Q 01/05

Which tradesmen do distant listeners at Life of Brian's Sermon on the Mount think Jesus has blessed?

A) The breadmakers

B) The winemakers

C) The cheesemakers

D) The shoemakers

Answer · why

C) The cheesemakers

The cheesemakers got the blessing because 'peacemakers' was misheard from the back of the crowd, which then debated whether it meant all makers of dai...

Q 02/05

What accidentally scoops up Brian as he escapes the Roman guards in Life of Brian, then crash-lands back on Earth?

A) A passing alien spaceship

B) A runaway chariot

C) A Roman siege tower

D) A prophet's camel train

Answer · why

A) A passing alien spaceship

A passing alien spaceship carries Brian off and crash-lands back on Earth, after which he hides among the prophets preaching in a busy plaza by parrot...

Q 03/05

Life of Brian's final song topped a 2014 British survey of music people want played at which occasion?

A) Weddings

B) Funerals

C) Christenings

D) Retirement parties

Answer · why

B) Funerals

Funerals: a 2005 Music Choice survey already had it as the third most requested song for Britons' own send-offs, and by 2014 it was the most popular o...

Q 04/05

Which destroyer's crew sang Life of Brian's final song while awaiting rescue after a 1982 Exocet strike?

A) HMS Invincible

B) HMS Hermes

C) HMS Glamorgan

D) HMS Sheffield

Answer · why

D) HMS Sheffield

HMS Sheffield's sailors sang it as their ship burned in the Falklands War on 4 May 1982, and the crew of HMS Coventry later did the same.

Q 05/05

Who plays Brian's mother Mandy in Life of Brian, bawler of the line polls have voted the funniest in film history?

A) Eric Idle

B) Terry Jones

C) Michael Palin

D) John Cleese

Answer · why

B) Terry Jones

Terry Jones played Mandy in drag, and the line she bawls at the crowd outside her house has repeatedly topped polls as the funniest in film history; h...