Generalissimo Francisco Franco is Still Dead by KitchenB

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MyrowitzJ
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Runner(s)-Up:

Abhi
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Quiz Description

Answer these questions about the SNL joke.

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Questions:

In what year did Franco die? (For reasons I will not explain, this year was also very important for Saturday Night Live.)

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1975

What politician said this quote, read by Chevy Chase on the air after Franco's death?

"General Franco was a loyal friend and ally of the United States. He earned worldwide respect through firmness and fairness."

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Richard Nixon

When Chevy Chase read the quote from Question 2, a picture appeared behind him depicting Franco saluting with what other dictator?

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Adolf Hitler

In some instances, the gag was paired with what fellow cast member appearing as the President of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing? In these instances, the other cast member would simply repeat what had already been said, but louder.

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Garrett Morris

At the end of the in memoriam section of SNL's 40th Anniversary Special, what other cast member reiterated the fact that Franco was, in fact, dead?

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Bill Murray

Apologies for the long URL! What word appears in large letters under the question, "Is Generalissimo Francisco Franco Still Dead?" on isgeneralissimofranciscofrancostilldead.com?

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YES!

In 2009, the Wall Street Journal published an article about how certain monuments to Franco would no longer be present in Spain. Fill in the blank from the title:

"Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead -- And His _______ Are Next"

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Statues

Speaking of the Wall Street Journal, the Wall Street Journal article "Generalissimo Franco is Still Dead, but for Some Not Dead Enough" opens by asking if what Spanish artist should be remembered as a noted member of his particular artistic movement or "a fascist sympathizer and admirer of the dictator Francisco Franco?"

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Salvador DalĂ­

In what was likely a reference to the quote, on February 8, 2007, Jack Cafferty asked Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room if what model was still dead? (It just so happens that she died on February 8, 2007.)

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Anna Nicole Smith

The New Republic released an article entitled, you guessed it, "Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead." Released in January 2008, this article discussed how what Republican Representative from California, who had recently gotten last place in the Iowa caucuses, announced that he would continue running for president?

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Duncan Hunter

"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is Still Dead" is the name of a beer produced by American Beer Revolutionary Home Brewing according to Untappd, a social networking website for beer. Another one of that company's beers is Roma Victor, a beer intended to be a clone of what Russian River Brewing Company Imperial IPA named for an author who has been dead for almost two millennia?

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Pliny the Elder

Finally, "generalissimo" is the Italian spelling, but Franco was from Spain. What, then, is the proper Spanish spelling? (Proper accents aren't required.)

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GeneralĂ­simo