Waldo's Clown Quiz

How much do you know about clowns?   This quiz will find out!  Select one answer for each of the five questions by clicking on the little circle before your answer.  When you are done, click the "Check my answers" button toward the bottom.  Keep trying till you get 10 out of 10 correct.

Got ya stumped, eh?  Hit the "Cheat" button to reveal the correct answers.


1. The makeup a clown wears is also called:

    lard
    greasepaint
    hidey-face goop
    war paint

2. Who is considered the "Father" of modern clowns?

    Red Skelton
    Joseph Grimaldi
    Lou Jacobs
    Emmett Kelly

3. P.T. Barnum once said, "Clowns are the ______ on which circuses are hung."

    hooks
    hangers
    rungs
    pegs

4. What was the name of the clown on the Howdy Doodie show?

    Buttons
    Clarabelle
    Cookie
    Otto

5. Who performed as the character named Weary Willy?

    William Bell
    Lou Jacobs
    Bill Cook
    Emmett Kelly

6.  Which clown's image appeared on a United States postage stamp?

    Red Skelton
    Lou Jacobs
    Bozo
    Emmett Kelly

7. The word "auguste" comes from the German word meaning what?

    funny
    stupid
    amazing
    clown

8. Bozo is classified as what type of clown?

    auguste
    character
    tramp
    whiteface

9. For fifty years, Ringling Brothers billed the great clown Felix Adler as:

    El Clowno
    King of Clowns
    Clown Prince of Mirth
    The Great One

10. Red Skelton, besides being a great clown, was also an accomplished:

    actor
    painter
    music composer
    all of the above



   


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