You ain’t really cultured ‘less you can…

(David) Tim answered all these questions the first time I posted them (back on our old WORLD blog). Can you? And if you can't, what on earth are you doing planting an arts-focused, culture-spouting, center-city PCA church? Go on back to school, boy. Git you some real culture to go with your hipster glasses and untucked shirt....

1. Tell, within a dozen, how many books P. G. Wodehouse wrote. Shoot, make it within thirty…
2. Name the song playing on the radio when Duke threw the grapefruit into the bathtub containing his Samoan attorney.
3. Fill in the blank, “I love the smell of _____________ in the morning.”
4. Tell what machine Toad fell in love with after being thrown from his caravan.
5. Name the Who’s original drummer.
6. Describe the procedure for trapping a heffalump.
7. Name the Black Panther Party member who went from exile in Cuba to preaching at Wheaton Bible Church before designing and selling codpiece-equipped pants.
8. Name the artist who played harmonica on Keith Green’s 1980 “So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt” LP.
9. Tell who said, “The policeman isn’t there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
10. Name the movie: “Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.”
11. Name the Beatle with the bare feet.
12. Name the now-dead newspaper columnist who often quoted his friend Slats Grobnik.
13. Tell what color and model car O.J. Simpson was being driven down the Santa Monica freeway in.
14. Name the Chicago Bears defensive tackle who scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XX.
15. Finish the sentence from "Cool Hand Luke": “What we have here is a failure to _____________ .”
16. Name the movie this line comes from: “It's just a flesh wound! Come back and I'll bite your kneecaps off!”
17. Name the song that ends with the drummer shouting, “I’ve got blisters on my fingers!"
18. Name the lead guitarist on the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
19. Name the Tom Wolfe book originally serialized in Rolling Stone magazine.
20. Name the television series modeled on the work of a New Yorker cartoonist.

Comments

[Alex]

looks like there's no hope for me... I only know 13,14, and 16

[Kamilla]

I guessed 98, had to check to see how close I was. . . .

My mother has a hard time believing Bertie Wooster and Dr House are played by the same actor. Personally, I wonder about the Alderton-Collins household.

Kamilla

P.S. Sorry I couldn't read much farther, I was laughing too hard.

[Rebecca]

Oh, no...not the "blisters on my fingers" argument again.....

....here comes Brandon...:)

[David Wegener]

Dear Tim and David:

7,8,11,14,17,18 but that's all, without guessing.

DW

[Valerie (Kyriosity)]

I'm sure of #s 3, 4, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16, and 20. I checked my guess on #1, and was off by 4, so I'll give myself that one, too. But I don't suppose 45% counts as a passing grade, eh? Happily, I am not trying to plant any kind of church, and I really couldn't care less whether my pastor knows any of the answers (which I highly suspect he does not).

[Brandon]

This time, there'll be no argument. 'Twas Ringo who shouted "I've got blisters on my fingers". End of discussion!

[Todd]

James Thurber was the cartoonist.

[David]

1,3, 4,7, 8 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 20.

The TV show was titled My World and Welcome To It starring William Windom who later played the town doctor in Murder She Wrote

[Tim Bayly]

By the way, I'm not sure I ever aced this test since a couple of the answers are still a mystery to me.

[Robert Perry]

Lessee...I've got (I think) 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16...and what this has to do with anything baffles me.

[Valerie (Kyriosity)]

Huh...there appear to be two possible answers for #18. The work of cartoonist Charles Addams was behind "The Addams Family." Since the Thurber-based show seems to have drawn from both his cartoons and his writing, I say my answer is the purer one.

[Valerie (Kyriosity)]

Um...I mean #20....

[Joel]

I got 13 of them, and I'm banging my head on the wall trying to recall a couple of others. This was cruel, David!

[Erik Braun]

The 'Cleaver sleeve' in many ways represents the tragedy of American 'pop' evangelicalism since the 60's.

So does Dylan (though I'm not a big Keith Green fan - don't hurt me! - Dylan's 'Slow Train Coming' was incredible).

Was it 'White Rabbit' or 'Somebody to Love' (Q 2)?

I am a 35 year old who wears moccachino glasses and preaches with his shirt untucked. I thought I could rise to the challenge of this quiz and so face down my elders. I am walking away now, ashamed and broken.

And trying to figure out how to work this dang bow-tie.

[David Bayly]

Forget the bow tie. They were affectations for a day and we happened to be photographed wearing them. We do, however, know how to tie them: just like a shoelace--over, under, wrap around, pull through. And you hit it, the answer is "White Rabbit." Good work for an untucked shirtite.

[Kamilla]

I keep seeing "threw the radio in the bathtub" when I read #2. So, now I'm curious. What's the reference?

Kamilla

[Bill R]

OJ was driving down the San Diego Freeway, not the Santa Monica Freeway. The vehicle was white, and I think it was a Chevy Blazer. Ah, trivia!

[Erik Braun]

I think it was a Ford Bronco.

[David Bayly]

It was a white Ford Bronco. The scene with the Samoan attorney comes from Hunter Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

[Kamilla]

Ah, no wonder I couldn't place it! I kept trying to conjure up a scene from Kyril Bonfiglioli.

Kamilla

[Dan Gelok]

David,

You mislead Erik. Tying a bowtie is NOT like tying a shoelace. It's more like trying to juggle a walrus and change your newborn at the same time.

Oh, except backwards, because you're looking in a mirror and you've got to leave in about 3 minutes and you've been working on the dag thing for an hour...

[David Bayly]

I wear bow ties at Christmas, and for the first ten years, or so, I struggled to tie them. Using a mirror is death. But for the last ten years I've been able to tie it immediately, first try. Really, if you simply do it like tying your shoelaces it simply works. I've spent the hours attempting it (and lacerating the tie), but it's like riding a bike: done with thought it doesn't work, done instinctively it just flows.

[Robert Perry]

I was in Los Diablos (oops, LA) when that drive happened, and couldn't help thinking that one major reason Colorado is superior to California is that when Coloradans thought of a slow white
Bronco, they thought of John Elway.

OK, he wasn't that slow, but it's a great way to remember what happened and simultaneously mock those who thought it was so significant. :^)

[al]

1, 3, 4, 11, 15, 16, 18.

Others seem familiar...

I thought Keith Moon was the original drummer for The Who; but, since you asked the question I am guessing that is not right.

Oh, and if you have not seen 'while my guitar gently weeps' played (and played well) on a ukulele you are missing out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo

al sends

[Joel]

Al, I had thought it was Keith Moon, too, but Wikipedia shows me wrong. Okay, so I got 12. I think. Further Googling may make me feel stupider.

[Bill R]

Yeah, OK, it WAS a Bronco, but it was STILL the San Diego Freeway. If it had been the Santa Monica, he would have run into the ocean before they caught up with him!

[RBerman]

Although I've heard it quoted as "kneecaps" numerous times, the actual quote was, "I'll bite your legs off!" The "Flesh wound" line is at the 3:41 mark in this clip. The "bite your legs" line is at the very end of the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno

[Tedwin]

You have the wrong question for answer number 12. The correct question is "Name the columnist who once wrote, "The two biggest cities in Indiana are Indianapolis and Gary, which gives you the option of dying of boredom or multiple gunshot wounds." That might explain why some Colts fans (my wife) were so happy to see them dispatch my Bears last February.

[David Bayly]

Dear Ted,

Don't tell me you've turned into a Hoosier? We know Royko got it right about Indiana, don't we? (And I'm glad Ohio wasn't close enough to fall under his pen, I think.)

Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving--whether at home in Boringtown or in the Evangelical mecca.

Your friend,

David