Mickey's Common Bond: Part 9 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hagar and Helga

They're just your typical, everyday Viking types of centuries ago. Hagar's job is looting and pillaging. Helga's job is walloping pots, and Hagar when he comes home drunk. The comic was created by Dik Browne.
(Dik Browne, coincidentally, did the drawings for Hi and Lois when it debuted in 1954)

Answer: University of Texas

The University of Texas was founded in 1883 by action of the State Legislature. It has about 50,000 students and 2,400 faculty. That's Texas size! TCU is in Fort Worth, Rice in Houston, A. & M. in College Station.

Answer: The Devil

Dana Carvey was the Church Lady ("Well, isn't that special!"), Adam Sandler was Opera Man, and Mike Myers was Simon, the little boy who loved to sit in his bathtub and do "drawrings". Lovitz's Devil seemed more like a guy who was trying to be the Devil.

Answer: Traffic Jam

"It hurts my motor to go so slow/Damn this traffic jam". "Traffic Jam" was on "J.T." in 1977. James had hair then!

Answer: The Marine Band

Sousa was the composer of many famous marches, including "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and "The Liberty Bell", theme of "Monty Python's Flying Circus".

Answer: Africa

You might be in Namibia, Botswana, or South Africa, because this is one b-i-g desert.

Answer: truck driver

The series debuted in 1978 and was about a trucker named Billy Joe McKay (Greg Evigan) and his pet, The Bear, who, oddly enough, was a chimp.

Answer: diesel locomotive

The Super Chief was the top train of the Santa Fe Railroad. Starting in 1936, it ran from Chicago to Los Angeles. Today, miniature replicas of the Super Chief are still a favorite of model railroaders.

Answer: Hathor

Hathor is usually portrayed with a sun disk and cow horns.

Answer: dilemma

We all experience them now and then. Two synonyms are "predicament" and "quandary".

Answer: Clarabelle

Clarabelle had a woman's name but was played by a man, first by Bob Keeshan (later known as Captain Kangaroo), then later by Nick Nicholson and Lou Anderson. Clarabelle's specialty was squirting people with seltzer bottles.

Answer: American Buffalo

The 1996 movie starred Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, and Sean Nelson.

Answer: Harpo

Harpo, in fact, had no dialog at all. He was able to speak but was shy about doing so when he debuted on stage, and he carried that through his entire career. He wore a red wig which looked blonde in black and white. Unlike Groucho and Chico, he was able to go about town without being recognized.

Answer: the cornucopia

The story goes that Zeus was playing with the goat Amalthea and accidentally broke off one of her horns. To make up for this, Zeus promised that the horn would always be filled with whatever fruits Amalthea wanted. And so we still have the depiction of the great horn filled with fruit. "Cornucopia" actually means "horn of plenty".

Answer: horns

Yes, all horns of one kind or another. There are the kind vehicles have, as in questions 4 (cars, etc.), 7 (trucks) and 8 (diesel locomotives). Then horns on animals, q. 2 (steer horns, the Longhorns being the sports teams of U. of Texas) and 12, the American buffalo or bison. Next: musical horns, like trumpets and trombones (5).

Then we have two people who communicated with horns (11 and 13). After that, it's a mish mosh: Viking-style helmets like those worn by Hagar and Helga (1); the Devil's horns (3); The Horn of Africa (6), around the center of that continent's east coast; an Egyptian god with horns (9); the horns of a dilemma (10); and the famous horn of plenty (14). Well, there you have it, another excursion into the weird, wacky universe of the Common Bond, and you'd better be good or I'll throw another one at you when you least expect it. Love, Mickey.