You can blame this quiz on the fact that the Post Editor has been watching the Russian series 'Trotsky'. Heady stuff, but somehow, Groucho always seemed the better philosopher. Answers below.

1. Which of these was not one of Groucho's brothers?
   
   • Bruno
2. Minnie Marx was the Marx Brothers' mother, but who was her brother?
   
   • Al Shean (A vaudevillian who helped launch the brothers' career.)
3. Speaking of Minnie Marx, what was her mother's claim to fame?
   
   • She was a yodeling harpist. (No, we don't know what that sounded like, or whether she played a regular harp or a jaw harp.)
4. Groucho's great-nephew has been in what movies?
   
   • Bad News Bears
5. Eleanor and Laura Marx were daughters of Karl. What did they have in common?
   
   • They both committed suicide.
6. What is Malcolm Justin Marx's profession?
   
   • Rugby player (South Africa)
7. What is remarkable about Bernard Marx?
   
   • He's a fictional character in a science fiction novel. (Brave New World)
8. Who was Friedrich Heinrich Adolf Bernhard Marx friends with?
   
   • Felix Mendelssohn (Both were composers.)
9. Louis Marx, the 'Henry Ford of the toy industry', was not related to either Karl or Groucho. What was his wife's maiden name?
   
   • Blackadder (Really.)
10. If you win the Erwin Marx Award, what is your profession?
    
    • Engineer. (He invented the Marx generator.)

You have had your trivia overdose for today.

The secret word is 'Marx'.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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