Post Quiz: The Wonderful Marxes
Created | Updated Jan 20, 2019
Post Quiz: The Wonderful Marxes
We all know the old jokes about 'Groucho Marxism'. But can you separate the Marxes from the Marxists? Multiple choice.
- Which of these was not one of Groucho's brothers?
- Chico
- Gummo
- Zeppo
- Bruno
- Minnie Marx was the Marx Brothers' mother, but who was her brother?
- George M Cohan
- Al Shean
- Karl Marx
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Speaking of Minnie Marx, what was her mother's claim to fame?
- She played the piano in the nude.
- She worked with a trained seal.
- She was a highwire bicyclist.
- She was a yodeling harpist.
- Groucho's great-nephew has been in what movies?
- Star Wars
- National Lampoon
- Bad News Bears
- Ghostbusters
- Eleanor and Laura Marx were daughters of Karl. What did they have in common?
- They both committed suicide.
- They both became actresses.
- They both became Buddhists.
- They both opposed socialism.
- What is Malcolm Justin Marx's profession?
- Lawyer
- Socialist member of parliament
- Rugby player
- Stand-up comic
- What is remarkable about Bernard Marx?
- He's a Russian oligarch.
- He wrote 42 hit songs.
- He invented the player piano.
- He's a fictional character in a science fiction novel.
- Who was Friedrich Heinrich Adolf Bernhard Marx friends with?
- Leon Trotsky
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Friedrich Engels
- Louis Marx, the 'Henry Ford of the toy industry', was not related to either Karl or Groucho. What was his wife's maiden name?
- Engels
- Hasenpfeffer
- Blackadder
- Washington
- If you win the Erwin Marx Award, what is your profession?
- Comedy writer
- Social activist
- Composer
- Engineer.
They certainly made their marks on the world. Click the cigar for answers.
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