General Nuisance Twelve Trivia Quiz

Answer: Seven

The original Champion was used from 1934 till his death during World War Two when Autry was flying military cargo planes in Asia.

Returning to films, Autry used Champion Jr. through the rest of his film career.

The television Champion was seen in Autry's television series and also in a short-lived television series of his own called "Adventures of Champion" in the 1950s.

Lindy Champion, Touring Champion, and Champion Three were used in personal appearances and rodeos. Lindy is believed to be the first horse to fly in an airplane.

Little Champion was a pony used as a novelty.

All the Champions were well-trained and could do many tricks, such as dancing the hula and the Charleston, jumping through a ring of fire, and playing dead. At the height of his career, Champion received thousands of fan mail letters a year. His international acclaim led him to be served high tea at the Savoy in London.

Note: This does not include stunt doubles in films.

Answer: Nominated for an Academy Award for "The Sun Also Rises"

The stories about Flynn abound. He is the reference for the idiom 'in like Flynn'. Here are just a few of his reported escapades:

He installed see-through mirrors in his mansion on Mulholland Drive to spy on women's bathrooms and bedrooms.

He was sued for both paternity and consorting with under age girls.

He died at age 50 in Vancouver, Canada in the company of a 17-year-old girl that had been with him for two years.

Flynn was classified 4F for military service because of recurrent malaria, chronic back pain, drug addition, chronic tuberculosis, and venereal disease.

He was praised for his performance in "The Sun Also Rises" (1957), but received no nominations.

Answer: Seattle's Space Needle

The Space Needle was built to withstand any weather calamity. It has become the symbol not only of Seattle but the Pacific Northwest. It stands 184 meters high and 132 meters at the top, which is its widest point. There you can see a panorama of the Cascades and Mount Rainier.

It can only be reached by an elevator that travels at ten miles per hour. The deck also contains a gift shop and a restaurant that rotates 360 degrees every 47 minutes.

Answer: separate

Synonyms for separate are: detached, distinct, individual, discrete, divide, part, sever, segregate, detach, and disjoin.

Answer: Ontario and Nunavut

Ontario was the the largest Canadian province with nearly 13 million residents in 2011. Nunavut had just under 32,000 and was only slightly smaller in population than Yukon with nearly 34,000 in 2011.

Answer: General Lucius Verus Bierce

On December 3, 1838, General Bierce led approximately 500 men made up of expatriate Canadians, Polish adventurers, and Americans. They captured a passenger steamer, sailed across Lake Erie to Windsor, Canada, and burned a British barracks to the ground. Confident that the Canadians would rally to the cause of freedom from British rule, Bierce took a contingent of thirty men into Windsor leaving the rest at bivouac. Apparently, Canada was not ready for a full force war against the British and appraised Bierce's proposal as idiotic. A Canadian force attacked the group who were camped in an apple orchard and either killed, captured, or ran off the 'army'. General Bierce managed to find a few boats and paddle back across the Detroit River to United States.

Five of the captured were hanged, and the rest were transported to Van Diemen's Land, Tasmania. General Bierce was prosecuted for violating neutrality laws, but the indictments were dismissed as he was regarded as a hero. He returned to Akron with a new nickname, "The Hero of Windsor", and served several terms as mayor of Akron. The library at the University of Akron bears his name. He was an uncle to the famed American writer Ambrose Bierce. Rumor exists that he also supplied arms to John Brown for his raids.

Answer: 2

Each round starts with two cards. After a round of betting, three cards are displayed (called the flop) which each player can use. Two more cards are dealt one at a time with betting intervals. The fourth card is called the turn. The fifth and last card is the river.

Answer: John Dewey

Dewey's influence on education is summarized in a series of books: "My Pedagogic Creed" (1897), "The School and Society" (1900), "The Child and the Curriculum" (1902), "Democracy and Education" (1916) and "Experience and Education" (1938).

In his own words he said: "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself" and "Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning".

Answer: Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope lived from 1688 to 1744 in England. Being Catholic, he and his family were generally excluded from mainstream society at that time. He was also afflicted with a bone disease that left him a hunchback, along with other related maladies. He was basically self-educated and his mode of poetry was the heroic couplet.

This form had one line that was a proposition and the second line an ironic twist.

Answer: The Broadway Melody

"The Broadway Melody" (1929) became a template for musical films in the 1930s and beyond. Often they had titles such as "Broadway Melody of 1933" (or 1935, etc). In those early sound films, music was more controllable by the technology of the time than speech.

"The Jazz Singer"(1927) was the first official commercial sound film, but it did not win a Best Picture award. "Wings"(1927) and "Sunrise, The Story of Two Humans"(1927) were silent films.