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Quiz about Roddy Doyle The Voice of Barrytown
Quiz about Roddy Doyle The Voice of Barrytown

Roddy Doyle: The Voice of Barrytown Quiz


Nobody's ever portrayed working class life in North Dublin as hilariously (or as accurately) as Roddy Doyle.

A multiple-choice quiz by astorian. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
astorian
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
150,102
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
248
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Question 1 of 10
1. What kind of music do the Commitments play? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What's Jimmy Rabbitte Jr.'s role in the Commitments? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which member of the Commitments claims to have played with Wilson Pickett, and to have performed on the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" album? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Which novel earned Roddy Doyle the prestigious Booker Prize? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In the film version of "The Snapper," what new name is given to the Rabbitte family? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What does Sharon Rabbitte name her baby, at the end of "The Snapper"? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Jimmy Rabbitte Sr.'s best friend is called Bimbo. What's his real name? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What ultimately happens to "The Van"? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What do Paddy Clarke and his friends do with a rat they've killed? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" is told from whose viewpoint? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What kind of music do the Commitments play?

Answer: Soul

The band gets off to a roaring start, but falls apart due to personality conflicts.
2. What's Jimmy Rabbitte Jr.'s role in the Commitments?

Answer: Manager

Jimmy has no musical talent, but his friends turn to him for advice because he seems to know so much about trends in pop music.
3. Which member of the Commitments claims to have played with Wilson Pickett, and to have performed on the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" album?

Answer: Joey "the Lips" Fagan

Joey is a very good trumpet player, but he's also a bit of a con artist. To the very end, nobody in the band is sure how much of what he tells them is true.
4. Which novel earned Roddy Doyle the prestigious Booker Prize?

Answer: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

It's a hilarious look at life in Dublin in the 1970s, from a child's viewpoint.
5. In the film version of "The Snapper," what new name is given to the Rabbitte family?

Answer: Curley

When Roddy Doyle sold the film rights to "The Commitments," he also gave away the rights to all characters who appeared in the book. So, when he sold the film rights to "The Snapper" and "The Van," the characters had to be renamed.
6. What does Sharon Rabbitte name her baby, at the end of "The Snapper"?

Answer: Georgina

The baby is named in "honor" of her father: George Burgess, who's also the father of one of Sharon's best friends.
7. Jimmy Rabbitte Sr.'s best friend is called Bimbo. What's his real name?

Answer: Brendan

Bimbo buys "The Van," which he uses to sell fish and chips around Dublin.
8. What ultimately happens to "The Van"?

Answer: Bimbo and Jimmy Sr. drive it into the sea

The fish and chips business was driving a wedge between Bimbo and his best friend, and the Ministry of Health had just cited them for a host of sanitary violations. Bimbo decided it was best just to ditch the van entirely.
9. What do Paddy Clarke and his friends do with a rat they've killed?

Answer: Give it a Viking funeral

They'd just seen "The Vikings," a movie in which Kirk Douglas' body was sent out to sea in a burning ship, and thought it would be "brilliant" to send the dead rat out to sea on a small, flaming craft.
10. "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" is told from whose viewpoint?

Answer: a battered wife

The narrator must regularly explain away her bumps, bruises and black eyes by saying she'd walked into a door or wall.
Source: Author astorian

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