Nanu, Nanu: A RobinWilliams Quiz

Question 1 of 10:

Robin was thrust into the limelight by ‘Mork and Mindy’, which was a spin-off from which other show?

Taxi

Happy Days

The Brady Bunch

Gilligan's Island

Robin made his movie debut as ‘Popeye’ in 1980. But how did his Popeye differ from the cartoon version?

He hates spinach

He's not a sailor

He's Bluto's brother

He doesn't have a pipe

Which of these Robin Williams films is NOT based on a true story?

Awakenings

Patch Adams

Dead Poets Society

Good Morning Vietnam

In the surreal 1991 fantasy ‘The Fisher King’, Robin played a tramp who is determined to find...?

Excalibur

Noah's Ark

Atlantis

The Holy Grail

In which Woody Allen film did Robin play a man who is literally ‘out of focus’?

Mighty Aphrodite

Deconstructing Harry

Shadows and Fog

Husbands and Wives

Robin showed his serious side in the 1996 thriller ‘The Secret Agent’. Where is the film set?

Nazi Germany

Soviet Russia

Communist Cuba

Victorian England

One of Robin 's least well-received films was the schmaltzy 1996 comedy ‘Jack’. Who directed it?

Martin Scorsese

Stanley Kubrick

Oliver Stone

Francis Ford Coppola

Robin 's 1998 film ‘What Dreams May Come’ tells the story of what happens to a man after he...

Wins the lottery

Loses his wife

Meets an alien

Dies

Robin made his first and only foray into Shakespeare with which lavish 1996 adaptation?

Hamlet

Twelfth Night

Much Ado About Nothing

Love's Labour's Lost

Robin was cast brilliantly against type in 2002's ‘Insomnia’, in which he played a...?

Thuggish loan shark

Heartless womaniser

Psychotic killer

Tough cop