So Duh! Pop Quiz

So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Song Remakes Rated By Movie Remakes

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Remakes are hardly better.

With all the remakes leaking out of Hollywood like – oh, I don’t know – an unstoppable oil spill, I started thinking about song remakes… how they don’t happen as often, and when they do, how they tend to be worthy updates or at least interesting spins (outdated pun!) on the original.

That’s when I decided to present a So, Duh! Pop Quiz that will have you match a song remake with a comparable film remake.

1) Anberlin’s version of New Order’s True Faith

    a) Psycho
    b) Fame
    c) Alfie
    d) Bedazzled

2) Cake’s version of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive

    a) Friday the 13th
    b) Clash of the Titans
    c) Dawn of the Dead
    d) Nightmare on Elm Street

3) Eddie Vedder’s version of Indio’s Hard Sun

    a) The Ring
    b) The Karate Kid
    c)  The Taking of Pelham 123
    d) The Wicker Man

4) Flo Rida’s version of Dead or Alive’s You Spin Me Round (called Right Round)

    a) Who’s Your Caddy? (Caddyshack)
    b) My Baby’s Daddy (Three Men and a Baby)
    c) Soul Plane (Airplane!)
    d) All of the above

5) Shinedown’s version of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man

    a) The Fly
    b) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
    c) The Hills Have Eyes
    d) The Parent Trap

BONUS: To check out My Top Ten List of 80’s (Music) Remakes, click here.

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So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Can You Judge A Book By Its Cover?

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No, it's "So, Duh! Pop Quiz"...

I contemplated going a few different ways with this quiz, but instead of having you decide the plot based on the artwork of the cover, I wondered if you could remember the title based on the artwork of the cover.  I was going to give you multiple options, but I remembered that I’m

    a) mean
    b) a jerk
    c) lazy
    d) all of the above

Good luck!  And sorry about my terrible skills as a Photoshopper on two of them (the other three were easy)!

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BONUS QUESTION:  Three of these books have something in common (besides the being easy to edit part)… what is it?

(To check out some classic titles made sarcastic with quotation marks via College Humor, click here.)

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So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Name That Toy!

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I don't know what this robot does exactly, but I want it.

When I was in grade school, I loved two things: close-up image puzzles and toys…

…I guess some things never change.

Your mission in this So, Duh! Pop Quiz is to figure out the following toys based on the zoom-ins.  As if you couldn’t have figured that out.

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So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Movie Trailers Game (UPDATED)

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Yay! A movie quiz!

For today’s So, Duh! Pop Quiz, I’m going to try out something a little different.  It’s a game called Movie Trailers, or at least I call it that.

The concept is simple:

You get three pictures of Actors! (sometimes cut from their respective movie posters, sometimes in their actual roles).  The catch is each title flows into the next.  Say, for instance, the image is this:

The answer would be Iron Man on Fire in the Sky (Iron Man – Man on Fire – Fire in the Sky).

The answer will never involve a trick like these: Blue Steel Magnolia(s), Old School of Rock(y) Horror Picture Show, or Close(r) Encounters of the Third Kind of Wonderful.

The answer will always be individual words like this: Superbad/Bad Boys Don’t Cry,

If there is a number, the style must match.  Plus, “the” must be included: Lethal Weapon 4/Four (The) Brothers Grimm.

Ready to begin?  Good luck!

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So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Musician Names As Things Edition

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(Not So) Artistic Representation

This edition is a free-for-all.  Mostly because the letters and numbers deal-i-o gets to be a bit much.

Basically, you’re going to look at this giant JPG and name which artist is represented by each image.  It will be their last name, or their entire name, but it’s right there in the picture.  Some are super easy; some are obscure; some are pushing it.

They are all solo artists, at one point or another.  As one parting example, the above graphic is of POP (if you’re in the Midwest, at least)…  POP = IGGY POP…  Enjoy!

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So, Duh! Pop Quiz… TV Siblings (And More) Edition

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Sure... it's not soda pop... but they're not siblings, either.

For each of the following picture sets, designate whether each person is the main person’s:

  • Real-life sibling (sibling)
  • TV show sibling (“sibling”)
  • Real-life child (offspring)
  • TV show child (“offspring”)
  • No relation whatsoever (nothing)

This was going to originally focus on TV siblings that look nothing alike.  It still does, but in a more distilled, effervescent way…

1) Ron Howard / Opie Taylor / Richie Cunningham

a._______________________

b._______________________

c._______________________

d._______________________

2) Katey Sagal / Peg Bundy / Cate Hennessey / Gemma Morrow / Turanga Leela / Helen Norwood

a._______________________

b._______________________

c._______________________

d._______________________

e._______________________

f._______________________

g._______________________

3) Michael J. Fox / Alex P. Keaton/ Marty McFly / Mike Flaherty / Stuart Little

a._______________________

b._______________________

c._______________________

d._______________________

e._______________________

f._______________________

4) Shirley Jones / Shirley Partridge

a._______________________

b._______________________

c._______________________

d._______________________

e._______________________

5) Jason Bateman / Matthew Burton / David Hogan / Michael Bluth

a._______________________

b._______________________

c._______________________

d._______________________

e._______________________

I was going to do more, but perhaps I shall do this again.  And oh yeah… answers are after the jump. Read More

So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Internet Meme Edition

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How did stuff like this get around without the TripleDoubleU?

For this round, how about covering recent TripleDoubleU memes?  Shall we?

1) This cat’s name is Bento.  What’s the name of the original Keyboard Cat?

    a) Pepto
    b) Furby
    c) Pepsi
    d) Fatso

2) The original lyrics for this song are:

    a) Fatsososo
    b) Trololo
    c) Tralala
    d) Doodoodoo

3) Why do I love this mashup so much?

    a) Jabba the Hutt (non-CGI) is inherently funny
    b) Parks and Recreation’s theme song is catchy
    c) All the above
    d) Eh, I’ve seen better

4) Who owns this song?

    a) Ram Jam
    b) Epic Beard Man
    c) Tyrone
    d) Amber Lamp

5) What process has been applied to this photo?

    a) PolizziShop
    b) SnookiShop
    c) PhotoShop
    d) RafikiShop (please click)

Answers after the jump

So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Hip Hop Edition

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"Makes your booty pop (and lock)!"

This one will not be as difficult as my last So, Duh! Pop Quiz (or as nerdy).  Well, maybe it’s still (white and) nerdy.

1) I don’t know what they want from me, but from you, I want to know what mo money often brings you?

    a) mo toys
    b) mo taxes
    c) mo family and friends coming out of the woodwork
    d) mo problems

2) Complete this analogy… H : IZZO :: V : ?

    a) AGINA
    b) IZZAY
    c) VENDETTA
    d) VISITORS

3) Unscramble these performers names:

4) Who’s going back to Cali?

    a) LL Cool J
    b) The Notorious B.I.G.
    c) both a) and b)
    d) George Lucas

5) Which of the following ingredients LEAST help one feel laid back while thinking about money?

    a) indo
    b) Seagrams
    c) Tanqueray
    d) juice

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So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Nerd Abbreviations Edition

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What came first: the soda or the code?

Ladies and gentlemen – neither of which read this blog… it is my honor and duty (I wrote on-her and doody, heh heh) to present this new category: 

So, Duh! Pop Quiz

Today’s installment is a simple one (hence the So, Duh! aspect), and nothing like the query in the above photo. 

SIDENOTE: Slurm is a soda-ish beverage in the TV show Futurama, but it also stands for Simple Linux Utility Resource Management.  The episode originally aired in 1999; the open-source manager (whatever that means) was developed in 2003.  This could be fodder for a Coinkydink or Coinkydonk?  Probably not… 

AnyWHO, the following abbreviations (or acronyms if you want to be super-nerdy about it) have no hold on the real World Health Organization.  They may have a hold on the WOW, though… 

1). Which of the following was not a TV series in this sci-fi series: 

    a) TOS
    b) TAS
    c) TPM
    d) TNG

2). Which of the following animated series from the 80’s was never a movie: 

    a) MASK
    b) TMNT
    c) BTTF
    d) MOTU

3). ROTF is to MTMTE as TROC is to : 

    a) SPAM
    b) NCIS
    c) LARP
    d) ARAH

4). ROTK is to FOTR as ROTJ is to: 

    a) ANH
    b) TPM
    c) a case could be made for either a) or b)
    d) none of the above

5). What pairs have the most in common: 

    a) BSG and BTVS
    b) SMB and LOZ 
    c) AVP and HPATCOS
    d) MMPR and SGU

 

    Linux Penguin and Slurms McKenzie chillin’…

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