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Only 'The Other Kind of Marxist' Need Apply Part 2

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Marx Brothers : Only 'The Other Kind of Marxist' Need Apply Part 2

Introduction:
"Following on from my last quiz on 'the real Marxism', see how much you remember about the greatest comedy team comprising short Jewish relatives ever!"


1. With what phrase does Chico confuse the word 'viaduct'?
    Answer: ( Three Words)


2. Which actress spent a goodly portion of her career being 'goosed' by the Marx Brothers, and is sometimes termed the 'honorary fourth/fifth/sixth Marx Brother', depending on the context?
    Answer: ( Two words, or just surname)


3. Probably the most aped gag in comedy history, in which film does the Marx Brothers' shining (not original, sadly) 'mirror scene' appear?
    The Big Store
    Duck Soup
    Cocoanuts
    Animal Crackers


4. The Marx Brothers' second-most prolific co-star was a Hamburg-born German actor whose red-faced fury at their antics was discernible even on black-and-white film. What was his name?
    Walter Woolf King
    Frederick Giermann
    Boris Karloff
    Sig Ruman


5. Who made history beating Harpo at his own game by shedding cutlery onstage whilst shaking the actor's hand at a London gala performance?
    Cary Grant
    Lord Beaverbrook
    Winston Churchill
    The Prince of Wales


6. In 'Monkey Business', whom did Chico claim had been his father's business partner?
    Answer: ( Two words, or just surname)


7. Why is Groucho unqualified to run the sanatorium in 'A Day at the Races'?
    He's not a qualified doctor
    He took the bar exam under the misapprehension that one had to for medicine - and failed
    He's been blacklisted by the medical board
    He's a vet


8. Despite lacking a costume at the fancy-dress ball for debutante Ruth Hall, in 'Monkey Business' Groucho manages to steal a cowboy hat and attempts to court a woman whose consequently livid husband is dressed as______?
    A Mexican
    A sailor
    Half a pantomime horse
    An Indian (as in an indigenous American person, not one from Asia)


9. In the courtroom scene from 'Duck Soup', which of the following puns is not made?
    'Look at Chicolini... an abject figure...' - 'I abject!' (I object)
    'That's irrelevant!' - 'That's it - there's a lot irrelevance in the circus' (of elephants)
    'Taxes... dollars' - 'hey, that's a-where my uncle lives: Dallas, Texas!'
    'One day we shadow him all day... Shadowday!' (Saturday)


10. In 'Animal Crackers', which of the following does Harpo not steal from Abie the Fish Pedlar, a.k.a. Roscoe W. Chandler?
    His garters
    A cheque for five hundred dollars
    His tie
    His birthmark


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