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Quiz about The Original Men in Black
Quiz about The Original Men in Black

The Original "Men in Black" Trivia Quiz


Long before Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones assumed that title, the Three Stooges used it for one of their looniest shorts, where they turn a hospital into a madhouse!

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
tjoebigham
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
203,176
Updated
Aug 13 24
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
10 / 15
Plays
1123
Last 3 plays: Guest 74 (13/15), Guest 107 (15/15), Guest 73 (8/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. What hospital do the Stooges work at? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. Who's the head of the hospital where the Stooges work? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Why did they graduate from medical school? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. What do they usually destroy in the boss' office? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. What form of transportation do they NOT use? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. What's the name of the woman in a wheelchair they pull over for speeding? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. Who plays the ditzy nurse with the Betty Boop voice? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Who's the girl who sent a telegram (75 cents collect) to the boys? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. Who does the little girl in bed turn out to be? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. What room is the crazy patient in? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. What does the nut claim to see? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. What does the boss swallow that has to be surgically removed? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Though they are apparently successful, what do the Stooges leave in the boss? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. What do they do at the end? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. "Men in Black" is the only Stooges short nominated for an Oscar.



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Most Recent Scores
Oct 29 2024 : Guest 74: 13/15
Oct 26 2024 : Guest 107: 15/15
Oct 26 2024 : Guest 73: 8/15
Oct 20 2024 : Guest 71: 14/15
Oct 13 2024 : trivialover53: 9/15
Oct 08 2024 : steelman86: 7/15
Sep 05 2024 : Guest 98: 13/15
Sep 03 2024 : Guest 129: 1/15

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What hospital do the Stooges work at?

Answer: Los Arms

Two of the other answers refer to real hospitals, the other to TV's "St. Elsewhere". The pun signifies we're in Stoogeland again. Raymond McCarey directed and Felix Adler scripted this early short, from 1934.
2. Who's the head of the hospital where the Stooges work?

Answer: Dr. Graves

Why Dr. Graves (appropriate name!) doesn't go nuts from the Stooges' antics I don't know! I'm sure you know the other answers!
3. Why did they graduate from medical school?

Answer: they spent too many years in senior class

What medical school would allow THESE morons? Only in Stoogeland! (Maybe they should've cheated; then they'd get expelled!)
4. What do they usually destroy in the boss' office?

Answer: the glass door

They crash through the door exiting, Curly breaks it when he shuts it...heck, the sign painter even smashes it so they can rush in!
5. What form of transportation do they NOT use?

Answer: roller skates

They could also use pogo sticks! They rush into a storeroom and emerge on horseback, on a tandem bike and in racecars.
6. What's the name of the woman in a wheelchair they pull over for speeding?

Answer: Anna Conda

These wretched groaners pop up everywhere in a Stooges short! They take her temperature and make it into a stock report! (punning on Colorado's Anaconda Mine!)
7. Who plays the ditzy nurse with the Betty Boop voice?

Answer: Jennie Roberts

Questal was Betty's voice (patterned after singer Kane), but Roberts played the nurse whose whackiness drives even the Stooges nuts! She thinks a pippin is "an apple with the skin on the outside" and says she once saw one with the skin on the inside...in an apple pie! Later the boys sing an alpine song to her hiccups! Lamont, of "Singin' In The Rain", was played by Jean Hagen.
8. Who's the girl who sent a telegram (75 cents collect) to the boys?

Answer: Nellie

Nellie sent a note to the Stooges saying she'd marry the one who did the most "for Duty and Humanity" (the catchphrase throughout the short). When the telegram man asks for his pay, Larry flips a coin for it and the man loses. (He got suckered of course!)
9. Who does the little girl in bed turn out to be?

Answer: a midget

"Is she in a coma?" ask the Stooges. "I am not! I'm in a bed!" the homely midget retorts. Then, seeing the Stooges, squeaks "Gee, the joint is haunted!"
10. What room is the crazy patient in?

Answer: 81

Billy Gilbert plays the fruitcake, raving about rats coming out of his pajamas' buttonhole et al. Among his film work is his Mr. Pettibone in the Howard Hawks classic "His Girl Friday".
11. What does the nut claim to see?

Answer: giant green canary

Jimmy Stewart saw Harvey the rabbit in the 50's comedy of the same name; pink elephants are the cliche vision of movie drunks (in the 1940s Disney feature "Dumbo" the title character gets drunk and his visions are a high point of the film). When Gilbert says he sees the bird a real parakeet lights on Moe's shoulder, scaring them all! The purple cow was popularized by Gellitt Burgess' famed quatrain.
12. What does the boss swallow that has to be surgically removed?

Answer: the combination to a safe

Dr. Graves says there's valuable radium needed in his safe but he swallowed the combination. He balks at the Stooges operating on him, but they knock him out with mallets and perform anyway!
13. Though they are apparently successful, what do the Stooges leave in the boss?

Answer: surgical instruments

When Dr. Graves gets up we hear the tools rattle inside him! The nurse helping them whispers throughout; when they ask her why they are whispering, she replies "I don't know about you, but I lost my voice asking for a raise!" Well might they leave their mezuzahs inside the doctor, they were Jewish!
14. What do they do at the end?

Answer: destroy the intercom

Fed up with the constant calls of "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!" they rip the intercom to shreds before they find a vacuum tube still speaking. They shoot it and it gasps "Oh! They got me!"
15. "Men in Black" is the only Stooges short nominated for an Oscar.

Answer: True

It lost to "La Cucharacha", and no other Stooges short was ever nominated again.
Source: Author tjoebigham

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