Shoes that Never Really Were Trivia Quiz

Answer: a glass slipper

Cinderella's fairy godmother makes her a pair of glass slippers to wear to the ball. She loses one as she flees the party as midnight approaches. The handsome prince recovers it and searches for the woman whose foot it will fit. When it slides perfectly onto Cinderella's foot, he recognizes her as the beautiful young woman with whom he danced at the ball. An alternative version by the Grimm Brothers has her wearing slippers made of gold.

Answer: The pope

The premise of "The Shoes of the Fisherman" is that an impasse occurs in the election of a new pope which is broken by the election of a Ukrainian cardinal as a compromise. This premise became much less outlandish in 1978 with the election of Polish cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II. Roman Catholic ecclesiology holds that the pontiff is the successor to Saint Peter, who was a fisherman before being called by Christ to become a disciple.

Answer: walkin'

According to the lyrics, "These boots are made for walking and that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you." Geri Halliwell recorded the song in 2000 for the soundtrack to the film "Rugrats in Paris: The Movie". Jessica Simpson recorded it in 2005 for the soundtrack to the movie "The Dukes of Hazzard".

Answer: The old woman who lived in a shoe

The Mother Goose rhyme goes: "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread; and whipped them all soundly and put them to bed." There have been numerous attempts to interpret this rhyme as a political parody but without conclusive success.

Answer: Blue Suede Shoes

Not only Elvis (who sang the song on national television) but also Buddy Holly (1964) and Eddie Cochran (1956) promoted the popularity of "Blue Suede Shoes." When Perkins wrote the song, he scribbled it down on a brown paper potato bag and misspelled the title: "Blue Swade Shoes."

Answer: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Created by Stephen J. Cannell, "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" featured two private detectives: E.L. "Tenspeed" Turner was a con man on parole and Lionel "Brownshoe" Whitney who was a button-down-collar sophisticate who wanted to be a film-noir hard-boiled tough-guy private eye. The series was wonderfully funny and engaging but failed to be picked up by ABC for a second season.

Answer: O, Dem Golden Slippers

The song "O, Dem Golden Slippers" was more popular in blackface performances in the late 19th Century than it is today. The premise is that, once one rides the chariot (ascends into Heaven), one will don golden slippers in keeping with the streets of gold on which citizens walk. It is heard every year at the Philadelphia Mummers Parade where it has become a sort of theme song.

Answer: Hi-Heel Sneakers

Tommy Tucker (true name: Robert Higginbotham) wrote and recorded "Hi-Heel Sneakers" which has been recorded by over two hundred artists since: the Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Cleo Laine, Bill Haley & His Comets, Led Zeppelin, the Everly Brothers, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Ramsey Lewis, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Jose Feliciano, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, Ronnie Milsap, Chuck Berry, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, Sting, John Lee Hooker, and Paul McCartney.

Answer: The Red Shoes

"The Red Shoes" is a Danish fairy tale written in 1845 by Hans Christian Andersen. The 1948 picture ("The Red Shoes") is about a ballerina who stars in a new ballet ("The Red Shoes") based on the old Andersen story. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and for Best Art Direction; it was nominated for Best Picture.

Answer: Seven-League Boots

Some version of seven-league boots appears in the folk literature of England, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Spain, Norway and the United States. A league is about three miles (4.8 km). In Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels, the wizards of Unseen University used seven-league boots to travel great distances quickly but the strain on groin muscles of placing one's feet 21 miles apart is extremely dangerous.

Answer: Red Shoe Diaries

Despite the similarity in names, this Showtime TV series had nothing to do with the British movie nor the Hans Christian Andersen story. Duchovny plays Jake Winters, a man trying to make sense of his fiancée's suicide, who collects the diaries of women in search of meaning. The show was distributed in Europe by Playboy Entertainment.

Answer: ruby red

In L. Frank Baum's original 1900 "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" novel, Dorothy's shoes were silver. Noel Langley, the screenwriter on the 1939 picture suggested that the shoes be changed to red to show off the Technicolor process in which the picture was shot.

Answer: The Man with One Red Shoe

The French comedy "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" is an exceptionally funny movie about an orchestra member set up to appear to be a master spy who escapes danger and death by luck alone. The title refers to a practical joke played on him by his fellow musicians such that he arrives at Orly Airport wearing one black and one red shoe.

The 1985 English language version stars Tom Hanks and is only slightly less funny. Much is changed in the latter film but the joke involving the shoes is retained.

Answer: Boogie Shoes

"I want to put on my boogie shoes just to boogie with you." This lyric repeated endlessly was the theme of "Boogie Shoes." The song did only reasonably well until its use on the soundtrack of "Saturday Night Fever" the soundtrack of which became the best selling album in the world. Since then, the song has been used in other films (e.g. "Mallrats" (1995)) and television scores (e.g. "Desperate Housewives" and "Glee").

Answer: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

In the 1969 version of this film, a very young Kurt Russell is zapped by an electric shock from a donated computer during a thunderstorm and absorbs the computer's skills and knowledge. The bad guy is Cesar Romeo. In the 1995 version, Kirk Cameron plays the genius and Matthew McCurley plays the bad guy, although Larry Miller and Dean Jones are pretty bad, too.