[net.games.trivia] George Spigot

grw (03/18/83)

  A movie came out some time ago.  One of the two main characters was called
George Spigot.  Answer the following questions:

1.  What was the name of the movie?
2.  Who played George Spigot?
3.  What now-famous actor played the other male lead?
4.  Who was George Spigot REALLY?
5.  What were the two lead actors known as, as a group?
6.  Who played Lust?
7.  What year did the movie come out?  (I don't know this myself)
8.  The actor who played George Spigot was recently a regular in a
    TV series.  What series?

					-Glenn R. Wichman
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tugs (04/05/83)

If you want to be a nit-picker (and what else is trivia for?), Peter Cook
and Dudley Moore are NOT "Beyond the Fringe". BTF consisted of Cook and
Moore, Jonathan Miller (now director of the National Opera in Britain) and
Alan Bennett, both of whom appeared with Cook in the first Secret Policeman's
Ball film. They originally did the show at the Fringe Festival held
concurrently with the Edinburgh Festival in the early 60s, then took it to
the West End and later Broadway. Cook and Moore Continued to perform
together, doing (among other things) parts in the films Those Daring Young
Men in their Jaunty Jalopies and The Bed-Sitting Room, various radio shows
(some under the name "Pete 'n' Dud") and at least one extremely controversial
record album (which was banned by the BBC for such concepts as claiming
that the Titanic was one of Winston Churchill's bogeys (British equivalent
of 'booger'). Moore recently said that Cook was unhappy that Dudley's
recent success had pretty well signalled the end of their partnership, as
Moore was too busy making money and balling Susan Anton to perform with
Cook - revolting as it seems, that seems to be show-biz).
   NOW, here's some questions:
1) (easy) Who did the music for Dudley Moore's piano playing in the film "10"?
2) (hard) Who were Cook and Moore's characters in "Those... Jaunty Jalopies"?
3) (????) For Alan Bennett fans, what does 'NORWICH' mean?
4)        Who wrote The Bed-Sitting Room? Who directed it?
5)        What now-famous playwright got his start taking a university
	  production of his first play to the Fringe festival? What was the play?
6)        For BTF fans, why didn't Peter Cook become a judge?
7)        Why is life like a tin of sardines?
8)        What is the Footlights Club?
    steve hull
    decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!tugs

P.S. A great book for anyone into this type of humour: From Fringe to Flying
     Circus, a look at British humour from 1960 to the present...

dje (04/06/83)

This is one of my all-time favorite movies, BEDAZZLED.
I believe it came out in 1968.  Peter Cook played George Spiggot
(AKA Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, etc.), and Dudley Moore played
Stanley Moon.  Raquel Welch played Lillian Lust. 
Incidentally, the music in the movie was composed by Dudley Moore.

			Dave Ellis
			Bell Labs, Piscataway NJ
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