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1.
  "In Living Color"    
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"In Living Color" was a popular sketch comedy show during the early 1990s and launched the careers of a number of actors. And I was shocked no one made a quiz about this show.
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  'Cause That's the Way You Livin'    
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"You can do what you wanna do in living color......come take a walk with me down memory lane......in living color!"
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  "In Living Color" Sketches    
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Due to popular demand, I have decided to create another quiz about "In Living Color."
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trivia question Quick Question
Before Jamie Foxx went on to become an Oscar winner for "Ray", he was a drag performer. What was his drag persona from "In Living Color"?

From Quiz "'Cause That's the Way You Livin'"





In Living Color Trivia Questions
1. The show loved hip-hop and rap groups, always giving them a spot to end/close out the show, but what group sang the opening theme?

From Quiz 'Cause That's the Way You Livin'

Answer: Heavy D and The Boyz

There were two different versions of the song done by Heavy D and the Boyz. Of course, one version was remixed.

2. Kelly Coffield played the female counterpart of what controversial comedian?

From Quiz "In Living Color" Sketches

Answer: Andrew Dice Clay

Andrea Dice Clay's lines included: "Ya think that's easy to do when you're stacked like this?" and "The last time I saw something like that, it had an eraser at the end of it."

3. What was the name of the clown Damon Wayans played?

From Quiz "In Living Color"

Answer: Homey

Homey D. Clown was the alter ego of a convict named Herman Simpson who agrees to the degrading job as part of his parole. Homey would rant about how The Man was out to get him. If a child tried to make Homey do a clown trick, Homey would whack the kid on the head with a tennis ball-filled sock and tell them, "I don't think so. Homey don't play that." Damon also played homeless wino Anton Jackson, disabled superhero Handi-Man, and gay film critic Blaine Edwards. Damon was on the show for the first three seasons, Siblings Keenen Ivory, Shawn, Marlon, Dwayne, and Kim also appeared on the show. By the time the fifth and final season started, not a single member of the Wayans family was still on the show.

4. The show employed an in-house dance group. What were they were known as?

From Quiz 'Cause That's the Way You Livin'

Answer: The Fly Girls

The most famous Fly Girl was Jennifer Lopez. The original Fly Girls were Cari French, Carrie Ann Inaba, Diedre Lang, Lisa Marie Todd and Michelle Whitney-Morrison. The choreographer, Rosie Perez, was also famous - more famous for her roles as Mookie's girlfriend Tina in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and Gloria in "White Men Can't Jump".

5. What charity single was mocked in the "Career Aid" sketch?

From Quiz "In Living Color" Sketches

Answer: "We Are the World"

"Career Aid" was a parody of "Live Aid". The skit featured parodies of Willie Nelson, Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, and Cyndi Lauper. "Career Aid" contained celebrities who were no longer famous and sang "Forget the dying world, please help our careers."

6. "In Living Color" launched the career of this Canadian actor and comedian, whose famous characters on the show included a accident-prone fire marshal and a masculine female bodybuilder.

From Quiz "In Living Color"

Answer: Jim Carrey & James Carrey & Carrey

Carrey's most memorable roles include Fire Marshall Bill and Vera DeMilo. Carrey was one of a few of the actors to appear in all five seasons of the show.

7. Who played the "Background Guy" that appeared unexpectedly during newscasts or press conferences?

From Quiz "In Living Color" Sketches

Answer: Jim Carrey

The last ever sketch on "In Living Color" was "Background Guy at the Haunted House" in May 1994.

8. What rap personality did the show's theme?

From Quiz "In Living Color"

Answer: Heavy D

Heavy D (Jamaican born Dwight Myers) was the leader of 1990s hip-hop group Heavy D & The Boyz, whose biggest hit was 1991's "Now That We Found Love." The song was a cover originally written by Philadelphia's Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff.

9. What was the name of the fifth season sketch that involved guests trading insults and his a repeat winner named T-Dog Jenkins?

From Quiz "In Living Color" Sketches

Answer: Dirty Dozens

Writer and comedian Nick Bakay was host Stu Dunfy. Jamie Foxx played T-Dog and Ed O'Neill appeared as himself being the all-time winner.

10. Who played Calhoun Tubbs, the blues singer known for writing over twelve thousand songs with none over thirteen seconds in length?

From Quiz "In Living Color"

Answer: David Alan Grier

Grier was on the show all five seasons. After the show, Grier starred in a number of short-lived sitcoms, went on Broadway, was a guest host on the radio show "Loveline," and a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars."

11. Another talented comic/actor from the show was Jim Carrey. One of his most memorable characters was Fire Marshall Bill, who initially showed up in a school to warn kids on the dangers of hazardous fires. Where did Fire Marshall Bill NOT show up?

From Quiz 'Cause That's the Way You Livin'

Answer: In a church

Jim Carrey was also Grandpa Jack McGee in the "Dysfunctional Home Show", he impersonated Vanilla Ice and did "White, White Baby", and who could forget Vera de Milo (the steroid abusing bodybuilder)?

12. Who played obnoxious party animal Frenchie?

From Quiz "In Living Color" Sketches

Answer: Keenan Ivory Wayans

Frenchie would turn any situation into a party, even an Alcoholic Anonymous meeting. He resembled Rick James and dressed like his living in the late 1970s with platform shoes, red pleather suit, sunglasses, gold chains, and a jheri curl.

13. What character did Tommy Davidson not play?

From Quiz "In Living Color"

Answer: Arsenio Hall

Davidson played Sweet Tooth Jones in a send-up of 1970s blaxploitation movies, Jesus from "Cellblock Entertainment TV," and a club bouncer who tried to keep everyone out, even if the featured celebrity is actually there. Davidson was on the show all five seasons. Arsenio Hall was done by Keenen Ivory Wayans.

14. The women also held their own during the show. T'Keyah Crystal Keymah created a women's empowerment show called what?

From Quiz 'Cause That's the Way You Livin'

Answer: Go On Girl

Crystal played self-help guru/feminist Shawanda Harvey and her tag phrase was, "You are strong, you are beautiful, you are perfect"!

15. What were the names of the conjoined twins played by Damon and Keenan Ivory Wayans?

From Quiz "In Living Color" Sketches

Answer: Les and Wes

Les was a celebrity, while Wes was not famous and had a job unrelated to his celebrity brother.

16. The very first sketch was a parody of what game show?

From Quiz "In Living Color"

Answer: "Love Connection"

The first episode aired on April 15, 1990. It featured a memorable skits including the Homeboy Shopping Network (street dealers selling stolen goods), an installment of "Great Moments in Black History," and "Men on Film." The final episode was aired May 19, 1994.

17. No one was safe from the satire of "In Living Color". "King: The Early Years" parodied who?

From Quiz 'Cause That's the Way You Livin'

Answer: Don King

This skit started out leading people to believe that the storyline was about Martin Luther King being an early peacemaker on the playground, but it was actually about Don King being an early boxing promoter, complete with early boxing prodigies Leon Spinks, Gerry Cooney and Robin Givens!

18. Hip-Hop and rap music was played heavily on the show. Which musical act performed most?

From Quiz 'Cause That's the Way You Livin'

Answer: Heavy D and the Boyz

Not only did they perform the theme song, but they appeared at least three more times live on the show.

19. In the "Homey Claus" sketch, what song did Homey trick the kids into mocking?

From Quiz "In Living Color" Sketches

Answer: "Silent Night"

Homey gave the kids less than favorable presents, including a stick and "Compton Carlotta" instead of Barbie. Homey would also show a boy what would happen if they joined a gang, which was to place his head in a sack and whack him repeatedly. At the end, the kids and Homey would sing: Homey Claus: "Okay kids repeat after me. Silent night." Kids: "Silent night." Homey Claus: "Homey's night." Kids: "Homey's night." Homey Claus: "All was calm." Kids: "All was calm." Homey Claus: "All was bright... Bright like that damn light that cop shone in my face. He knew I didn't do it. He knew I didn't do it. I said back me up." Kids: "All was bright... Bright like that damn light that cop shone in my face. He knew I didn't do it. He knew I didn't do it. I said back me up." Little Girl: "He knew I didn't do it."

20. What cast member would eventually be on "Living Single"?

From Quiz "In Living Color"

Answer: Kim Coles

Coles was on "In Living Color" for the first season. She was involved in one of the most infamous sketches in history. The "Bolt 45" sketch, which was a parody of a Billy Dee Williams Colt 45 commercial, was aired only one during its original broadcast in May 1990. The censors felt it was making light of date rape and has not been shown in syndication or featured on DVD. Coles played a passed-out woman.

21. Keenen Wayans was the comic mastermind behind "In Living Color" and created many memorable characters. What was the name of the man "who always had a party"?

From Quiz 'Cause That's the Way You Livin'

Answer: Frenchie

Not only was Keenen an outstanding comic character, but he was a screenwriter and producer as well, lending his talents to such programs as "Hollywood Shuffle", "Eddie Murphy's Raw", "The Five Heartbeats" and, one of my all-time favorites, "A Low Down Dirty Shame".

22. Who played children's television show host Candy Cane?

From Quiz "In Living Color" Sketches

Answer: Alexandra Wentworth

Candy Cane was a woman whose problems included getting stood up on dates, but tries to act like Mr. Rogers on the show. She's infatuated with Jurassic Benny (Marc Wilmore), but he rejects her advances.

23. What years were "In Living Color" broadcast?

From Quiz "In Living Color"

Answer: 1990-1994

The first season was thirteen episodes long and it ran from April to September 1990. The final episode aired in May 1994. After "In Living Color" was gone, Fox tried another sketch comedy show with "House of Buggin'," featuring a mostly Latino cast that included John Leguizamo and Luis Guzman. The comedy did not have the same edginess and was canceled after four episodes aired in January 1995. Months later, "MADtv" was born and that show lasted fourteen seasons, from October 1995 to May 2009.

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