Pigs that Never Really Were Trivia Quiz

Answer: Porky Pig

The seniormost of the many anthropomorphic animal characters in Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, Porky Pig was created in March of 1935. His characteristic stutter is his trademark. One of his roles was to end cartoon shorts by saying "Th-th-th-that's all folks!" Porky was voiced by Mel Blanc from 1937 until 1989.

Answer: Napoleon

Orwell's novel is a fantasy allegory of Communist Revolution and the corruption of populist movements by totalitarian leaders. Napoleon and Squealer, two pigs, take the place of kind, wise and gentle Old Major, another pig, as the leaders of the animals' revolution at Manor Farm.

They adopt the seven commandments of animalism and, by the end of the book, Napoleon violates every one of them himself, becoming the enemy which he displaced.

Answer: Babe

Based on a novel by Dick King-Smith ("The Sheep-Pig" 1983), "Babe" describes the adventures of a pig who wants to become the porcine equivalent of a Border Collie. The motion picture was a box-office success and received favourable notice by film critics. Jim Henson's Creature Shop worked on those scenes in which the animals speak English. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, it won one: Best Visual Effects.

Answer: Gub-Gub

In the world created by English author Hugh Lofting, Dr Dolittle keeps a pet pig named Gub-Gub. Gub-Gub is an ardent eater, always interested in the next meal. This explains why one of the books in the series is entitled "Gub Gub's Book: An Encyclopedia of Food: In Twenty Volumes" (1932). It purports to be a record of interviews with Gub-Gub touching upon all things culinary. The gastronomic pig appears in most of the other Dr Dolittle stories.

Answer: Winnie the Pooh

In the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Piglet is Winnie's closest friend. Although very small, he strives to be brave. His bravery, in rescuing Winnie and Owl from Owl's collapsed house, led the bear to compose for him a "Respectful Pooh Song." He can read and write a bit although he spells his own name "Piglit."

Answer: Professor Julius Strangepork

"Pigs in Space" was a sort of show within a show on "The Muppets" television series. Jerry Nelson and Matt Vogel voiced Doctor Strangepork who was a parody of both Doctor Spock on "Star Trek" and Doctor Strangelove (Peter Sellers) in the movie "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964). Strangepork knows how the spaceship Swinetrek works and invents useful things such as invisibility pills and the Dissolvatron.

The prototype to Professor Swinepork was Doctor Nauga in a first-season sketch called "Return to Beneath the Planet of the Pigs."

Answer: Salomey

Salomey the pig was probably the last female of her species: Hammus alabammus, a particularly loveable breed of pigs. Her name is a play on the daughter of Herod II and Herodias in the New Testament who danced for the head of Saint John the Baptist. In one story arc, she was kidnapped by J.R. Fangsley to breed her with the last male Hammus alabamus, an unattractive pig named Boar Scarloff.

Answer: The Empress of Blandings

It is unknown whether P.G. Wodehouse set out to write a series of books centered on Lord Emsworth, Blandings Castle and the Empress of Blandings. The first was "Something Fresh" in 1915 and the last, "Sunset at Blandings" in 1977, written when the author was in his nineties.

The Empress is Lord Emsworth's dearest possession. She wins regularly in the fat-pig category at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. Various schemes to kidnap her provide the plot for a dozen novels. Hiring a good pig keeper has always been a challenge; Lord Emsworth works his way through a remarkable variety of unworthies.

Answer: Sir Oinksalot

In the Simpsons Universe, Springfield A&M is the rival of Springfield University. The college mascot is a hog named Sir Oinks-a-Lot, a pink male pig. In one episode, Homer and three of his hoodlum friends kidnap Sir Oinks-a-Lot as a prank on A&M and get him drunk on malt liquor. When the dean of Springfield U catches them, he is influenced by Sir Oinks-a-Lot's highly-placed friends (e.g. Richard Nixon, on whom the pig had conferred an honorary degree) and expels Homer.

Answer: Wilbur

Despite the name of the novel, Wilbur is the protagonist of "Charlotte's Web" (1952). He was born the runt of a litter and his owner John Arable decided to put him down (for a delectable roast piglet, no doubt). Arable's daughter Fern persuaded him to allow Wilbur to live. Wilbur befriended Charlotte, a spider in the barn, and the rest is the stuff of the novel.

The book was adapted into an animated motion picture in 1973 and Wilbur was voiced by the late Henry Gibson (1935-2009) of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" fame.

Answer: the Hogfather

Much as Father Christmas' eight (or nine) tiny reindeer are reputed to pull the old saint's sleigh, so Gouger, Snouter, Rooter and Tusker pull the sleigh of the Hogfather. Gouger, as the largest and meanest, is perhaps the equivalent of Rudolph. The Hogfather is over twenty centuries old. Long ago, bloody porcine sacrifice was made to him to ensure that spring would come. Modernly he is reputed to deliver toys and candy (pink sugar pigs, in particular) on Hogswatchnight.

Answer: bricks

The story of the three little pigs is very old having been in print since 1840 and existing in oral form before that. There are numerous versions and considerable variety in the ways in which the basic story has been told. In both the 1886 James Halliwell-Phillips version and the 1890 Joseph Jacobs version, the pigs' houses are made of straw, sticks and bricks respectively.

In Andrew Lang's 1892 version, the houses were made of mud, cabbage and brick. The Walt Disney and other animated adaptations tend to follow the classic three structures. No matter the building material, the Big Bad Wolf huffs and puffs and blows down the first two but not the last.

Answer: All of these are true

Clarence Saunders opened the first Piggly-Wiggly grocery store in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 6, 1916. Up to this time, grocery shoppers gave a list to store clerks who fetched the products for them. The idea, 'though ubiquitous today, was novel, even revolutionary, for its time. Saunders always avoided directly answering the question of why he named his stores Piggly Wiggly.

His smiling-pig logo became well known nationwide.

Answer: The Cincinnati Dancing Pig

Al Lewis and Guy Wood wrote "Cincinnati Dancing Pig" which was made popular through the 78-rpm recording by Red Foley. It was also recorded by Vic Damone, by Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Starlighters, by Teresa Brewer with Jack Pleis & His Orchestra, and by Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys. As the lyrics say "From Duluth to Birmingham he's the pork chop Dapper Dan. He's the keenest ham what am, that Cincinnati dancing pig."

Answer: Miss Piggy

Born in a small-town butcher shop, Miss Piggy rose to success on "The Muppet Show" from being a member of the chorus to headlining as a prima-donna chanteuse. She has recurrent roles as Nurse Piggy in "Veterinarian's Hospital" and as First Officer Piggy in "Pigs in Space" and appeared in all of the Muppets' theatrical movies. She was voiced by Frank Oz from 1976 to 2002. When displeased with the frog, she may belt him with a karate-style blow called a pork chop. Her birthday is June 14.