The As You Like It Quiz

Answer: George

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Answer: Africa

Africa is the second-largest continent at 11,724,300 square miles (30,365,700 sq km). It has been the topic of many movies, books, and songs, such as "Africa" by the group Toto ("I bless the rains down in Africa..."). One movie filmed on the Dark Continent was 1985's "Out of Africa", which won multiple Oscars for director Sydney Pollack.

Answer: April

If anyone else is old enough to remember watching "The Love Boat", you'll remember that a frequent guest star was Charo, the sexy Latin entertainer. On the show, she played April, who charmed passengers and crew alike with her outfits and bubbly personality. "April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land...." is the first verse of "The Waste Land", T.S. Eliot's famous poem. Most people would disagree with his characterization of April, which is generally regarded as the start of spring and new life.

This is probably why April was chosen as the month for Earth Day. The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, and continues to be celebrated every year as a reminder to us that we belong to the earth, not the other way around.

Answer: Paris

Paris, the capital of France, is famous for many things. It was here on July 22, 1894 that the first organized auto race took place. There were 21 cars in attendance- 13 gas, and 8 steam. There are many museums in Paris, such as the Marmottan, which features 65 paintings by the Impressionist Claude Monet. If you happen to be in the City of Light, check out the big oblong thing in the Place de la Concorde. This is the 3,300-year-old Obelisk of Luxor, a gift from Egyptian viceroy Mehemet Ali to Charles X of France in 1829.

Answer: bears

Bears, those big furry critters, are members of the ursidae family and can be found in many parts of the world. The kermode bear (Ursa Americanus Kermodie) is a white bear that inhabits the rain forests of British Columbia. Although it is white, it's not a polar bear; this cutie is actually a subspecies of black bear that looks white due to a recessive gene. Andian (also spelled Andean), or spectacled, bears are dark colored, such as black, brown, or reddish, and are distinguished by white markings around the eyes that resemble spectacles.

Interestingly, each bear has his own individual markings, like human fingerprints. The Malayan sun bear can be found in Asia, on the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and Borneo and Sumatra. Because of their fierce image, bears are often used as mascots and names of sports teams. One example is the National Football League's Chicago Bears, winners of the 1986 Super Bowl.

A fictional baseball team called The Bears featured in 1976's "The Bad News Bears", a comedy starring Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal.

Answer: Dallas

The prime-time soap opera "Dallas" was one of the biggest TV hits of the '80s. Premiering in 1978, it chronicled the adventures of a rich oil family and their friends. It was, obviously, set in Dallas, the eighth largest city in the US. This large Texas city, known as "Big D", keeps getting bigger, as the technology and mercantile industries centered there continue to attract people. If you visit Dallas, don't miss the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza, site of the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

The museum is located on the sixth floor (surprise) of the Dallas County Administration Building, formerly the Texas School Book Depository, from which Lee Harvey Oswald aimed his gun at the President on that fateful day.

Answer: Rose

You will probably not be surprised to learn that the rose is America's national flower. America's love affair with this fragrant flower dates back to the 16th century, when colonists brought it to the New World. The rose itself is much older- fossils of roses dating back 35 million years have been found.

The Greek poet Sappho may be one of the earliest poets to pay tribute to the flower in her 600 BC "Ode to the Rose", in which she referred to the rose as the "queen of flowers". A more recent tribute to the rose was made by American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), in her immortal lines "A rose is a rose is a rose." Rose is a popular name for women, such as Rose Nylund, the charming dingbat played by Betty White on the sitcom "The Golden Girls".

Answer: Mercury

Obviously the Roman god came first, followed by the planet and the element which were both named for him. Mercury was the Roman god of travel, commerce, and thievery; his Greek counterpart was the winged-sandalled Hermes, messenger of the gods. The planet Mercury, the closest to the sun, was named for this speedy god because it has the shortest year- 88 days.

The first spacecraft to drop by the small red planet was Mariner 10, which flew by three times in 1974 and 1975. Only part of its surface was mapped, as it's too close to the sun for the equipment. Messenger visited between 2011 and 2015.

The chemical element mercury is actually a metal that is liquid at room temperature; it's also poisonous. Its Latin name, "hydrargyrus", means "liquid silver", as that's what it resembles (this is why its chemical abbreviation is Hg).

Answer: eagle

American aviator Charles Lindbergh was the most famous man in the world in 1927 when he became the first person to fly nonstop from New York to Paris in his plane "The Spirit of St. Louis". The historic flight, which took place on May 20-21, was 3,610 miles across the Atlantic. What many people don't know is that Lindbergh took a Felix the Cat doll along with him for luck (and they laughed at me when I took my stuffed Scooby-Doo to school as a kid!) In golf, which I won't pretend to know anything about, an eagle is a score of two under par on any individual hole.

The beautiful ABBA song "Eagle" was first featured on their 1978 release, "ABBA: The Album".

Answer: Odyssey

The 2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft entered the orbit of Mars in October 2001 after a six-month trip to get there. According to NASA, the purpose of the trip is to determine the possible suitability of sustaining human life on Mars. NASA gives an optimistic 20 years as a ballpark figure for when we'll be able to vacation on the Red Planet. (I'll pass) Remember the disco hit "Native New Yorker"? "Runnin pretty, New York City girl..." It was by the band Odyssey, who was pretty much a one-hit wonder. And surely everyone knows of the classic tale "The Odyssey", attributed to Greek poet Homer.

This is the story of the odyssey, or journey, of the hero Odysseus as he encounters such characters as the sorceress Circe and Scylla the sea monster. Argus was his faithful dog who awaited his return.