albany, New York. What name did she suggest?

       a. Bette Davis
       b. Katharine Hepburn
       c. Joan Crawford
       d. Mary Pickford


In which of these movies-based-on-TV-shows did Buddy Ebsen reprise his Barnaby Jones TV role, in what would turn out to be his last movie role?

       a. Starsky and Hutch
       b. Maverick
       c. The Beverly Hillbillies
       d. Wild Wild West


A script suggests that what Star Trek character's first name was Nyota, the Swahili for "star"?

       a. Odo
       b. Worf
       c. Uhura
       d. Neelix


Although her husband said that "the only thing red about her is her hair," what 1950s TV star got in hot trouble with HUAC when it came out that, in 1936, she had registered to vote as a communist?

       a. Imogene Coca
       b. Lucille Ball
       c. Gracie Allen
       d. Eve Arden


Sales of what dictionary soared after it became a running gag on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In?

       a. Funk and Wagnalls
       b. Merriam-Webster
       c. Oxford English Dictionary
       d. Random House


Talk about life imitating ... well ... soap. When Kelly Ripa married Mark Consuelos at the Chapel of the Bells in Vegas, they were already playing a hot and heavy couple on what TV show?

       a. General Hospital
       b. Days of Our Lives
       c. All My Children
       d. The Young and the Restless


In 2004, TBS did a reality series, co-starring movie stars Rachel Hunter and Nicole Eggert, which was billed as the "real" version of what reality show?

       a. Beverly Hillbillies
       b. Gilligan's Island
       c. Dallas
       d. Lost in Space


What detective's wife was much talked about but never seen, at least until Kate Mulgrew got her own show?

       a. Columbo
       b. Ironside
       c. Mannix
       d. Kojak


What 1970s (and early 80s) sitcom was relaunched in 1991, although the only cast members who returned were Gordon Jump, Richard Sanders and Frank Bonner?

       a. The Odd Couple
       b. Diff'rent Strokes
       c. WKRP in Cincinnati
       d. One Day at a Time


Monk's Cafe is actually Tom's Diner and had already been immortalized by singer Suzanne Vega, when it was used in what TV series?

       a. Seinfeld
       b. Frasier
       c. Friends
       d. Spin City




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