Brits vs. Colonials: Python Makes Fun of Oz

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1. Prior to the arrival of the Brit Michael Baldwin, the faculty of the Philosophy department of the U. of Woollomooloo was composed entirely of men named what? Trevor Bruce Ross Graeme

2. Whom does one of the Bruces rather irreverently describe as "a good sheilah and not at all stuck-up"? Margaret Thatcher Mrs. Harold Holt The Queen Mrs. Gough Whitlam

3. Which inanimate example of Australian flora or fauna is produced by one of the Bruces during the Philosophy Department sketch? a pantomime koala a "dead platypus" a rubber echidna a wattle

4. Baldwin the pom, as newest addition to the Philosophy Department, will be teaching "Macchiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett & Benaud." What is unusual about the last few? They are noted opponents of Cartesian dualism They are cricketers They are footballers Their philosophies assume a mind-body duality

5. How many of the members of the Department are actually wearing hats with corks dangling from them? All except Baldwin None One All

6. A recording of what is playing as the faculty files into the room? Dorothea McKellar's "My Country" The Australian National Anthem Waltzing Matilda God Save The Queen

7. The faculty rules of the Department are of course of the greatest import. Cleese, as the "bossfella", after reciting five of the rules, stresses that there is "No rule six." What, if anything, is rule seven? No one shall "in any way neglect the sheep-dip" "There is no rule seven" "No pooftas" Noone shall be caught "not drinking in their rooms after lights-out"

8. After ther reading of the faculty rules, what do the members of the Department do and/or resolve to do? Munch on enormous pieces of meat, apparently uncooked All of these "Get some Sheilahs" "Take a glass of sherry in the Sydney Harbour Bridge Room"

9. Not content to leave the Aussie academics alone with the "Philosphy Department" sketch, the Pythons (specifically Eric Idle) continued the thread with the famous "Bruces' Philosohpers Song," which suggested in short that most of the great philosophers were roaring drunks. Who is decribed in the song as "a real pissant who was very rarely stable"? Ludwig Wittgenstein Socrates Plato Immanuel Kant

10. The Bossfella (Cleese) allows that the new addition to the Philosophy Department, Baldwin, will be permitted to teach the "great socialist thinkers", but with what important proviso? He must make it "clear that they were wrong." That no mention of Reginald Maudling be made. That the class first "crack the tubes". That no mention of Gough Whitlam be made.