These questions and answers are from the days when the’Hollywood Squares’ game show responses were spontaneous,not scripted, as they are now!
Q. Do female frogs croak?A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.
Q. If you’re going to make a parachute jump, at least how highshould you be?A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.
Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years…A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.
Q . Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness! (The audience laughed so long andso hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)
Q. You’ve been having trouble going to sleep.Are you probably a man or a woman?A. Don Knotts: That’s what’s been keeping me awake.
Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger ata party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay tocome out and ask him if he’s married?A.. Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.
Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency..
Q. What are ‘Do It,’ ‘I Can Help,’ and ‘I Can’t Get Enough’?A. George Gobel: I don’t know, but it’s coming from the next apartment.
Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more orless with your hands while talking?A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old questionPeter, and I’ll give you a gesture you’ll never forget.
Q. Paul, why do Hell’s Angels wear leather?A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.
Q. Charley, you’ve just decided to grow strawberries.Are you going to get any during the first year?A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I’m too busy growing strawberries.
Q. In bowling, what’s a perfect score?A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.
Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I’m always safe in the bedroom.
Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.
Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?
Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark..
Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong withgetting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.
Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradishon his head, what was he trying to do?A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.
Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes inthem and has actually seen them on at least two occasions.What are they?A. Charley Weaver: His feet.
Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh