All or None Trivia Quiz

Answer: Old

"Old Shep" was a song about an old dog that has grown up with his master and is now at the end of his life and the owner can't bear to euthanize him. The lyrics were by Willis Arthur and it was composed and sung by Red Foley in 1935. It became a country classic and was sung, and is still being sung, by multiple famous performers.

Elvis sang it when he was 10 years old at a State Fair singing competition. He won $5 and free tickets to the rides for coming in 5th place.

He sang it again at his high school talent show when he was 16 with better results and he then recorded and released it 4 years later in 1956.

Answer: Coward

Sir Noel Pierce Coward (1899 - 1973) was an English playwright, author, composer, director, actor and singer of which he excelled at all of them. As an actor and director he worked with/in a lot of his own works but also those written by others.

In his lifetime he wrote multiple plays of which he published over 60, at least 12 musicals, over 300 songs and unknown amounts of poetry and short stories. He authored a three volume autobiography but only one full length novel, "Pomp and Circumstance," which was published in 1960.

"Blithe Spirit" is a comic play that was first performed in 1941 and which set a new record in London for a non-musical play running for 1997 performances. It has since been made into a radio adaptation, movies, and a musical; the play continues to be revived around the world.

Answer: War

"Foyle's War" is an English detective drama series that commenced in 2002 and ran for 8 seasons. Michael Kitchen plays DCS Christopher Foyle, a detective in Hastings, during the Second World War.

Foyle wants nothing more than to be able to join the war effort but is constantly thwarted by those who say he is needed at home. He is a quiet, extremely honest man who is often underestimated by those around him

He is assisted by his sergeant, Paul Milner, who was injured in the war, and young MTC driver Samantha Stewart. Many of their cases revolved around crimes committed by those trying to take advantage of the war, from the black market through to murder.

The first 6 series are set in Hastings during the war and then they did another 2 series in London afterwards when Foyle goes to work for MI5 dealing with cold war espionage.

Answer: Hero

Hero, also known as Heron, was active in Alexandria about 60 AD. Although referred to as Greek he could have been a Hellenized Egyptian. It is known that he taught at the Musaeum which included the Library of Alexandria.

Among his writings that have survived there are notes available on mathematics, physics, mechanics and pneumatics.

He is famous for Heron's formula in mathematics which is a way to calculate the area of a triangle using the lengths of its sides.

In physics he developed the earliest known instance of harnessing wind on land by inventing the 'windwheel' and a steam powered device he called an aeolipile.

Answer: First

Abbott and Costello refer to this sketch simply as 'baseball' but it is commonly known as "Who's on first?" There were similar sketches around the vaudeville halls at the time with this style of wordplay and theirs was first performed as a team in 1936. They continued to work on it and it became a huge hit after a touring show a year later and it was then performed the year after that on a national radio show.

The premise involves Abbot identifying baseball characters for Costello but their names are also questions which leads to total confusion and frustration. The names of the players and positions are as follows:

Who is on first base, What is on second base, I Don't Know is on third base, Why is left field, Because is center field, Tomorrow is the pitcher, Today is the catcher and I Don't Care is the shortstop.

Answer: Died

"They Died with Their Boots On" starred Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in what was a fictionalized version of the life of General George Armstrong Custer.

It begins when he enters West Point military academy and follows his life during the Civil War to his death at Little Bighorn. Amidst crooked politicians and land corporations Custer is portrayed as a dashing figure who chooses honour over money.

The expression itself was said to originate in the 17th century meaning someone who was hanged but was later coined by the American West to include cowboys killed in gun battles.

In the modern age it refers to literally dying while fighting or figuratively to refer to someone is always occupied doing something and never stops working, implying they will die living their life as usual and not by illness or infirmity.

Answer: Peace

Neville Chamberlain (1869 - 1940) was prime minister of the UK from 28 May 1937 to 10 May 1940. After achieving many things in his life he is unfortunately remembered for his 'appeasement' policies, particularly toward Hitler.

In April 1938, in an effort to keep Fascist Italy away from Hitler's influence, he both agreed to Italian supremacy in Ethiopia and to keep Britain out of the Spanish Civil War.

In September of the same year he and Premier Edouard Daladier of France signed the Munich Agreement granting Hitler rights to the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.

His speech on his return home was his famous talk of "peace in our time" and "peace with honour" which is what the country wanted to hear. However he didn't end it there; he did put an accelerated British rearmament in place, he doubled the size of the Territorial Army and peacetime military conscription was instituted for the first time in British history.

Amidst lots of maneuvering between European countries Chamberlain still believed peace could be maintained until Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and plunged Europe into another world war.

Answer: New

The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament directly following the four Gospels. It was written by the author of the Gospel of Luke who is believed to be Luke the Evangelist, a doctor who travelled with St Paul.

The Gospel and the Acts are considered two parts of the same story and they make up 27.5% of the New Testament. These books give the most historical timeline of events and the Church's liturgical Calendar is based upon it.

The Gospel of Luke tells the story of Jesus' life, death and Resurrection as the others do. Acts picks up the narrative beginning with the Ascension, Pentecost and the Expulsion of the Christians from Jerusalem.

Its main theme is that of the spread of Christianity to the Gentiles - as one would expect, the Conversion of St Paul is an important highlight followed by the missions the two took together before Paul's imprisonment in Rome.

Answer: Born

"Born Free" began with a 1960 book by Joy Adamson following the lives of her and her husband George who was a British senior wildlife warden in Kenya. The couple end up with an orphaned lion cub they named Elsa that they raise to adulthood.

When faced with having to give her up and put her in a zoo they decide to train her to be released into the wilderness instead. The book follows their failures and eventual success when she learns to hunt and returns to the wild.

A film was made of the book in 1966 which was a big hit as was the song that was written for it. That was followed by a documentary "The Lions Are Free" three years later. 1974 brought us a 13 part TV series followed by another movie in 1996.

Adamson also wrote two further novels, "Living Free" in 1961 and "Forever Free" 2 years later.

Answer: Last

A cordwainer is a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather whereas a cobbler is restricted to repairing them. This terminology was from 14th century Britain within the historic London Guild system as they were two separate entities and it was forbidden by law for either of them to do the others' work.

Cobblers could get around this and make shoes but only if they used old leather. In the UK cobblers are generally used for both now while worldwide most people just call them shoemakers or repairers.

Lasts are shaped like a foot and used to make shoes or boots around, the name comes from the old English word 'laest' which means footprint. They come in many styles and sizes depending on what they are needed for. Simple one size lasts are used during repair work and there are custom built mechanical ones made for mass production.

Makers of bespoke footwear, which can cost thousands of dollars, are custom made to get the exact measurements. A lot of museums actually have the lasts of famous people that were/are kept in stock so the elite didn't/don't have to have bother themselves with multiple fittings.