Movie Trivia Quizzes (The Comedian Deaths Quiz)

The Comedian Deaths Quiz

INSTRUCTIONS: How do you play the game?
1 - Answer all of the questions below.
2 - Click SUBMIT and be taken to a page with all of the correct answers.

1) In this month’s Funny People, Adam Sandler’s character is given less than a year to live. Ironically, what is his profession (it couldn’t hurt to check out the title of this quiz!)?

Doctor
Stand-up comedian/actor
Mortician
Grave digger
Life insurance salesman

2) Chris Farley worshipped John Belushi, whose life served as a dangerous blueprint for Farley. Both died as the result of a speedball overdose. At what age did this occur for both?

34
33
32
37
8. They had Werner syndrome

3) Murdered actor Phil Hartman co-wrote which of these cult comedies?

Quick Change
Coneheads
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Big Trouble in Little China
Eraserhead

4) Revolutionary stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce died at the age of 40 from an accidental overdose. Who earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Bruce?

Dustin Hoffman
Al Pacino
Bruce Dern
Leonard Schneider
Bruce Valanch

5) In addition to its star, Rodney Dangerfield, 1986’s Back to School also featured which now-deceased stand-up comedian?

Sam Kinison
George Carlin
Richard Pryor
Bill Hicks
Gallagher

6) Kevin Smith wrote a remembrance for friend/counterculture icon George Carlin in Newsweek following his 2008 death. How many Smith films did Carlin appear in?

2
4
3
1
0

7) Andy Kaufman--sorry conspiracy theorists--died in 1984. What did he and Jim Carrey, who portrayed him in Man on the Moon, have in common?

They share the same birthday
They were both born in Canada
Their last names are both Kaufmann
Both appeared in In God We Tru$t
Both have nailed Jenny McCarthy

8) Which of the following deceased comedian/actors did NOT appear in 1963’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World?