One Quiz, Ten Categories

Answer: opossum

Well, it doesn't lay eggs. I just put that in there to make the question seem harder. The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) is the only North American animal with a pouch, or a marsupial. It was originally from South America and came to North America around three million years ago.

Answer: hole in one

ON - HOLE - E

Does that make the answer "hole in one" stand out more clearly? As noted in the hint, it's a great success in golf, which is definitely a sporting event, even if some people complain it's not a game they'd want to watch. I bet if they knew a hole in one was coming, they'd be ready to watch!

Answer: Marvin Hamlisch

Hamlisch (1944-2012) won a Tony award and Pulitzer prize for "A Chorus Line," which he composed in 1975. In 1986 he was also nominated for an Academy Award for the movie version. The final song, "One," shows how the individual dancers fade away into a single, matching, costumed chorus line, their individuality lost in exchange for the entertainment.

Answer: One Life to Live

"One Life to Live" stayed on ABC its whole run, until attempts were made at the end, without success, to continue it somehow, perhaps through Hulu or iTunes.

Viki Lord, the fictional main character, was first played by Gillian Spencer, but was taken over by Erika Slezak from 1971 to 2012. She won six Emmys. The leading male character, Dr. Larry Wolek, was played from 1969 to 2004 by Michael Storm, who received an Emmy nomination. And of course there were dozens more characters, each the favorite of many fans.

Answer: mouse

"Hickory dickory dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
And down he ran
Hickory dickory dock"

It was first published in 1744, and the words hickory, dickory, and dock have changed many times. There's no definite explanation for them, though some think the poem was a counting-out rhyme.

Shepherds in Westmorland, England used hevera, devera and dick in the 1800s for eight, nine and ten. Start counting on your fingers at the first mention of "mouse" and move to the next finger at each accented word or syllable. The final hickory will be eight and dock will land on ten. One could repeat the rhyme endlessly to count sheep by tens, saying "hickory, dickory, dock" only once and starting fresh at "The mouse" each time. Maybe there's some logic to the idea.

Answer: a one-piece pajama or jumpsuit

A "onesie" started out referring to baby clothes and the word is actually trademarked by the baby food company Gerber. A musician and entrepreneur developed similar clothing for adults to wear outdoors and has had success marketing them, not under the name onesies, though, even if people call them that.

Answer: True

Longitude lines spread apart at the equator and meet at the poles, so they get closer together as they approach the poles. At the equator, one degree is 111.32 kilometers or 69.17 miles. At 80 degrees north latitude, closer to the north pole, one degree of longitude is only 19.39 kilometers or 12.05 miles.

Answer: German submarines sank U.S. merchant ships

German submarines sank the British passenger ship Lusitania in May 1915, losing American sympathies, then sank four US merchant marine ships in March 1917. President Woodrow Wilson called for a declaration of war the following month.

Answer: ribbing

Garter stitch is knitting every stitch. Stockinette alternates a knitted row with a purled row. Cable is a fancier stitch that makes those twisted cables in sweaters. Ribbing is good for cuffs or anywhere that extra stretchiness is needed, but even plain old k1p1 can be made into endless variations by knitting or purling more than one stitch, or alternating each row.

Answer: If I one won token, could I cash it in now?

The Online Etymology Dictionary says "to win" as a verb goes back to the 1300s and came from Old English and German, but the noun meaning "a victory in a game or contest" is only as old as 1862, based on the verb. "One" is from c.1200, but was originally pronounced more like "own," as in "only," until c.1400 in the south and west of England, becoming general in the 1700s.