They Just Go Together: Part IV Quiz

Answer: Sundance Kid

Robert Leroy Parker (1866-1908) better known as Butch Cassidy and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867-1908) and better known as the Sundance Kid were outlaws in the Old American West. After a career as outlaws and consistently being pursued by law officers they moved to Bolivia were it is reported they were killed.

The 1969 movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford depicted the outlaws careers.

Answer: Clair

Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable (Bill Cosby) and Clair Banks Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad) portrayed the husband and wife team on the popular TV series "The Cosby Show" (1984-1992). The show depicted the on-going life and situations of an upper-class African-American family with their four children.

Answer: Johnny

Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) and Johnny (Patrick Swayze b. 1952-d. 2009) portrayed the main characters in the 1987 romantic dance drama film "Dirty Dancing". An Academy Award was won for Best Original Song. Jennifer Grey is the daughter of the Academy Award winning actor, Joel Grey.

Answer: Laura

Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) were husband and wife in the American TV series "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-1966). The show was about the home life and work of a television comedy writer named Rob Petrie.

Answer: Lara

The 1965 epic romantic drama movie "Doctor Zhivago" featured the principal characters Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and Lara Antipova (Julie Christie). The movie was about the turmoil of leadership and events that occurred in Russia at the start of the 20th Century. The movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards winning five.

Answer: Ronny

Cher as Loretta Castorini won the Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1987 romantic comedy film "Moonstruck". She falls in love with her fiancé's younger brother Ronny Cammareri (Nicolas Cage). Cher plays the role of a 37 year old Italian widow who lives at home with her family. Her mother Rose played by Olympia Dukakis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Answer: Alice

The American television sitcom "The Honeymooners" (1951-1955) featured Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) and his sharp-tongued wife Alice Kramden (Audrey Meadows). Pert Kelton played the role of Alice in the first seven episodes. The show was mainly set in the Kramdens' kitchen in a working class neglected building in Brooklyn. Ralph is a bus driver and his best friend who lives upstairs is Ed Norton, a sewer worker. Ed is married to Thelma "Trixie" Norton. Ralph and Ed enjoy bowling and playing pool.

Answer: Cliff

Norm Peterson (George Wendt) and Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger) appeared in all episodes during the 11 seasons of the American sitcom "Cheers" (1982-1993). Norm was a regular at the bar and an occasionally employed accountant. Later in the series his occupation was changed to house painter and interior decorator. Cliff was a postal worker and the regular know-it-all at the bar. Together they discussed unusual and often demented wisdom at the bar from half-drained beer glasses.

Answer: Barney

"The Flintstones" (1960-1966) was an animated TV series depicting life in the Stone Age. Fred Flintstone and his best friend and next door neighbour is Barney Rubble. Fred is married to Wilma and Barney is married to Betty. The two men enjoy bowling and attending the all-men's club called the "Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes".

The characters in "The Flintstones" were based on the characters of the TV series "The Honeymooners" of the 1950s.

Answer: Roger

Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) were a pair of mismatched LAPD detectives in the four "Lethal Weapon" movies (1987, 1989, 1992 and 1998). Roger, a homicide detective, is anxious about retiring gracefully from the force when he is partnered with Riggs who is younger and a suicidal narcotics officer.

A television series was made in 2016 recasting the same roles but with younger actors.

Answer: Patsy

Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and her best friend Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley) were the stars of the BBC sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" which first aired in 1992. The two friends were high-powered career women in the London fashion scene and were chain-smokers, indulged in alcohol and recreational drugs and were attempting to maintain their youth.

The series was created and written by Jennifer Saunders.

Answer: Billy

Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) were named after two iconic Western figures (Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid) in the 1969 counterculture movie "Easy Rider". The story is of two bike riders who travel the American Southwest after selling a large amount of cocaine. The movie explores the issues and tensions in America during the 1960s including the hippie movement,
drug abuse and communal lifestyle.

Answer: Sandy

Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) and the main characters in the 1978 musical romantic comedy "Grease". The movie depicts the life of various Rydell High School students during the 1950s.

Answer: Hutch

"Starsky and Hutch" was originally an American television cop series from 1975-1979. Det. Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Det. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul) were two streetwise cops who drove around in a red and white Ford Torino and used the help of a police snitch in Huggy Bear (Antonio Fargas).

A movie was made in 2004 of the same name starring Ben Stiller as Starsky and Owen Wilson as Hutch.

Answer: Louise

Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) are friends who embark on a road trip in Louise's 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible. They just want to get way from their dreary lifestyles. Unfortunately they shoot and kill a man who tried to rape Thelma.

After a number of other disastrous situations they are pursued by the police and eventually drive off the Grand Canyon rather than spent time in jail. The 1991 movie "Thelma & Louise" received six Academy Award nominations winning one for Best Original Screenplay. Both Geena and Susan were nominated for Best Actress.