Q 01/05

Chris Rock's 1999 hit No Sex (In the Champagne Room) parodies a spoken-word advice single by which film director?

A) Spike Lee

B) Quentin Tarantino

C) Baz Luhrmann

D) Tim Burton

Answer · why

C) Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann had a 1999 hit with a spoken list of life advice whose title urges listeners to wear sunscreen, and Rock answered with his own one-liners...

Q 02/05

Which Grammy-winning 1999 Chris Rock album features the spoken-word track No Sex (In the Champagne Room)?

A) Bigger & Blacker

B) Roll with the New

C) Born Suspect

D) Never Scared

Answer · why

A) Bigger & Blacker

Bigger & Blacker mixed live stand-up from his HBO special with studio sketches featuring guests such as Ice Cube and Biz Markie.

Q 03/05

After dropping out of high school, Chris Rock worked as a busboy at which American restaurant chain?

A) Olive Garden

B) Red Lobster

C) Sizzler

D) Denny's

Answer · why

B) Red Lobster

Red Lobster was one of several restaurant jobs Rock held after leaving school at 17, and his first album includes a routine about busboys and minimum ...

Q 04/05

Which comedy superstar spotted Chris Rock's nightclub act, mentored him and gave him a first credited film role in 1987?

A) Richard Pryor

B) Arsenio Hall

C) Steve Martin

D) Eddie Murphy

Answer · why

D) Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy put the unknown Rock on screen as a parking valet in Beverly Hills Cop II after seeing him perform in a New York club.

Q 05/05

In the Madagascar films, Chris Rock voices Marty, a Central Park Zoo resident who is which kind of animal?

A) Giraffe

B) Zebra

C) Hippo

D) Lion

Answer · why

B) Zebra

Zebra Marty sets the whole story in motion by slipping out of the zoo on his tenth birthday to see the wild, and Rock voiced him in three films.