"The 40-Year-Old Virgin": A New Standard in Comedy Quiz

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1. What are the names of Andy's older neighbors who live above him?

Answer: Joe and Sara

Joe (Lee Weaver) and Sara (Gloria Helena Jones) do not really play into the story much, but Andy's (Steve Carell) brief conversations with them show what a nice guy he is. However, the two of them do make fun of Andy behind his back!

2. When Andy is confronted by his coworker, David, about his virginity, Andy tells him, "I have a very fulfilling life!". The scene then flashes back to show how Andy spends his free time. One of the things he is doing is very attentively reading a comic book. What comic title is it?

Answer: MTU

Andy is reading the lesser-known "MTU" (short for "Marvel Team-Up"), in which two different Marvel superheroes have an adventure every month. The team-up that Andy is reading is Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk. Some of the other activities that Andy is doing in the flashback is playing a tuba, detailing one of his action figures, and singing karaoke in his underwear.

After this flashback, David (Paul Rudd) talks Andy into going clubbing with him and the other Smart Tech employees.

3. When Jay, David, and Cal take Andy clubbing, who plays Nicky, the woman that Andy meets?

Answer: Leslie Mann

Andy leaves the club with Nicky and has a terrifying experience driving with her because she is extremely drunk. After she hits another car, she even throws up in his face! Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow, the movie's director, were married at the time the movie was made.

4. When Cal takes Andy to the bookstore to meet Beth, he tells him to act like whom?

Answer: David Caruso

Cal (Seth Rogen) advises Andy about talking to women by telling him to just ask Beth (Elizabeth Banks) questions, and not talk about himself. He says that acting like David Caruso in the movie "Jade" would be perfect. Andy flirts with Beth perfectly due to this advice.

5. What Spanish phrase does Andy scream while getting his chest waxed?

Answer: "Como se llamo!"

The already classic chest-waxing scene is one of the funniest parts of the whole film, in my opinion! His coworker, Jay (Romany Malco), talks him into doing it, telling him that it will make him more desirable to women. Andy screams a variety of obscenities as he gets his chest hair removed. "Como se llamo" translates to "As I am called" in Spanish.

6. When Cal and David are in Andy's apartment playing "Mortal Kombat Deception" and making fun of each other, what characters do they play in the game?

Answer: Cal: Sub-Zero, David: Baraka

While Andy is in his bathroom trying to work up the courage to call Trish (Catherine Keener), another great scene takes place as Cal and David play video games and continually call each other names. Their respective "Mortal Kombat" characters are apparent, because David uses Baraka's blades, and Cal uses Sub-Zero's freezing powers.

Another interesting thing during the scene is that David is wearing a shirt with Brian Fantana's face on it. Fantana was Paul Rudd's character in the Judd Apatow-produced "Anchorman".

7. The theme to what television show plays during a montage of Andy's dates with Trish?

Answer: The Greatest American Hero

The credits define the show and its song. "The Greatest American Hero" was a show from the early 80s about a high school teacher who becomes a superhero completely by accident. Its unforgettable theme song, "Believe It or Not", plays as Andy and Trish have a variety of dates.

The song is significant due to Andy's near-obsession with superheroes. Andy and Trish's relationship strengthens as the scenes progress. This is just one of the examples of how "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" is a much more developed and heartwarming piece of work than movies with related topics.

8. Who does not play one of the fathers at the Family Health Clinic?

Answer: Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart is in the movie, but he plays a customer at Smart Tech. Andy takes Trish's daughter to the clinic because she wants to get information on sex and birth control. Andy is willing to take her since he knows less about sex than she does. His ignorance is apparent when he and Marla take part in a group discussion, and he asks ridiculous questions.

When the other kids make fun of Marla because she admits to being a virgin, Andy tells everyone that he is a virgin too. The other fathers mock him for this, but it is because of this that we see another example of what a great guy Andy is.

Another interesting fact is that the woman heading up the group discussion is played by Nancy Walls, who was Steve Carell's wife at the time.

9. Cal claims that his grandmother looks like what actor?

Answer: Jack Palance

Cal tells Andy this after Andy informs him that Trish is a grandmother. Later in the movie, when Trish is angry because Andy is unwilling to sleep with her, she asks him if it's because she has a kid who has a kid. He replies, "No! I love that you're a hot grandma!". She does not appreciate this comment!

10. Steve Carell really got his chest waxed during the filming of the waxing scene.

Answer: True

Carell co-wrote the script, and he felt that in order to get the right kind of reactions, he would have to get his hairs ripped out of his chest for real! Because of this, the scene had to be shot specially, in only one take. Five cameras were used for different angles. There is a short featurette about it on the DVD that shows just how Steve Carell became a "man-o-lantern".

Source: Author bock777

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"The 40-Year-Old Virgin" is undoubtedly one of the most hilarious movies of all time in my opinion! How well do you remember the details from it? Warning: some questions deal with special features from the unrated DVD.

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