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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Danielle Ownbey
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 2:29pm ET 6/29/26
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  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
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On June 28, Mel Brooks — master of the farce, parody, and spoof — turns 100 years old.

The share of the modern comedy canon that traces back to him, either directly or through the generations he inspired, is honestly ridiculous.



In this quiz, we’ll give you the Letterboxd-style description of five Mel Brooks movies and five other famous spoofs — films with premises so zany they sound like someone made them up as a joke before realizing that was the point. You tell us the movie.

And as a birthday present, we’ll also give you the letters in MEL BROOKS.

Happy birthday Melvin!

Q1. Myers 1997 – “As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, {redacted} is the ‘60s’ most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the ’90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.”

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Q2. Brooks 1987 – “When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet’s air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of “The Schwartz.” Can he master it in time to save the day?”

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Q3. Gilliam and Jones 1975 – “King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as “it is a silly place”.”

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Q4. Brooks 1993 – “{redacted} comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. {redacted} assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.”

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Q5. Zucker, Abrams, Zucker 1980 – “An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an {redacted} when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.”

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Q6. Brooks 1967 – “A conniving Broadway {redacted} and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget {redacted}, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what’s more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.”

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Q7. Stiller 2008 – “A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real danger.”

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Q8. Brooks 1974 – “A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.”

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Q9. Reiner 1984 – “{redacted} shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.”

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Q10. Brooks 1974 – “A {redacted} neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von {redacted}. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. {redacted} believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.”

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TIEBREAKER Brooks got his start in media when his friend Sid Caesar hired him to write jokes for the DuMont/NBC series "The Admiral Broadway Revue", paying him, off-the-books, $50 a week. In what year did that show debut?

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