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  Multiple Choice Quiz about Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star    
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Here are 10 simple questions about one of the funniest films that I've ever seen. Enjoy.
Average, 10 Qns, kaz00_40, Aug 15 07
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  10 Questions about Dickie Roberts    
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"Dickie Roberts" is my favorite movie! I've watched it more than 15 times. This quiz contains spoilers. Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, PinkSunset16, Jul 19 06
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  10 Questions about Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star    
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"Dickie Roberts" was one of the funniest movies I ever saw. It stars David Spade as a former child actor eager to make a comeback. Good luck with the quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, diamondjim68, Mar 14 12
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  Dickie Roberts Quiz Challenge    
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This is a very funny movie which includes a cast of many great former child stars.
Tough, 10 Qns, will999, Aug 25 04
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trivia question Quick Question
What is the last name of the Finney's neighbours who moved away?

From Quiz "Dickie Roberts"





Dickie Roberts Trivia Questions
1. What was the name of the sitcom Dickie starred in as a child?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: The Glimmer Gang

Dickie landed the part for "The Glimmer Gang" when he was five years old. The series ran for six successful seasons until it was cancelled. Dickie's career waned after that.

2. Which actor plays Dickie Roberts?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: David Spade

David was born on 22nd July 1964 in Birmingham, Michigan, USA. During 1990 and 1996 he played various characters on 'Saturday Night Live'.

3. Who is the director of this movie?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: Sam Weisman

The writers of the movie were David Spade and Fred Wolf. They have been good friends ever since Fred helped David get into Improv, which led to a spot on "Saturday Night Live". Sam Weisman also directed these movies: "The Mighty Ducks 2", "George Of The Jungle", "Bye Bye Love", "The Out-of-Towners", "What's The Worst That Can Happen?", and many tv series.

4. Which show was Dickie part of, as a child?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: The Glimmer Gang

We learn this near the beginning of the film when the narrator is explaining about Dickie's life.

5. What job did Dickie have in the beginning of the movie?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Valet

Dickie parked cars at Morton's restaurant and was also writing an autobiography. He wished to wait until his career was back on track but sold it and used the money to hire the Finney family to let him live with them.

6. When Dickie is on the phone to his agent, Sidney Wernick, he says he has to go because his song is playing on the radio. What song is he listening to?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Ride Like the Wind

All of the songs are heard in the movie. 'Ride Like the Wind', by Christopher Cross, is also the song that Sally dances to when Dickie helps her with her dance routine. 'Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)' is in the film when Dickie and Sam are on the stilts singing to Barbie, 'Le Freak' is playing when Dickie is having a disco in the treehouse and 'I Wanna Be Bad' is playing when Heather Bolan does her dance in front of the judges.

7. How much did the announcer say Emmanuel Lewis weighed?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: 92 pounds

This was when Dickie was fighting Emmanuel during the celebrity boxing challenge.

8. Who was the celebrity Dickie lost a boxing match to?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Emmanuel Lewis

Dickie took part in celebrity boxing. Emmanuel Lewis, the diminutive former child actor who starred as Webster, was Dickie's opponent. He defeated Dickie during the match.

9. Which part of the license plate did the big guy write down after Dickie told him off?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: 3-G-Q

This was when Dickie took Rob Reiner's car from the restaurant for a joy ride.

10. Who was the producer Dickie met in order to make his comeback?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Rob Reiner

Rob Reiner was producing a movie entitled "Mr. Blake's Backyard". The movie was about a perfectly normal young man. Because Dickie grew up in the spotlight, he didn't have a normal childhood. Dickie decided to research the part by moving in with a family to see what a normal life was like.

11. What was the tagline for the movie?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: 50 million people used to watch him on TV. Now he parks their cars.

Although some movies have more that one tagline, 'Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star' only has one and I think that it's a great one, because it suits the movie perfectly. When we first meet Dickie he is parking cars, but by the end he get married to Grace and has his own TV show.

12. Which restaurant was Dickie working at, as a valet parker?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: Morten's Restaurant

Rob Reiner says this when he was talking to Dickie in his office.

13. What name did Sam and Sally call Dickie when they met him?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Stranger Danger

Dickie moved in with the Finney family. They consisted of George, his wife, Grace, and their two children, Sam and Sally. The kids immediately called Dickie "Stranger Danger" because of his eccentric behavior and language. Dickie later became a father figure to the kids due to their often absent father.

14. How old is Dickie Roberts?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: 35

Dickie Roberts is a 35 year-old former child star who tries to relive his entire childhood by hiring a family, to get a part in a Rob Reiner movie, "Mr. Blake's Backyard".

15. What is the address of the Finney's house?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: 741 Mockingbird

We hear this when Dickie first arrives at the Finney's house, and he was talking to Grace.

16. What was the name of the rude lady who lived next door to the Finneys?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Gertrude

Mrs. Gertrude was the Finneys' next door neighbor. She was mean to Grace and Dickie encouraged her to stand up to the woman. Mrs. Gertrude and her family moved out of the house after the Finneys' dog, Popeye, chewed up their dead pet rabbit and Dickie and the kids put it back in its cage.

17. What game does Dickie remember playing with his father?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Candy Land

Near the end of the movie, when Dickie's stay with the Finney's is over Grace, buys him Candy Land and they all play it together.

18. On the cover of the DVD case, what do you see?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: Grace Finny, Sally Finny, Sam Finny, Popeye (the dog) and Dickie Roberts on a couch

They are all sitting on the same couch, which is tipped on one side, Grace, Sally, Sam and Popeye on the bottom side, and Dickie at the top on the other side of the couch.

19. What was the phone number in Dickie's ad for a family?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: 323-555-0155

We see this quickly right after Dickie opens the newspaper he is reading.

20. What was the name of the girl next door Sam had a crush on?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Barbie

Barbie was an attractive teenage girl who moved in the house the Gertrude family moved out of. Sam met her while he and his friends were teaching Dickie how to ride a bike. Sam later asked her to a movie and she accepted.

21. As Dickie is packing his stuff into his car ready to go and live with the Finney's, he tells Sidney that David Soul isn't his father. What is Sidney's reply?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: 'Is it Starsky?'

David Soul played Hutch in the original 'Starsky and Hutch' and as the film begins there is a small clip of him singing 'Don't Give Up on Us'.

22. Which school did Sally say that she attends?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: Clover Field Central School

She says this in the treehouse when Dickie, Sam, and Sally were telling ghost stories. Sally's was called "The Witch of Cloverfield Central School". We also notice this briefly on the school bus after Sam and Sally get off the bus.

23. What game did the Finneys get for Dickie as a Christmas present?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Candy Land

Dickie stated that the only memory of his father was playing "Candy Land". That Christmas, the family gave him that as a present in return for everything he did for them.

24. What is the name of the movie that Dickie is trying to get the lead role in?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Mr. Blake's Backyard

In the end Dickie gets the part, but he turns it down and ends up with his own TV show, where Grace is the set designer, Sally is the choreographer and Sam writes the jokes.

25. What color is Cindy's hat when they are in the middle of nowhere, and Dickie is trying to fix the flat tire on his car?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: pink

Dickie says, "I like your hat!" Makes me laugh every time I see it!

26. What was the name of the story Dickie was telling while Sam and Sally were in the treehouse?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: The Day The Sitcom Got Cancelled

Dickie begins telling his story and a giant spider crawls onto his shoulder and Sam and Sally got scared, but Dickie thinks it's just his story.

27. When Dickie is using the hose to fill up his water bed, Sam tells him not to turn the hose on because he will get what kind of action?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: A Water Wiggle

A Water Wiggle is a toy and Dickie has never heard of it. Sam and Sally tell him a list of other toys that he should know, but he doesn't know any of them. They name so many toys that he tells them to stop before he has to call the Guinness Book.

28. When Sam and his friends are teaching Dickie how to ride a bike, and he crashes into the truck, what does he say?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: "Who put that truck there?"

That's when they meet the new next-door neighbour, Barbie. She sees the crash and goes to ask if Dickie is ok. Barbie is also the girl Sam has a total crush on.

29. What type of magazines was Dickie reading while he was dying his hair?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts

Answer: MAD Magazine

This is when Dickie was sitting in the backyard dying his hair, and we can see he has about 2 other MAD magazines as well.

30. What was the name of the video at he end of the movie?

From Quiz Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Answer: Child Actors On Your Television

The video was directed by Marion Ross and Florence Henderson, two of the most loved television mothers. The video consisted of several child actors, including Barry Williams, Danny Bonaduce, Gary Coleman, Charlene Tilton and Erin Moran. They were all singing about the trials and tribulations of becoming child actors and what happens when they grow up.

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