The Early Bird Gets the Emmy Trivia Quiz

Answer: Alfred Hitchcock

By 1963, when "The Birds" was released, Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most important directors in cinematic history, having already directed many successful films, including "The 39 Steps" (1935), "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (1941), and "Vertigo" (1958). Born in England, Hitchcock later moved to Hollywood and died in Bel Air in 1980.

This image is of a shower, reminiscent of one of Hitchcock's most famous scenes, from the movie "Psycho".

Answer: Woodstock

"Peanuts" ran from 1950 to 2000. In a 1967 strip, a bird landed on Snoopy's stomach and laid a few eggs. One of those eggs cracked open eventually to reveal a little yellow bird who became Snoopy's good friend, Woodstock. Woodstock was quite chatty, though his speech was indicated as simple vertical lines inside of a text bubble.

You can learn all about Peanuts and its creator by visiting the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California. It's part of the Schulz campus, which also boasts an ice rink, theater, and the Warm Puppy cafe.

This image is a rough sketch that is supposed to remind viewers of Woodstock's modest home tree.

Answer: Tic-tac-toe

The name of this bizarre game was "Bird Brain," and it pitted a human player against a well-trained chicken in tic-tac-toe for the cost of a quarter. If you lost, a large sign over the game would light up with "Bird Wins!" to make sure everyone knew the chicken was smarter than you.

Historians have traced the history of tic-tac-toe to both ancient Rome and Egypt.

This image portrays toes, pertaining to the game tic-tac-toe.

Answer: Mimicry

In the world of "The Hunger Games," mockingjays had the ability to mimic sounds with eerie accuracy. Mockingjays were an offshoot of a jabberjay, a bird engineered by the totalitarian regime to spy on its citizens; the jabberjays could repeat back any conversation it had overheard. No one expected the male jabberjays to mate with female mockingbirds, creating the mockingjays. Mockingjays couldn't repeat back voices, but it could repeat back any type of song, human or bird. Since they would pass on songs to each other, it was a way for humans to pass signals to each other across long distances in the form of a bird-based relay.

While mockingjays are fictional, there are seventeen types of real mockingbirds on earth, some with the ability to memorize up to 200 songs.

This image is of a macaw, a bird with excellent mimicry abilities.

Answer: San Francisco

San Francisco's Telegraph Hill district lies in the northeastern corner of the city. It gets it name from a semaphore-style telegraph system used in the 1800s to indicate what types of ships were arriving in the S.F. harbor. Later, in the 1920s, the area drew artists who had the idea of creating a west coast version of Manhattan's west side.

Over the decades, pet parrots broke free from their cages and eventually formed a colony that still lives in the neighborhood. The documentary "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" relays the story of the birds and a local resident who cared for them despite civic and local landowner pressures to stop.

This image is a rough sketch of Lombard Street, one of the most famous streets in San Francisco, California.

Answer: The Falcon and the Snowman

"The Falcon and the Snowman" was based on a book of the same name by Robert Lindsey which covered the story of Christopher Boyce and Daulton Lee. Christopher wanted to get back at the U.S. intelligence agency, which he considered predatory toward other nations, and Daulton Lee wanted to boost his drug sales income; together, they sold classified documents from Chris's job at a defense contractor to the Soviets via their embassy in Mexico City.

The Russians gave the boys nicknames; "Falcon" was Chris's, for his interest in falconry. "Snowman" referred to Daulton's drug use.

This image is of a hawk, a bird of prey like a falcon.

Answer: Joey and Chandler

Joey gave Chandler a chick for a present, and when Chandler went to return the chick, he came home not only with the chick but a duck. The men often treated the birds like their children, arguing over their welfare and discipline.

Friends ran on NBC from 1994 to 2004 and was a commercial and critical success, earning many nominations and awards. Matt LeBlanc played Joey Tribbiani and Matthew Perry played Chandler Bing.

This image is of a kangaroo with a joey.

Answer: Duck

Howard the Duck has a fairly litigious history. He was created by Marvel writer Steve Gerber in 1973 and stories featuring him tended to be social satire. When Gerber left Marvel, Marvel was going to keep publishing stories about Howard, and Gerber sued, saying that the character belonged to him. The case was settled, but a few years later, Disney sued Marvel, asserting that Howard resembled Donald Duck too closely. Howard had his own movie, the premise of which involved Howard being propelled from his home planet onto earth and his attempts to get back, only to get tangled up with a pretty young woman named Beverly. The movie was not a commercial or critical success.

Hidden in this image is a duck in the weeds.

Answer: Cockatoo

Fred was a cockatoo, and was actually played by several different trained birds, including at least one stunt bird. "Baretta" ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978 and starred Robert Blake as an east coast police detective named Anthony Barretta. Barretta lived with his cockatoo friend, Fred. Apparently the actor Robert Blake was annoyed that Fred received more fan mail than he did.

This image is supposed to be of a cockatoo, a kind of parrot that's distinguished by its head-top crest.

Answer: Carrying messages

Ravens in Westeros look like real-life ravens, only they have the ability to carry messages among castles, after receiving training by scholars called maesters. Ravens have delivered important messages in this series, including in the first episode of the series, "Winter is Coming." A raven arrives in the Stark's happy northern land of Winterfell bringing the news that the Hand of the King has died, launching a series of events that forever change the lives of all of the Starks.

This image is supposed to be of a message in a bottle, relaying the idea of messaging.