Here are the questions for
the RUSC Christmas Quiz 2003.
I've tried to put together a real mixed back. Some are terribly easy, others will give your brain cells a little exercise and hopefully there'll be the odd one or two that really get you scratching your head.
Prizes Galore!
To add a bit of festive fun I'm going to have a rummage round in my Fibber-McGee-like closet and see what I can find for prizes. I can't promise a Caribbean Cruise or a new car (I don't think I have any of those in my closet), but I'm sure I have some old boots, a broken ironing board and a pile of Reader's Digest magazines from the 1970s that should do just fine - only joking!
TO ENTER: Entries need to be in no later than the 22nd January 2004. Please don't send your answers in by e-mail. Instead you need to use the on-line entry form that you can find by clicking the link below.#
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Round 1 - Having a laugh! |
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How does Miss Brooks, in Our Miss Brooks, earn her living?
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Whose children are called Junior and Babs?
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Luigi Basco is the “l’il immigrant” from which European country?
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Henry is the teenage son of which typical American family?
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Which other typical American family live in a white-framed house on Maple Street in Springfield?
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Who always knows best?
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Which comedy character originally appeared in Fibber McGee and Molly and left to star in his own spin-off?
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Ethel and Albert returned to radio in 1957 but only ever referred to each other as “Dear”. What was the new name of the serialized comedy drama?
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Who wrote and starred in the female role of question 8?
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Which king of comedy died this year after celebrating his 100th birthday?
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Round 2 - Young at heart |
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Which famous bear named after a spice was usually broadcast each day from Thanksgiving until Christmas?
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What is the name of the canine stare of Challenge of the Yukon?
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Who is the “All American Boy”? (Character's name)
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Tonto is the faithful Indian companion of the Lone Ranger (now come on that would have been an easy question:) but can you name the theme tune? (Yes, I know you are der-dumming it now!)
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What is the name of Jerry’s dog in Jerry of the Circus?
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Which comic superhero was created by Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster in 1938 and became a radio serial in 1940?
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Which show stars a 16 year-old boy pilot and his pal Speed Robertson?
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What is the name of the series featuring Commander Buzz Corry and Cadet Happy in daring missions in the name of interplanetary justice?
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Which series, when it was first broadcast, was based on a book and featured the author's daughter, Jane, as the girlfriend of the lead character and her husband as the lead character himself?
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Played by Guy Madison, what is the name of the western Marshall whose comic sidekick was called Jingles?
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Round 3 - Detect the Sleuth |
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Broadway is My Beat
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Dangerous Assignment
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Dragnet
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Night Beat
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The Saint
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The Shadow
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The Avenger
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The Falcon
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The Fat Man
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Rogues Gallery
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Now here is where you will have to do your homework, though the answer was in a recently added episode of Sherlock Holmes. Here goes, what is the Christian name of Dr Watson?
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Round 4 - Cowboys & Indians |
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William Conrad played Matt Dillon, US Marshall of Dodge City in which western drama?
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What was the character name of the “soldier of fortune, western knight errant, gunfighter” featured in Have Gun Will Travel?
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Which actor played the character in question 2?
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Britt Ponsett is the hero of which western drama?
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Which famous actor played Britt Ponsett?
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Which Western detective character, playfully known as Hoppy did William Boyd play from 1948 – 1950?
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What was the name of the ranch where the above character was foreman?
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Name the juvenile western whose side kick character was called Pancho?
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Which radio series started with a Rossini composition and had musical bridges between the scenes by Liszt and Tchaikovsky?
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Raymond Burr Played the character Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry, but where?
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Round 5 - And finally... |
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Jack Packard and Doc Long were two characters of a trio, who was the third and what was the name of the show they featured in?
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In August 1947 Radio Life magazine wrote, “These stories all possess many times the reality that most radio writing conveys”. Which dramatic adventure anthology were they referring to?
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Which series was created and produced by Hyman Brown and during its run included such Hollywood stars as Boris Karloff, Peter Lorrie and Richard Widmark?
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What did the Blue Network eventually become?
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What was the name of Orson Welles’ theatrical air company that broadcast the infamous War of the Worlds in 1938?
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When Carroll P. Craig Sr. wrote the following, “He fills the air with boasts and brags, and obsolete obnoxious gags. The way he plays the violin is music’s most obnoxious sin…” to whom was he referring?
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I was born in Vincennes, Indiana on July 18th 1913. I began my career in blackface singing at the age of ten. I married Edna Stillwell in June 1931 and got my big break on the Rudy Vallee Show in 1937. Who am I?
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Who were Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel better known as?
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1921 saw the first live radio broadcast of a heavyweight title fight. Georges Carpentier was one of the boxers, who was the other? |
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