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Q 01What is Homer Simpson's most famous catchphrase?
D'oh!
D'oh! was added to the online Oxford English Dictionary in June 2001, turning Homer's cry of frustration into an official word of the English language.
Q 02In 'The Principal and the Pauper', Springfield's principal is exposed as an impostor named what?
Armin Tamzarian
Armin Tamzarian had taken his missing sergeant's name; the town preferred the impostor, and a judge ruled that nobody may mention the affair again, under penalty of torture.
Q 03Under what name does Homer Simpson run a snow-clearing business, advertised with his own TV jingle?
Mr. Plow
Mr. Plow thrives until a friend sets up as the rival Plow King, with a slicker advert sung by Linda Ronstadt, and takes all of Homer's customers.
Q 04The Simpsons first appeared as shorts on what variety television program?
The Tracey Ullman Show
The Tracey Ullman Show's star later sued Fox for a share of the cartoon's merchandising profits, arguing her series had launched it; the courts turned her down.
Q 05What is Bart Simpson's full first name?
Bartholomew
Bartholomew is the full form; the creator gave the rest of the family his own relatives' names but chose 'Bart', an anagram of 'brat', for the troublemaking son.
Q 06What musical instrument does Lisa Simpson famously play?
Saxophone
Saxophone, and a baritone one: in 'Lisa's Sax', Homer gives up the $200 he had saved for an air conditioner to buy her first instrument.
Q 07What is the name of the bar where Homer Simpson is a regular?
Moe's Tavern
Moe's Tavern's prank calls echo the Tube Bar tapes, on which two pranksters goaded a Jersey City barman into furious tirades; the show's creator has admitted to being a fan of such tapes.
Q 08Which poem does the first 'Treehouse of Horror' retell?
The Raven
The Raven is read by James Earl Jones, with Bart as the bird taunting Homer's grieving scholar and Marge as the lost Lenore; Edgar Allan Poe shares the on-screen writing credit.
Q 09The Simpsons has a long-running joke about never revealing which fact about Springfield?
Which state it is in
Which state it is in is left vague on purpose, so 'everyone will think it's their Springfield'; real Springfields competed to host the 2007 film's premiere, and Vermont's won.
Q 10Who is credited as the creator of the animated sitcom *The Simpsons*?
Matt Groening
Matt Groening's parents were Homer and Margaret, his sisters Lisa and Maggie; Bart is an anagram of 'brat'. The shorts began in 1987 and the series in 1989.
Q 11Homer's best-known exclamation was borrowed from an actor in which comedy duo's films?
Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy's regular foil Jimmy Finlayson drew the sound out as a polite stand-in for 'damn'; Homer's actor borrowed it, then clipped it short when asked to say it faster.
Q 12Which 1987 short, the Simpsons' first screen appearance, shows Homer and Marge putting the children to bed?
Good Night
'Good Night' ends badly: 'don't let the bed bugs bite' terrifies Lisa and a lullaby about a falling cradle frightens the baby, so all three children pile into their parents' bed.
Q 13Which jazz musician does Lisa Simpson regard as her idol?
Bleeding Gums Murphy
Q 21What is the name of the Springfield convenience store run by Apu and his brother Sanjay?
Kwik-E-Mart
Kwik-E-Mart became real in July 2007, when 7-Eleven converted some of its stores in the United States and one in Canada to promote The Simpsons Movie.
Q 22Who voices Bart Simpson?
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright went in to read for Lisa, decided at the audition that Bart was the more interesting part, and was given the role on the spot.
Q 23Krusty the Clown's father disowned him for going into comedy instead of following him into which profession?
Rabbi
Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky was voiced by Jackie Mason, a comedian who had been a rabbi himself; Bart and Lisa reunite father and son in 'Like Father, Like Clown'.
Bleeding Gums Murphy says he earned the nickname by never seeing a dentist; when he dies in ''Round Springfield', Bart spends his $500 on the rare album Lisa wants played in tribute.
Q 14Who is the Simpsons' relentlessly cheerful, devout next-door neighbour, whose 'Hi-diddly-ho' Homer cannot stand?
Ned Flanders
Ned Flanders' piety grew so exaggerated that 'Flanderization' became the word for inflating one trait until it defines a character; he runs the Leftorium.
Q 15Duff Beer's caped spokesman is a parody of the superhero mascot of which real beer brand?
Budweiser
Budweiser's Bud Man is the model, and the show treats the role as a job: the mascot, he boasts, 'can never die, only the actors who play him'.
Q 16What stage direction do Simpsons scripts use for Homer's best-known exclamation?
(annoyed grunt)
(annoyed grunt) is all the scripts say, which left the sound itself to the actor; several episode titles keep the joke, among them 'E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)'.
Q 17What is the name of the Simpson family's pet dog?
Santa's Little Helper
Santa's Little Helper was abandoned by his owner at Christmas; Bart begged Homer to keep him, and the dog rescued a holiday on which Homer had no bonus to spend on presents.
Q 18Who provides the voice for Homer Simpson?
Dan Castellaneta
Dan Castellaneta won his first Emmy as Homer in 1992, for 'Lisa's Pony'; by then he had dropped the voice lower than in the early shorts so that Homer could show more feeling.
Q 19What is Principal Skinner's first name?
Seymour
Seymour Skinner is a former Green Beret who was held prisoner in Vietnam, yet he still jumps to obey his mother Agnes and Superintendent Chalmers.
Q 20What kind of mutant creature does Bart catch downstream of Springfield's nuclear power plant?
A three-eyed fish
A three-eyed fish, nicknamed Blinky, sinks Mr. Burns's run for governor: Marge serves him one at a televised dinner and he cannot help spitting it out.
Q 24Who is Bart Simpson's best friend?
Milhouse Van Houten
Milhouse Van Houten, Bart's bespectacled best friend, nurses a hopeless crush on Lisa; 'Everything's coming up Milhouse' marks his one moment of luck.
Q 25What is Groundskeeper Willie's nationality?
Scottish
Scottish and scornful: made to teach French in a 1995 episode, Willie greets the class as 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys', a jibe American pundits revived during the Iraq War.
Q 26Which barfly, one of Homer's best friends, is known for his thunderous belch?
Barney Gumble
Barney Gumble was modelled on Barney Rubble: first planned as Homer's next-door sidekick, he became the town drunk when the writers made the sitcom pal 'as pathetic as possible'.
Q 27Sideshow Bob first went to prison for framing his boss Krusty for what crime?
Armed robbery
Armed robbery of a convenience store was the charge; Bart cracked the case on seeing that the robber yelped when his feet were trodden on, while Krusty's own feet are tiny.
Q 28Who composed the iconic theme music for The Simpsons?
Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman, better known for film scores, wrote the theme in 1989 and has called it the most popular piece of his career.
Q 29Which ultra-violent cartoon-within-a-cartoon do Bart and Lisa watch on Krusty's programme?
Itchy & Scratchy
Itchy & Scratchy reverses Tom and Jerry: Itchy the mouse gruesomely murders Scratchy the cat in the shorts shown on Krusty's show.
Q 30What is the name of the mascot for Duff Beer?
Duffman
Duffman's 'Oh, yeah!' comes from the Yello song 'Oh Yeah', which advertisers wore out after Ferris Bueller's Day Off made it a hit; it plays whenever he arrives.