On Monday, October 31, 2005 at 1:13 AM EST Welcome to this week’s edition of the Armpit wrestling quiz. For some reason, I've been surrounded by Ric Flair lately. I read his book for the second time, listened to this appearance on Wrestling Observer Live from 1999, and watched the Ultimate Ric Flair collection again. All these things happening at once was not planned, I swear. But since it happened that way, what better time than now to do a quiz on "Ric Flair?"
Speaking of Flair, I want to commend HHH on just how brilliantly he conducted another burial with so few people recognizing it. Imagine you are Carlito, and after a lifetime of watching your father wrestle Ric Flair, you are now programmed against the Man himself in an exciting feud over the IC title. You run a couple hot angles with him on Raw, have him on your talk show, and wrestle him on PPV and Raw. Instead of getting a rematch and continuing a feud that could make your career, your boss' daughter's husband decides to come back to television and bring your dream feud to a screeching halt. Within days, you're in a lame battle royal putting over a stale guy who has been on top for 7 years: Kane. I'd be pissed, and Carlito probably is pissed, but he can't do anything about it. HHH buries another, and once again hogs the spotlight as he grooms himself for the inevitable Cena feud and title change. Last week I called Nash a genius, but HHH is right there with him. Since they talk once a week on the phone, do they trade ideas on how to do stuff like this? Simply amazing. They're both no Hogan, but they're close.
Let's get to the quiz. Last week's winner: Tiago Lopes, plugging www.wrestlingpt.com - the first Portuguese Wrestling site.
Last week's answers: (Click here) for last week's questions.
Answer #1
-The WBF supplement was Icopro. I always find it funny when you watch wrestling shows like ECW and TNA (on FSN) and the only commercials are for products put out by the wrestling promotion. That's a sign that advertisers want nothing to do with you. So guess what all the WBF commercials were for? Icopro.
Answer #2
-The WWF dessert product was ice cream bars. I'm told they still sell them in ice cream trucks today. I just hope they're new and haven't been sitting there frozen for 18 years.
Answer #3
-I'm not going to sit here and list every song from the Piledriver album. All of you got this one correct.
Answer #4
-IWA is/was the Imaginary Wrestling Association. They are STILL around, believe it or not.
Answer #5
-Randy Savage was the one who made shoot comments on Hogan on Radio WWF.
Answer #6
-WCW Slam Jam was an album of WCW entrance music from 1992. I'm sorry, it was horrid. Rick Steamboat's song talked about him being a family man who loved his wife and kids. Dustin Rhodes' song was even worse. Sting's was OK. The Freebirds? The man who wrote "Badstreet USA" came up with that??
Answer #7
-The MUSCLE Things were pink/flesh colored. They had other colors later on, which I didn't know until you guys told me.
Answer #8
-True, the Hulkamania Workout Set existed. I might've even purchased one myself. Okay, I did. Don't tell anyone.
Answer #9
-Rick Martel's cologne was called Arrogance.
Answer #10
-Badstreet was in Atlanta, G-A. Baddest street in the whole USA. I guess Hayes never walked through downtown Oakland.
Here are this week's questions. Please email your answers to Quiz@ArmpitWrestling.com. The first person to get all the correct answers to me will be declared the winner and have his/her name listed next week along with anything he/she wants to plug. Remember, once you win, you cannot win again for 3 more weeks.
Question #1
True or False: Ric Flair was raised by his natural, biological parents.
Question #2
Young Ric Flair was not sharp in school. You could say that makes him even more cool than he already is. Being a school flunkie is only cool if you make a great living doing something /*, like a rock star. Otherwise it's pathetic. So yes, that makes Ric Flair cool. It got so bad that Ric was sent to a special school that would whip him into shape. All it did was make him sleep with even more women than he already was. Which of the following describes Ric's upbringing in Minnesota:
A. Poor and destitute.
B. Mega rich. We're talking silver spoons here.
C. Higher than middle class, but definitely not super rich.
Question #3
The man largely responsible for making sure Flair never quit wrestling is the same man who is almost universally disliked in wrestling: Verne Gagne. After Flair left the AWA, Verne wanted him to sign a contract that would give Verne a significant percentage of his earnings for the rest of his career. The naive, gullible Flair almost signed it, but thankfully was warned against it. What territory did Flair work in after the AWA? This is not a trick question. It's basically the territory he first made his name in during the mid and late 1970s. If you don't know the territory's name, then just name a state it regularly ran shows in.
Question #4
A very famous angle is when Ric Flair was in the ring with models, and Rick Steamboat came out and beat him up, ripping Flair's suit to shreds. It worked well enough in the 70s that they tried it again in 1989. In the 1970s angle, what is notable about one of the models (Bonnie) Flair was with? Specifically, it's notable because this fact is somehow related to Rick Steamboat? What does one of those blond models have to do with Steamboat?
Question #5
The 4 Horsemen, and their exploits outside the ring, are legendary. What wrestler (also a Horseman) came up with the name "The 4 Horsemen?"
Question #6
Which one of these little known facts is NOT true?
A. Ric Flair was the paperboy for "Mad Dog" Vachon when he was a kid
B. Flair's father (a doctor) "delivered" several notable babies, including former WCW employee Gary Juster
C. Flair's roommate in college was Bill Goldberg's older brother
D. Flair is 100% Native American
E. Flair (while breaking into the business) once went on a trip to Japan with Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdock in which he basically carried their bags and acted like their lackey
F. Flair's opening line to his future wife at a bar was, "Love of my life!"
G. When Flair invited his parents to his first NWA title win in 1981, the business was so "protected" at the time that he couldn't even tell them that he was winning the title that night
H. Flair once rode on a train for 5 hours with former President George Bush Sr, talking about politics and sports.
Question #7
When Flair won the WWF title at the 1992 Royal Rumble, what number did he draw in the Rumble? Hint: He was one of the first 5 entrants. Was he the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth?
Question #8
When Flair left for WCW in 1993, he first had to lose a "loser leaves WWF" match on Raw. And he did just that. Whom did he lose to?
Question #9
"Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeene, whooooooooooo, by God, Gene!!" "Woman, won't ya marry me!" Flair's interviews in the Nitro glory days were tremendous, even though the company still treated him poorly. One of the best was Flair's return to Greenville, SC in the Fall of 1998, to one of the biggest pops of all time. Dressed in a tuxedo, it was Flair's return to WCW after many months. Why was he gone for so many months?
Question #10
10. On the Ultimate Ric Flair Collection DVD set, there's footage of Flair after a somewhat recent Raw match in Greenville, SC. To Ric's surprise, the WWE staff backstage all came to the ring and threw a party for him. Ric was shocked and started crying like a baby. This never aired on Raw. To Ric, it really was a victory for him because he had never been treated with such respect in his entire career with guys like Jim Herd, Eric Bischoff, and Dusty Rhodes always trying to humiliate him. Whom did Flair wrestle in that Greenville match? Hint: Read the end of Flair's book for the answer.
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