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1. Hi, everybody! Welcome back! I missed you. Ya know, I like to listen to oldies on the radio, and I heard one today before I came down to the library. It was called "I Love a Rainy Night." I think it was from 1980 or so, and it was made by some guy whose first name was Eddie, but what was his last name? It just won't come to me.
2. Hmm. It's funny. Thinking about Eddie got my mind going on bunnies and stuff. I used to watch Bugs Bunny a lot. He was my favorite. Bugs starred in a lot of cartoons, but there was something special about one he made in 1958, "Knighty Knight, Bugs." I'm not sure what the special thing was, but I got it down to a few possibilities.
3. Ya know, I don't see the word "hare" much, but I think it's the same as a rabbit. I've seen it used in people's names. Like there was a book I read once by Kurt Vonnegut. I remember there are some people in it with funny names like Roland Weary and Valencia something and Bernard O'Hare. There was a war in it, too, maybe World War II because I think I remember German soldiers. I just can't remember the title of the book, as usual. Can you help me?
4. Bunnies and rabbits and hares! Oh, my! But that's another quiz. I used to eat a kind of cereal when I was a kid. There was a TV commercial for it where this rabbit was always trying to steal the kids' cereal, and the kids would say something like "Silly Rabbit! ____ are for kids," I think it was. But I can't remember for the life of me what the cereal was called. Can you?
5. Yeah. I love cereal. I was eating some the other day while I was watching a movie on TV. It was about a guy who got pregnant (yeah, a guy!), but it wasn't Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was a little guy and the movie was from the seventies. It was easy to tell because of the stupid-looking clothes. Oh, yeah! I remember now it was called "Rabbit Test," but who was the actor who played the pregnant guy? His name is on the tip of my tongue!
6. My dad and grandpa used to listen to old records when I was a kid. They had a lotta those big bands, I think they called them, swing music and stuff. Some of it was from the 30s, and I think one guy's first name was Bunny! It's a weird name for a guy, but that was what they called him. Maybe it was a nickname. I think he was a bandleader, and he did this song that was something like that Billy Joel song, "We Didn't Start the Fire," but it was about things that happened in the thirties, like a war in Spain or somewhere and one of the Presidents, maybe Roosevelt. Does anybody know his last name? Bunny what?
7. I was taking a trivia quiz on some web site one time. Can't remember what it was but it had a picture of a jester in a computer monitor. Something like that. Anyway, the quiz was about airports, and it asked what famous airport in the United States is named after a hero of World War Two. Which one was it?
8. I was looking in a baseball book the other day, and I saw a picture of a player from a long time ago. He looked sort of ragged and gritty and tough as nails, like so many players of his era. This Hall of Fame shortstop, who played for 24 seasons, from 1912 to 1935, mostly with the Boston Braves, was nicknamed for his speed. Who was he?
9. I read a lot in the library, and some of the books I've read were by John Updike, I think his name was. Always mix him up with John Barth, John Irving, and John Steinbeck, and that other John, was it Cheever? I remember I read some books by him about a character named Rabbit Angstrom. I can bring four titles to mind, but I think one of them is not one of Updike's books, but which one is it?
10. I saw another bunny thing the other day, that commercial that's been on for so many years. They have a bunny marching around playing a drum, but as usual I can't remember what the commercial was for. Can you help me by filling in the brand name in the blank?
11. Hmmm. Another bunny thing just popped into my mind. Where will it end? There was this actor in movies way, way back, even before Chaplin. I saw a picture of him. He was a fair-haired roly-poly kind of guy, always smiling. The lovable type. And he made a lot of short comedies, you know, the kind everybody made in those days. But there wasn't much competition back around 1910, so he became one of the biggest stars in the world. I read that he had the most recognizable face in the world, the kind of title Ali and Michael Jordan had much later. What was that guy's name?
12. Wow! All these things remind me of other things. There was a dance we used to do in the early fifties. I guess you would call it a novelty dance. It was like the conga, where everybody lines up with their hands on the hips of the person in front of them, but in this dance they do steps that include hops. I'm trying to remember the name of the dance. Can you help me?
13. Hey, I just remembered one of my favorite songs from the sixties. It was a real hippie drug song. It went "One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small/And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all/Go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall." I remember the title too. See if you can guess.
14. That reminds me of "Alice in Wonderland" and the Mad Tea Party. I was trying to remember who was at that party. Let's see. There was Alice of course, and the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse. But there was this other crazy character too. He was some kind of hare but there was more to his name. Can you fill it in? The _____ Hare.
15. I remember my mom used to make a dish called Welsh rabbit, but I sometimes see it written a different way. I remember the first word in the answer is Welsh. The second one is _______.
16. I read about a movie that came out in 2002 that's about three girls who escape captivity and walk 1500 miles across the wilderness to get home? It was called "Rabbit-Proof fence." I can't recall what country it took place in. Can you help me?
17. There was this really cute book my mom used to read to me when I was a kid. It was a good story about animals, like most of them were good but one was bad and got into trouble. I remember the name of the writer because her first name was spelled funny: Beatrix Potter. But what was the name of the character?
18. Oh, I thought of another good one. Once upon a time, there was a little girl who saw a white rabbit jump down a hole and followed him out of curiosity. What was her name?
19. Is there anything left on this topic? Hmmm. I think there was a TV show on in 2002 about a rabbit. No, it was a bunny! It was a weird kind of show and it was on Fox television. I think Eugene Levy and Seth somebody were in it. You know, that guy who played Dr. Evil's son Scott? Oh, right! Seth Green. What was the show called?
20. Hmmm. Was there anything else rabbit- or bunny-related? Oh, yeah! I forgot the biggest one! The Easter Bunny! I read that the Easter bunny didn't start in America, that it was from some other country. What country was it?
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