Monty Python Television Trivia

1. The sketch takes the form of a spoof current affairs documentary. What is the name of this programme?

From Quiz Monty Python's Piranha Brothers Sketch

Answer: Ethel the Frog

"Ethel the Frog" was introduced with John Cleese as the presenter. It examines the rise and fall of the Piranha brothers, Doug and Dinsdale, who had recently been sentenced to 400 years in prison for crimes of violence. A parody of real life gangsters the Kray twins.

From Quiz Sketching Monty Python

Answer: Henry Wensleydale

The name Henry Wensleydale can be seen as John Cleese is about to enter the shop. The name comes up again as Cleese goes through all the cheeses that he knows. When he asks for Wensleydale the proprietor replies "Yes sir?" and when Cleese asks for some Palin replies "Thought you were referring to me."

From Quiz Now For Something Nostalgic: Crunchy Frog

Answer: Graham Chapman

The late Graham Chapman played the poor man, and his main role in the entire sketch is to look sick and run off to blow off chunks. In live versions, such as the recent 'Monty Python: Live, Mostly' special, Parrot was portrayed by Terry Gilliam.

From Quiz Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition

Answer: "And now for something completely different"

John Cleese says "And now for something completely different" at the start of each episode in the second series of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. It is also the title of the first 'Monty Python' film which was a collection of sketches from the TV show.

From Quiz This Anatomy Quiz Has No Appendix

Answer: Foot

The giant foot created by Terry Gilliam to periodically smash down on scenes as a transitional device was based on the foot of Cupid in a painting called "Venus, Folly and Time", by Agnolo Bronzino. As the little chicken man drags a banner with the episode title across the screen, the foot descends and a voiceover states "How to recognize different parts of the body. Number one. The foot."

From Quiz "Monty Python's" Scene It Part Two!

Answer: He was a Gumby

The video sequence of homes blowing up showed the vacation home blowing up, followed by the Gumby blowing up, followed by the Gumby's house blowing up.

From Quiz "Monty Python's" Scene It!

Answer: Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong answered correctly for "What was the name of Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr's winning Eurovision Song Contest song?", which was "Sing Little Birdie".

From Quiz Completely Different "Monty Python"

Answer: Norwegian blue

After finding his parrot was dead, an unsatisfied customer returns it to the pet shop. The parrot that was "pushing up the daisies" was a Norwegian blue, or was it just "pining for the Fjords".

From Quiz "It's...." Michael Palin of Monty Python!

Answer: A shopkeeper

He played the pet shop owner in the dead parrot sketch, the barber in the lumberjack sketch and the cheese shop owner in the 'Rouge Cheddar' sketch.

From Quiz And now for something completely...

Answer: surprise

This is from The Spanish Inquisition sketch, when they first burst into the room. Cardinals Ximenez, Biggles, and Fang were played by Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam.

From Quiz 'Monty Python': The Killer Joke

Answer: Whither Canada (episode 1)

The first episode of the series also included 'Famous Deaths', 'It's the Arts', and several pigs getting killed.

From Quiz The Magic of "Monty Python"!

Answer: Harold

This is a sketch from the second "Monty Python's Flying Circus" episode. There are 'baa's and 'thud's in the background- the sound of sheep jumping off trees.

From Quiz 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Episode 4

Answer: Arthur

For some odd reason, the name Arthur came up a lot during the first several episodes of the series. There is no explanation, ever, for the official title 'Owl-Stretching Time'. No owls appeared, or were hurt, during the filming of this or any other episode of the 'Flying Circus'.

From Quiz Monty Python: Televisional Pursuit Vol. 2

Answer: Wainscotting

The killer sheep living there was named "Basil."

From Quiz Monty Python: Televisional Pursuit Vol. 1

Answer: 3

Most of the women characters are portrayed by the men. Graham Chapman holds the record for the show with 45 appearances as a woman. This also includes the number of times he did in films.

From Quiz Python Python Python

Answer: Mr Hilter

Heinrich Bimmler: 'I am retired wwwwwwwindow cleaner. And also pacifist. And I vas head of Gestapo for nine years. Nein! Five years! Nein! I was not! I was not head of Gestapo - I make joke...'

From Quiz 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - Episode 2

Answer: Sheep

In the opening sketch, two gentlemen discuss the odd phenomenon of sheep 'nesting' in some trees. One gentleman describes the attempted flights as something more like 'plummeting'. The sheep have been tricked into believing they can fly by a black sheep (in the figurative, not literal sense) named Harold, the 'clever sheep'.

From Quiz 'Monty Python': Focus on Michael

Answer: "The more you have to pay."

"We don't morally censure, we just want the money." From the "Blackmail" skit.

From Quiz "Monty Python's Flying Circus" Quiz

Answer: frogs

"Look out, they are llamas!"

From Quiz 'Monty Python' Episode 3 'How to Recognize...'

Answer: Fiona Lewis

It is indeed Fiona Lewis. It cracks me up every time as she speaks word upon word without stopping. I could tell you her whole spiele from heart.

From Quiz 'Python' Season 3

Answer: North Malden

The three incorrect answers were locations where Mr. Pither fell off his bicycle during his cycling tour (Episode #34).

From Quiz Python Arcana and Minutia

Answer: Cannibalism

"... it is the RAF who now suffer the largest casualties in this area."

From Quiz 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'

Answer: She exploded

'...My, Mrs. Niggerbaiter's exploded!'

From Quiz "Monty Python" What?

Answer: A slug

'Does it talk'? 'No' 'Well it's hardly a replacement then is it'?

From Quiz 'Python' Season 2

Answer: Doug

From Quiz 'Monty Python' Trivia

Answer: Throatwobbler Mangrove

'You're a very silly man and I'm not going to interview you...'

From Quiz Monty Python's Piranha Brothers Sketch

Answer: Nailing people's heads to the floor

Vince Snetterton-Lewis and Stig O'Tracy both give accounts of the times Dinsdale nailed their heads to the floor. O'Tracy describing him as "a cruel man, but fair".

From Quiz Sketching Monty Python

Answer: Norway

The Norwegian blue that was either "Resting" or "Pining for the fjords" according to the pet shop proprietor.

From Quiz Now For Something Nostalgic: Crunchy Frog

Answer: This is extremely nasty

A simple interaction that will only lead to more outlandish concoctions as the sketch goes on. In comparison to the rest of the sketch, this is pretty tame.

From Quiz Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition

Answer: "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition"

'The Spanish Inquisition' is one of the few episodes to feature Terry Gilliam on screen. Usually responsible for the animation sequences in 'Monty Python', in this episode he plays Cardinal Fang.

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