ACMS QUIZ – December 2015
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TEAM NAME: Picture Round #1: Who Are These People? * 2 points per correct answer 1) Can you name these four men in this University photograph? All still entertain. ANSWERS (l-r): (4.6 – 7.1’6 - 7.6 – 5.8 = numbers of letters in each answer) 2) These adorable tykes have 3) Who is this, and what TV 4) These two comics are 51cm both grown up to do the series did he star in for 16.5 apart in height. Who are they, and comedy. Who are they? years? how tall are they (in metres/feet)? BRUNETTE (3.6): NAME (3.7): MAN (8.3): BLOND (5.7): SHOW (3.5.4): WOMAN (5.6): ACMS QUIZ – December 2015 #2: Can you name the comedian, and unscramble their tour title? (The number of letters for anagrams are given crossword style.) * 2 points per answer #1 (born 1976) #2 (born 1971) #3 (born 1980) Who is it?: Who is it?: Who is it?: Show title: Show title: Show title: Anagram: Beat Sex Spy (5,5) Anagram: Italic Vision (12) Anagram: Designed Idol (12) #4 (born 1975) #5 (born 1973) #6 (born 1972) Who is it?: Who is it?: Who is it?: Show title: Show title: Show title: Anagram: Iambic Pea Pushes Anagram: My Whitish Alcove Anagram: Mob Hired (4,4) (7,1'1,6) Wall (2,4,1,4,4,4) #7 (born 1972) #8 (born 1972) #9 (born 1968) Who is it?: Who is it?: Who is it?: Show title: Show title: Show title: Anagram: Fish Venom Farce Anagram: Flog Eighties 2 (5,9) Anagram: Lice Payees (7,3) Candelabras (6,11,2,1,3) TEAM NAME: Round #1: General Knowledge Round #2: Double-Acts 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. 8. 8. 9. 9. 10. 10. Round #3: Odd One Out Round #4: Musical Comedians 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. 8. 8. 9. 9. 10. 10. 3 TEAM NAME: Round #5: Autobiographies Round #6: Show Titles 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. 8. 8. 9. 9. 10. 10. Round #7: Alter-Egos Round #8: Paddy's Jukebox 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 4. 3. 5. 6. 4. 7. 8. 5. 9. 10. 6. 4 ACMS QUIZ – December 2015 2015 Comedy Quiz (Quite Hard) Round #1: General Knowledge 1) Which Ghostbuster directed 'Groundhog Day'? Name the person, and the part they played in Ghostbusters. 2) In February of this year, Mark Watson hosted a 27 Hour Show for Red Nose Day, during which Gillian Anderson shaved [Teer-nan Doo-yebb]'s back using hummous as lubricant. Can you spell '[Teer-nan Doo-yebb]'? 3) Adam Hills is missing a foot. Which one? 4) 'Easy Cliché and Tired Stereotype', 'Gaping Flaws' and 'Posturing Delivery' are all titles of 34 year old Russell Kane's Edinburgh shows. From where did he get these titles? 5) "What's happenin' white people?" is just ONE of the funny things [Pawl Chow-dree] has said onstage. Can you spell ‘[Pawl Chow-dree]’? 6) Which member of the Beyond The Fringe revue went on to star in the 1984 film 'Supergirl'? 7) Jessica Hynes starred in the BBC TV series 'Twenty Twelve'. Can you name anyone else from that programme? (NB This recently came up on Pointless. Any actor, apart from Jessica Hynes, would have been pointless. In all senses. Aaah.) 8) Grainne Maguire has recently been doing something to the Taoiseach [Tee-shock] of Ireland? Can you spell her actions out? 9) In November, [See-lee-ya Pa-kwow-lar] won an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award. Can you spell '[See-lee-ya Pa-kwow-lar]'? 10) Which former ‘Sea Monster’ spent ten years working as a psychiatric nurse before moving into comedy? * 2 points for a full answer (and half if you only have eg the surname of an answer) Round #2: Double-Acts Can you name the other half of these double-acts? 1) Adam Buxton 2) Mel Giedroyc 3) Stephen Fry 4) Keegan-Michael Key 5) Rob Newman 6) Fanny the Wonder Dog 7) David Mitchell 8) Ray Peacock 9) Dawn French 10) Steve Punt * 2 points for a full name (1 point for first name, 1 point for surname) 5 ACMS QUIZ – December 2015 Round #3: Odd One Out Round 1) Which of these is NOT the name of a Daniel Kitson show? a) Love, Innocence and the Word Cock, b) Something, c) It's the Fireworks Talking, d) Oh You Poor Man or e) The Interminable Suicide Of Gregory Church 2) Bridget Christie has played many characters onstage, before deciding to stick with ARTICULATE AND FURIOUS WOMAN. Which of these characters has she NOT played? a) A Ant, b) Sarah Palindrome, c) Japanese Knotweed, d) War Donkey, e) King Charles II 3) Grumpy wiseman Stewart Lee has been rude about lots of comedians. Who has the great one NOT complained about, onstage? a) Mark Watson, b) Russell Howard, c) Isy Suttie, d) Lee Mack, e) Franklin Ajaye 4) Only one of these Pleasance venues is REAL. Which one? a) Pleasance Betwixt, b) Pleasance Between, c) Pleasance Beside, d) Pleasance Basement, e) Pleasance Bin 5) Though originally from Carmarthen, Rhod Gilbert has long claimed to be from which fictional Welsh place? a) Llanbobl, b) Llangyllwch, c) Llareggub, d) Llandustyn, e) Pontypandy 6) When Phill Jupitus first started, what name did he perform under? a) Philip of Burgundy, b) Saturn 5, c) Pippi Longstocking, d) Porky the Poet, e) Joop For Men 7) Sir Tim Fitzhigham, FRGS, has done many unlikely things, often as the result of a bet. Which one of these activities has he NOT tried? a) rowing across the Channel in a bathtub, b) morris-dancing from London to Norwich, c) rolling a cheeseboard 3.75 miles in only 100 throws, d) racing a racehorse over 100 yards on foot, e) longest hug between two people 8) The Edinburgh Fringe brings in a lot of money to the city, if not to the acts who perform there. Edinburgh is not the only place to see the value in stand-up. Which of these five cities does NOT play host to a comedy festival? a) Montreal, b) Melbourne, c) Kilkenny, d) Leicester, e) Florence 9) Which of these comedians has NOT appeared in Doctor Who? a) Rufus Hound, b) Frank Skinner, c) Sara Pascoe, d) Bethany Black, e) Ardal O'Hanlon 10) 'It's Pronounced [Ab-ee-go-liar Sha-mawn]' was the name of [Ab-ee-go-liar Sha- mawn]''s 2014 Edinburgh show. Which of the following letters does NOT appear in her name? a) a, b) c, c) b, d) e, e) g 6 ACMS QUIZ – December 2015 Round #4: Can you identify the comedian[s] from their song lyrics? * 1 point for singer and, where applicable, 1 point for the group too 1) Let's do it! Let's do it! / Do it while the mood is right! / I'm feeling, appealing / I've really got an appetite! / I'm on fire, with desire. / I could handle half the tenors in a male voice choir. / Let's do it! Let's do it tonight! 2) I'm so worried about what's happening today / In the Middle East, you know / And I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval / System they've got at Heathrow 3) Shaftesbury Theatre! Shaftesbury Theatre! / No-one knows where the FUCK it is! / It's the Shaftesbury Theatre!! 4) There's a ghost in my house! / There's a ghost in my house! / But it's not that bad. / He keeps himself to himself. 5) There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium / And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium / And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium / And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium 6) I go out seal hunting with my best friend Tarka / But all I wanna do is get into his parka / I'm the only gas eskimo / In my tribe 7) If tickets cost a pound a piece / Why should you make a fuss? / It's worth it just to ride inside / That 30-foot-long by 10-foot-wide / Inside that monarch of the road / Observer of the Highway Code / That big six-wheeler / scarlet-painted / London transport diesel- engined / 97-horsepower / 97-horsepower omnibus. 8) Poor umbrella-head boy / His father always leaves him down the station / His mother always leaves him down the shops or in the pub / His sister left him in Imagination… nightclub; Harris Road, Stoke 9) A kiss is not a contract / But it's very nice / Yes it's very nice / Just because you've been exploring my mouth / Doesn't mean you get to take an expedition further south / NO 10) Fuck the motherfucker, and fuck you motherfucker / If you think that motherfucker is sacred / If you cover for another motherfucker who's a kiddie fucker / Fuck you, you're no better than the motherfucking rapist / And if you don't like this swearing that the motherfucker forced from me / And reckon it shows moral or intellectual paucity / Then fuck you motherfucker, this is language one employs / When one is fucking cross about fuckers fucking boys Round #5: Can you name the comic from their autobiography title? * 1 point each 1. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life 6. Me:Moir - Volume One: v. 1 2. My Booky Wook 7. Nerd Do Well 3. Pryor Convictions: And Other Life 8. My Name is Daphne Fairfax: A Memoir Sentences 9.