What is the institutional birthdate of comedy?
A. 205 B.C.
B. 112 A.D.
C. Yesterday
D. 486 B.C.
What is D. 486 B.C.
100
What makes a surprise possible?
A. A Surprise Party
B. Suspense
C. Established Routine
D. Incongruity
What is C. Established Routine
100
What does the “slave” remind us?
A. We are all laughable creatures
B. We suck
C. We are unaware of our past
D. We are modern
What is A. We are all laughable creatures
100
Who was drawn to comic relief as the comedy of relief?
A. Tine Fey
B. Flann O'brien
C. Coulton Dangerfield
D. Aristotle
What is B. Flann O'brien
100
Although comedy is very vocal it is also very _____?
A. Psychological
B. Mental
C. Spiritual
D. Physical
What is D. Physical
200
What can make us feel as though the joke is on us?
A. Happiness
B. Tragedy
C. Comedy
D. Sadness
What is C. Comedy
200
According to Henri Bergson the secret of comedy is what?
A. Predictability
B. Delivery
C. Actions/Gestures
D. Understanding
What is A. Predictability
200
What do fools provide?
A. Jokes, laughs, fun, unvarnished truth
B. Sadness
C. Issues
D. Wasted Time
What is A. Jokes, laughs, fun, unvarnished truth
200
Who coined the term laughtears?
A. Joyce
B. Charlie Chaplin
C. Zac Galifinakis
D. Will Ferrell
What is A. Joyce
200
All of these are necessary for punchlines and plotlines except:
A. Timing
B. Surprise
C. Rhythm/Structure
D. Actions/Gestures
What is D. Actions/Gestures
300
Francis Cornford said that comedy descends from what?
A. Aristotle
B. Dionysian and Phallic rituals
C. The Bible
D. Tragedy
What is B. Dionysian and Phallic rituals
300
According to A.P. Herbert the essence of humor is what?
A. Calmness
B. Surprise
C. Composure
D. Expectation
What is B. Surprise
300
Ferenczi says that, “Behind every laughing at there is a concealed unconscious laughing”. Why is that?
A. Our unconscious is knowledgeable
B. We envy the objects of our laughter
C. Our unconscious is funny
D. We're love the objects of our laughter
What is B. We envy the objects of our laughter
300
Plautus coined the word _____?
A. Lawlz
B. Funny
C. Tragicomedy
D. Tripartite
What is C. Tragicomedy
300
Who's famous last words were, "Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!"
A. Groucho Marx
B. Buster Keaton
C. Corwin Aragon
D. Aristotle
What is A. Groucho Marx
400
Does comedy sometimes imply that the world will become the world we want?
A. Yes
B. No
What is A. Yes
400
What rhythm/structure usually emerges with jokes?
A. Dipartite
B. Monopartite
C. Quadripartite
D. Tripartite
What is D. Tripartite
400
What is the modern example of a fool?
A. An actor
B. Andrew
C. Stand-up comedian
D. An amateur
What is C. Stand-up comedian
400
What analogy does Stephen Daedalus make about the feeling of comedy?
A. Being on top of the world
B. Breaking down walls
C. Hugging your mom
D. Digging yourself out of a hole
What is D. Digging yourself out of a hole
400
Who is one of the most famous comedic silent film actors?
A. Philip French
B. Charlie Chaplin
C. Max Linder
D. Lillian Gish
What is B. Charlie Chaplin
500
Comedy frequently involves a play between physical and ______?
A. Cognitive Perspectives
B. Emotional Perspectives
C. Spiritual Perspectives
D. Moral Perspectives
What is A. Cognitive Perspectives
500
Comedy has a passion for?
A. Behavior
B. Benefit
C. Aid
D. Mischief
What is D. Mischief
500
What did Aristotle suggest a joke was?
A. A good deed
B. A crime
C. A kind of abuse
D. Obedience
What is C. A kind of abuse
500
Horace Walpole said, "The world is a comedy to those, that _____, and a tragedy to those that _____".
A. laugh, cry
B. think, feel
C. smile, frown
D. dance, pout
What is B. think, feel
500
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to do what, according to George Orwell?
A. Help him
B. Make him feel good
C. Remind him he is loved
D. Remind him he is already degraded