Life After Python: Films Trivia Quiz

Answer: John Cleese, Michael Palin

This 1988 film, written by John Cleese, was a comedy about an American girl named Wanda, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, using her English boyfriend, his friend Ken, and an ex-CIA agent named Otto to commit a jewel heist in London. Wanda plans to double cross her partners, keep the jewels, and flee to South America. Cleese plays a lawyer hired to defend Wanda's boyfriend but ends up falling in love with her.

The film also stars Michael Palin as Ken and Kevin Kline as Otto.

Answer: Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam directed "12 Monkeys", a 1995 sci-fi movie about a man from 2035 sent back to 1996 to find out the origin of a plague that has killed off most of mankind. The film starred Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Willis, and Brad Pitt.

Answer: John Cleese, Eric Idle

Eric Idle wrote and stars in the 1993 film "Splitting Heirs", a comedy about a man, played by Idle, who was left at a restaurant as a baby and turns out to be the heir to a British noble family. The film also features Rick Moranis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barbara Hershey, and John Cleese as Idle's lawyer.

Answer: Terry Jones

The 1989 comedy "Erik the Viking" was written and directed by Terry Jones, who also stars as King Arnulf of the island of Hy-Brazil. Tim Robbins plays Erik, a young Viking who sets out to find the Horn Resounding to wake up the gods and end the age of Ragnarok, so that men will cease killing one another.

The film also stars John Cleese as Halfdan the Black, a warlord who tries to stop Erik from waking the gods, Imogen Stubbs, Tim McInnerny, and Mickey Rooney.

Answer: Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam

Released in 1988, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" is a comedy-fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam, who also has a cameo as a bad singer. John Neville stars in the title role as an 18th century German nobleman who tells fantastic stories about his exploits and travels to the moon and of meeting gods and other fantastic entities. Eric Idle plays one of the Baron's servants, who can run faster than any other man.

Answer: Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin

"Brazil" is a 1985 dystopian film written and directed by Terry Gilliam. The movie stars Jonathan Pryce as a low-level bureaucrat in an unnamed future state who discovers a mistake in an arrest warrant, and finds the girl of his dreams when he tries to contact the family of the wrongfully accused.

The film also features Robert DeNiro, Uma Thurman, Bob Hoskins, and Michael Palin as Jack Lint, Pryce's best friend and co-worker.

Answer: John Cleese

Based on the 1960s cartoon, the 1997 film "George of the Jungle" stars Brendan Fraser as the simple but lovable George, with Leslie Mann as his civilized girlfriend Ursula, Thomas Hayden Church as Ursula's erstwhile fiancée Lyle, and John Cleese as the educated, book reading, chess playing ape named Ape.

Answer: John Cleese

One of the few Westerns made in the 1980s, "Silverado", directed by Lawrence Kasdan, stars Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, and Brian Dennehy in an old-fashioned tale of good guys, crooked sheriffs, gamblers, cattle barons, and homesteaders, all of whom meet their destiny in the town of Silverado. John Cleese plays the sheriff of the town of Turley, who tries to hang Kevin Costner until he escapes.

Answer: Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam directed the 1998 movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", based on the book by Hunter S. Thompson detailing his drug and alcohol induced debauchery in Las Vegas. The movie stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro as Thompson and his bizarre lawyer.

Answer: Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, John Cleese

A 1983 farce about a psychotic English pirate from the 18th century who goes in search of his treasure after spending 20 years in jail. The cast includes Graham Chapman as Yellowbeard, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, James Mason, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, and Marty Feldman. John Cleese plays Harvey "Blind" Pew, an old shipmate, and Eric Idle as Royal Navy Commander Clement, sent by the British government to get Yellowbeard's treasure.

Answer: Terry Gilliam

Released in 1985, "Spies Like Us" stars Dan Akroyd and Chevy Chase as novice American intelligence agents sent to Afghanistan as decoys to throw Soviet agents off the trail of the real mission. Terry Gilliam plays one of a group of UN doctors treating Afghan fighters.

Answer: John Cleese, Michael Palin

The 1997 comedy "Fierce Creatures", written by John Cleese, is a story about how zookeepers at a small facility attempt to keep a large corporation from closing them down to build a golf course. While not a sequel to "A Fish Called Wanda", the film has virtually the same cast. Python members in the film are John Cleese as zoo director Rollo Lee and Michael Palin as Bugsy Malone, who oversees the insect exhibits.

Answer: Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam directed "The Fisher King", an offbeat 1991 film about a radio "shock jock", played by Jeff Bridges, whose comments to a caller caused a mass shooting. He later meets Parry, played by Robin Williams, who lost his wife in the incident and now believes that he is a knight in search of the Holy Grail. The film also features Mercedes Ruehl and Michael Jeter.

Answer: Eric Idle

"Nuns on the Run" is a 1990 comedy starring Eric Idle and Robby Coltrane as London gangsters who decide to get out of their life of crime and flee to Brazil. However, a botched robbery causes the guys to hide out disguised as nuns in a nunnery. The film also stars Camille Coduri and Janet Suzman.

Answer: John Cleese, Eric Idle

In the 2007 animated film "Shrek the Third", King Harold, voiced by John Cleese, is dying. Shrek decides that an ogre is no choice to be king, and sets out to retrieve another heir, Fiona's cousin Arthur Pendragon. With a bit of help from Artie's retired teacher Merlin, voiced by Eric Idle, Shrek brings Artie back to Never Never Land to be king.