Road To Bob Hope Trivia Quiz

Answer: Where There's Life

The title of the 1947 film cheekily suggests that "Where There's Life", there's Hope.

Answer: Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby was also insinuated in many inside jokes in movies that Bob Hope starred in, most notably in "The Princess and the Pirate," where Bing Crosby steals the girl, played by Virginia Mayo, away at the very end. The witty exchanges between the two men made the films even more dynamic, due to the frequency of their ad-libbing in the movies.

Answer: Dorothy Lamour

The lovely Dorothy Lamour creates a legacy of feuding between Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in the "Road To" movies. Crosby, of course, wins her almost every time. Although Lamour settles for Hope in "Road to Utopia", when the men are separated by a crack in the ice, with Lamour on Hope's side.

Answer: Road to Kashmir

Many "Road To" pictures were located in foreign countries, often creating a recurring plot, where the two schemers attempt to either outwit or survive that country's cultural norms, with Lamour as the exotic distraction.

Answer: Spies Like Us

The 1985 movie "Spies Like Us", starring Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd, was an hilarious take on the "Road To" movies, including some of the same techniques of distraction the pair would use to get out of danger. Bob Hope accidentally golfs himself into one of the scenes of the movie.

Answer: Thanks For The Memory

This culturally recognizable song has already been featured in virtually all television biographies of Bob Hope, and seems reminiscent of nostalgia for old Hollywood pictures such as the star-studded cast of "The Big Broadcast of 1938".

Answer: Casanova

Hope clumsily assumes the persona of the hearthrob, Casanova, in the 1954 period movie "Casanova's Big Night."

Answer: The Seven Little Foys

Including generally good critical reception, the 1955 picture "The Seven Little Foys," also starring James Cagney, was nominated for Best Screenplay in 1956. Although "Paleface", a box office success, won an Academy Award for the song "Buttons and Bows", which Hope sings in the movie.

Answer: My Favorite President

Although Bob Hope rubbed elbows with many presidents, including joining them in his favorite sport, golf, Hope only acted in "My Favorite Spy," "My Favorite Blonde," and "My Favorite Brunette,". All of these are hilarious comedies.

Answer: How To Commit Marriage

Bob Hope had numerous on-screen appearances and performances with Lucille Ball, and they had tremendous chemistry as a comedic pair. My favorite film with the two is 1949's "Sorrowful Jones", arguably one of Hope's best movies.

Answer: He runs into Lucy in a locker room at Yankee stadium as himself.

The episode was entitled "Lucy and Bob Hope" and first aired on October 1, 1956.

Answer: My Favorite Brunette

The 1947 film, "My Favorite Brunette", features Hope as a baby photographer who gets caught up in the mysterious plot and identity of a detective, when he promises to overlook his detective friend's office. This movie is a great combination of mystery and comedy with a suprise cameo as well!

Answer: Paleface

Starring opposite Jane Russell, who plays Calamity Jane, Bob hope plays the painless dentist. This movie was also Hope's first color feature.

Answer: Caught In The Draft

The movie title "Caught in the Draft" is another toungue-in-cheek title so common in Hope's movies, which again has Hope playing an ineffectual coward playing the unlikely hero.

Answer: Beau James

Hope plays the easily corrupted mid 1920's Mayor Jimmy Walker in the 1957 movie. This toned down role, in comparison to the real story, is probably the most uncomedic and dramatic Bob Hope has ever played.

Answer: The Ghost Breakers

"The Ghost Breakers" is a silly horror spoof where Hope, paired with Paullette Goddard, encounter ghosts and scary zombies.

Answer: Oscar

Although Bob hope won an innumerable amount of awards, many of them honorary, including a knighthood, he did not win an Oscar.

Answer: All of these

During the WWII, Hope recalls his plane being shot at when he was on his way to perform for the troops, and his response to this threat was "I have critics everywhere."

Answer: Leslie Townes Hope

Bob Hope, sometimes known as Robert Hope, was born with the name Leslie Townes Hope. In his films, Hope's name is often a hyperbolic pseudonym like "Sorrowful," "Fearless" or "Sylvester the Great," covering up less desirable names such as "Humphry," which I believe, points to his less desirable real name.

Answer: England

Although he has become a symbol of Americana, Lesley Townes Hope was born May 29, 1903 (most probably) in Eltham, England.