Monkey News quiz

1. As Karl said the airline's shares were going through the roof, what did Ricky keep objecting to?
   • Monkeys can't read a flight map
   • The son would need a day off eventually
   • It was only one plane, so it wouldn't make any difference
   • Nobody books holidays during a strike
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   It was only one plane, so it wouldn't make any difference

   Ricky: "On one plane!?" and "Oh, gone under, I'd have thought." Karl: "It's only a small plane, but it's worth getting on there if you can."

   📼 Podcast S1E09 · Jan 2006
2. In Monkey News, the zoo's camcorder was passed around the chimps. Ricky interrupted to say Pascal had won what?
   • A Golden Globe
   • An Emmy
   • An Oscar
   • A Bafta
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   A Bafta

   Karl: the keepers said "let's leave it for the monkey to have a play with". As soon as it got passed round, Ricky butted in: "Won a Bafta."

   📼 XFM S4E02 · 4 Jun 2005
3. In Monkey News, the new builder was asked to send a bag of 'nuts' up to the fella riveting on the top girders. What did he find when he glanced inside?
   • A bunch of bananas
   • Nuts that you can eat
   • Bolts but no nuts
   • A tiny hard hat
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   Nuts that you can eat

   The builder thought the bag was light for nuts and bolts. Inside: "Nuts that you can eat." Then he stared and saw "a little chimp running about!"

   📼 Podcast S1E07 · Jan 2006
4. According to Karl's Monkey News, how many monkeys were in the monkey prison for life?
   • Forty
   • Three
   • Twenty-six
   • Eleven
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   Eleven

   Karl: "There's eleven of them in there. Eleven monkeys, that are in there for life."

   📼 XFM S2E46 · 12 Jul 2003
5. According to Karl's Monkey News, why did Enos get through his mission even though the buttons had gone haywire?
   • Mission control radioed him the new controls
   • He was too full of bananas to press anything
   • Ham had warned him before take-off
   • He'd done a few trips, so he knew it wasn't right
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   He'd done a few trips, so he knew it wasn't right

   Karl's Enos: "As much as I love bananas, this isn't right." Steve's Enos: "I can't work with these conditions."

   📼 Podcast S1E12 · Feb 2006
6. Why did the New York firefighters get the rescue monkey "the smallest uniform you've got"?
   • So its fur wouldn't get singed
   • So it wouldn't shock anyone up there when a monkey came in
   • So the press photos would look official
   • So the zoo would know to send it back
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   So it wouldn't shock anyone up there when a monkey came in

   Ricky said people in a burning building wouldn't care. They'd be screaming "Save me! Oh there's a monkey, where are you from then?"

   📼 Podcast S1E06 · Jan 2006
7. According to Karl, the building-site Monkey News is the origin of which saying?
   • Monkey see, monkey do
   • More fun than a barrel of monkeys
   • Chimp off the old block
   • Monkey business
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   Chimp off the old block

   Karl linked it to all the tower blocks in America: "that's where that saying... the 'Chimp off the old block' is where..."

   📼 Podcast S1E07 · Jan 2006
8. In Monkey News, the lab chimp watched the lab assistant until he learned what?
   • Where she kept the banana key
   • What time the watchman went on break
   • Her computer password
   • The code on the door: 247
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   The code on the door: 247

   Karl: "He goes, right I've clocked that. I've got that, I'll remember that, right."

   📼 XFM S3E11 · 10 Jan 2004
9. In Monkey News, Pascal secretly filmed other chimps mating at night. What did the keepers do with the footage?
   • Entered it into a film festival
   • Showed it to monkeys who weren't 'at it' enough
   • Sold it to a nature documentary
   • Wiped it and took the camera back
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   Showed it to monkeys who weren't 'at it' enough

   Karl: "There's a few monkeys who, who aren't at it enough... so let's give 'em the videos." Ricky: "That is so untrue, this is so untrue!"

   📼 XFM S4E02 · 4 Jun 2005
10. In Monkey News, Karl said a lonely zookeeper befriended a monkey, because you can't go close to apes as they're dangerous. What did Ricky point out?
    • Zookeepers aren't allowed pets
    • It was a chimp, and a chimp is an ape
    • Chimps can't stand zookeepers
    • Monkeys bite harder than apes
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    It was a chimp, and a chimp is an ape

    Karl: "Yeah. But it doesn't matter does it, it's the story."

    📼 XFM S2E27 · 22 Feb 2003

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