# 🤠 Blazing Saddles Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. Who directed *Blazing Saddles*?  
**Answer:** Mel Brooks  
**Taglines:**  
- Master of chaos and cross-dressing governors  
- Jewish cowboy chaos commander  
- The man who put “Oy vey!” in “Yeehaw!”  
- Mel Brooks: equal-opportunity offender  
- Rode into Hollywood with a joke-loaded shotgun  

### 2. Who played the Black sheriff, Bart, in *Blazing Saddles*?  
**Answer:** Cleavon Little  
**Taglines:**  
- Cool, calm, and full of comebacks  
- Sheriff of sass and side-eyes  
- Outwitting racists since ‘74  
- The smoothest man in Rock Ridge  
- Better aim, sharper wit, bigger heart  

### 3. Which actor played the drunk gunslinger Jim, aka “The Waco Kid”?  
**Answer:** Gene Wilder  
**Taglines:**  
- Fastest draw, foggiest liver  
- From Willy Wonka to whiskey-slinger  
- Waco but woke  
- The Kid who drank his career  
- Dazed, disillusioned, and deadly  

### 4. What infamous bodily function occurs during the bean-eating scene?  
**Answer:** Farting  
**Taglines:**  
- The soundtrack of the West  
- Beans + cowboys = cinematic gold  
- When highbrow met hindquarters  
- The wind beneath their… everything  
- Smell Brooks strikes again  

### 5. What’s the name of the town where the movie takes place?  
**Answer:** Rock Ridge  
**Taglines:**  
- Every resident: “Johnson”  
- Town of one syllable, many scandals  
- Where satire meets tumbleweed  
- Rock Ridge: now with 100% more chaos  
- Welcome to the town that knew too much  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Mel Brooks played both Governor William J. Lepetomane and ______.  
**Answer:** The Yiddish-speaking Indian Chief  
**Taglines:**  
- Two roles, zero chill  
- Governor by day, tribal parody by night  
- Brooks goes full Brooks  
- Equal parts offensive and unforgettable  
- Cultural whiplash in one man  

### 2. The original title for *Blazing Saddles* was ______.  
**Answer:** Tex-X  
**Taglines:**  
- Because Django wasn’t born yet  
- Before branding consultants got involved  
- Subtle as a punch to the face  
- Tex-X: sounds like a gas station  
- Just one “X,” but still explosive  

### 3. Madeline Kahn’s character, Lili Von Shtupp, is a parody of ______ Dietrich.  
**Answer:** Marlene  
**Taglines:**  
- German accent, sexual exhaustion  
- She’s tired, not retired  
- Marlene got Mel’d  
- A sultry sigh with punchlines  
- “I’m so tired…” and iconic  

### 4. The villain Hedley Lamarr is constantly mistaken for ______.  
**Answer:** Hedy Lamarr  
**Taglines:**  
- Not just a pretty face—also a lawsuit  
- “That’s Hedley!” – every five minutes  
- Hedy was flattered… legally  
- Mel Brooks: legally hilarious  
- The joke that sued back  

### 5. The movie breaks the ______ wall by the end of the film.  
**Answer:** Fourth  
**Taglines:**  
- Theater seats meet saddle seats  
- Meta before it was trendy  
- From Wild West to Warner Bros  
- They broke the movie, literally  
- Plot detour into lunacy  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What genre does *Blazing Saddles* primarily parody?  
A) Horror  
B) Western ✅  
C) Romance  
D) Sci-fi  
**Taglines:**  
- Horse operas, now with sarcasm  
- Saddle up for stereotypes  
- Westworld, but drunk and funnier  
- Yeehaw meets WTF  
- The Wild Wild Jest  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What is the town’s biggest fear in the film?  
A) Earthquakes  
B) Bankruptcy  
C) A Black sheriff ✅  
D) Losing their livestock  
**Taglines:**  
- Racism: the villain with a drawl  
- Fear in Rock Ridge spelled with a “B”  
- Hired help or horror story?  
- Bart enters = brains explode  
- They’re not ready for progress  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What is the name of the villain’s henchman who is “more of a what than a who”?  
A) Mongo ✅  
B) Rango  
C) Tonto  
D) Bongo  
**Taglines:**  
- Mongo only pawn in game of life  
- Horse-punching Hall of Famer  
- Simple man, big fist  
- Gentle giant of chaos  
- Mongo makes entrance, breaks logic  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What did the film initially receive from Warner Bros executives?  
A) Praise  
B) Greenlight  
C) Confusion and near cancellation ✅  
D) Immediate sequel request  
**Taglines:**  
- Too hot for 1974  
- Studio execs: “Wait, what?”  
- Blazing nerves at the boardroom  
- “Cancel this,” said the suits  
- Satire with a warning label  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What musical number appears at the end of the film?  
A) Springtime for Hitler  
B) I’m Tired  
C) The French Mistake ✅  
D) Waco Waltz  
**Taglines:**  
- Tap-dancing into oblivion  
- The cowboys that boogied  
- Musical madness uninvited  
- “The French Mistake”: very, very accurate  
- Gene Kelly is rolling in his saddle
