Life in Technicolor Trivia Quiz

Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice

Webber and Rice's first collaboration was called "The Likes of Us", but that wasn't performed until 2005 (at the Sydmonton Festival in Hampshire). "Joseph" was originally a 15-minute cantata in 1968, but over the years it's been expanded to almost two hours, produced several albums and in 1999 was filmed as a straight-to-video production starring Donny Osmond. "Any Dream Will Do" is its most famous number.

Answer: Eyes

"Technicolor Eyes" references Johnny Cash, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Friends".

Answer: Projectile vomiting

Other 'colorful' terms for regurgitation include Talking to Ralph on the Big White Telephone and Burp to the Ninth Power. Humphries also came up with "pointing Percy at the porcelain", which has a nice, alliterative ring to it.

Answer: Bette Davis

Davis won her Oscars for "Dangerous" and "Jezebel", and she was nominated for eight others (including "Now, Voyager" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"). She was the first woman to serve as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Answer: Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd made their appearance at five in the morning, after Soft Machine, Yoko Ono and others had already played. The audience numbered around 7000 to see the show (and share a bit of, um, chemical refreshment). "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" was Floyd's first album.

Answer: Sunset Boulevard

Norma Desmond was played, of course, by Gloria Swanson. She and three of her co-stars (William Holden, Erich von Stroheim and Nancy Olson) were nominated for the big four acting Academy Awards, but none of them won (though the film DID win for Best Screenplay, Best Music and Best Art Direction).

The most famous quote from the movie is Desmond's "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

Answer: Walt Disney

Disney negotiated a three-year exclusivity contract for the Process 4 system, running from 1932 to 1935, and during those years Disney cartoons were the only ones able to use the new 'three-strip' technology. "Three Little Pigs" came after "Trees and Flowers", and it's now preserved in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Answer: Teeth whitening

If you have veneers or crowns and you get your teeth whitened, the whitening won't affect the porcelain or the metals, and you'll end up with multi-colored tooth surfaces.

Answer: Dumbo

In "Dumbo", our elephant hero and his friend Timothy the Mouse accidentally get drunk and are treated to one of the scariest sequences in Disney history, with multicolored elephants marching, playing instruments and being generally creepy. There's a cocktail called "Pink Elephants on Parade", which is made from vodka, Midori and pink lemonade.

Answer: The Wizard of Oz

Dorothy's slippers were changed from silver (in the Baum novel) to ruby to take full advantage of the Technicolor process. The movie won its Oscars for Best Song ("Somewhere Over the Rainbow") and Best Score, but got shut out for Best Picture (to "Gone With the Wind").