Q 01/05

Which future star, then a little-known bit player, appears in the Stooges' 1934 football short Three Little Pigskins?

A) Betty Grable

B) Carole Lombard

C) Lucille Ball

D) Ginger Rogers

Answer · why

C) Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball. As a gangster's girlfriend she takes a blast of seltzer in the face, and the rough shoot left Larry short of a tooth and Curly with a br...

Q 02/05

Which 1934 hospital spoof earned the Three Stooges their only Academy Award nomination?

A) Dizzy Doctors

B) Men in Black

C) Punch Drunks

D) Disorder in the Court

Answer · why

B) Men in Black

Men in Black. The title mocked that year's Clark Gable hospital drama Men in White, and the whole short runs on one loudspeaker call: 'Dr. Howard, Dr....

Q 03/05

Which sibling directing team made the 2012 feature film The Three Stooges?

A) The Coen brothers

B) The Farrelly brothers

C) The Wachowskis

D) The Russo brothers

Answer · why

B) The Farrelly brothers

The Farrelly brothers spent more than a decade trying to get it made. At one point Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio del Toro were lined up as the tri...

Q 04/05

Before the Three Stooges made the word famous, what did 'stooge' mean in show-business slang?

A) A star's understudy

B) A gag writer

C) A comic's assistant

D) A ticket tout

Answer · why

C) A comic's assistant

A comic's assistant. Dictionaries date that sense to 1913 and call the word's origin unknown; only later, by 1937, did it take on its wider meaning of...

Q 05/05

Which famous cartoonist wrote Soup to Nuts, the 1930 feature in which the future Three Stooges made their film debut?

A) Al Capp

B) Charles Addams

C) Walt Kelly

D) Rube Goldberg

Answer · why

D) Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist of absurdly complicated machines, also appears in it as himself. Fox liked the Stooges enough to offer them a contract w...