Today we reveal all the answers to the Feast of Fools Quiz! Congratulations to Cliff Dix and Sebastian Keenan who tied for first place. They got the most answers right, even though they both got three answers wrong.
Several people tried to change their answers after what they considered to be their first draft but I thought it only fair to take into account their first response.
And here are the answers:
1- Feast of Fools Began on April 1, 1998.
FALSE: Cliff got this one wrong. The first Feast of Fools Cabaret took place at the Randolph Street Gallery on March 18, 1998. We say April first is the anniversary because it so much more glamorous than March 18th. Almost everybody got this one wrong so it really leveled the playing field. And April Fools!
2- The stage production featured Fausto in drag with a talking Crystal Skull puppet as a sidekick. Marc got involved initially as being in charge of the bake sale that raised money to pay for advertising the shows.
TRUE: Marc baked chocolate chip cookies and Rice Crispy Treats.
3- Gay Fun Show is a rough translation of Feast of Fools into Vietnamese, coined by a Vietnamese restaurateur.
TRUE: We asked Bruce, a Vietnamese restaurateur how he would describe our show to Vietnamese people and after some thought he said “Gay Fun Show.” We smiled and knew it was a hit.
4- Our first guest on the podcast was drag queen Delilah Bouvier.
FALSE: Our first guest was Taylor E. Ross. He was the musical director of the live shows. He still shows up on the show from time to time and his boyfriend recently gave us wonderful organic beef that he raised himself.
5- Fausto Fernós was a cable access TV star in the early nineties in drag as a blond thick-accented, fire-eating drag queen named “Faustina.”
TRUE: “El Chow de Faustina” originally aired on Cable Access in Austin, Texas 1994. Here’s a video of an early show with performance artist Linda Montano as Lenny an opera singer. This is not for the faint of heart or those that gag easily.It is in fact quite gross. It’s work safe though.
6- Fausto blue hair is no longer blue.
TRUE: Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water. Almost everyone got this wrong. With a new site Fausto felt it was time for a new look. I love it!
7- Marc quit smoking two years ago and hasn’t picked up a cigarette since.
TRUE: We can’t believe its been two years and if Marc can quit smoking, anybody can quit. Just breath and break that cycle of addiction.
8- Marc hitch-hiked across the Yucatan Peninsula at the age of 17. He has traveled to every continent on the globe except Antarctica and Australia.
TRUE: Cliff didn’t believe it but Marc hitchhiked from Cancun to Progresso, Yucatan. He was young and stupid and is just glad to still be alive.
9- Marc has an MBA in Marketing from Loyola University Chicago.
TRUE: Would you like fries with that?
10- Fausto’s Father believed that he was going to live in outer space after his death.
TRUE: And he would study at the University of the Cosmos!
11- Fausto and Marc met while waiting in line at a taping of the Oprah Winfrey Show.
FALSE: They met at the Chicago Eagle, a neighborhood leather bar.
12- Fausto and Marc were arrested for indecent exposure for mooning Sal-E from their car when he worked the door at the Boom Boom Room.
FALSE: Marc and Fausto haven’t mooned anybody since high school.
13- Marc and his entire family of eight children are actually adopted. He was born in Asia and is part Samoan.
FALSE: Marc is the youngest of eight children but as far as he knows, he is neither adopted or Samoan.
14- Feast of Fools has won all the People’s Choice Podcast Awards ever given to a GLBT podcast.
TRUE: Yes, two years in a row we have won the best GLBT Podcast Award.
15- Marc is uncircumcised, but Fausto is not.
FALSE: All or one part of this statement is false. You’ll have to take our word for it or find us in the showers at the gym.
16- Out of all the regulars on the Feast of Fools, the only one to make the transition from the stage show who’ve appeared in the last month on the podcast is Amanda Steinstein.
FALSE: Both the winners got this one wrong but Sal-E was in the last live show at Schubas. Dressed as a Chinese concubine he simulated fellatio on All the Way Ray.
17- Fausto Fernós real name is Pretlow Riddick. He chose Fausto Fernós as a androgynous drag name in college after taking a European Literature class where Goethe’s Faust was read. Fernós means to work with Fire.
FALSE: Fausto was named Fausto by his mother. She knew that Faustina would make a lovely drag name for her son so she gave him the male version of that name.
18- Lea Delaria once said on the Feast of Fools:
“I want to do a thing called Tard-Fest 2005. Its a weekend festival of movies where they have non-retarded people playing retarded people.
TRUE: She said it and now their doing it. It’s called Sundance.
19- John Waters, George Takei, Kathy Griffin, Bruce Vilanch, Paula Poundstone, Christian Siriano, Holly Woodlawn and Clay Aiken have all been interviewed on the Feast of Fools podcast.
FALSE: Clay Aiken never appeared on the show, that was just Victoria Lamarr imitating him. “Quarter Turns” indeed.
20- Freebie just to even out the math.
Listen as our very own Amanda Steinstein takes a spin at the quiz. Did she get the answers right? Join us as we talk about a child molester who claims he was raped by bigfoot, a four year old who brought a bag of pot to school and parasitic twins. Could one be inside of you?
We’re coming to New York City! Join us in New York City for the GLBT EXPO at the Javitz Center on April 5-6. To get FREE tickets for the event email us for details and put “Free Tickets” in the subject line. We’ll be with John Q. Sanchez and Fausto is singing a duet with Amnesia Sparkles. Come have some fun and we have lots of great give aways!
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I still think that Marc was adopted… his genes ordered him to walk all over the clobe to find his real origin…or was it the spagetti monster that let him do that?
Congrats to the winners! Quite a tricky quiz. 2 Amanda shows in a row = 1 very happy fan!!
input your comment here…12 out of 20 correct – oh well! At least I was correct with the circumcision question! How about a few more:
1. FOF has been mentioned on every other gay podcast and is referred to as: “The Big One”.
2. Marc and Fausto have never visited Hell’s Kitchen in New York City.
3. Dan Savage, the sex columnist, claims to have never heard of FOF.
4. Fausto has never hosted a podcast by himself with no guests.
5. When Fausto is out of town Marc is not able to post a new podcast, only repeats.
6. FOF is a Pearl Sponsor of the Gay Expo in NYC.
I got 15/20. But that was not bad either.
I am so glad I was able to get at least 17 of the questions right. Although I must credit my parasitic twin for helping me some of the answers.
Amanda as usual, you rock.
congrats to the winners. i would have tried but i’ve already ordered a mug and t-shirt…fausto is so “guapo” with his new hair color and that’s so sweet how marc and fausto met at the eagle. i’ve hung out in the back room at the eagle many a times and all i’ve gotten is chafing from the sling.
Marc comes from gay heaven where kisses, drag queens and angels are made.
I didn’t even get a chance to try! You guys are too quick with you FoF knowledge.
Congrats to the winners!
And Fausto, no more blue hair?! Oy dios mio! It’s the end of an era. But think of how much time and money you’ll save not doing that anymore. Doesn’t matter, you look lovely either way.
Have a safe and wonderful trip to New York!
input your comment here…
My favorite twist on Chocolate Rain!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=N0amCfgnwY8 ******
oops. ^_^ Yay Kuato!
People shouldn’t make last names into first names? My last name is a first name, and I’m inclined to agree with Amanda. LOL! You have no idea how many times I’ve been applying for something where people go, “last name?” and I go, “(my last name)” and they get this condescending look and go, “no, your LAST name.”
Fausto ..thank you for the ” Plug ” of my website on this podcast.
I found it highly entertaining.
Marc….per your request I will try and describe the two collages I gifted to you both.
The last large body of work I exhibited consisted of sculpture and the title of the show was, ” Nature’s Naughty Bits’.
At the same time I worked on the sculptures I did a collage series by the same name and two from that series is what you received. They are numbered on the back as you mentioned.
No the images you spoke of are NOT condoms! With that said…my more abstract work is left up to the viewer to see in it what ever they want in it. Interesting you folks saw condoms, lol.
My theory is everything in art (and the entire world) is “EITHER A POLE OR A HOLE”.
Nature and all its glory if full of poles and holes. Some examples are pods, seeds, nests, branches, and cocoons. The images you referred to as condom-like I see as a phallus with orafices on one or both ends. One can see them as vaginas, mouths or rectums…I know I do.
Two days ago an exhibition in New Zealand that has several of my works in it opened.
To check it out go to http://virtual.tart.co.nz/exhibit.htm
Thank you kindly, Robert Tucker
Another great show as usual; 14/20, oh well, close but no cigar! Loved the new Eric Himan song too and the one on the Feast Blast, gotta get that album. I love the intimacy of the songs with just Eric and his guitar.
Have fun in NY Fausto; they’re re-running SATC here and last night we had episode 62 where Carrie and the girls go out dancing in a gay club!
Mark
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Mark, we just got your gifts. They are very lovely! Thank you so much.
It’s my pleasure, just a little something to thank you for all the great hours of entertainment and insightful comments you all have given us over the years.
M
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Poor Amanda, But she did have it coming after last years prank… Love Ya Amanda
Loved the show and the quiz – I’ll miss the blue hair for sure though!