"The Blues Brothers": A Mission From God Quiz

Answer: Joliet Prison

Jake is released from Joliet after serving three years of a five year sentence for attempting to rob a gas station. He did it to get money to pay the band.

Answer: a police car

Elwood bought the police car cheaply at an auction after he had exchanged the original 'Bluesmobile' for a microphone. Jake is not impressed until Elroy shows him the car's power by jumping over an opening bridge.

Answer: The Penguin

The Penguin tells them that the orphanage will close if it is not able to pay $5,000 owing in taxes. Jake offers to get the money but the nun furiously says that she will accept no money that is the result of crime.

Answer: James Brown

James Brown was a top artist in the music field. He has been a singer, dancer, actor, songwriter and bandleader. His professional career began in 1956 and he was still appearing at major events until the year of his death in 2006. Among his most famous songs are "Night Train", "I Got You (I Feel Good)", "Papa Got a Brand New Bag", and "It's a Man's World."

Answer: His wife and daughters

Jake's aim is to make himself as objectionable as possible in the restaurant, so that trumpeter, "Mr. Fabulous", who is the maître d' there, will agree to rejoin The Band. Jake threatens to come and eat there every day if he refuses.

Answer: He left her waiting at church on their wedding day.

When she catches up with Jake, in a service tunnel, she is ready to shoot him. He gives a wonderful list of reasons why he did not turn up, then looks up at her with big brown puppy eyes, and she can't resist him. As they embrace, Jake drops her into the mud and runs off with Elwood to escape their pursuers.

Answer: Rawhide

"Rawhide", about the big cattle drives of the 1800s, was broadcast in the US from 1959 to 1966 and was the third longest running western on TV. Clint Eastwood began his acting career in "Rawhide" playing the ramrod, Rowdy Yates.

Answer: Ray Charles

My favourite quote from Ray Charles is, "I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great". Ray Charles' real name was Ray Charles Robinson. He dropped the last name so that he would not be confused with the famous boxer, Sugar Ray Robinson. Over his long career Ray Charles embraced many music styles: blues, country, gospel, jazz and big band music.

Answer: Blackmail

Steve Lawrence plays the part of Maury Sline, whom the boys blackmail into setting up their big fundraising concert by threatening to reveal certain information about him to his wife. Steve Lawrence played in both "The Blues Brothers" and its sequel, "The Blues Brothers 2000".

Answer: Their car drives off the end of a partially built motorway.

As the Blues Brothers speed towards Chicago to pay the tax bill in time to save the orphanage, they are pursued by hundreds of police and other vehicles, a troupe of mounted police and a police launch. Among them is the car containing the Fuehrer and his Gruppenfuehrer, who want revenge for the way the brothers had humiliated them, by forcing them to jump from a bridge into the water. The crowd who had been jeering the Nazi speaker had rocked with laughter as he and his drenched, uniformed men climbed out of the pond.

A shot from the Nazi's gun makes 'The Bluesmobile' throw a rod, and its windscreen becomes covered in oil. Elwood unknowingly drives on to a motorway which is under construction, followed by his pursuers. 'The Bluesmobile' nearly runs over the end of the road, then in some amazing special effects, back somersaults over the Nazi vehicle which continues on into the void. As the vehicle falls, in slow motion, to the road hundreds of feet below, the Gruppenfuehrer looks at his leader and earnestly tells him that he has always loved him.