On Golden Blond Trivia Quiz

Answer: Blondie

"Blondie", which is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young, first came to the public eye in September of 1930 and was an immediate hit. Her impact was such that she spawned a run of twenty films from 1938 through to 1950. Blondie (nee Boobadoop) was depicted as a flapper who frequented dance halls and had a boyfriend by the name of Dagwood Bumstead. Dagwood's parents are railroad tycoons and Dagwood is the heir to a massive fortune.

They insist that he leaves Blondie because she is "beneath him". Dagwood ignores them, elopes with Blondie and is disinherited. From this point on Blondie changes and she becomes the brains in the family and Dagwood the buffoon who has a hankering for sandwiches.

Answer: Concrete Blonde

"Joey" appears on Concrete Blonde's third studio album "Bloodletting" (1990) and was the band's most successful single release. Peaking at number nineteen on Billboard's Hot 100 it is the only song from the band to break into those charts. Written and sung by Johnette Napolitano, the singer revealed that she wrote the song in a cab while she was making her way to the recording studio.

It was written with her relationship to Marc Moreland (from the band Wall of Voodoo) in mind.

Answer: Blonde Bombshell

Nowadays the term "sex symbol" is used much more freely than "bombshell" to describe a popular female icon. Harlow, after her sizzling performance in "Platinum Blonde" (1931), is credited as being the first female to earn the nickname of "blonde bombshell". Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would cash in on that and, two years later, would release the film "Bombshell" promoting Harlow as "Lovely, luscious, exotic Jean Harlow as the Blonde Bombshell of filmdom".

Answer: Blondie Forbes

For a player who was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1980, there is very little information available on the man. Wikipedia will tell you that he's a poker player, a road gambler and that he was credited with the creation of the game Texas Hold 'Em. They record his first initial as "T" but don't provide a first name or date of birth. I have established that his first name was Tracie and that he was a regular at the Red Men's Club in Dallas, Texas and that his specialty was Five Card Stud. He was born in 1890 in Monroe, Louisiana but his date of death is unknown. There is a photograph of Blondie at the Horseshoe Club in the mid-1970s in the book "Cowboys, Gamblers and Hustlers" (2005) by Bryon Wolford & Shane Smith, which would mean he lived, at least, to his early eighties.

"This one is wide open for endless debate, but Forbes gets the credit as the inventor of 'Texas Hold 'Em'. It probably has more to do with the fact that you just don't forget the name of a guy named Blondie." - Chuck Blount (October 24, 2016, "San Antonio Express-News").

Answer: Strawberry Blonde

"The Band Played On" is a song that was written in 1895 by John F. Palmer and Charles B. Ward. It is often called by the refrain in the song "Casey Would Waltz With a Strawberry Blonde". The most notable release of the song came in 1941 when it recorded by Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra to coincide with the release of the film "The Strawberry Blonde".

It peaked at number six on Billboards' Best Sellers list and stayed there for four weeks.

Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

This 1953 musical comedy was directed by Howard Hawks and it tells the tale of two showgirls, Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) and Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe), who head off to Paris and are pursued by a private detective and a string of admirers. Now I will acknowledge that Monroe is the "blonde" in this film and that Russell doesn't even come close to resembling one but Russell was the one billed as the star of the film. Monroe, however, does steal the show and her rendition of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in that stunning pink outfit have both become iconic.

Answer: Shelley Blond

Shelley Blond is a voice actress whose voice has been described by the New York Times as "sexier than Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit". Born in London in 1970 she was the first person to provide the voice for Lara Croft in the classic "Tomb Raider" video game that was launched in 1996.

In addition, she has lent her voice to the "Black & White" (2000) video games and "The Spooky Sisters" (2000) television series.

Answer: Blonde on Blonde

Released in 1966, this is Bob Dylan's seventh studio album, one which many critics have hailed as one of the best of all time. Ironically the creation of the album did not flow smoothly for Dylan. Recording for the album commenced in October of 1965 in New York with Dylan being supported by Levon Helm and the Hawks. Numerous songs were attempted. All but one, "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)", would make it to the final cut. Bob Johnston, Dylan's producer on the album saw that his star was uneasy and suggested that he shift the recording of the album to Nashville. Dylan agreed.

He also discarded the band, apart from Robbie Robertson, invited Al Kooper to join him and incorporated the seasoned musicians at Nashville into the process and the rest, as they say, is one of the finest albums in rock and roll history.

Answer: Blondie

Formed by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, Blondie's brand of new wave/punk arrived on the American scene in the mid to late 1970s. For a number of years, they were regarded as an underground band, drawing attention but never finding the big break. That was before the release of "Parallel Lines" in 1978, an album that spawned six hit singles, among them "Hanging on the Telephone", "Heart of Glass" and "Sunday Girl".

Not prepared to sit still they branched out, experimenting with disco, pop, reggae and, with the release of "Rapture" (1980), early rap.

They would break up in 1982 after the release of the sixth studio album "The Hunter".

Answer: Blondie

In 2008 Empire Magazine listed "The Man With No Name" as the 33rd Greatest Movie Character of All Time. The character, portrayed by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy", was easily recognisable by his distinctive poncho, tan cowboy boots, a penchant for cigarillos and his conservation of conversation.

However, despite the "no name" moniker he still managed to get tagged with a number of names in each of the films. In "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964) the undertaker called him Joe, in "For a Few Dollars More" (1965) he responded to Manco and, in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966), Eli Wallach's character, Tuco, would call him Blondie, on account of his fair hair.