Don Rickles is Dead by BruceM

Champion(s):

LorinBurte
Get off my lawn!


Runner(s)-Up:

ChrisRosenberg
The odds of me winning a quiz are sufficiently low to not compel me to have something witty here.


Quiz Description

Celebrate the life of the insult comic.

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Questions:

To whom did Don Rickles address this ad lib, while doing stand-up at a Miami Beach nightclub?

"I just saw your movie The Pride and the Passion and I want to tell you, the cannon's acting was great."

This entertainer co-starred in The Pride and the Passion with Cary Grant and Sophia Loren. In a subsequent incident, Rickles supposedly convinced this man to come over and say hi to him and his date, so that Rickles could say "not now... can't you see I'm busy?"

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Frank Sinatra

Either of two answers is acceptable. Don Rickles made his own film debut in Run Silent, Run Deep. Name either of the co-stars of that submarine war drama, the actors who played Commander Richardson and Lieutenant Commander Bledsoe.

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Clark Gable; Burt Lancaster

On which 1960s TV series did Rickles make a guest appearance as Sid? Sample dialogue:

"Sid, it's good to see you again. You haven't changed a bit, how long has it been now?"
"15 years! You forgot? Seoul, Korea, 1952. Don't you remember? We said if we both lived through this we'd get together again, huh, pal? Well, we almost didn't make it."
"Yeah, that was a tough bar, Sid."

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Get Smart

What actress was married to Jack Gilardi, Rickles's agent, as of when Rickles was cast in the Beach Party movies? This former Mousketeer was supposedly the inspiration for the Paul Anka song "Puppy Love."

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Annette Funicello

In what 1970 comedy movie did Rickles -- along with Clint Eastwood, Carroll O'Connor, Telly Sevalas, and Donald Sutherland -- play American soldiers who try to rob a bank behind enemy lines?

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Kelly's Heroes

Which TV show did Rickles co-host with Steve Lawrence in the early 1980s? This ABC show was basically a mimic of TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, which Dick Clark co-hosted with Ed McMahon.

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Foul-Ups, Bleeps, & Blunders

Who co-starred with Rickles on the short-lived Fox sit-com Daddy Dearest? This author of The Other Great Depression (who once shared a Snickers ad with Roseanne Barr) plays a psychologist and Rickles is his used car salesman father.

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Richard Lewis

With which actor did Rickles appear in a Snickers ad of his own? In the 1995 film Casino, this man was Nicky Santoro and Rickles was Billy Sherbert.

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Joe Pesci

Who is the voice of Mrs. Potato Head in the Toy Story movies? (Rickles is of course Mr. Potato Head.) She has also been in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and Seinfeld.

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Estelle Harris

Which TV sit-com was Rickles taping when Johnny Carson -- in mock anger that Rickles had accidentally broken Carson's cigarette box during a previous Tonight Show -- stormed across the hall and onto the set to call Rickles a "big dummy"?

Rickles told the studio audience of this sitcom (set on a naval base in San Diego) "Ladies and gentlemen, Johnny Carson!" To which Carson brusquely replied: "They know who I am."

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C.P.O. Sharkey

Who had been the guest host of the Tonight Show the night Rickles broke Carson's cigarette box? For decades this comedian and his wife have been close friends with Rickles and his wife, as recounted in this man's memoir, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This.

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Bob Newhart

Which country is now home to Kaunas, the city from which Rickles's father immigrated? (Kaunas is this nation's second-most populous city.)

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Lithuania