College of mat knowledge

Monday, April 30, 2007 | 7:38 a.m.

Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer with partial credit possible on questions 2, 5, 9 and 10

A perfect score is 120 -

Super Intelligent Destroyer

100-115 -

The Professor

80-100 -

The Student, better enroll in George "The Animal" Steele's class

40-60 -

Not So Fabulous, you won't make much moolah on your rasslin' knowledge

Under 40 -

Rudo, you probably can't tell a chicken wing from a buffalo wing

Sun reporter Ed Koch put together the following pro wrestling quiz to try to stump Mike "The Professor" Tenay. Tenay answered 10 1/2 of the 12 questions correctly for 105 of 120 points. Can you do better?

Questions

1. Who was Lou Albano's tag team partner in the Italian-American grappling duo known as "The Sicilians?"

2. Name the two wrestlers who beat Bruno Sammartino for the World Wide Wrestling Federation title.

3. What is the Super Intelligent Destroyer's real name?

4. What matman was billed as "The Man With the Cast Iron Stomach"?

5. Name legendary wrestler Angelo Poffo's two wrestling sons (and their nicknames).

6. What was WWWF world champion Stan "The Man" Stasiak's signature maneuver?

7. Southern wrestling star Sputnik Monroe refused to wrestle in Memphis' Ellis Auditorium in the late 1950s until the promoter did what?

8. What was George "The Animal" Steele's job outside of wrestling?

9. "The Fabulous Moolah" held the women's world grappling title from 1956 until 1984. What was her real name, who did she lose the title to and who was her opponent's female manager for that match?

10. Legendary wrestler Fritz Von Erich had five sons who also wrestled professionally. Name the lone survivor and the order in which four of the young men died between 1984 and 1993.

11. In a Dec. 1, 1985, mask-vs.-mask match in Mexico, the evil Dr. Wagner lost his hood to whom?

12. What food item did the famed "rudos" tag team of Black Gordman and The Great Goliath toss to Hispanic fans in Mexico and California arenas before matches to insult and anger them?

Answers

1. Tony Altimore

2. Ivan Koloff and "Superstar" Billy Graham. (Tenay got Koloff right, but shook his head in frustration as he could not come up with his friend Graham's name. "I'll never hear the end of it for missing that one.")

3. Dick Beyer. (The Destroyer was the favorite wrestler of Tenay and Koch. As a child, Tenay wore a white Destroyer mask with red piping, Koch, as a youngster, proudly wore one with black piping.)

4. Pepper Gomez

5. "Leapin' Lanny" Poffo and Randy "Macho Man" Savage

6. The heart punch

7. End the practice of relegating black customers to the upper-level "colored" section and allow them to sit in the lower-level seating. The change is credited with leading to integration of wrestling arenas throughout the South.

8. High school teacher and football coach in Michigan. (Tenay notes that Steele wrestled in Michigan wearing a mask and was billed as "The Student.")

9. Lil lian Ellison, Wendi Richter and pop star Cyndi Lauper. (Tenay notes that Lou Albano portrayed Lauper's father in the video for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.")

10. Fritz Von Erich died in 1997 and was preceded in death by sons David (1984), Mike (1987), Chris (1991) and Kerry (1993). His eldest son, Jack, died as a child in an electrocution accident in 1959. Only Kevin Von Erich survives.

11. El Solitario. (Tenay, an expert on lucha libre or Mexican wrestling, incorrectly guessed El Santo.)

12. Tortillas