Humour quiz done for the Karnataka Quiz Association by Arul Mani and self.

1. Sense a Femur II
The Humour Quiz

2. • Black Caveman, A Blaffair To Rememblack, The
Chunks, The Chunks 2: A Very Chunky Christmas,
Cruise Boat, Death Bank, Fat Bitch, Garfield 3:
Feline Groovy, Honky Grandma Be Trippin’,
Jefferson, Hard to Watch: Based on the Novel
"Stone Cold Bummer" by Manipulate, President
Homeboy, Samurai I-Am-Awry, Sherlock Homie,
Who Dat Ninja
• Whose complete filmography is this?

3. • Tracy Jordan.

4. He has a syndrome named in his honour, a
psychological condition in which a person
has either a lack of awareness or
acceptance of their impending doom. He
also coined the term used in reference to
the spiky bit found at the end of stegosaur
tails by paleontologists as an official,
albeit whimsical, part of dinosaur
anatomy. Who? Term?

5. Gary Larson.
Thagomizer” due
to its negative
effects on
caveman, Thag
Simmons.

6. Cartoon about what early-2011 acquisition?

7. • AOL buying The Huffington Post, and making
Arianna Huffington its editor-in-chief.

8. • In the middle of 2010, as his long-running show
was coming to an end, this broadcaster was
rumoured to be joining the cast of The Daily
Show With Jon Stewart as a correspondent. This
never came to pass, although he has since voiced
a desire to become a stand-up comedian, a
profession he would seem ill-suited for.
Nevertheless, he has started touring as a
comedian, and was seen on the podium on
Comedy Central’s Roast of Donald Trump. Who?

9. • Larry King.

10. • Robert Smigel, a comedian and ex-writer for Saturday Night Live and Late
Night With Conan O’Brien, is responsible for one iconic comedic creation
on each show.
• While he was on SNL, he created a series of short cartoons that mocked
the Hanna-Barbera style that was prevalent in animation at the time, and
that poked fun of celebrities from all walks of life. It was also the only
segment of the show that was given free rein to make fun of the creator,
Lorne Michaels. They were eventually spun off into their own Comedy
Central series.
• At Late Night, he created a character that he has since called “a juvenile
Don Rickles with a fake Mexican accent.” It was an exceedingly popular
character on the show, and has since taken on a life of its own, appearing
at such diverse events as the Westminster Dog Show, the VMAs, the 2004
Democratic National Convention, the Tony awards, and the Michael
Jackson trial. It has also released an album of comedy and songs, entitled
“Come Poop With Me”, and has made a guest appearance in an Eminem
video. Name both creations.

11. • TV Funhouse
• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

12. • Clip1.avi
• This is the last scene of a twenty-minute silent movie written by X and
starring Y.
• The stories behind the making of the film are perhaps more famous than
the film itself. From a biography of X: “When X managed to hunt up Y, he
found him old, broke, ill, and alone, some $2 million ahead in a four-
handed poker game with an imaginary Louis B. Mayer of MGM and two
other invisible Hollywood moguls.
• “‘Yes, I accept the offer,’ were Y’s unexpected first words to X. X was
thrilled at the prospect, since X had been a long-time fan of Y, and it has
even been suggested that the inspiration for X’s most famous work might
have come from a minor Y film called The Lovable Cheat in which Y plays a
man who waits endlessly for the return of his partner.
• “Y was dying even as they made the film. ‘We didn’t know that,’ the
director said, ‘but looking back at it, the signs were there. Couldn’t speak
— he was not so much difficult, he just wasn’t there.’” ID X and Y.

13. • Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton

15. • The complete list of people who have voiced
Maggie Simpson.

16. Cartoon tribute from 2007. To whom?

17. • James Brown.

18. The title of this poem is A Bas ___ ___. The first two
words are French for “Down With”, and the missing
words refer to a man who gains God's grace by telling
the angel "I pray thee, then, Write me as one that
loves his fellow men“ Name poet and give missing
words in title.
My fellow man I do not care for.
I often ask me, What's he there for?
The only answer I can find
Is, Reproduction of his kind.
If I'm supposed to swallow that,
Winnetka is my habitat.
Isn't it time to carve Hic Jacet
Above that Reproduction racket?

19. • Ogden Nash and Abou Ben Adhem. This poem
is A Bas Ben Adhem.

20. • In the wake of “Garfield Minus Garfield”, many
other websites which sought to alter classic
newspaper strips for comedic effect sprung
up, examples from one of which are shown in
the next slide. What is this particular site
called? Or, what alteration has been made to
each Peanuts strip?

22. • 3eanuts, Peanuts strips with the 4th
(punchline) panel removed

23. Two-word phrase meaning to “gradually
grow angrier” .
The term was first cited in 1938 and was
closely associated with the routines of
comedian Edgar Kennedy.
What phrase?

24. • Slow Burn.

25. ID this cartoonist and the subject of his
1945 cartoon.

26. • Shankar on Hiroshima

28. • Amalgam spoofs: spoofs which include the
titles of the movies they're spoofing in their
own titles.
• Don’t be a Menace II South Central While
Drinking Your Juice n the Hood
• Shriek if you know what I did last Friday the
13th
• The 41-Year-Old Virgin who Knocked Up Sarah
Marshall and Felt Superbad About It

29. Review of whose novelty business line?
“Last year I received a sampler package of --- -------Cigars, which
included all five of his selections: The Governor (5¾" x 60), ------
cristo (6¼" x 54 Torpedo), The Willie (6" x 48), Texas Jewboy (6" x
56 Torpedo), and Utopian (6" x 52). All of the cigars were medium-
bodied, full-flavored, and smoked wonderfully. I enjoyed them all
so much, it was really hard to decide which one I like best, but I
seemed to lean most toward the super-sized "Governor." The
smoke was exceptionally smooth, creamy, earthy with subtle notes
of spice and some coffee essences on the finish. The aroma was
also outstanding on these cigars. The line (is) also not your typical
"celebrity" cigar line. He is a serious cigar smoker who seems to
know as much, if not more, about making good cigars as he does
about music and Texas politics - and all of the cigars are made with
outstanding quality.”

30. • Kinky Friedman

31. ID the comedian. Also, what unique distinction does this album hold?

32. • Bob Newhart
• The only comedy album to win the Grammy
for Album Of The Year.

33. • Clip2.avi
• This is a clip from X, one of the most popular
shows on the BBC, featuring Y, a perennial
contender for the title of Britain’s best stand-
up comic. He is shown here paying tribute to
Z, a comedic musician and one of the biggest
stars of the music-hall world. Identify X, Y and
Z.

34. • QI
• Frank Skinner
• George Formby

35. Stamp in honour of the man who made
the word chickadee immortal. Who?

36. • W. C. Fields

37. Poet and subject!
Alas! now o'er the civilised world there hangs a gloom
For brave General ______, that was killed in ______,
He was a Christian hero, and a soldier of the Cross,
And to England his death will be a very great loss.
He was very cool in temper, generous and brave,
The friend of the poor, the sick, and the slave;
And many a poor boy he did educate,
And laboured hard to do so early and late.
He was a man that did not care for worldly gear,
Because the living and true God he did fear;
And the hearts of the poor he liked to cheer,
And by his companions in arms he was loved most dear.

38. • William McGonagall on the death of General
Gordon at Khartoum.

39. Who’s on the cover?

40. • Art Buchwald

41. Cartoonist Ted Rall’s take on a recent phenomenon, Fill in the blanks.

42. • The Book Of Mormon

43. • Clip3.avi
• This is a scene from X, the movie adaptation
of a best-selling 1992 book that chronicled the
shake-ups at NBC following Y’s retirement. The
character of Y, seen here announcing his final
year as host of The Tonight Show, was played
by Z, Hollywood’s most versatile impressionist,
and a frequent guest on Y’s actual Tonight
Show. ID X, Y and Z.

44. • The Late Shift, by Bill Carter
• Johnny Carson
• Rich Little

45. X & Y is a Ben Lewis documentary that
recounts a humorous history of the Soviet
Union and its satellite states through the
jokes that flourished under the oppressive
regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe.
What appropriate title does this
documentary bear?

46. • Hammer & Tickle

47. In the 1990s, he debuted as novelist with
a book that drew on his sportsy parents’
memories of life in Hungary. The book
won praise from Rushdie who called it “a
delicate, seriocomic treasure” . The title
comes from a wry Hungarian proverb
about the worst place in the world one
might find oneself in. Book and novelist?

48. • Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog from “Under the
frog’s arse, down a mine”.

49. Editorial cartoon commenting upon remarks made by whom?

50. • John Galliano.
• "I love Hitler... People like you would be dead.
Your mothers, your forefathers would all be
fucking gassed."

51. • Clip4.mp4
• This is episode 1 of “Water & Power”, an
online comedy created in 2009 by Dan
Harmon (better known as the creator of
Community). It is a mash-up of two network
television shows, a long-running crime drama
created in 1990 and a cult comedy that
premiered in 2009. Identify both.

52. • Law & Order
• Parks & Recreation

53. • What started in 1921 with the short film “The
Lucky Dog” and ended, disastrously, with
1951’s “Atoll K”?

54. • The Laurel & Hardy double act.

55. • He graduated from the College of William & Mary and
received a doctorate in medicine from Albany Medical
College. He went on to complete his residency in
internal medicine at Brown Medical School.
• Following the completion of residency, he entered a
fellowship in cardiology at Kaiser Permanente Los
Angeles Medical Center. He is currently the assistant
director for the electrophysiology fellowship at Los
Angeles Medical Center. He is married to Dr. Dolly
Klock. Who?

56. • Dr. Jonathan Doris, the inspiration for the
character of J.D. on Scrubs.

57. • Clip5.avi
• This is a clip from the mockumentary “Rain Of
Madness”, released as a special feature on the
Tropic Thunder DVD. What, specifically, is it
spoofing?

58. • “Hearts of Darkness”, the documentary about
the making of Apocalypse Now.

59. Seen here is ____ ____, the first comedian to
record a live album, the first to perform
regularly on college campuses, and the first to
be hired as a speechwriter by a US President
(Kennedy, in this case). Woody Allen’s biggest
comedic influence, he gave Allen a major
boost by script-doctoring parts of What’s Up,
Tiger Lily?, and having his wife, Playmate of
the Year China Lee, dance at the end of the
movie.
Allen also acknowledges that he would not
have become a comedian himself if not for
____’s example, which proved a comedian
could succeed with off-hand intellectual
material. He compared ____'s influence on
comedy to the effect Charlie Parker had on
jazz. “I still find ____ ____ funny,” Allen said in
2008. “I was with him the other day, in
California, and he’s 81 and he’s teaching at
Claremont College. And he said they have a
course out there that they offered him to
teach, on the Holocaust, and he didn’t take it.
He said, 'I wanted to see first how history
judges the event.‘” Identify.

60. • Mort Sahl

61. Of his claim to Hollywood
fame, he once said: “ I I did
two films with them,” he
said in 1970, “which in its
way is perhaps my greatest
distinction in life, because
anybody who ever worked
on any picture for them said
he would rather be chained
to a galley oar and lashed at
ten minute intervals…than
ever work for these sons of
bitches again.”. Who about
whom?

62. SJ Perelman on the Marx Brothers.

63. Name poet:
On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

64. Spike Milligan

65. When X died of lung cancer in 1975, he
was working on a memoir that took its
title I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ To Conquer from a
mangling of a famous play’s title into a
reference to the trio that he was part of.
It was eventually published under a boring
title.
Either name X or give the title he wanted
to use.

66. Moe Howard,
I Stooged to Conquer.

67. Talking of which, what fate did the
trusting Antonio’s story undergo at the
hands of Hank Ketcham while he was
looking for a title to give his
autobiography?

68. It became The Merchant of Dennis.

69. • Clip6.avi
• Seen here is the title sequence of a cult
animated series. It is partially modeled after a
particular movie, a favourite of the show’s
title character. Name the show and the movie.

70. • The Critic
• Manhattan

71. Cartoon published in June 2009. Who has been blanked out?

72. • Michael Jackson

74. List it!
• There are 13 movies that the American Film
Institute considers to be Comedies that have
won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Name them. 0.5 points per film, 4.5-point
bonus for getting all 13.

75. • It Happened One Night
• You Can’t Take It With You
• Going My Way
• The Apartment
• Tom Jones
• My Fair Lady
• The Sting
• Annie Hall
• Terms of Endearment
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Forrest Gump
• Shakespeare In Love
• American Beauty

76. The End.
• Thank You!