Dude, Looks Like A Lady! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman as "Tootsie" - not a pretty sight but unforgettable! Jessica Lange as the woman he loves, and Teri Garr as the woman he wrongs, are the two other female leads!

Answer: Lumberjack

Monty Python's Flying Circus had great fun with "The Lumberjack Song":

"He cuts down trees. He skips and jumps. He likes to press wild flowers. He puts on women's clothing, and hangs around in bars."

Long before I understood the lyrics, I was singing it in the school playground!

Answer: Robin Williams

Robin Williams was never going to be a good lookin' girl! Even while he's trying out some different female personas in the film itself, his onscreen brother senses that a more motherly image would be appropriate. Doing away with all sense of glamour and artifice, "Mrs. Doubtfire" was the perfect nanny. Support tights, lip moustache and ever-growing nose are seemingly forgiveable traits in women of a certain age and candour!

Answer: Barry Humphries

The kind of drag artist your mother loves! Almost an institution, Dame Edna appeared on the hit American show "Ally McBeal" and, in 2002, co-hosted a huge pop/rock concert broadcast internationally to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. Yet again, not a face to launch a thousand ships!

Answer: Miss Daphne and Miss Josephine

Joe/Josephine, played by Tony Curtis, is the saxophonist while Jack Lemmon is Jerry/Daphne, and the bass player. Directed by Billy Wilder the film was a huge success; being unfortunate to miss out on a clutch of Oscars because it was competing alongside the epic "Ben Hur." However, it did win one for costume design! Yet again though, the mirror is under a lot of strain with these two belles!

Answer: The Birdcage

In this film, two gay men feel compelled to act as conventional 'man and wife' to pass themselves off as 'normal' for the sake of their son's future happiness. As the heterosexual son is marrying into a conservative, middle-class family -- the two 'forever-together' partners create huge laughs while trying to convince their son's prospective in-laws of their authentic 'marriage' -- and consequent respectability, but still no Miss World entrants in the lineup so far!

Answer: Lola

Ray Davies, the frontman and composer of The Kinks, wrote "Lola" which included the following lines: - " Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls/It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world/Except for my Lola [all together now] lo, lo, lo, lo, Lola!" ( Released 1970).

Answer: Israeli

Dana International's song "Diva" won with little difficulty and the singer was justly proud. Although not a transvestite but a transsexual, she was often misrepresented in the press as the former. Some orthodox Israeli critics were outraged at the revelation about her sex change, but it brought comfort to many others who had undergone similar surgery -- as it showed a successful artist in her own right.

Answer: False

'Priscilla' was the name of the lilac recycled school bus that transported the film's three main characters around Australia's Northern territory. Terence Stamp played 'Bernadette,' an ageing transsexual, alongside Hugo Weaving as 'Mitzi' and Guy Pearce as 'Felicia.' A cult classic, it looks at the alienating factors surrounding tranvestism and transsexualism, but ultimately offers an insight into human nature in general. Being middle-aged and stuck in a dead-end job is Bernadette's all-too-familiar condition.

Answer: Aerosmith

Aerosmith formed in 1970, and were highly successful before too much of the accompanying hard rock lifestyle led to serious drug abuse and scandal. However, the band regrouped in the 80's with a 'clean' new attitude, and a range of great new material.

The album "Permanent Vacation" (August 1987) is where you'll find the above song -- belted out by lead vocalist Stephen Tyler. A fitting tribute to all my featured ladies!