Another Lesson In "History of the World" Quiz

Answer: raisins

The French Revolution segment was my favorite. Count de Monet was played by the very funny Harvey Korman, and Bearnaise was played by Andreas Voutsinas. Count de Monet bought raisins for both of them, but when de Monet had finished all of his, he wanted Bearnaise's as well. And, since de Monet had bought the raisins, Bearnaise was forced to hand them over to de Monet.

Answer: Spartacus

This movie spoofed a lot of other great movies. Some of them were "Ben Hur", "Spartacus", "The Ten Commandments", and "The Greatest Story Ever Told". Comicus had made a joke poking fun at Caesar's weight, and Josephus spilled wine on Caesar because he was not paying attention. Caesar got upset and ordered both of them to fight to the death. Neither of them won, because together they decided to fight their way out of the palace.

Answer: Count the Money

Count de Monet was the king's adviser, and told King Louis that the peasants were revolting against him. Count de Monet was the person who came up with the idea of substituting a double for the king. King Louis loved the idea, and said, "I like it, a double in case of trouble". Count de Monet had a team of people make over Jacques so that he looked exactly like the king, right down to the mole on King Louis' cheek.

This is the second movie where Harvey Korman's character had to correct people on how to pronounce his name, the first movie was "Blazing Saddles".

Answer: Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks also wrote the screenplays for "Dracula: Dead and Loving It", "Robin Hood: Men in Tights", "Life Stinks", "Spaceballs", "Young Frankenstein", and "Blazing Saddles".

Answer: True

Mel Brooks had taken a very popular phrase, "In God We Trust", and changed it to fit the movie, especially during the Roman Era. In Roman writings the "V" was used instead of the "U". Mel took that idea and ran with it. He changed the "U" to a "V", and made it a running joke in the movie. If you notice, many of the signs during the Roman Era have used "V" instead of "U". Even in the scene between Swiftus and Comicus, Swiftus tells Comicus that he is "nvts...N-V-T-S...nuts!".

Answer: the art critic

The first scene in the movie was the Prehistoric era, which was narrated by Orson Welles. The caveman artist, played by Sid Caesar, painted an animal on the wall of the cave. Soon after, the art critic came by and urinated on his painting. This was way before the era of thumbs up or thumbs down.

Answer: seven

Torquemada had tried everything he could think of to try to get the Jewish men to convert. So in the end, he had to resort to calling in the nuns. The scene was done like a game show, with Mel Brooks playing Torquemada. This was ironic because the Spanish Inquisition was a Catholic entity, and Mel Brooks was not Catholic. To get the effects shown, this scene was filmed entirely in reverse.

Answer: a treasure bath

Marcus Vindictus (played by Shecky Greene) first brought Caesar an alabaster bathtub. Caesar was not totally impressed with it and said, "nice, not thrilling, but nice". Then Marcus Vindictus brought Caesar treasure from the Orient. When Caesar saw both of the gifts together, he got the idea for a treasure bath. Caesar jumped in the tub and had a bath, but when he got out he had to pull a scepter from his backside.

Answer: yes

Mademoiselle Rimbaud went to the king to get her father a pardon. King Louis asked her why her father, Monsieur Rimbaud, had been imprisoned. She told him that her father had said, "the poor ain't so bad". King Louis told Mademoiselle Rimbaud (played by Pamela Stephenson) that if she wanted to save her father she would go to bed with him.

She agreed, but when she came to his chambers, it was Jacques, disguised as the king, who was there. He told her that he would go ahead and pardon her father.

They went to the desk of King Louis and tried to find a pardon. After finding mostly execution papers in the drawer, Jacques stated that the king was a "tough guy". He finally found one last pardon, and Monsieur Rimbaud did indeed get his pardon from Jacques. What was funny about the scene was that there were mostly executions in the drawer, and only one pardon. Earlier in the scene, King Louis had stated that he loved the poor, but obviously he did not, because he only had that one pardon compared to five executions.

Answer: no entry

Vestal virgins were the priestesses of Vesta. It was important that they kept their virginity intact. During the Roman segment, when the Roman soldiers came into their private room, Empress Nympho ordered the virgins to put on their signs. The soldiers went in there looking for Comicus and Josephus, who had gone in there to hide. Comicus hid behind the curtain, and Josephus tried to blend in with the eunuchs. One of the officers pointed out to Empress Nympho that he was not large like the other eunuchs. Empress Nympho told the officer that Josephus had just become a eunuch, and that he needed time to plump up.