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Happy
New Year and welcome to the sixth annual “Who Am I?” quiz.
2004 was another year chock full of treasures for all writers. Humankind
fills a deep, freakish well of material, especially in America. Be sure
to check your answers at the bottom to see how you did.
On a balmy Superbowl Sunday
in Houston, Texas, an aging pop-star’s sagging breast was exposed
for all the world to see during the usually lame half-time show. This
incident was initially cited as a wardrobe malfunction. People started
howling and the FCC was besieged with complaints. Shortly after that,
TiVo reported that millions of their subscribers were watching that four-second
clip more than Friends re-runs. How many points were scored (both teams
combined) in the third quarter of this Superbowl?
A) 7
B) 14
C) 0
D) 9
The planet mourns when a guy like me punches out. I made a career out
of the lack of respect I received in this world. I created mountains of
comedy, I tell ya. When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my
mother. And when I started in show business I played one club that was
so far out, my act was reviewed in Field and Stream. Do you know the title
of my first movie?
A) Caddyshack
B) Easy Money
C) The Philanthropist
D) The Projectionist
I turned into the nightmare girlfriend when I became so “needy”
that I staged my own kidnapping to get my boyfriend’s undivided
attention. Hundreds of people searched for me and America prayed for me,
with hope that I would be found safe and secure in my college town of
Madison. I turned up in a marsh a few days after my “disappearance”
but I couldn’t answer some of the questions being asked of me. The
manhunt was reported to have cost about $96,000. The police later obtained
a store video tape that pictured me buying a the very items that I claimed
my abductor used on me: a knife, cold medication, rope and duct tape.
Well, whatever—I’ll see you at the bar on nickel kami night—wanna
dance? I am…
A) Amber Frye
B) Audrey Seiler
C) Ashlee Simpson
D) Anjelica Huston
Rick James, the Super Freak passed on to the great freak jam in the sky.
Those who had to ride to school in their friend’s Mustang every
single day of sophomore year at Scottsdale High, listening to Superfreak
over and over again, found a tinge of relief at James’ passing.
It is possible that others did not. James died of…
A) Exhaustion from a twelve
hour concert
B) Pulmonary failure
C) His spacesuit ran out of oxygen
D) It was just freaky, man
An election year is always full of amazing events that occasionally show
up later in a politician’s autobiography as “a regrettable
incident.” I was standing on stage, shouting all kinds of stuff
I don’t remember—you know, rallying the troops after I just
lost the Iowa Caucus. I mean, I thought we were going to change the world,
man. I thought it would be refreshing if a politician finally showed some
real American character, but apparently everyone else thought I sounded
just a little too much like a drunken roller derby fan. I was essentially
tossed out of the free ride to the Democratic Nomination, sort of like
a drunken teenager who gets thrown out of a movie theater after puking
all over the seats. I am…
A) Gen. Wesley Clark
B) Arnold Schwarzenegger
C) Howard Dean
D) Dick “Night Train” Lane
Sure, we only played three chords. Sure, we leaded every tune with “One
Two Three Four!” Sure, we also changed the face of punk rock. I
don’t know why this writer keeps mentioning dead musicians in each
of these ‘Who Am I?’ columns. Maybe he thinks like most people
who get old: their music was the best music and the new stuff just isn’t
that good. He covered my brother in this same column in 2002, who died
in 2001—which no doubt led to our band being inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. I battled prostate cancer and died at age
55 in September, 2004. I am…
A) John Cummings, aka Johnny
Ramone
B) Mike Muir, aka Suicidal Tendencies
C) Marion Michael Morrison, aka John Wayne
D) Robert Einstein, aka “Super Dave” Osborne
ANSWERS: 1=C, 2=D, 3=B,
4=B (or D, we’ll take that too, man), 5=C, 6=A.
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