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The Illustrated Guide to I Spy
 The Culp Quiz
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IT'S THE ROBERT CULP QUIZ
reprinted with the kind permission of the author
S. J. Dibai
(This quiz originally appeared in S. J. Dibai's HOUSE OF I SPY in August 2001)
After you've completed the quiz, be sure and visit
the HOUSE OF I SPY
 On Thursday, August 16, 2001, the great ROBERT CULP turned 71 years old! And, as part of its I SPY DVD series, Image Entertainment issued a special CULP COLLECTION in the fall! In honor of all this, why not have a special quiz devoted to the one, the only..........ROBERT CULP!
STOOOOOPID QUESTIONS
As always, we'll start with some stupid questions just to move you beyond the point of transmarginal inhibition--or whatever the term is that psychologists use. These are worth one point apiece.
1. What were the names of Robert Culp's parents?
a) Lucy and Desi
b) Apu and Manjula
c) Reza and Fatimeh
d) I don't know. Mr. and Mrs. Culp?
2. Robert Culp wrote seven out of the eighty-two aired episodes of I SPY. That means that he wrote what fraction of the series' episodes?
a) 22/7
b) 1/98
c) 3/4
d) 7/82
3. What was the name of the TV series in which Robert Culp and Bill Cosby starred as American agents?
a) SJ, your stupid questions are just getting worse and worse each time.
b) Maybe SJ should stop doing these stupid questions.
c) These stupid questions are fun, no matter how bad they are.
d) None of the above.
4. Robert Culp is a very talented guy.
a) That's not a question, dummy.
5. How many Robert Culp websites are there?
a) Not enough.
b) Fewer than there should be.
c) A paltry number.
d) A couple, but we could use more.
Now, time for some Kelly Kwestions, I mean Questions. How much do YOU know about the character that Robert Culp made famous? (Seven points each.)
6. In the episode "One Thousand Fine," an American government plane loaded with gold has crash landed in Mexico, and Kelly has to get his friend (and the plane's pilot) Jack Gannon to remember where he left the plane. But something involving Kelly's past sees to it that Gannon turns against his old buddy, and thus, his country......what is it?
7. Kelly has a nasty episode........he gets his arms and legs stretched out by the enemy.....a host sends him into a ring so that a bull can run after him......and he punches his superior out in the end! What a psychological drama! Name this episode.
8. In the episode "It's All Done With Mirrors," why does Kelly keep trying to kill Scotty????
9. Oh, true love is so hard to find, especially when you're a spy. Kelly proved this abundantly in Japan, even beating up Scotty to make it to a date with the woman he loved, and if you have a "photographic" memory you can tell me that the name of this episode was.......
10. In the TV reunion movie I SPY Returns, Scotty expressed concern that Kelly's son may have inherited his father's "horniness genes." So is it any wonder that Kelly had a hard time proving he didn't do this in the episode "Red Sash of Courage"?
So far, you could have earned forty points. Now, let's test your knowledge of the episodes that will be on the CULP COLLECTION--that is, the episodes that Robert Culp wrote! (Seven points each.)
11. Kelly's on again, off again girlfriend, Sam McClean, shows up in which two episodes? If you name only one episode, you'll get three and a half points!
12. Scotty tries to save an overworked lounge singer from being the pawn of an international drug dealer. Name the episode.
13. Who is the enemy in the episode "Home To Judgment"?
14. In which episode were "musical chairs" used as a recurring motif?
15. What does Kelly put in his (and Scotty's) sandwiches in "Court of the Lion"?
Now you can have a total of seventy-five points. Let's wrap things up with some random Culp trivia! (Five points each.)
16. In 1999, Culp appeared on the fourth season premiere of Cosby. What was his character's name?
17. Culp has been in many movies, but this 1969 classic (which I keep forgetting to rent!) is probably his most well known.
18. Culp had a talking hand.....and he was turned into a monster.......and he was tortured by evil alien rocks that only he could hear.......all of this happened on what 1960s sci-fi series?
19. Watch out, Walker! Culp portrayed a Texas Ranger on this 1959-61 western.
20. On what current TV series does Culp have a recurring role as the main character's father-in-law?
ANSWER TIME!
Once again, I will not give the answers to the first section......
6. Gannon's fiancee is the girl that Kelly left to become a spy. When Gannon notices that there's something happening between them, he goes psycho and ends up getting killed himself. It's a clever plot twist, actually.
7. "A Room With A Rack"--NOT "A Rome With A Rack," as some episode guides would have you believe. Unusual episode, especially because its writer, Michael Zagor, usually wrote episodes that centered around either Scotty or the team--not Kelly. Effective nonetheless.
8. Kelly was hypnotized by a Russian (?!?!?!) scientist to believe that Scotty was a traitor. The scientist was played by the late, great Carroll O'Connor.
9. "Tatia." What else?
10. An old friend accused Kelly of "dishonoring" his daughter in a barn. Hilarious!
11. "The Tiger," and "Magic Mirror." They split up for good in the latter. She was played, by the way, by France Nuyen, Culp's third wife, and frequent I SPY guest star.
12. "The Loser." Ertha Kitt plays the singer in question, and was nominated for an Emmy. Culp wrote this to give Cosby a love interest--some love interest she turned out to be!
13. That's a damn good question. The enemy's identity is never specified. Our boys are at the mercy of these guys, and we don't even know who they are! Brilliance of a man's work!
14. "The Warlord." I'll have a feature on that one before the year is out.
15. Peanut butter, jelly, swiss cheese, and mayonnaise. Mmm, mmm, good.
16. Kelly Robinson! It was an I SPY dream sequence. Though at the beginning of the dream, Hilton Lucas (Cosby's character) seems to greet Robert Culp as if he is meeting--Robert Culp!
17. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. If I ever remember to rent it, I can tell you more about it.
18. The Outer Limits. I would recommend seeing "Demon With A Glass Hand" and "Architects Of Fear." The other one I referred to, "Corpus Earthling," was nothing earth-shattering, but worth seeing if you like Culp. These are all available on video.
19. Trackdown. Culp hated it, but, hey, it was a steady job.
20. Everybody Loves Raymond. And he's great in it!
Of course, you can tally your own score and measure your Culp knowledge--I'm sure that many of you who have full-blown Culpophilia had no difficulty whatsoever with this quiz!
Be on the lookout for the CULP COLLECTION, which contains all seven episodes that Culp wrote, plus audio commentary from the big guy himself!
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