What's a Name In? (Part 16) Trivia Quiz

Answer: unusual

Remember the classic scene from "Young Frankenstein" and the ABNORMAL brain? Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein sends his assistant Igor (Marty Feldman) to steal a brain which the doctor would then insert into the Monster. But Igor gets alarmed and acts quickly taking the first nearby brain, from a jar marked...ABNORMAL.

When questioned later by the doctor Igor stammers into confessing..."Abby something." And Wilder in his masterfully comic way unleashes the rage he so funnily kept a lid on.

But does anyone remember the name of the brain that the doctor had Igor him to retrieve? Give up? It was "Hans Delbrück, scientist and saint."

Answer: kerchief

The 2017 documentary "Man in Red BANDANA" tells the story of Welles Remy Crowther who worked on the 104th floor of the South Tower when it was struck on 9/11. By some miracle, 18 people in the South Tower located at or above the impact site were able to make it past that line of death below them, to safety below. That miracle was Mr. Crowther.

His identity became known via a May 2002 New York Times article in which those survivors described being saved by a man wearing a red BANDANA. A little detective work was able to piece together the clues and figure out who he was.

He had perished continuing to help people get out, going back up when everyone else fled downward. To this day Boston College has an annual 5K red BANDANA run in his honor.

Answer: improved

Pablum was a vitamin-ENRICHED baby food invented in Canada in 1931 by Dr. Frederick Tisdall and Dr. Theodore Drake. Royalties from it helped establish the Sick Kid Research Institute which in turn helped find medical breakthroughs including the discovery of cystic fibrosis, and the surgical technique for curing "blue babies."

Answer: more enthusiastic

Something that is HEARTIER is more robust, more full of energy and enthusiasm, like a hearty laugh for instance. In Charles Dickens' classic masterpiece, "A Christmas Carol", he writes:
""Why bless my soul!" cried Fred, "who's that?"
"It's I. Your uncle Scrooge. I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?"
Let him in! It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off. He was at home in five minutes. Nothing could be HEARTIER."

Answer: salad leaf

CHICORY is a wild endive perennial plant with blue flowers, that grows in the wild in Europe, Asia, and North America. It is cultivated for its roots and used in salads amongst other uses.

Answer: disinfected

Something STERILE has been cleaned of bacteria; it's antiseptic. The word stems from the Latin "sterilis" meaning barren or unfruitful. The sense of the word meaning germ-free was first described in 1877.

Answer: brainy

An INTELLECTUAL is a highly intelligent person; used as an adjective, INTELLECTUAL means pertaining to the mind, to intelligence. It was Albert Einstein who said, "INTELLECTUAL growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

Answer: amazing

Kids today use the word AWESOME fairly liberally to describe not just something amazing, but anything else they feel positively about. The original definition of AWESOME actually leaned toward inspiring awe or terror or dread in a person. The sense of it meaning something more positively impressive is relatively recent, starting in 1961 and growing in popularity during the 1980s.

Answer: persuaded

When someone is CONVINCED they have been persuaded toward a certain belief or position. Victor Hugo wrote, "Life's greatest happiness is to be CONVINCED we are loved." He wrote that in his world famous novel "Les Miserables" (1862).

Answer: pastry

The DANISH is a Viennese style pastry, a variant on the puff pastry. Ever wonder what the Danish people of Denmark call a Danish pastry? "Wienerbrød." But there are so many different kinds of Danish pastries as they would tell you: there are spandauers, Chokoladebolles, Snegls, kringles etc.