QUIZ: Vizion On With Noddy Holder

Today is Noddy Holder's birthday.

When most people think of Nod, the first thing in their heads in probably something akin to this:

It might even be this:



But only seemingly in my head does this turn up front and centre....

...a one-off strip from issue 48 of Viz Comic in 1991 featuring a youthful yet still fully mutton-chopped Holder who is soon to become obsessed with magic (the full strip will appear at the bottom of the quiz.) Such as my obsession and love of Viz that my brain regularly flicks to  the many celebrity parodies that have appeared over the years whenever said star is in the news. Much of the time, the comic would place the star in a surreal, Beano-esque adventure although real life celebs would also show up in the long-running Roger Mellie, The Man On The Telly strip too.

Who are these sixteen celebs as interpreted by Viz?

1. Paul Daniels, 2. Stephen Fry, 3. Terry Wogan, 4. Jimi Hendrix, 5. Alan 'Fluff' Freeman, 6. Danny Baker

7. Ian Paisley, 8. Depeche Mode, 9. The Queen Mother, 10. The Queen

11. Morrissey, 12. Winston Churchill, 13. Jamie Oliver, 14. Jeremy Clarkson, 15. Jimmy Hill, 16. Shaky!

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An entire Viz quiz that was entirely safe for work! What were the chances?

Fuck...

QUIZ: Long Dark Twenty

Did you know that as well as being a world champion quizzist and powerful blog-wrangler, I also write and perform for various podcasts? One of which is "From The Sublime", an excellent review of recent pop-culture put together by journalist Iain Hepburn.



The latest episode is now available to download and is a special "1996" themed show with features on the likes of This Life, the much missed Neon magazine, Baddiel, Skinner and the brief spell of Euro 96 fever, pop and the promise of Babylon Zoo, WWF vs WWE vs NWO, celebrating Scottish fiction with the Children of Albion Rovers and there's myself talking about the time Bob Mortimer and Noel Gallagher went to Chris Evans house for Good Friday tea. 

As a bit of cross promotional confrontation, here's a special 1996 movie quiz in which SIXTEEN of the year's biggest films have had their logos adapted to make a sentence....just. How much do you remember about the tinseltown tosspots of twenty years ago? Lets find out...

Answers after some fashionable heroin.

Independence Day, Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, The First Wives Club, Romeo and Juliet, Ransom, The Cable Guy, Trainspotting, Striptease, Mars Attacks!, Eraser, The Birdcage, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jerry Maguire, 101 Dalmatians

QUIZ: Turn On Toon In And Switch Off

Happy birthday Joseph Barbera! Off of Hanna-Barbera! Even though you technically died in 2006! We all know and love the H/B cartoons of old - or do we? Our collective selective memory will always remember characters such as The Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, Boss Top, Whatever The Frig Snagglepuss Was and Boring Yogi Bear whilst filtering out the very real and existing likes of Mighty Mightor, Cattanooga Cats, Devlin, The Roman Holidays, CB Bears and Where's Huddles? 

Can you pick out the five real Hanna Barbera cartoons from this list of ten possibilities? 

1. Chappy, Chompy and Chippy

2. Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse

3. Determined Duck

4. Sir Knightsly Knight And His Kookoo Kourt

5. Breezly and Sneezly

6. The Brown Bunny 

7. Squiddly Diddly

8. Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long

9. The Discolites

10. The Gary Coleman Show

Answers after these prayers.

A: Chappy, Chompy and Chippy, Determined Duck, Sir Knightsly Knight And His Kookoo Kourt, The Brown Bunny and The Discolites are fake. The others are all too real.