WHO?
NAME the following
What gay comedian
1 Had a wonderdog called Fanny
and likes a warm hand on his entrance
2 Had a friend called Everard and requested people to close doors
3 Did things in the best possible taste
4 Asked his audience not to laugh ... or at least ... titter ye not
Starred in Up Pompeii and sometimes Carry On films
5 Was free and worked with a woman famous for her pussy
6 Plays the only gay in the village
7 A lesbian who won Wimbledon 9 times
Julian Clary
Larry Grayson
Kenny Everett
Frankie Howerd
John Inman
Matt Lucas
Martina
Navratilova
8 A black gay footballer who played for Nottingham Forest
Justin Fashanu
9 The East Enders actress who plays Pat Butcher
Pam St Clements
10 East Enders actor who went on to become a Labour MEP
Michael Cashman
11 The last person to be prosecuted for blasphemous libel
Dennis Lemmon
the editor of Gay news
had citric connections (Was it Dennis Lime, Lemon, Orange, Jaffa, Satsuma)
12 An actor who might be described as Sir Gandalf
played Widow Twanky, appeared in Coronation Street
Sir Ian McKellen
13 Who was the Naked Civil Servant
did he work for Walkers?
Quentin Crisp
14 English comedian and writer
Stephen Fry
Notoriously intelligent, partnered Hugh Laurie in Jeeves and Wooster
Wrote novels called The Hippopotamus, the liar, the stars tennis balls
Chairs the quiz QI
15 The English lesbian composer who was arrested and conducted from the windows
of Holloway Prison using a toothbrush
Dame Ethel Smyth
16 American writer of musicals
wrote Sweeney Todd, A little Night Music
Stephen Sondheim
17 An American lesbian actress who was as pure as the driven slush
was it Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Harlow,
Tallulah Bankhead
18. When did the first Gay switchboard open in this country
1972, 1973, 1974, 1975
1974
19. What year was the sexual offences act passed which decriminalised sexual acts
between consenting males adults in Private
1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
1967
20. When did Freddie Mercury die
1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
1991
etc etc etc
21. When did the Conservative government lower the age of consent for gay men to
18?
1991,2,3,4
1994
22. What is the maximum sentence for homosexuality in India?
A) A slap on the wrist b) 1 week of watching non-stop Match of the Day c) 48 hours
exposure on a high mountain without moisturising lotion d) Life imprisonment
Life imprisonment
23. What was the first day on which Civ Reg of partnerships could take place in the
England?
(Not counting special arrangements for people who were ill)
2005 Dec 20th, 21st, 22nd,23rd,24th
Dec 21st
24. According to lesbian novelist Jeanette Winterson, what fruit is not the only fruit?
Oranges/Bananas/Strawberries/Peaches/Apples
Oranges
PARTNERS
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26
27
28
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My name’s Julian and this is my friend ..
Elton John and
Oscar Wilde and
Benjamin Britten and
Gertrude Stein
Sandy
David Furnish
Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas)
Peter Pears
Alice B. Toklas
TRUE OR FALSE
30. There is a town called Gays in Massachusetts
(False - it’s in Illinois)
31. There is a town called Dildo in Newfoundland
(True)
32. Cardinal Francis Spellmann, who supported the witch-hunts against homosexuals in
1950s USA, had a fondness for Broadway chorus boys and was known to his friends as
“Thelma”.
(True)
Strange but true
33 In the 19th century sexologist Magnus Hirschfield said that if you throw a ball to a
seated homosexual, he will open his legs to catch it. What will a lesbian do?
A) Close her legs B) Send a cat to pick it up c) Nurture it
A) Close her legs
34 In the 19th c, Ambroise Tardieu said that homosexuals could be distinguished by the
fact that their penis
a) curved downwards
b) curved to the right
c) curved to the left
d) was shaped like a corkscrew
was shaped like a corkscrew
35 After the age of consent was lowered to 16, what event was described by the
Moreton Christian association as God’s punishment of the UK in 2001
A) Foot & Mouth Disease B) MRSA
rises
C) The re-election of Tony Blair
D) Oil price
Foot & Mouth Disease
36 Yeoman of the Pantries, the Maid to the Coffee Room and the Page of the
Backpassage were amongst the servants made redundant when which Royal died?
A) The Queen Mother b) Princess Margaret c) Princess Diana d) King Kong
Princess Margaret
37 The dildo used in the 1968 murder of gay actor Ramon Navarro originally belonged
to
a) Mae West b) Bette Davis c) John Wayne d) Rudolph Valentino e) Lassie
Rudolph Valentino
Films are a drag
38 The Hollywood remake of La Cage aux Folles was called
the birdcage
39 What actor played Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman
40 What actor played Mrs Doubtfire
Robin Williams
41 Name one of the actors who dressed in drag in the film “Some Like it Hot”
Lemmon/Curtis
42 Complete the title ....... who was Queen of the Desert?
Priscilla
Definitions
43 What did GLF stand for?
Gay Liberation Front
What profession was
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someone who worked at a fang carsey
45
someone who was called Betty Bracelets
46
someone who was called a crimper
Dentist
Policeman
Hairdresser
In Polari (how bona to vade your dolly old eke)
47
eke
48
vade
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Riah
Face
see
Hair
Miscellaneous
50. Dame Edna Everage claims to have started out as a housewife in which Australian
city?
A) Sydney B) Perth C) Adelaide D) Melbourne E) Canberra
Melbourne
51. Where in the USA (ie what city) did the Stonewall riots take place?
A) San Francisco B) Chicago C) New York
D) Boston
E) Los Angeles
New York
52. What was the name of the 1950s report which led to the 1967 sexual offences act?
A) The Beveridge Report B) the Wolfenden Report C) Scarman Report
D) The McPherson Report E) The Llandewi Breffi Report
the Wolfenden Report
53. Recent film biography of Cole Porter starring kevin Kline was called
.delovely
54. Who wrote the “Tales of the City” novels about gay life in SF?
Armistead Maupin
55. A bisexual woman who won Wimbledon 6 times in 60s/70s
Billie-Jean King
56 What was the name of the closeted gay director of the FBI who carried out witch
hunts against gay men in the USA
J Edgar Hoover
57 In which play by Joe Orton is a young man seduced by a middle aged woman and
also by her brother?
What the butler saw/Entertaining Mr Sloane/Loot/The ruffian on the stair
Entertaining Mr Sloane
58. Name 1 of the gay Cambridge spies who sold secrets to the Russians in the 1950s
Burgess, Maclean, Vassall, Blunt
59 Who won an Oscar for playing a gay man dying from AIDS in the film Philadelphia?
Tom Hanks
60. In the dictionary of gay slang
sex which involves licking all parts of the body in a set order
is called A) Italian sex B) Australian sex C) Polish Sex D) New Zealand Sex E) Chinese
sex
Australian sex