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Quiz about Monty Pythons Piranha Brothers Sketch

Monty Python's Piranha Brothers Sketch Quiz

Quiz on the brilliant Piranha Brothers sketch, from the second series of "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

A multiple-choice quiz by yaybig. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
yaybig

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
401,174

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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136

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Question 1 of 10

1. The sketch takes the form of a spoof current affairs documentary. What is the name of this programme? Hint

Ethel the Frog

Barnabus the Crab

Agnes the Squid

Clarence the Fire Salamander

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Question 2 of 10

2. The documentary follows the reign of terror of notorious London gangsters Doug and Dinsdale Piranha. Dinsdale, the more violent of the two brothers, had a habit of using which particular M.O.? Hint

Gluing people's hands to their faces

Nailing people's heads to the floor

Crucifixion

Welding people's car doors shut with them in it and rolling the cars off cliffs

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Question 3 of 10

3. Dinsdale was convinced he was being watched by a giant hedgehog. What was the name of this hedgehog? Hint

Bristly Pete

Spiky Derek

Spiny Norman

Prickly Graham

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Question 4 of 10

4. A former next door neighbour of the brothers, Mrs April Simnel, recalled how prevalent violence was in the area they grew up in. Complete the quote from Mrs Simnel: "Kids were very different then, they didn't have their heads filled with all this ______
______." Hint

Platonic realism

Kantian ethics

Keynesian economics

Cartesian dualism

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Question 5 of 10

5. Despite Dinsdale's psychotic violent tendencies, nightclub owner Luigi Vercotti recalled that Doug was in fact even more intimidating. What method did Doug use? Hint

Sarcasm

Slapstick comedy routines

Sexual innuendo

Shouting

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Question 6 of 10

6. When the brothers were at the height of their powers, what mistake did Dinsdale make that caused even the police to sit up and take notice? Hint

Letter bombed Scotland Yard

Drained the Thames

Blew up Luton Airport

Stole the clock from Big Ben

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Question 7 of 10

7. The police superintendent who tracked the brothers down and eventually captured them was called Harry Organs. What nickname did Organs have? Hint

Clubber

Chopper

Snapper

Nipper

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Question 8 of 10

8. While hunting down the Piranhas, Organs went back and forth between London and Cardiff via Buenos Aires and Panama adopting a number of disguises. One of his identities was that of a pork butcher, by what name? Hint

Clive Mink

Brian Stoats

Stanley Ferrett

Geoffrey Weasel

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Question 9 of 10

9. In Cardiff, Organs got negative reviews from local news publications for his performance on stage as which character? Hint

Sancho Panza

Hamlet

Dick Whittington

Blanche DuBois

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Question 10 of 10

10. Towards the end of the sketch, we see a character from another Monty Python sketch make a brief appearance. Which character? Hint

Mr Praline, Dead Parrot owner

Cardinal Ximenez (The Spanish Inquisition)

Lumberjack (The Lumberjack Song)

Mr Teabag, Minister for Silly Walks

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The sketch takes the form of a spoof current affairs documentary. What is the name of this programme?

Answer: Ethel the Frog

"Ethel the Frog" was introduced with John Cleese as the presenter. It examines the rise and fall of the Piranha brothers, Doug and Dinsdale, who had recently been sentenced to 400 years in prison for crimes of violence. A parody of real life gangsters the Kray twins.

2. The documentary follows the reign of terror of notorious London gangsters Doug and Dinsdale Piranha. Dinsdale, the more violent of the two brothers, had a habit of using which particular M.O.?

Answer: Nailing people's heads to the floor

Vince Snetterton-Lewis and Stig O'Tracy both give accounts of the times Dinsdale nailed their heads to the floor. O'Tracy describing him as "a cruel man, but fair".

3. Dinsdale was convinced he was being watched by a giant hedgehog. What was the name of this hedgehog?

Answer: Spiny Norman

Normally about 12 ft from snout to tail but could be as big as 800 yards long if Dinsdale was particularly depressed.

Answer: Cartesian dualism

Mrs Simnel recalled how Doug used to be into boxing until he learned to walk, then be became interested in sticking his boot in the groin.

5. Despite Dinsdale's psychotic violent tendencies, nightclub owner Luigi Vercotti recalled that Doug was in fact even more intimidating. What method did Doug use?

Answer: Sarcasm

Vercotti said that he'd seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire were all part of his repertoire.

6. When the brothers were at the height of their powers, what mistake did Dinsdale make that caused even the police to sit up and take notice?

Answer: Blew up Luton Airport

Having come to the conclusion that Spiny Norman slept in an aeroplane hangar at Luton Airport, he blew it up with a nuclear bomb.

7. The police superintendent who tracked the brothers down and eventually captured them was called Harry Organs. What nickname did Organs have?

Answer: Snapper

Superintendent Harry "Snapper" Organs was the man behind the capture of the brothers. The name was based on Leonard "Nipper" Read, the police superintendent who investigated the Kray twins.

Answer: Brian Stoats

Starting off in Cardiff as the Reverend Smiler Egret, he then went to London as the pork butcher Brian Stoats. After that returned to Cardiff as Gloucester from King Lear. On a hunch he went to Buenos Aires as Blind Pew then returned through the Panama Canal as Ratty from Toad of Toad Hall.

9. In Cardiff, Organs got negative reviews from local news publications for his performance on stage as which character?

Answer: Sancho Panza

After returning again back to Cardiff, he played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha. The Bath Chronicle noted how the audience were bemused by his high pitched Welsh accent and intimidated by his abusive ad-libs.

10. Towards the end of the sketch, we see a character from another Monty Python sketch make a brief appearance. Which character?

Answer: Mr Teabag, Minister for Silly Walks

As Harry "Snapper" Organs and a colleague leave the police station, Mr Teabag, the Minister for Silly Walks, is seen walking by. At the end of the sketch, a newspaper seller is heard shouting "Read all about it, Piranha brothers escape" and Spiny Norman is seen looking for Dinsdale.

Source: Author yaybig

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