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1 Stan & Ollie, a new film about laurel and Hardy, is released on Friday. What made Stan laurel (born arthur Stanley Jefferson) choose his stage name? A. His love of the laurel plant B. A picture of a Roman general wearing a laurel wreath C. His dad served on HMS Laurel D. He picked it from the phone book at random 2 tRUe or false? the duo (right) were responsible for the first custard pie thrown on film. 3 a StUdy claims that, if their films were reality, laurel and Hardy would have
suffered 88 injuries to their . . . what? A. Ears B. Eyes C. Feet D. Backs 4 tHeiR films inspired one of the world’s best-known catchphrases, which features in which of these sitcoms? A. Fawlty Towers B. Seinfeld C. The Simpsons D. Only Fools And Horses 5 tHe pair were not known as laurel and Hardy in every country. Match the name to the correct place: 1. Dick und Doof A. Italy 2. Flip i Flap B. Germany 3. Cric e Croc C. Poland 4. Gog og Gokke D. Denmark 6 in cOckney rhyming slang, laurel and Hardy means a type of . . . what? A. Rum B. Lager C. Whisky D. Gin
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1) B. A picture of a Roman general wearing a laurel wreath Stan had been advised by his partner, Mae Dahlberg, that it was unlucky to have a name with 13 letters (Stan Jefferson).
One night, Mae found an old history book in their dressing room. It fell open on a picture of a Roman general, Scipio, wearing a laurel wreath — and Stan Laurel was born. 2) False the first custard pie thrown on film was in fact hurled by Mabel normand at Fatty arbuckle in a noise From the Deep in 1913. however, Laurel’s home town, Ulverston, in Cumbria, does hold the Guinness World Record for the largest shaving cream pie fight — involving 1,186 participants in 2016. 3) B. Eyes Hardy would have been the main victim, and Laurel’s finger the most common cause, of injury, followed by his fist and water spat from his mouth, according to research by a Dutch ophthalmologist, published in the Scottish Medical Journal. a door handle, a champagne cork and a tree branch were other causes of possible eye trauma. 4) C. The Simpsons Homer Simpson’S catchphrase ‘D’oh!’ came about thanks to voice actor Dan Castellaneta, who based it on the noise made in dozens of Laurel and hardy films by comic actor Jimmy Finlayson — their most common foil. early Simpsons scripts simply called for an ‘annoyed grunt’. 5) 1B, 2C, 3A, 4D 6) A. Rum Laurel and hardy means Bacardi, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang.