Ken Jennings posted a link to this great quiz, which posts song lyrics in alphabetical order and challenges you to guess them anyway. I haven’t completed the quiz yet — there are 50 questions in all — but it’s amazing how readily some of them spring to mind.
Anyway, I thought that was as good an excuse as any to repost my own “Monty Python Character or Band Name” quiz:
| Gwen Dibley Lady Chatterley’s Hamster Flying Fox of the Yard Bullwinkel Gandhi Mystico and Janet Neville Shunt |
Toad the Wet Sprocket Uncle Mingo Ned’s Atomic Dustbin Johann Gambolputty Ewan McTeagle Attila The Stockbroker |
Mr. Pither Mrs. Grundy Three Monkeys Named Bob Ximinez Timmy Williams Screaming Iguanas of Love |
Without cheating, how well do you know your Python characters or obscure band names? As before, I’ll give you a hint: one of them is a trick.
Well, I can definitely spot the trick: one of them is both. 🙂
Indeed.
I’ll take a stab at it…
Gwen Dibley – Monty Python. At one point the show was to be called “Gwen Dibley’s Flying Circus”
Lady Chatterley’s Hamster – band
Flying Fox of the Yard – MP
Bullwinkel Gandhi – band
Mystico and Janet – MP
Neville Shunt – MP
Toad the Wet Sprocket – this one is the trick – it’s both
Uncle Mingo – band
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – band
Johann Gambolputty – MP
Ewan McTeagle – MP
Attila The Stockbroker – MP
Mr. Pither – band
Mrs. Grundy – MP
Three Monkeys Named Bob – band
Ximinez – MP (no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!)
Timmy Williams – band
Screaming Iguanas of Love – band
Some right, some wrong…
Mr. Pither bicycled through Cornwall for Monty Python
Okay then.
Lady Chatterley’s Hamster, Bullwinkel Gandhi, Uncle Mingo, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Attila The Stockbroker, Mrs. Grundy, Three Monkeys Named Bob, Screaming Iguanas of Love are all bands, of varying levels of obscurity.
The rest are Monty Python characters.
Toad the Wet Sprocket began was a Python character — a throw-away line in Eric Idle’s “Rock Notes” — and then a band.