GC1CR4X Unknown Cache Python trivia
Type: Mystery | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: sleuthers @ | Hide Date: 05/29/2008 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 53.380 W105° 00.000 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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It seems to be the trend to create a trivia puzzle. There's been a whole bunch from JeepDC, and more from -TwoCs-, Joe Friday, and Lady Coot and Isisfan, ... So I thought we'd join them. Hopefully this one won't be ambiguous.

Monty Python has a cult following. It seems you either love it or hate it. There's a trend in my son's school to quote various scenes in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", just like there was 30 years ago when it first came out.  It surprises me that it's still popular today. There's definitely been a revival with the musical Spamalot. Anyway here's the puzzle:

A) The Norwegian Blue Parrot, who formerly pined for the fjords, has:
  • 0 - Ceased to be
  • 1 - Gone to meet his maker
  • 4 - Kicked the bucket
  • 5 - Shuffled off his mortal coil
  • 3 - All of the above
  • 2 - All of the below
B) Sir Arthur is requested by the Knights who say "Ni" to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with:
  • 9 - A herring
  • 8 - A pair of scissors
  • 7 - A nail file
C) Mr Neutron - the most powerful man in the universe - enjoys drinking:
  • 3 - Whiskey
  • 2 - Hot Chocolate
  • 5 - Cup of tea
D) What number shalt thou count to launch the holy hand grenade:
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
E) What kind of cheese is available in the Cheese Shop:
  • 1 - Cheddar and Stilton
  • 4 - Illchester, and Gruyere
  • 6 - Wenslydale, Edam & Camenbert
  • 0 - Just Limburger
  • 2 - None (The shop is uncontaminated by cheese)
F) What kind of pet license does Praline want to buy:
  • 1 - Fish
  • 4 - Dog
  • 2 - Cat
G) An accountant wants to change his career to a:
  • 8 - Banker
  • 4 - Lion tamer
  • 1 - Stunt man
  • 9 - Ski instructor
H) In the Spam Sketch what's on the cafe menu:
  • 4 - Egg and spam;
  • 5 - Egg bacon and spam;
  • 3 - Egg bacon sausage and spam;
  • 2 - Spam bacon sausage and spam;
  • 9 - Spam egg spam spam bacon and spam;
  • 8 - Spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
  • 6 - Lobster Thermidor au Crevettes with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam;
  • 1 - All of the above
J) Always look on the *what* side of life
  •  0 Bright
K) What is *not* in the chocolate box made by Whizzo Chocolate Company:
  • 8 - Crunchy Frog
  • 5 - Cockroach Cluster
  • 4 - Vanilla Creme
  • 9 - Anthrax Ripple
  • 7 - Spring Surprise
L) In "How to feed a goldfish" the fish gets:
  • 5 - Gazpacho soup then some sausages with spring greens, sauteed potatoes and bread and gravy
  • 0 - Ants eggs
M) Which is a Python quote:
  • 5 - "Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government"
  • 6 - "My hovercraft is full of eels"
  • 8 - "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow"
  • 7 - "You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down at the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week"
  • 0 - "You see, our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful. And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in chartered accountancy they are a positive boon."
  • 9 - All of the above
N) Which is not a Python quote:
  • 9 - "You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity"
  • 4 - "And this week on 'How to do it' we're going to show you how to play the flute, how to split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, how to irrigate the Sahara Desert and make vast new areas of land cultivatable, but first, here's Jackie to tell you all how to rid the world of disease"
  • 3 - "Igor, would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?"
  • 6 - "I'll bite your kneecaps off"
P) Which is not a Python quote:
  • 7 - "I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers"
  • 0 - "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
  • 6 - "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?"
  • 2 - "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear..."
  • 1 - "Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour?"
Q) Where did the following quote originate: "All right ... all right ... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what HAVE the Romans ever done for US?"
  • 1 - Life of Brian
  • 9 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • 8 - The Monty Python TV episodes.

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Found it 06/26/2019 By GotYour6
Caching our way to the puzzle event in Northglenn with FayColSalTom. Solved and finally made it to the area. Thanks for placing this cache for us to find.

Found it 06/26/2019 By FayColSalTom
Needed a little help from GotYour6 to finish this up. Embarrassing as I am the Brit who grew up with Monty Python.

Found it 03/27/2019 By oz8118
I found this one after the puzzlers event tonight. I solved this puzzle a month ago, but since I was in the area tonight I decided to finally get my smiley! I made a quick grab with the cache hiding out in the first location I looked.
Thanks for another fun puzzle sleuthers. I love The Holy Grail movie, but never had the chance to view and/or research their other material until this cache. I always mistakenly call them Mighty Python -maybe now I will get that right too!
Cheers, keep calm and cache on!

Found it 01/10/2019 By lasouthpaw
I had to pick up some stuff at a nearby place for work and decided to grab a puzzle. I've started to work more puzzles, and then it seems hard to find the time to stop by and grab the final. I was super happy when I clicked on the puzzle that this one was about Monty and not about snakes. I love the machine that goes ping! This one had me going for a little bit, I wound up scrolling back through logs and saw a note by the CO. Had the log in hand soon after - whew! Everything is in good shape here and thanks for the smiley! Find #3129.

Write note 12/23/2018 By Gate Keeper
I'm in the process of solving as many geoarts and Puzzles in the Texas area and some neighboring states.I'm leaning to start in Colorado Springs and travel thru Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and finally Texas and take about 10 days doing so. My main focus would be to sign the oldest caches in each state as I'm very close to finishing my Jasmir and something I would like to complete this year. Anything else I sign on this adventure is just another bonus in my books.You Never Know Where The Road Will Take You or who you will meet on your path. The hard part for some is actually getting on the road. I’m not afraid of the road; I play on the road!

Found it 08/28/2018 By Edwards654
Is a great day when you can solve and find a sleuther's geocache. Tftc

Found it 04/15/2018 By sneezlepuss
Found with @lindholc. Thanks for the cache.

Found it 04/15/2018 By lindholc
Found with @sneezlepuss. Thanks for hiding this cache.

Found it 04/14/2018 By Kroozer
Found with no problems and was replacing when a huge truck pulled up and two guys got out and headed toward the closest restaurant without giving me a glance. Must have been really hungry! Thanks for the cache!

Found it 03/25/2018 By grizzlycacher
Nice shrubbery, Roger. I feel proud that I only need to look up one answer!

Found it 02/13/2018 By dustyriver
Fun puzzle and find with BriGuy - Thanks for the adventure - = Best Wishes, DustyRiver / Terry