The Best Mixed Entertainment Trivia

1. Rita Moreno, you got an EGOT! For what show did Rita win the E in EGOT?

From Quiz You Got An EGOT!

Answer: Emmy for "The Muppet Show"

Rita won her first Primetime Emmy in Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music for "The Muppet Show" in 1977. Rita's first award that began her road to the EGOT was an Oscar in the Supporting Actress category for "West Side Story" won in 1962. Rita Moreno was the first Latino woman to win an EGOT.

From Quiz Round the Bend

Answer: Gretel Killeen

'My Life is a Toilet!' is the first book in the 'Fleur Trotter' series. It is about Fleur and her family going to visit her grandma, having an accident on the way, and ending up having to stay in a caravan park called Paradise Island while their car gets fixed. The Trotters befriend the Pipe family whose son, Dwayne, becomes friends with Fleur and appears in later books in the series.

From Quiz Entertaining Baseball

Answer: The Natural

In "The Natural", the main character Roy Hobbs, is at first a teenage baseball prodigy in the early 20th century, but his future is ruined after being shot and hospitalized. In his 30s, however, he joins the New York Knights, and after getting the chance to play due to the right-fielder's death, begins hitting home runs at an incredible rate. In addition to Redford, the movie stars Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, and Wilford Brimley.

From Quiz The Stormy World of Entertainment

Answer: Wind

According to Wikipedia, there is a long history of films based around storms and wind, with "The Hurricane" being the first of this group to be released (1937). Cyclones, twisters, hurricanes, typhoons and tornadoes are all types of storms involving wind. Hurricane, typhoon and cyclones are all tropical storms and its name depends on the location and strength of the storm. These storms generally form over tropical seas and warmer waters, whereas tornados tend to form over land. This gives a great variety of options when it comes to storm and wind disaster movies.

From Quiz Getting Down With the Bees

Answer: Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld provided the voice for Barry B. Benson, the main character in "The Bee Movie". He also co-wrote the screenplay and co-produced the movie. He was nominated for a Producers Guild of America Award for Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award-Animated for his work as a producer of the movie. He was also nominated for a Kids Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie for his work as Barry B. Benson.

From Quiz Cheerleaders Are Entertaining!

Answer: Bring It On

The "Bring It On" film series is a set of five movies featuring competitive cheerleading teams. The films in include the 2000 feature film "Bring It On" and four direct-to-video sequels released from 2004 through 2009.

From Quiz The Vikings Are Coming...

Answer: Hagar the Horrible

Hagar the Horrible is a Norwegian viking who is portrayed as scruffy, overweight and with a red beard. He appears in the comic strip of the same name, was created by Dik Browne and first appeared in February 1973. When Dik Browne retired in 1988 his son Chris Browne took over creating the comic strip. The strip is syndicated in many newspaper both in the USA and around the world.

From Quiz "Pac-Man" Fever

Answer: Toru Iwatani

Toru joined Namco in 1977. In just three years, he came up with "Pac-Man" and two years later created another massive hit, "Pole Position".

From Quiz Do You Think I'm an Automaton?

Answer: Marvin

Marvin is the severely depressed robot found aboard the starship Heart of Gold. With a "brain the size of a planet", the menial tasks he is called upon to perform bore him and feed his depression. Marvin has some of the best lines in the book, including "My capacity for happiness you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first." All are characters found in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Zaphod Beeblebrox is the two-headed president of the galaxy. Slartibartfast is a designer of planets on Magrathea. He won an award for designing the fjords in Norway. Trillian, formerly Tricia McMillan, left Earth with Zaphod Beeblebrox after meeting him at a party in Islington, thus surviving the destruction of the planet.

From Quiz A Hand of Bridge

Answer: Peanuts

The cartoonist Charles Schulz was a big fan of the game and worked several bridge hands into his strips, with the beagle Snoopy usually declaring a hand. The hands are taken from actual bridge columns so they are hands with a lesson. For example, in one strip Snoopy realizes he should have taken a finesse instead of playing on the club suit to make his contract.

From Quiz The Beautiful Game

Answer: Women footballers

FIFA games (by EA Sports) are played on various platforms by millions across the globe. "FIFA 16" regional releases in Australia, Canada and USA feature Steph Catley, Christine Sinclair and Alex Morgan who are famous women footballers from those nations, respectively. This never happened before this edition and goes to show the increasing popularity of the game among girls and women.

From Quiz And Then You Shut Your Eyes

Answer: Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella called 'Traumnovelle' was the inspiration for Kubrick's last movie. Kubrick directed, produced and co-wrote the movie, dying a mere six days after showing Warner Bros. the final cut of his final movie. Starring Cruise and Kidman, the movie is about their characters' marriage and exploration of extra-marital relationships. The original book 'Traumnovelle' was also known as 'Dream Story' in English. Set in Vienna, the novel is about a Viennese doctor and his wife. Kubrick read the book in 1968 and wanted to make a film adaptation of it, but it took over thirty years for it to hit the big screen.

From Quiz Left or Right?

Answer: John Wayne

John Wayne won his only Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn (a role he also played in the 1975 sequel "Rooster Cogburn"). The other three were also in "True Grit". Campbell played La Boeuf, Duvall was Lucky Ned Pepper, and Darby was Mattie Ross.

From Quiz Last Words of Cartoon Characters

Answer: Cotton Hill

Cotton Hill spoke those words to Peggy after she said she hopes he could live forever in the friendless, spiteful world he created for himself. Debbie Grund, Big Jim and Buckley are also characters from this show who die in various incidents. Question and interesting info by yomamaa.

From Quiz Toke a Doobie

Answer: Cheech & Chong

This duo consisted of members Richard "Cheech" Marin and Tommy Chong. Cheech was American and Chong was Canadian. Some of their more well-known routines were 'Earache My Eye', 'Sister Mary Elephant' and 'Santa Claus and His Old Lady'. They rose to prominence in the '70s and '80s. Their discography includes 'Let's Make a New Dope Deal' and 'Sleeping Beauty'. Some of their movies were 'Things Are Tough All Over' and 'Nice Dreams'. They won the award for Best Comedy Recording at the 16th Grammy Awards.

From Quiz Why Won't You Die?

Answer: ring

Like all other hobbits, Bilbo Baggins preferred a quiet and unexciting life, and lived that way until the wizard Gandalf requested his presence on a quest wherein thirteen dwarves sought to retake their historical homeland from the dragon, Smaug. At one point, Bilbo stumbled into a deep, underground lake, and only made it out alive because of ring he found that made its wearer invisible. The ring was originally just a plot device to help Bilbo out of a bind, but in the "Lord of the Rings" sequels, it turned out to be the One Ring, a powerful ring forged by the dark lord Sauron to control and bind the lands of Middle Earth. It slowly corrupted and unnaturally extended the life of its wearers, including Bilbo, until he was rid of its influence. Nonetheless, he lived to the age of 131, becoming the longest-lived hobbit of all time.

From Quiz The Shape of Things to Come

Answer: Star Trek

"Star Trek" was created by Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) and has become a franchise that includes multiple television series, animation, comic books, novels, video games and movies. The story of a humankind that has surpassed its inner division to be able to unite and go out into the universe is one of great appeal to many. Of course, the characters that comprise the crew of the Enterprise were the ones who brought that future to us, in all its 1960s glory. Novels began being produced already in 1967, with adaptations of the television episodes, but it was not long before original stories were appearing in written form that had not been seen on screen. At the same time, "Star Trek" comics began publication with publisher Gold Key, releasing 61 issues between 1967 and 1979. "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" was the first movie made within the franchise, and it appeared in theatres in 1979. The first computer / video game in the "Star Trek" franchise can be dated back to BASIC text-based games as early as 1971.

From Quiz Deaths in Entertainment

Answer: Optimus Prime

"One shall stand. One shall fall." said Optimus Prime to nemesis Megatron before their final meeting. The hero always gets a cool line to speak before disposing of his enemy, right? Wrong. Due to a boneheaded mistake by fellow Autobot Hot Rod, Optimus was the one that fell.

From Quiz Baby Don't Dance

Answer: The Little Kicks

First appearing in the show's eighth season, Elaine performed her dance at the J. Peterman office party and, to say the least, it was awkward. George Costanza later referred to the movements as "a full-body dry heave". Unfortunately, the dance became a joke amongst the other employees and came back later on in the episode when Jerry and Kramer, attempting to bootleg a movie, ended up discovering that Elaine used their camera to film her movements over their copy of "Cry, Cry Again". Jerry, in an attempt to cover it up, said that during the movie you would cry, and then when you saw the dancer you would have no choice but to cry again. Elaine repeats the dance for a brief moment in her apartment in season nine. It's still awkward.

From Quiz Night of the Killer Robots

Answer: Lost in Space

Airing from 1965 to 1968, "Lost in Space" was essentially "Swiss Family Robinson" in space. The characters included five members of the Robinson family, a pilot, a stowaway troublemaker named Dr. Smith and of course the robot. A movie version was released in 1998 and starred William Hurt and Gary Oldman. Dick Tufeld provided the voice for the robot in both the series and the movie.

From Quiz Entertainment to the Left

Answer: Paul Newman

Paul Newman was offered the role as Billy after James Dean, who was already signed to play the part, was killed in a car accident. When an original tintype that was taken in 1880, was found in 1986, it proved that the Kid was in fact right handed. This was the first movie directed by Arthur Penn.

From Quiz A Wrong Title's Journey into Right

Answer: Something Wicca This Way Comes

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" is a quote from William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Various other works have been named after it, such as Ray Bradbury's 1962 novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes". "Something Wicca This Way Comes" is the first episode of "Charmed", in which the three sisters (Prue, Piper, Phoebe) reunite for the first time after their grandmother's death. The seventh season finale, "Something Wicca This Way Goes", is named to mirror the pilot.

From Quiz The Vintage Cartoon Challenge

Answer: Eugene the Jeep

Eugene the Jeep was supposedly a gift from Africa given to Popeye's girlfriend Olive Oyl. He is a "fourth dimensional" creature. Although about dog-size he has a bear-like head and ears, a sizable nose, and a formidable tail. He can only say the word "Jeep". In the cartoon episodes any attempts by Popeye to put Eugene out of the house for the night were always thwarted as the impish being would simply re-materialize indoors. The Sea Hag was a witch and enemy of Popeye. George Geezil was a black clad, bearded character who disliked Wimpy and his hamburger scam. Alice the Goon was a giant who guarded The Sea Hag.

From Quiz All We Need Is Love!

Answer: Love Me Tender

"Love Me Tender" was a song which Elvis Presley recorded in 1956. The music was adapted from a Civil War ballad originally called "Aura Lea". The movie "Love Me Tender" was originally known as "The Reno Brothers" with Elvis playing Clint Reno in his film debut. 20th Century Fox realised the potential of having a blockbuster hit by Elvis so changed the name to "Love Me Tender".

From Quiz Allegedly...

Answer: Walt Disney World

In search of an East Coast location for a second Disney theme park, Walt overflew the Orlando area in 1963, noticing the mostly undeveloped area which however already featured an already advanced road network including Interstate 4, then under construction. Buying out the land with several dummy corporations to avoid the inevitable price increase that a sudden, obvious demand for the land by a major company would have caused, Disney ultimately secured over 27,000 acres (111 km²) at a low price before announcing his grand and ultimately vastly successful plans.

From Quiz Monkey Business

Answer: Bourbon

The actual lyrics are: "Kangaroo lady with her bourbon in a pouch, Can't afford the rental on a bamboo couch, Collectin' back her favours" "Monkey Business" featured on the "Slave to the Grind" album, which was the band's second studio release, in 1991. The track reached the Top 20 on the UK Chart when it was released as a single earlier that year.

From Quiz Transformers: Generation 1

Answer: 1984-1993

All "Transformers" related products and media from this period are retroactively referred to as "Generation 1". This ended with the release of a 12 part "Generation 2" comic series in 1993.

From Quiz You Got An EGOT!

Answer: Oscar for "The Producers"

Mel was the first EGOT winner to win an Oscar for a screenplay. He won in Best Writing (Screenplay) for "The Producers" in 1968. Mel completed his EGOT in 2001 when he won three Tony awards for "The Producers".

From Quiz Popeye and Pals - Do We Really Know Them?

Answer: Thimble Theater

The "Thimble Theatre" comic strip had run for 10 years when, in January 1929, cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar added Popeye as a temporary character. The "Thimble Theatre" strip was eventually renamed "Popeye."

From Quiz Round the Bend

Answer: Blackadder Goes Forth

The Red Baron (Adrian Edmondson) says this in the episode 'Private Plane' of 'Blackadder Goes Forth', the final series of 'Blackadder', which is set during the First World War. Blackadder and Baldrick have been captured by the Red Baron, and he wants to learn about British humour. He threatens to make them teach Home Economics at a girls' school outside Heidelberg, although Blackadder is secretly happy about this.

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