Lizards in Entertainment Trivia

1. Perhaps the most well-known daikaiju (and also the first) is this lizard who rises out of the sea to terrorize the city. In the Japanese version, it terrorizes Tokyo, but in the American version, it terrorizes New York. Which giant lizard is this?

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Answer: Godzilla

Godzilla first appeared in the 1954 Japanese kaiju (giant monster) movie "Godzilla". Anguirus was the first enemy Godzilla ever fought and first appeared in 1955 in "Godzilla Raids Again". However, he and Godzilla became allies later on. Rodan first appeared in 1956, and is yet another ally of Godzilla's. King Ghidora, also known as Monster Zero, earned a nickname "King of Terror", as it was one of the most powerful kaiju to appear in Japanese arts. King Ghidora is Godzilla's arch nemesis in many "Godzilla" movies.

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Answer: Karma Chameleon

A song about a red, gold, and green chameleon (not typically a thing), "Karma Chameleon" was the exact type of nonsense song you'd expect to hear in the early 1980s, but all the more interesting was that it followed the more downtrodden single "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", which escalated Culture Club's status to hit '80s band only a short time prior. According to lead singer Boy George, the song was about fears of social alienation which, sure, it works, but you have to wonder how the chameleon comes and goes. That's not really how they work. You might assume I don't like this song.

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Answer: Jurassic Park III

"Jurassic Park III" was released in 2001. In this film, the Tyrannosaurus rex is finally defeated by a Spinosaurus, who first attacks the group of people in the plane. The Spinosaurus kills the Tyrannosaurus by snapping its neck. The Spinosaurus also ate a cellphone, so whenever a specific ringtone played, you knew the killer lizard was close, and about ready to attack.

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Answer: Wearing no pants in public.

Geico gecko's work biography says that a lawsuit complained about gecko's lack of pants. Happily gecko was vindicated. His lawyer argued successfully that as geckos do not wear pants as matter of course, they should not be expected to do so.

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Answer: Wiesmann

Wiesmann, located in Germany, is the answer. Cars "stick to the road like geckos to the wall" is their motto. The sticky toe pads on the feet are a source of wonder and inspiration for a growing number of companies. Geckos who have these sticky pads (not all of them do) can walk across a ceiling without problem.

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Answer: The Magic School Bus

Appearing alongside Ms. Frizzle in every episode of "The Magic School Bus", Liz is a chameleon who, oddly, never really changes her colours despite that being a fitting idea in many different episodes of the educational program. Additionally, Liz never talks during the show, though she's seen to be exceptionally intelligent and self-aware. Viewers probably wouldn't be surprised to know that she had a full name: Elizabeth Savannah Frizzle.

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Answer: Gex

Gex is a green gecko created by Crystal Dynamics, and his main enemy is Rez, who tries to destroy the "Media Dimension". Gex, who loves TV, must stop him, before the world of television is ruined. "Gex" was released for the PlayStation (and others) in 1994, with "Gex 2" released in 1998 and "Gex 3" in 1999.

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Answer: A diurnal gecko

Family Gekkonidae, genus Phelsuma, diurnal geckos are able to work as business icons, as well as keep up intensive schedules shooting commercials, because they are wide awake during the day. It is true they occasionally may be found asleep among bananas.

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Answer: Gex

Gex the Gecko starred in "Gex", "Gex: Enter the Gecko", and "Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko", all of which followed the titular lizard's adventures through unique worlds and stylized movie environments to battle Emperor Rez. It would likely come as no surprised to players that Gex was voiced by an actual stand-up comedian-- Dana Gould-- whose one-liners and zingers would make up the repetitive bulk of dialogue spread throughout the games, almost always making fun of movies and TV shows, arguably going over the heads of the games' main demographic at the time.

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Answer: GEICO

GEICO stands for "Government Employees Insurance Company". It was founded in 1936 by Leo Goodwin in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. One of GEICO's many mascots is a gecko, known as the GEICO gecko. He first appeared in 1999 due to the Screen Actor's Guild strike, which meant GEICO was unable to use human actors. Therefore, a new animated star was born.

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Answer: London Cockney

A good many Australians have been hired in television, movies, theater and advertisement to portray a British character. Most audiences cannot tell British from Australian accent. The Geico company makes light of this confusion in a commercial. Gecko's colleagues debate where he's from. The Geico gecko is certainly not from Madagascar, where so many geckos originate. If so he'd speak Malagasy, a Malayo-Polynesian language with many Bantu (African) words.

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Answer: Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin was born in 1962 in Victoria, Australia. He was most noted for his television show "The Crocodile Hunter", which ran from 1997 to 2004 (in the USA), which earned him the nickname "Crocodile Hunter". He died in 2006 when a stingray stabbed him in the chest. All film with the scene was destroyed.

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Answer: People called gecko's house asking for Geico.

Gecko had a rough life for a while, including constant wrong number calls to his house. People constantly mispronounced gecko as Geico. Finally gecko went straight to the Geico company about it. Geico was taken with the little green and orange fella who has no eyelids and wears no pants. They hired him on the spot.

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Answer: Gotham City

Killer Croc is typically a Batman villain. First seen in 1983 in "Detective Comics", Killer Croc is actually a man with a rare genetic condition that makes him look like a crocodile. Over time, his appearance seems to have influenced his attitude and habits-- he seems to be cannibalistic in later appearances. Killer Croc was one of many bad guys featured in the "Batman: Arkham City" video game and, later, the "Suicide Squad" film released in 2016 (where he was portrayed by "LOST" actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.

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Answer: Culture Club

"Karma Chameleon" was Culture Club's only number one song in the US. It reached the number one spot in 15 other countries, including the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Culture Club was a British New Wave rock band formed in 1981, and broke up in 1986, but had a "reunion period" from 1998 to 2002 in the UK. Jethro Tull has a song called "Salamander", Radiohead has a song called "Karma Police", and Elton John has a song called "Chameleon".

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Answer: SoBe

SoBe has a double-gecko logo, as well as a gecko dancing troupe to entertain us in commercials. Unlike the Geico company gecko, who is soft skinned, sweet and big-eyed affable, the SoBe gecko's are ignited, energized and in-your-face.

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Answer: Chamillionaire

Chamillionaire was born as Hakeem Seriki in 1979. His first album was "The Sound of Revenge", released in 2005. His second album was "Ultimate Victory", released in 2007, and "Venom", his third solo album, was released in 2010. Before going solo, Chamillionaire was with the band CCC (or Color Changin' Click). From 1999 to 2005, they released several albums, including "Controversy Sells", released in 2004.

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Answer: Rex

"Rex" was highly acclaimed. Another video game using the gecko image is "Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko". Here, the wily secret agent gecko saves a damsel in distress, battles enemies and goes on adventures.

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Answer: Kobold

Kobolds are impish, little guys typically believed to have dragon ancestry, though this just means that they tend to be lizard-like in certain regards. While typically seen as an enemy race known for getting in low-level trouble in role-playing games (kind of like goblins with sharper points), they have a much more interesting origin in Germanic folklore. Kobolds of lore depict them as fiendish spirits which are, more often than not, invisible and inhabiting peoples' homes.

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Answer: Made his TV debut.

The Geico gecko was voted America's favorite icon in 2005, five years after his television screen debut in 1999-2000.

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Answer: V

In "V", a series of giant spaceships operated by a charismatic group of interstellar beings arrived on Earth and started influencing in their ways until a small group of resistance people discovered that they were, in fact, reptilian beasts bent on taking over the planet. While not featuring actual lizards, it's not hard to see that the Visitors take on the species' more terrifying qualities, especially when their true forms are revealed. In both cases, the "V" TV show never really lasted too long due to poor viewership.

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Answer: Super Bowl

SoBe advertised "Life Water" as Naomi and rows of gecko dancers moved their groove during the Super Bowl. One gecko dancer ate a fellow dancer, a grasshopper. SoBe's gecko's are decidedly reptilian. Shortly after this commercial aired, Campbell was banned from British Airways and charged with assault and disorderly conduct, charges she had faced several times in other circumstances. She remained a popular super model, but how this negative publicity affected the SoBe geckos is the question.

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