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Weekly Quiz

"Memorable Vignettes"

October 1, 2007

Welcome to The Armpit wrestling quiz for the week of October 1, 2007.  The WWE hype machine is running, and all signs point to the return of Chris Jericho.  This week’s quiz will examine similar hype jobs from the past, and we’re calling it “Memorable Vignettes."

Last week's answers:

-Cheryl Roberts slapped “Ravishing” Rick Rude.  WWE missed out by not marketing Cheryl more back then.

-Shelton Benjamin’s mama was played by Thea Vidale.

-Torrie Wilson’s father, Al, was the one who WWE made a regular performer on SmackDown.

-Ric Flair wrestled Vader at Starrcade ’93, with his family in tow.

-Beyond the Mat captured Mick Foley’s match with Rock at Royal Rumble ’99.

Here are this week's questions.  Remember, the new rules are that you no longer need to submit your questions, and no winners will be declared.  We're just doing this for fun and to honor the forgotten world of wrestling history.

1. With a massive new audience on the heels of the monstrously successful WrestleMania III, the WWF introduced a new potential headliner with a series of vignettes in which all the managers were bidding for his services.  It was a great buildup, but the end result didn’t click because the wrestler was better served as a heel, and the winning manager (Sir Oliver Humperdink) just didn’t fit with him.  Who was this wrestler?

2.  Curt Hennig, fresh off a title run with the AWA, was another late 80s newcomer to the WWF.  His vignettes became famous over the years, especially after Hennig passed away and WWE would replay them when Curt was inducted into the Hall of Fame.  Name the famous baseball player who participated in one of these vignettes.

3.  This vignette wasn’t filmed to debut a new wrestler, but to hype a tag team main event.  This video was also legendary… for being awful.  It featured Davey Boy Smith sprinting on the beach, and a boat blowing up.  Name the PPV (and year) this video was hyping.

4.  In some of the funniest vignettes ever, the WWF film crew supposedly flew to Mexico in 1991 to visit the house Tito “El Matador” Santana grew up in.  Tito was in a feud with a wrestler at the time who made fun of the “slums” Tito grew up in, even kicking some homeless man (whom Bobby Heenan later joked was the Mayor of Tecula, Mexico) who was in front of the house.  This heel took particular joy in visiting the poor neighborhoods and laughing at the less fortunate.  Name the wrestler who did this vignette.

5.  Shortly before his death, Brian Pillman filmed some funny vignettes in a hotel room with what wrestler’s then-wife? 

Answers will be posted next week.

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