Seeing Red Again Trivia Quiz

Answer: Chevelle

Chevelle formed in Chicago in 1995 with three brothers, Pete, Sam, and Joe Loeffler as members. When bassist Joe left the band, they kept it in the family, bringing in Sam's brother-in-law Dan Bernardini to play bass. The other bands were/are formed in part or in whole by brothers as well, but hopefully the nation of origin clue helped you weed out some wrong choices.

The Gallagher brothers formed the core of Oasis in the U.K. Four brothers with the surname Kongos comprise the band of the same name, from South Africa. Split Enz with brothers Neil and Tim Finn, hailed from New Zealand.

Answer: he temporarily loses his super powers if he sees anything red

The police officer shot his gun into the air in an attempt to frighten off an alligator. The bullet inadvertently struck a nuclear missile in flight overhead and detonated it. Not only is the officer not killed, but he gained a slew of superhuman powers from the blast.

This movie is painfully cheesy at points, yet it still managed to get regular showings on a fledgling Cable TV network called HBO, and gained a very small but vocal cult following in that time.

"Highlights" include a sequence where he impresses onlookers by walking on water only to lose control and suddenly sink into the sea when a woman in a red swimsuit comes into his view. Another time, he blows up a large "balloon" out of chewing gum to serve as a flotation device to rescue his sergeant from a sunken boat, and possibly the topper, there is a scene where he makes an entire 70,000+ person audience at a football game vanish temporarily with a thought. This movie has been largely forgotten, some would say with good reason, but it seems to be a top candidate in my mind for "so absurd it is funny" preservation.

Answer: wings

This slogan was used in T.V. and radio advertisements for the beverage until a lawsuit was successfully leveled against the company. An urban legend about frivolous lawsuits run amok spread the idea that the company had been sued for 13 million dollars by a single customer because he did not literally grow wings and thus claimed false advertising. This is completely untrue.

The class action lawsuit actually had to do with the cost of the beverage and the plaintiffs charged the company made false claims about the drink's ability to give an energy boost, which they maintained was in truth was about the same as drinking a cup of coffee. Red Bull admitted no wrongdoing and stood behind the claims of their advertisements, but stated they agreed to pay the settlement to avoid the much more costly path of a full trial and the negative attention that would draw.

It was a voluntary decision by the company to scrap the slogan. Probably to "cover all bases" and help to avoid any other such claims.

Answer: Tom Hanks

This was a remake of the French film "Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire" (The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe). Many view the remake as a cheap knockoff of what was a good spy movie and feel it was made in hopes of exploiting the wide American audience which was largely ignorant of the original. Even with that being true, neither U.S. audiences nor critics found much to like.

Answer: American Football

Red started out as a stoic and serious official and was fired from a college job in the Southland Conference for, in his own words during an interview, "taking that too far". He took this to heart and went the opposite direction, infusing a lot of personality into his routine. Over the course of a 24 year NFL career, his enthusiasm became a highlight for thousands of fans who seemed to have their own enthusiasm amplified when Red called one their way, and they were often just a little more forgiving than usual if the call went against their favorite team.

His trademark was to present the typically routine declaration of a first down, as the emphatically dragged out declaration: "FIRST DOWWWWWN!"

Answer: American Civil War

The book received mixed reviews initially but fans praised the brutal realism about the harsh realities of war presented in the novel, vs. the glorification of battle seen in many other works of the time. Many war veterans were particularly impressed with the realistic feel of it because Crane had not fought in any war and never served in the military.

Hopefully history helped a little here in eliminating wrong choices as the other three wars all occured after the book was written.

Answer: "I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."

Earlier on, Morpheus had offered the sympathetic comment "I imagine right about now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole?" in recognition of how surreal it must have been for Neo as they'd started giving him nibbles of the the hidden truth about the nature of the world. The full line in question was "You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." confirming there would be no turning back.

"The story ends here", by contrast was what was promised with the choice of the blue pill, which would do nothing but allow Neo to go back to the life he had known and deny the strange things he had been shown that night.

After Neo chooses the red pill, Cypher delivers the Dorothy line , referencing "The Wizard of Oz." "Curiouser and curiouser" is also from Alice in Wonderland but that line was never spoken in The Matrix.

Answer: Through the Looking Glass

Admitedly the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen have similar traits, titles, not to mention a strong association with the color red. With all that, confusion is highly probable but they are two different characters. Carroll spoke on the differences between these two villains saying that the Queen of Hearts represented a sort of blind/chaotic fury, whereas the Red Queen's fury was more strict and formal in the way of an extremely harsh governess.

It probably did not help the matter that both the 1951 Disney film adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" and the 2010 film of the same title blended elements of both books, including Red Queen lines spoken by the Queen of Hearts in the former, and the Red Queen herself appearing in the latter.

Answer: warning

The line is from the 1982 hit song "Red Skies". The well known expression states "Red skies at night, sailors' delight. Red skies at morning, sailors take warning." It is meant simply as a weather predictor, but here it is being used as a metaphor. Perhaps it was meant in the song to say the seemingly good omen gave a false sense of confidence in this case.

Answer: Michael Caine

Ok ok, Michael Caine has been in 8000 movies or something like that so maybe this wasn't so tough. Still, I am pretty proud for having found a common link among these three "Red" actors, who tend to be pretty choosy in the roles they select. Especially since they were all major roles and I didnt have to go to their first movie where they played "second roommate" or some other cameo. Caine and Freeman appeared together in all three installments of Peter Nolan's Batman trilogy, starting with "Batman Begins" (2005). Maguire worked with Caine on "The Cider House Rules" (1999) and a year earlier, "It All Came True" for James Spader with help from Michael Caine.