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Quiz about Cafs that Never Really Were
Quiz about Cafs that Never Really Were

Cafés that Never Really Were Trivia Quiz


These questions are about cafés in fiction: novels, poetry, movies, opera, television, comics, radio, cartoons, plays and other works of imagination. How much do you know about these cafés?

A multiple-choice quiz by FatherSteve. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
FatherSteve
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
398,687
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
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Avg Score
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Question 1 of 15
1. What is the name of the café owned by Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) in the 1942 American motion picture "Casablanca"? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. "Smokey Joe's Cafe" is a 1995 Broadway musical featuring 39 hits written by whom?
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Question 3 of 15
3. Stuart McLean's "The Vinyl Cafe" was a weekly radio programme originating in what country?
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Question 4 of 15
4. In which American television comedy series did the Café Nervosa figure as a common meeting ground for cast members? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. On British television, where did Frankie, Igor and Mummy work for the Baroness?
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Question 6 of 15
6. Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" was set where? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. "Le Café de nuit" (The Night Café) depicts the interior of the Café de la Gare, 30 Place Lamartine, Arles, France, and its proprietors, Joseph-Michel Ginoux and his wife Marie. Who painted this work? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. On which American weekly radio programme did listeners hear the latest goings on at the Chatterbox Café in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota?
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Question 9 of 15
9. Which American standard song from the 1930s and 40s indulges in deep nostalgia for "that small cafe, the park across the way, the children's carousel, the chestnut trees, the wishing well"?
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Question 10 of 15
10. In which novel or series would one find Café Lou, a dive bar in Gretchen Town, New Betel?
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Question 11 of 15
11. In the 2004 remake of "Dawn of the Dead," what is the name of the coffee shop in the mall where the survivors are holding out?
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Question 12 of 15
12. Monk's Café is the hang-out for the characters of which American television comedy series? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. In "The Muppets Movie" (1979), what is the name of the restaurant/bar in which Kermit the Frog meets Fozzie Bear on his way to Hollywood? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. John Belushi played Pete Dionasopouos in The Olympia Café, a Greek restaurant where one could order a cheeseburger and a Pepsi ("No Coke! Pepsi!"), on which weekly television programme?
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Question 15 of 15
15. Phil Connors spends a lot of the same day over and over again in the Tip Top Cafe in which 1993 motion picture about a weatherman on assignment to report on Punxsutawney Phil? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What is the name of the café owned by Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) in the 1942 American motion picture "Casablanca"?

Answer: Rick's Café Américain

The motion picture "Casablanca" was based on Murray Burnett and Joan Allison's play "Everybody Comes to Rick's." Producer Hal Wallis bought the rights for $20,000 which sounds small in today's dollar but was, at the time, the largest royalty ever paid to film an unproduced play.

In addition to Bogart, the cast included Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson.
2. "Smokey Joe's Cafe" is a 1995 Broadway musical featuring 39 hits written by whom?

Answer: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

The soundtrack to "Smokey Joe's Cafe" won the Grammy for Best Musical Show Album in 1996. The show was a compendium of Leiber and Stoller rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues songs. The show was unencumbered by plot. It played in Los Angeles, New York and London.

The song "Smokey Joe's Cafe" which was written for the show was not used. Songs include "Kansas City," "Poison Ivy," "On Broadway," "Yakety Yak," "Hound Dog," "There Goes My Baby," "Love Potion #9," "Jailhouse Rock," "Spanish Harlem," "I (Who Have Nothing)," and "Stand by Me."
3. Stuart McLean's "The Vinyl Cafe" was a weekly radio programme originating in what country?

Answer: Canada

"The Vinyl Cafe" was the name of both the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio programme and of the fictional record store operated by Dave in the weekly "Dave and Morley" stories written and told by McLean. The programme moved to a different town in Canada each week.

The music was by Canadian groups and individuals. McLean's stories were so popular that he produced ten books of them in his career and sold over a million copies. The motto of both Dave's record shop and of the radio programme was "We May Not Be Big, But We're Small." McLean shared his diagnosis of melanoma with his listeners in 2015 when he stopped touring and producing new episodes.

He died in 2017 which concluded the Vinyl Cafe.
4. In which American television comedy series did the Café Nervosa figure as a common meeting ground for cast members?

Answer: Frasier

When Dr Frasier Crane moved from Boston to Seattle, it is unsurprising that he would trade his old beer-drinking haunt (Cheers) for a Seattle coffee shop. The Café Nervosa is a fictional coffee shop located at Third and Pike in downtown Seattle, across the street from the equally fictional studios of Radio KACL. Frasier and his brother Niles often met there to talk and share a cup. One episode, "My Coffee with Niles," was set entirely within the shop.

In 1996, a tie-in cookbook called "Café Nervosa: The Connoisseur's Cookbook" was published; it purported to be written by Frasier and Niles.
5. On British television, where did Frankie, Igor and Mummy work for the Baroness?

Answer: Monster Café

The BBC production "Monster Café" aired two seasons (1994-1995). The Café was run by the Baroness de Monstro who is ill-tempered, stingy and opposed to any form of having fun. The manager is Frankie, a female robot. The cook is Igor, an ancient Transylvanian man with bad hygiene who has a pet garbage can named Vinny.

The café's caretaker is Mummy who is, oddly enough, a 6000-year-old Egyptian mummy.
6. Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" was set where?

Answer: Alabama

The novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" tells a long story, spread over years, of people connected to the small Southern community of Whistle Stop, Alabama, and thereabouts. The title is a reference to the Whistle Stop Cafe, a dining establishment operated by some of the characters.

As a sort of story within a story, elderly Ninny Threadgoode tells Evelyn Couch stories about the small restaurant. The reference to "fried green tomatoes" is to a preparation of unripe tomato slices, dipped in egg or buttermilk, then in cornmeal or breadcrumbs or flour, and then shallow fried in bacon grease.

A recipe is provided at the end of the book.
7. "Le Café de nuit" (The Night Café) depicts the interior of the Café de la Gare, 30 Place Lamartine, Arles, France, and its proprietors, Joseph-Michel Ginoux and his wife Marie. Who painted this work?

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Night cafés were open-all-night restaurant/bars popular in the late 19th century in Europe. Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888 saying that Ginoux had taken so much of his money that it was only fair for him to "take" this image. The occupants are a sorry lot: drunks, ladies of the evening, those who cannot afford a room. Van Gogh stayed up all night, three nights in a row, sleeping during the day, to create the painting.

The result is perhaps one of his best-known works.
8. On which American weekly radio programme did listeners hear the latest goings on at the Chatterbox Café in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota?

Answer: Prairie Home Companion

Garrison Keillor thought up an entire small town in central Minnesota and named it Lake Wobegon. For as long as "Prairie Home Companion" was on the air (1974-2016), Keillor told droll stories about the curious residents of Lake Wobegon. These often included mention of the Chatterbox Café.

The little restaurant was run by Dorothy and Darlene. Dorothy baked "softball-sized caramel rolls." Coffee cost "25¢, All Morning 85¢, All Day $1.25, Ask About Our Weekly Rates". The place competed, 'tho not actually, with the snobby Café Boeuf, "Where the elite meet to greet and eat" and the maitre d' Maurice was always ready to make a customer feel inadequate.

The Chatterbox was much more accommodating; its motto was "The place to go that's just like home."
9. Which American standard song from the 1930s and 40s indulges in deep nostalgia for "that small cafe, the park across the way, the children's carousel, the chestnut trees, the wishing well"?

Answer: I'll Be Seeing You

Sammy Fain composed the music and Irving Kahal wrote the lyrics to "I'll Be Seeing You" in 1938 for the Broadway musical "Right This Way" which closed after 15 performances. Frank Sinatra recorded it with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra in 1940. Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday each recorded it in 1944.

The lyrics apparently spoke to those separated by military service in WWII. Liberace used it as the theme song to his television programme. Stevie Wonder sang it for Johnny Carson for his last "Tonight Show" in May of 1992.
10. In which novel or series would one find Café Lou, a dive bar in Gretchen Town, New Betel?

Answer: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Somewhere in the Betelgeuse system, the Café Lou harbors Hotblack Desiado who rents a room in which he composes songs for his ajuitar. His friend Ford Prefect spent time there with him, 'tho Ford loathed his music. This is all described in Chapter 16 of "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe" trilogy.
11. In the 2004 remake of "Dawn of the Dead," what is the name of the coffee shop in the mall where the survivors are holding out?

Answer: Hallowed Grounds Café

In the 2004 remake of George Romero's 1978 original "Dawn of the Dead," a group of survivors collect in a mall and fend off zombie attacks. The stores in the mall were all given fictional names during the production. The bookstore is called Bookmark.

There is a record store called RPM. Romero named the department store Gaylen Ross after the actress who appeared in the original film. The coffee shop was named Hallowed Grounds.
12. Monk's Café is the hang-out for the characters of which American television comedy series?

Answer: Seinfeld

The principals of "Seinfeld" (1989-1998) -- Jerry, George Costanza, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer -- met regularly in "their" booth at Monk's Café. It was in the Upper West Side in New York City. The exteriors are of Tom's Restaurant at West 112th and Broadway; the interiors were shot on a set. The owner-cook-manager of Monk's is Larry the Cook. The primary waitress-cashier is Ruth Cohen. The coffee shop was named Monk's because Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David were writing the original show in an office with a poster of jazz musician Thelonious Monk on the wall.
13. In "The Muppets Movie" (1979), what is the name of the restaurant/bar in which Kermit the Frog meets Fozzie Bear on his way to Hollywood?

Answer: The El Sleezo Cafe

The El Sleezo Cafe is so rough and tough that its owner, being played by James Coburn, is himself thrown out for being rowdy. The bar is frequented by "a motley collection of bikers, sailors, lumberjacks, cowboys, one-eyed midgets, and other tough customers." The principal menu items all include frogs legs. Kermit and Fozzie leave the El Sleezo in Fozzie's Studebaker in search of fame and fortune.
14. John Belushi played Pete Dionasopouos in The Olympia Café, a Greek restaurant where one could order a cheeseburger and a Pepsi ("No Coke! Pepsi!"), on which weekly television programme?

Answer: Saturday Night Live

Customers in The Olympia Café were welcome to order a cheeseburger, but not one without cheese; chips, but not fries; and Pepsi, but not Coca Cola. Pete Dionasopouos ran the greasy spoon in this ongoing sketch on "Saturday Night Live." Don Novello, who wrote the first such sketch in the series, said that the diner was based on the Billy Goat Tavern on Lower North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Belushi's brother Jim said that John's character was based on their actual uncle, a frankfurter stand owner.
15. Phil Connors spends a lot of the same day over and over again in the Tip Top Cafe in which 1993 motion picture about a weatherman on assignment to report on Punxsutawney Phil?

Answer: Groundhog Day

"Groundhog Day" was filmed in Woodstock, Illinois, 'tho the story was set in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. There was no Tip Top Cafe in either place in 1993; the interiors were shot on a set. The success of the movie prompted the opening of The Tip Top Bistro in Woodstock. It did not succeed and was replaced, variously, by Bella's Gelateria, Jaci's Cookie Shop and Taqueria La Placita.
Source: Author FatherSteve

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