South Park

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and True or False.  Then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. South Park is an animated American television comedy series. The series has been distributed and aired by Comedy Central since 1997. Who is NOT a creator and writer?

• Keith Olberman
• Trey Parker
• Matt Stone

2. The show revolves around the adventures of four boys and their friends living in the small town of South Park, Arizona.

• True or False?

3. As college students, the South Park creators met in a film class and created an animated short. The low-budget crudely made film featured prototypes of the main characters of South Park, including a character resembling Cartman but named "Kenny", an unnamed character resembling what is today Kenny, and two near-identical unnamed characters who would resemble Stan and Kyle. What was the films title?

4. Construction paper and traditional cut-out animation techniques were used in the original animated shorts and in the pilot episode made for Comedy Central. The pilot episode required three months to produce.

• True or False?

5. Subsequent episodes have been produced by computer animation providing a similar look to the originals. A computer graphic software program is used to create the characters, which are animated using modern computer animation tools—first PowerAnimator and then Maya, which Parker and Stone described as "building a sandcastle with a bulldozer." What is the computer graphic software program?

• Macromedia Fireworks
• CorelDRAW
• Microsoft PhotoDRAW

6. Who is the voice of Eric Cartman?

• Trey Parker
• Matt Stone
• April Stewart

7. Who is the voice of Kenny McCormick?

• Matt Stone
• Trey Parker
• Isaac Hayes

8. South Park was named the 12th greatest TV show of the past 25 years by Entertainment Weekly in 2008.

• True or False?

9. What was the name of the first episode in 1997?

• "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"
• "Chef Aid"
• "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub"

10. What was the episode that won a 2005 Emmy Award?

• "Best Friends Forever"
• "Make Love, Not Warcraft"
• "Tom's Rhinoplasty"

Check Your Answer

1. Keith Olberman
2. False. It is South Park, Colorado.
3. Jesus vs. Frosty
4. True
5. CorelDRAW
6. Trey Parker
7. Matt Stone
8. True
9. "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"
10. "Best Friends Forever"

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