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Monty Python Quiz

Monty Python's Flying Circus concluded in December 1974, so now seems like a good time to celebrate the sketch group. Here's a tribute quiz from Hercules Grytpype Thynne...

1. In Life Of Brian, who played his mother, who said "He's Not The Messiah, he's a very naughty boy"?

Monty Python's Life Of Brian. Graham Chapman

2. Who did the animation sketches?

Monty Python - I'm (Still) So Worried artwork. Copyright: Python (Monty) Pictures Ltd

3. When John Cleese takes his dead parrot back to the pet shop to complain, what does Michael Palin offer him as a replacement?

Monty Python's Flying Circus. Image shows from L to R: Michael Palin, John Cleese. Copyright: BBC

4. And what breed of parrot was it, that was dead?

5. In The Meaning Of Life, what was the name of the enormously fat man who exploded when the restaurant manager insisted he ate a last wafer-thin mint?

Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life

6. In Monty Python's world of Superman, where every person was a Superman, people were in awe of Michael Palin's extra super power, where he would rip off his Superman outfit revealing a boiler suit and repair something. What did they call him?

Monty Python's Flying Circus

7. Dennis Moore was a spoof of highwayman Dick Turpin, who played him?

8. And what did Dennis Moore steal from the rich to give to the poor?

9. In the Cheese Shop sketch, when no matter what cheese John Cleese wanted the shopkeeper Michael Palin was "only just out of it" etc, what was going on in the background that JC finally lost his rag with?

Monty Python's Flying Circus. Image shows left to right: Michael Palin, John Cleese

10. In the 5 minute argument sketch, what room/department with Graham Chapman in it, did Michael Palin mistakenly go into first?

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