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Edna Krabappel [9F13]

Quiz 3

Welcome to my third Simpsons quiz. There are 20 questions based on the paradies and homages within the Simpsons.
You will receive your score immediately after completion.

  1. The opening sequence of "Bart's Friend Falls in Love", in which Bart steals Homer's penny jar, parodies the opening sequence of which film?
    1. The Great Escape
    2. The Great Train Robbery
    3. Raiders of the Lost Arc
    4. Romancing the Stone
  2. The end credits theme to "Who Shot Mr Burns? (Part 1)" is a homage to the music of which film?
    1. JFK
    2. Born on the Fourth of July
    3. Saving Private Ryan
    4. Schindler's List
  3. The scene when the people of Springfield look for the cat burglar's treasure under a 'big T', parodies which film?
    1. Monte Carlo or Bust
    2. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
    3. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
    4. The Italian Job
  4. The final scene of "Life on the Fast Lane" is a parody of which film?
    1. Sleepless in Seattle
    2. Four Weddings and a Funeral
    3. The Graduate
    4. An Officer and a Gentleman
  5. The end credits theme to "The Springfield Connection" is a homage to the music of which TV police series?
    1. Miami Vice
    2. Hill Street Blues
    3. Hawaii 50
    4. Ironside
  6. Bart's emergence through the heat haze with his skateboard, ready to jump Springfield Gorge, is an ode to which film?
    1. Lawrence of Arabia
    2. Zulu
    3. Mad Max
    4. Out of Africa
  7. Homer's futuristic means of analysing potential suitors for Selma in "Principal Charming" parodies which film?
    1. The Terminator
    2. Predator
    3. Robocop
    4. Men in Black
  8. After finishing the family quilt, Lisa and Marge touch sewing fingers recalling a scene from which film?
    1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    2. The Village of the Damned
    3. ET
    4. Return of the Jedi
  9. Homer's nightmare in "Treehouse of Horror II" is a version of which horror story?
    1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    2. Dracula
    3. Frankenstein's Monster
    4. Godzilla
  10. Homer's wonderbat is from a tree struck by lightning, just like the bat in which film?
    1. Field of Dreams
    2. The Natural
    3. The Mask
    4. Bull Durham
  11. When Principal Skinner asks Lisa what she is rebelling against, her answer ("Whattaya got?") is taken from which Marlon Brando film?
    1. The Wild One
    2. A Streetcar Named Desire
    3. On the Waterfront
    4. The Godfather
  12. When Maggie and the other children plot to get their dummies back, the music from which film is heard?
    1. The Colditz Story
    2. Escape to Victory
    3. Schindler's List
    4. The Great Escape
  13. The black and white story of an ape in "Treehouse of Horror III" is reminiscent of which film?
    1. Planet of the Apes
    2. King Kong
    3. Gorillas in the Mist
    4. Tarzan
  14. The first ever "Itchy and Scratchy" short ("Steamboat Itchy") parodies the original cartoon of which character?
    1. Jerry
    2. Daffy Duck
    3. Bugs Bunny
    4. Mickey Mouse
  15. Lyle Lanley acts and sounds like travelling salesman Professor Harold Hill from which film?
    1. The Music Man
    2. The Sound of Music
    3. My Fair Lady
    4. Oklahoma
  16. The "Little Land of Duff" song from the Duff Gardens ride is stolen from a ride in which theme park?
    1. Legoland
    2. Universal Studios
    3. Disneyland
    4. Alton Towers
  17. The end credits theme to "Treehouse of Horror IV" is a homage to the music of which TV series?
    1. The Addams Family
    2. The X-Files
    3. The Twilight Zone
    4. Millennium
  18. The scene in which Willie looks for Santa's Little Helper in the air ducts, while Skinner watches on a radar monitor, parodies a scene from which film?
    1. The Terminator
    2. Predator
    3. Robocop
    4. Alien
  19. The song Bart and Milhouse sing at the Beginning of "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood", is to the tune of which musical number?
    1. Happy Talk
    2. New York, New York
    3. America
    4. Favourite Things
  20. The basic plot of "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" is taken from which childrens' film?
    1. Dumbo
    2. The Jungle Book
    3. 101 Dalmations
    4. Beauty and the Beast

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