Back before Jerry Springer and other talk shows, people went to sideshows to be shocked and amazed. Who are some of the folks who were stars of the bygone era?
Very Difficult, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Jul 04 21
Category:
Circuses & Fairs
Who Does What in the Bangles Song?
"Walk Like an Egyptian" was the Bangles' first number-one hit in the US, topping the Billboard charts in 1987. Let's look at the lyrics and see who was doing what. Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Oct 18 23
Category:
Bangles, The
Nothing tough here, if you've watched the show. It's just a quick check of the characters and their relationships!
Very Easy, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Oct 03 10
Category:
Keeping Up Appearances
So you, the English speaker, are thinking of going to Korea! Can you communicate with the locals?
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Nov 09 15
Category:
Korean
These critters are tough to see outside their native land. Take this quiz and learn about these amazing animals.
Average, 20 Qns, ubermom,
Sep 24 20
Category:
Marsupials and Monotremes
This quiz focuses on the concepts Paul addresses in Galatians, not in minutia. Quotes are taken from the Revised Standard Version.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Dec 26 08
Category:
Galatians
Find the poetic lyrics of this song, sung by Roxette.
Easier, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Aug 21 05
Category:
Roxette
Buster Keaton considered his 1926 film, "The General", to be his best. Many critics and fans agree. Let's have a look!
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Jan 28 10
Category:
Ga - Gm Movies
Match the description with two-reeler
After Roscoe Arbuckle started doing feature films, he left Buster Keaton in charge of the old Comique Studio. Buster renamed it after himself and began releasing short films. Match the description with the movie. Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Jan 24 23
Category:
K - People Themed
Check your knowledge of the basic plot and characters of this classic story of an unlikely love.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
May 24 08
Recommended for grades: 7,8,9
Category:
Eliot, George
Can you sort myth from reality about the Great Stone Face of silent cinema? Be careful! Keaton himself loved passing many of the myths along.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Dec 25 09
Category:
Celebrities K-L
Buster Keaton's first feature film, released in 1923, was a spoof on D. W. Griffith's "Intolerance" (1916). "Three Ages" was set up in three parallel parts so that if necessary, it could be cut into three shorts.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Mar 01 10
Category:
Tg - Tm Movies
What if famous characters from literature had social networking accounts? Guess who these folks are in litspace from the usernames and profiles they post in cyberspace.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Jul 24 17
Category:
Literary Characters
This 1920 two-reeler featured Buster Keaton, Big Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, and Buster's father, Joe Keaton.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Feb 07 10
Category:
Sa - Sf Movies
One of the most confusing things about abortion politics is that there's disagreement about the terms. Can you spot the terms that folks can't agree upon?
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Mar 02 04
Category:
Abortion
These are the details that stuck with me. Do you remember them?
Tough, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Mar 17 20
Category:
Alive
This 1925 classic is one Buster didn't want to make, but his producer, Joe Schenck, had spent $25,000 on rights to a play. Buster took it and made it entirely his own. The quiz is based on the Kino DVD.
Tough, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Feb 21 10
Category:
Sa - Sf Movies
You're lacking A, E, I, O, and U, but you do have a Y. This quiz will help you to learn ten words from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
Tough, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Sep 12 22
Category:
Scrabble
The Boomtown Rats song and the real-life events that inspired it.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Dec 25 09
Category:
Boomtown Rats
The third installment in a long-overdue series of quizzes.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Feb 05 11
Category:
Dirk Gently
From 1917 to 1920, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle made films at his Comique studio with Buster Keaton, Al St. John, and Luke the Dog. Can you identify the movies from the clues?
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Jan 28 10
Category:
Classic Movies
This 1939 Columbia short partnered the onscreen Buster Keaton with writer Clyde Bruckman, who had worked with Keaton on his classic, "The General" in 1926.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Dec 25 09
Category:
Mi - Mo Movies
According to Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Vogons write the worst poetry in the universe, poetry you'd gnaw your leg off to escape. Let's explore the Vogon influence on Earth music.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Jul 29 05
Category:
Which Song Is It
Let's look at some famous and not-so-famous trios, triads, and triples.
Tough, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Mar 16 24
Category:
3
Number 4 in a long-overdue series on this delightful book.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
May 12 19
Category:
Dirk Gently
Usually a patient's death is a matter of malpractice, not murder. But in some cases, the docs get prosecuted. In each case, prosecutors decided they were dealing with Quack the Ripper.
Difficult, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Jan 03 05
Category:
Innocent or Guilty?
Each clue provides at least two hints to the answer: Ex: Long John Silver learned the hard way not to use a fish as a shoe bottom. Answer: Sole. A sole is a fish, and a sole is a shoe bottom.
Tough, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Oct 18 08
Category:
Word Puzzles for Experts
This 1923 Buster Keaton short features childhood neighbor, and favorite comic foil, Big Joe Roberts.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Apr 19 10
Category:
Li - Lz Movies
How much do you know about Howard Pyle's classic?
Difficult, 25 Qns, ubermom,
Jan 26 04
Category:
P
"The Rough House", starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Al St. John, was released in 1917.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Dec 25 09
Category:
Ri - Rz Movies
It's about time there was a quiz devoted entirely to "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". This book is so pithy it's worth a quiz a chapter. Here's the first!
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Nov 25 10
Category:
Dirk Gently
Eastern State Penitentiary was groundbreaking in many ways. I'll try to give you clues so that if you have a good general knowledge, you should be able to guess most answers.
Difficult, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Oct 19 08
Category:
USA in the 19th.Century
This 1918 silent classic features Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton as revenuers, and Al St. John as a moonshiner. The quiz is based on the more complete 16mm print, available on the 2001 KINO "Arbuckle & Keaton" DVD set.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Dec 26 09
Category:
Mi - Mo Movies
The second installment of a long-overdue series of quizzes on the delightful Douglas Adams book.
Tough, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Nov 25 10
Category:
Dirk Gently
"The Butcher Boy", released in 1917, was the first independent film to come out of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's Comique Studio.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Nov 29 09
Category:
Br - Bz Movies
"His Wedding Night", released in 1917, again teams Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Al St. John.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Dec 25 09
Category:
Ha - Hm Movies
This 1918 Arbuckle/Keaton short was thought lost until 1998, when an incomplete print was discovered in Norway. More footage was found in the Netherlands in 2002. This quiz is about the DVD release of the reconstructed film from those prints.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Dec 01 09
Category:
Cm - Cq Movies
This 1923 short, written and directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, features Phyllis Haver.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Feb 21 10
Category:
Ba - Bd Movies
This 1921 Buster Keaton short features Virginia Fox and Big Joe Roberts.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Mar 07 10
Category:
Gn - Gz Movies
This 1919 film featured Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Luke the Dog and their adventures at the post office/general store/social hall.
Tough, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Jan 03 10
Category:
Ha - Hm Movies
This 1923 Buster Keaton film featured his son and his father, as well as his wife, Natalie Talmadge.
Tough, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Jan 02 10
Category:
O
More fun with homophones -- words that sound the same but are spelled differently. No punctuation -- just the words, please!
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Apr 10 10
Category:
Rhymes
How well do you know Rick Wakeman's theme album?
Tough, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Apr 19 20
Category:
Wakeman, Rick
Welcome to Korea! If you don't speak the language, you'll find yourself picking up Konglish -- English words used in the Korean way. Can you understand the locals, and make yourself understood?
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Oct 20 08
Category:
Varieties of English
Weird Al's "Bob" is composed entirely of palindromes, so you should be able to figure out the answers even if you've never heard the song. Be careful! The lines don't necessarily break in the center of the palindrome.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Jun 27 09
Category:
Yankovic, Weird Al
Released in 1928, "The Cameraman" was Keaton's first film at MGM -- and the last film he had control over. Join me now in a loving look back over this comedy classic.
Average, 15 Qns, ubermom,
Dec 20 09
Category:
Ca - Cf Movies
Johnny Eck was one of the most popular human oddities of the heyday of the sideshow. Learn more, or test what you already know.
Tough, 10 Qns, ubermom,
Jul 04 21
Category:
Circuses & Fairs
Buster Keaton released 19 independent short films from 1920 - 1923. We'll take a look at all of them in two quizzes.
Average, 10 Qns, ubermom,
May 23 11
Category:
Classic Movies