At the End of the Day, You Should Smell Like Dirt Quiz

Answer: Hip hop group from New Jersey

The hip hop group Naughty by Nature was formed in the mid-1980s by three musicians, rapper Treach, Vin Rock, and DJ Kay Gee. They had a hit with the track "O.P.P," which we will not spell out as this is a family-friendly site. The song was listed on Billboard's Top 100 for the year 1991.

Treach was married at one point to Pepa of Salt-n-Pepa, and has also built an acting career, with guest roles in "The Sopranos," "CSI," and "Love & Hip Hop."

Answer: Chiffon margarine

Mother Nature, actually actress Dena Dietrich dressed in a white, flowing costume standing in a fake forest, tasted Chiffon margarine and assumed it was butter. She was not pleased when the narrator informed her that it wasn't butter; it was Chiffon.

Margarine was created as a cheaper version of butter, originally using beef fat but now usually vegetable oil. It was very common in the U.S. during the World War II years and soon after. It would arrive at the store in bags without any color; a little chalky pill would be included, and people would put the pill inside the bag, then squash it around until the margarine had the yellow look of butter. This one one of my mother's regular chores in 1940s Iowa.

When these commercials began running, margarine was considered healthier than butter, but that hasn't borne out in more recent studies.

Ms. Dietrich could also be seen in old episodes of "Life with Lucy," "All My Children," and "The Golden Girls."

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston in 1803, the son of a Unitarian minister. He studied at Harvard Divinity School and later became an essayist, poet, and lecturer. Emerson was staunchly antislavery and also wrote to then-President Van Buren to denounce his policy of removing the Cherokee people from their native land, forcing them to walk the Trail of Tears from the eastern seaboard to the dry lands west of the Mississippi River.

In his famous essay, Emerson connected the wild beauty of nature with God's divinity.

This picture represents the purity of nature.

Answer: Close-grained, hard siliceous rock

The word sigNATURE has several meanings, but it does not refer to a siliceous rock. Some synonyms for various definitions of signature include: autograph, trademark, indication, name, dedication, impression, and John Hancock.

This picture captures the wood grain of a large redwood tree in Los Gatos, California.

Answer: Aretha Franklin

American soul singer Aretha Franklin released "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" as a single in 1967 and then on her album "Lady Soul" the following year. Aretha began singing in church as a young girl in Detroit, and became a professional singer before she was 20. Considered one of the most talented singers in modern music, Franklin has won many awards, including a Grammy Legend Award and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.

This image is supposed to be of a key and a kite, referring to another Franklin, this one Benjamin.

Answer: Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah was born Dana Elaine Owens in 1970 in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of a teacher and a police officer. She has seen success as a hip hop artist and rapper as well as an actress. She won several major awards for her role as Mama in the movie version of "Chicago" (2002).

This image is supposed to be of a queen bee.

Answer: Debt to nature = birth

"Debt to nature" is an idiom used as a euphemism for death. This is a line from the English poet Francis Quarles:

"The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made."

"Debt to Nature" is also rock band from Buffalo New York.

This image supposed to be a bank, representing debt.

Answer: The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy was founded in Arlington, Virginia in 1951 and focuses its philanthropic projects on lands, water, climate, oceans, and cities. Their scientists investigate, for example, ways to rebuild and maintain ecosystems and to lessen the impact of invasive plants and animals. Their reach is worldwide, with projects such as the preserving the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado, curbing deforestation in the Yucatán Peninsula, and promoting eco-sensitive tourism in Yunnan Province, China.

This image is supposed to be a picture of the Conservatory, a corner room in the board game Clue (Cluedo).

Answer: The Natural

"The Natural" was directed by Barry Levinson and starred Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, and Kim Basinger, as well as Redford. It followed the life of Roy Hobbs, a professional baseball player who had a late-career surge of home runs. Critics generally praised it, and it was nominated for multiple Academy Awards. It was loosely based on the 1952 novel by the same name written by Bernard Malamud.

This picture is of a little slugger in my family.

Answer: Voltaire

Voltaire (1694-1778) could be hilarious as well as brilliant. A prolific writer, he wrote poems, essays, plays, books, polemics, and pamphlets on politics, religion, slavery, civil liberties, freedom, and virtually every major issue of the time. Major works included "Oedipus," Annals of the Empire, and "Candide."

This picture is supposed to represent voltage and nudge you toward choosing Voltaire.