I’m a sucker for click-bait quizzes on Facebook, but one thing that always annoys me is when they claim to be tough and then aren’t. I’ll read that only 10 percent of people can pass a test and then I’ll get 59 of 60 right.
Most of them are fairly stupid. They’ll show you a shot from “Maude,” and then ask who the actress is. Your choices are Marilyn Monroe, Sherman Helmsley, Mary Todd Lincoln or Bea Arthur.
So I decided to do one that would be legitimately difficult. First, no multiple choice. Second, a true mix of questions — some easy, some harder, some very difficult. If you get 15 of 25, you’re an ace. Get all 25 and you’re a personal friend of mine.
The questions are a look at pop culture from the ’70s and ’80s, movies, sports, pop music, television and politics.
Unless otherwise noted, I will give you a piece of information. You tell where it came from and/or who said it:
1. “Are you calling me a pussy communist?”
2. “Dinosaur Victrola.”
3. What was Chachi’s last name?
4. What baseball player was most famous for his massive Afro?
5. “There are a lot of mediocre people in this country. They deserve representation too.”
6. “Fo, fo, fo.”
7. “I hate spunk!”
8. The killer rabbit.
9. Who was Bette Midler’s original piano player?
10. “I’d purely love to see it angry.”
11. 66-64.
12. What did Herschel Walker want to be before he wanted to be a football player?
13. “A red chariot to take my ass straight to hell!”
14. Who were George McGovern’s two running mates in 1972?
15. “You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime.”
16. Who are the only two vice presidents never to be elected?
17. “… till she’s sitting on your face.”
18. “No yankee my wankee.”
19. Name the Brat Packer whose virginity (and loss thereof) was a key plot point in a 1985 movie.
20. Who did Jane’s voice in “Greystoke?”
21. Oklahoma, the Seahawks and “Stone Cold.”
22. “I said get some sleep and dream of rock ‘n’ roll.”
23. Who were Nixon’s “twin Germans?”
24. William Marshall, in the movie and its sequel.
25. “No grinding!”
Answers tomorrow.