Cultural Idiocy Quiz

Sellers market

Directions: Identify the Peter Sellers movies based on the descriptions.

 1. A crazed general starts World War III, and Sellers plays three roles.
2. An idiot man-child who only knows gardens and television becomes a philosopher.
3. A professor is obsessed with a teenage girl.
4. Teenage girls are obsessed with a wacky pianist.
5. A tiny country wages war on the United States in hopes of gaining financial relief.
6. An Indian actor searches for a bathroom at a bash.
7. Truman Capote invites famous detectives to solve a murder.
8. Peter O'Toole goes to shrink Sellers for romantic advice.
9. Mid-lifer Sellers woos dizzy young Goldie Hawn.
10. A lawyer hangs out with hippies.
11. The world's richest man has Ringo Starr as his assistant/son.
12. Sellers is one of many replacement James Bonds.
13. Sellers plays a Scotland Yard detective and an evil Asian doctor.
14. A lecherous doctor runs a corrupt hospital.
15. It's the only Inspector Closeau movie without the Pink Panther moniker.
16. The other Inspector Closeau movies featuring Sellers.


The Answers (No Peeking!)
1. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
2. Being There
3. Lolita
4. The World of Henry Orient
5. The Mouse That Roared
6. The Party
7. Murder By Death
8. What's New, Pussycat?
9. There's A Girl In My Soup
10. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
11. The Magic Christian
12. Casino Royale
13. The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
14. Where Does It Hurt?
15. A Shot In The Dark*
16-20. The Pink Panther, The Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Revenge of the Pink Panther, The Trail of the Pink Panther (posthumous)
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