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CORRECTION: The answer to yesterday's question about the number of Bob Backlund's successful title reigns should have said "1" instead of "0."
Today's New Questions:
(1) Fifteen years ago, in a December 1991 "Torch Talk" interview with Wade Keller, Bill Eadie, who wrestled as Demolition Axe and Masked Superstar, said the following: "He does stuff that nobody else can do. There was a lot of criticism when we first brought him in there, a lot of the old timers and a lot of the veterans said, 'What are you doing?' But I saw something in the kid that he was willing to give you 190 percent, not just 100 percent. He doesn't ask a lot, just to get an opportunity. He caught on. It only took him a couple of appearances." Who was he talking about?
(a) Owen Hart
(b) 1-2-3 Kid
(c) Scott Steiner
(d) Disco Inferno
(e) Downtown Bruno
(2) The Nov. 26, 2001 edition of Raw featured which one of the following incidents:
(a) William Regal gasped at the size of Big Show's penis.
(b) William Regal actually peed on Big Show's leg.
(c) Jerry Lawler used the "telestrator" to recap the Regal-Show bathroom incident.
(d) Lance Storm was shown mopping floors at a nightclub.
(e) Undertaker forced Jim Ross to kiss Vince McMahon's bare ass.
(f) Vince McMahon wore Jim Ross's cowboy hat and gallopped around the ring slapping own ass.
(g) Chris Jericho said the fans were holding him back from his greatness.
(h) All of the above.
Answers to previous questions (in bold)
(1) Which of the following did Roddy Piper NOT say to Eric Bischoff at the World War 3 PPV ten years ago?
(a) "Do you think I'm going to trust a lying little flake, gay, wonderful human being like yourself?"
(b) "Tell me something, how did you get that crack in your lip?"
(c) "Under this kilt is a ten inch stick of dynomite and two grenades just itching to be shoved up your ass."
(d) "How much would it cost me by fine to knock your ass out? Just give me an approximate."
(2) Who said the following (and this is transcribed exactyl, word for word, without any typos or sytax inaccuracies) on WCW television the final weekend of November 1996? "See what he's doing. He's trying to get the elbow on the ankle of Dean Malenko to put some pressure on him to break that thing. Both of these guys are very fluently knows in the mat wrestling. I don't even know what that means, what I just said. I swear, on that one, that one got me. Mush my mouth. But I know what I was thinking."
(a) Eric Bischoff
(b) Steve "Mongo" McMichael
(c) Tony Schiavone
(d) Larry Zbyszko (e) Dusty Rhodes
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