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? Graeme Trevor Bruce Ross

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

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

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 Their philosophies assume a mind-body duality They are footballers They are cricketers

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

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

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? "There is no rule seven" No one shall "in any way neglect the sheep-dip" Noone shall be caught "not drinking in their rooms after lights-out" "No pooftas"

8. After ther reading of the faculty rules, what do the members of the Department do and/or resolve to do? All of these "Get some Sheilahs" Munch on enormous pieces of meat, apparently uncooked "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"? Socrates Ludwig Wittgenstein Immanuel Kant Plato

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? That no mention of Gough Whitlam be made. That the class first "crack the tubes". He must make it "clear that they were wrong." That no mention of Reginald Maudling be made.