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1 Who says the following quote? "...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped."
Answer: Sir Bedevere

The scene: Sir Bedevere is explaining something to King Arthur and you only catch the last line of what he's saying (i.e. the Earth is banana shaped). King Arthur replies, "This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheeps' bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes."

Sir Bedevere is played by Terry Jones. He also plays Dennis's mother and Prince Herbert.
  From Quiz: Found Them? In Mercia?
2 To battle the Killer Rabbit of the Cave of Caerbannog, what did Arthur tell Brother Maynard to use?
Answer: The Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch

The Knights wanted to enter the cave because Tim told them that the location of the Grail was etched in runes inside the cave. After overconfidently charging in with swords, and getting several knights slaughtered by the bunny, Arthur realized that harsher methods would be required to defeat the rabbit. He remembered that Brother Maynard carried miscellaneous sacred relics around with him, which included the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. After a not-so-quick consultation of the Book of Armaments to figure out how to deploy it, the Holy Hand Grenade was lobbed, and the bunny was blown to bits.
  From Quiz: Huge Tracts of Land!
3 Who gives King Arthur the Quest for the Holy Grail?
Answer: God

King Arthur and his knights decide they do not want to stay at Camelot during the start of the movie as it's "a silly place". Shortly after this, God appears, surrounded by clouds. He announces "this is your purpose Arthur, the Quest for the Holy Grail".
  From Quiz: Prayer for the Holy Grail
4 What is the movie's tagline?
Answer: Makes "Ben Hur" look like an epic!

"Monty Python" was made in 1974, well before "Titanic". "Ben Hur" is of course already an epic.
  From Quiz: Monty Python and The Holy Grail
5 "Camelot! Camelot! Camelot! It's only a ___."
Answer: model

"We're Knights of the Round Table. We dance when we are able."
This is after Arthur has gathered all of the knights and they see the castle for the first time. The knights are in awe, but Patsy ruins the moment.
    Your options: [ castle ] [ model ] [ prop ] [ fortress ]
  From Quiz: African or European Swallow?
6 What serious matter was Dennis fuming over at the beginning of the movie?
Answer: Status, being inferior

It was rather funny, first Arthur thought he was a woman, and that started off his rant about being inferior.
  From Quiz: Tough 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' Trivia
7 What are the monks in the village scene hitting themselves with?
Answer: Boards

We don't know what they're doing, but it's funny!
  From Quiz: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8 King Arthur had a picture on his shield and clothing. Do you remember what that picture was?
Answer: sun

Something to look for...the sun on King Arthur's shield had a face and a mustache!
  From Quiz: Tricky Monty Python
9 Who said, "A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut!"?
Answer: British Guard

"It could be carried by an African swallow." "Yea, but not a European swallow that's my point." "Oh yea, I agree with that."
  From Quiz: Quotes From "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
10 The film was shot almost entirely on location in which country?
Answer: Scotland

Glen Coe, Rannoch Moor and Loch Tay are a few places. The 'Special Edition DVD' has a great location documentary on it with Michel Palin & Terry Jones. Worth getting just for that!
    Your options: [ Scotland ] [ Southern Ireland ] [ Northern Ireland ] [ Wales ]
  From Quiz: "Monty Python and the Holy Grail": Facts & Fiction
11 Who is the master of the Castle?
Answer: Guy de Lombard

"This is the castle of my master, Guy de Lombard."
  From Quiz: Monty Python & the Holy Grail
12 "It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a ___ pound coconut. "
Answer: one

In order to maintain airspeed and velocity a swallow needs to beat it's wings 43 times a second.
  From Quiz: "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Quotes II
13 "Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings ____ times every second, right?"
Answer: 43

That would be a European swallow.
  From Quiz: "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Quotes
14 What do the Knights do whenever they're able?
Answer: dance

'We're Knights of the Round Table, we dance whene'er we're able, we do routines and chorus scenes with footwork impecc-able...our shows are for-mid-able...'
  From Quiz: 'We're Knights Of The Round Table'
15 How many times does a swallow have to beat its wings per second?
Answer: 43

According to Monty Python.
  From Quiz: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
16 Late in the film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' King Arthur and his knights approach a bridge which they must cross on their quest. What is the bridge called?
Answer: The Bridge of Death

The approach to the bridge is perilous...the knights must step slowly across a ridge of rocks.
    Your options: [ The Bridge of Death ] [ The Bridge of Hell ] [ The Bridge of Terror ] [ The Bridge of Doom ]
  From Quiz: Greatest Scene - 'Holy Grail'
17 What is the first animal the French catapult over the wall?
Answer: cow

The cow lands on one of the 'horses'.
  From Quiz: Those 'Holy Grail' French Folk!
18 'It could grip it by the husk.'
Answer: King Arthur

'It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.'
    Your options: [ King Arthur ] [ Sir Galahad ] [ Sir Bedevere ] [ Sir Robin ]
  From Quiz: Quotes from 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'
19 How many times is the word 'it' said in the presence of The Knights of Ni without the knights reacting crazily to it?
Answer: 2

King Arthur says 'it' once and the head Knight of Ni says 'it' once himself too.
  From Quiz: 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'
20 What animal is repeatedly mentioned in the credits?
Answer: Moose

"A moose once bit my sister."
  From Quiz: 'Monty Python And The Holy Grail' Quiz
21 Who plays King Arthur?
Answer: Graham Chapman

'Come, Patsy.'
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22 What was the name of the man who sold the shrubbery to Arthur and Bedivere?
Answer: Roger

Roger was the name of the man who sold the shrubbery to Arthur and Bedivere in the movie Holy Grail. Interestingly, the actor who played Roger, Eric Idle, also played several other characters in the movie, including Sir Robin and Brother Maynard. Idle was one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python, who wrote and starred in the film. Holy Grail is known for its absurd humor and satirical take on the Arthurian legend, and has become a cult classic since its release in 1975.
  From Quiz: 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'- Useless Stuff
23 When King Arthur sees the Black Knight, what is the first thing that the Black Knight says to him?
Answer: None shall pass!
  From Quiz: Quest For The Holy Grail!
24 How does Dennis paraphrase King Arthur's explanation of how Arthur became king?
Answer: All of these.

No info available.
    Your options: [ ...strange women lying in ponds distributing swords... ] [ All of these. ] [ ...some watery tart threw a sword at you... ] [ ...some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me... ]
  From Quiz: Monty Python: Holy Grail
25 When is the wagon leader for the dead's next round?
Answer: Thursday

No info available.
  From Quiz: M.P. And The H.G.
26 In what year does this movie take place?
Answer: 932 A.D.
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27 What is the name of Arthur's 'horse'?
Answer: Patsy

You're using coconuts.. (Concorde is Launcelot's horse)
  From Quiz: Monty Python Ich Den Holi Grailen
28 Who says the following quote? "Are you saying 'Ni' to that old woman?"
Answer: Roger the Shrubber

The scene: The Knights are trying to find a shrubbery to bring back to the Knights Who Say 'Ni'. While "tormenting" a poor old woman with "ni", Roger the Shrubber overhears them and ultimately offers up a shrubbery, since it is his trade.

All of the choices are characters played by Eric Idle. His main role is Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot.
  From Quiz: Found Them? In Mercia?
29 What did the French Taunter call Arthur's mother?
Answer: a hamster

"Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person! I fart in your general direction! Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!"

As Arthur and his Knights were travelling the countryside, looking to recruit more knights for their quest, they came across a castle and Arthur asked the guard at the top if they could seek food and shelter there. The guard turned out to be a Frenchman who had an obvious dislike for English types, and he proceeded to unleash a brutal verbal assault on Arthur and his Knights.

This scene was actually shot using a plywood mock-up of the top of the tower, since filming at the actual height of the tower walls would have been very expensive and dangerous.
  From Quiz: Huge Tracts of Land!
30 King Arthur and his knights find a castle guarded by French soldiers, who claim to already have a Holy Grail. What do King Arthur and his knights try to do to gain entrance?
Answer: Build a giant, wooden rabbit

The rabbit is built and sent to the French, but the Knights forget to hide inside it. Sir Bedemir then suggests building a giant, wooden badger. However, the French catapult the rabbit back at the group, and they run away.
  From Quiz: Prayer for the Holy Grail
31 "A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound _______ !" What word completes the quote?
Answer: coconut

"It's not a question of where it grips it, it's a simple question of weight ratios." This is said by a soldier on the ramparts when Arthur is arguing about he could've gotten the coconuts.
  From Quiz: African or European Swallow?
32 What is the man banging on as he walks through the village saying, 'Bring out your dead'?
Answer: A wooden spoon and a triangle

That was one of my favorite scenes. When he clubs the man over the head with the spoon.
  From Quiz: Tough 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' Trivia
33 How many French guards are shown on the battlements?
Answer: 4

I'm talking about the first time we see them, as we don't see the other side of the battlements at Castle Aaarg.
  From Quiz: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
34 When the villagers come to Bedevere, he asks them how they know the woman in question is a witch. What is the first reason the villagers say they believe the woman they caught is a witch?
Answer: "She looks like one!"

In the end, Sir Bedevere goes to his "larger scales" and the woman ends up indeed weighing the same as a duck thus proving she is a witch.
  From Quiz: Tricky Monty Python
35 Which Python did the animations?
Answer: Terry Gilliam

He did them for 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' as well. They contain such classics as 'Conrad Poohs and his Dancing Teeth,' 'Brian Islam and Brucey,' and 'The Carnivorous Pram.' He starred in the series and films as well, his greatest performance probably as Cardinal Fang in 'The Spanish Inquisition.'
  From Quiz: 'Holy Grail' - Follow Only if Ye Be Men of Valour
36 Who said, "I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective."?
Answer: Woman

"You're fooling yourself! We're living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes..."
  From Quiz: Quotes From "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
37 What is the real name of the castle that was used for, among others, Castle Anthrax and Swamp Castle?
Answer: Doune Castle

Alnwick was used in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"; Chillingham was used in "Elizabeth"; Eilean Donan was used in "Highlander" and "The World Is Not Enough". If you visit Doune Castle they lend you two halves of a coconut for re-inactment purposes!
  From Quiz: "Monty Python and the Holy Grail": Facts & Fiction
38 Why won't the master be very keen on finding the Holy Grail?
Answer: He's already got one.

"Are you sure he's got one?" "Oh, yes; it's very nice."
  From Quiz: Monty Python & the Holy Grail
39 Who said, "What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior!"?
Answer: Dennis

Dennis said that when he was arguing with King Arthur.
  From Quiz: "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Quotes
40 What do they dine on a lot?
Answer: ham and jam and Spam

Of course, you know about that other song, about Hormel's famed spiced ham product: 'Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam!' ('SHUT UP!')
  From Quiz: 'We're Knights Of The Round Table'
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