The Code Is R-A-L-P-H Trivia Quiz

Answer: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Helfer created what he called "affection training' to replace all the previous less humane training tools. The idea was to train the animals with love and respect and do away with prior methods of whips, chairs and guns. He provided animals for Hollywood movies, most notable are Clarence the cross-eyed lion and Judy the chimp which were used in the drama series "Daktari" as well as Ben, the bear used in the television series "Gentle Ben".

Helfer created Africa USA on a ranch in Soledad Canyon, Los Angeles in 1963. In 1972 he bought out Marine World in Redwood City from the American Broadcasting Company after Marine World went bankrupt. He added a wildlife park and renamed it Marine World/Africa USA. The park was relocated to Vallejo, California in 1986. The park was managed by the Six Flags Entertainment Corporation until it was added to Six Flags in 1998 as Six Flags Marine World.

Helfer wrote and produced an adventure film, "Savage Harvest" in 1981 as well as authoring a number of books, specifically life stories of famous animals.

Answer: Navy

Nobel prize winner William Golding's "The Lord of the Flies" was published in 1954. A group of boys find themselves stuck on a remote island after an aeroplane crash and throughout the book they attempt to maintain a form of civilization on the island. Ralph brings the survivors together and tries to maintain a level of order among the boys, while protecting the smaller children. He is elected chief by the boys. Piggy is a bespectacled boy, who appears as the voice of common sense and reason. Jack, leader of the choir, is in a struggle for power with Ralph and two tribes quickly form with Jack's tribe tending towards savagery versus Ralph's more civilised group.

Ralph is quoted as saying in Chapter 1:

"I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me. He's a commander in the Navy. When he gets leave he'll come and rescue us..."

And in Chapter 2:

"My father's in the navy. He said there aren't any unknown islands left. He says the Queen has a big room filled with maps and all the islands in the world are drawn there. So, the Queen's got a picture of this island... And sooner or later a ship will put in here... So you see, sooner or later, we'll be rescued."

Answer: Bloodhound Gang

Ralph Wiggum is a peculiar character found on the animated series "The Simpsons". He is the son of the police chief and is in love with Lisa Simpson. He is known for saying the most unusually odd things which often seem absurd in the context of the conversation.

Bloodhound Gang released the song "Ralph Wiggum" on their album "Hefty Fine" in 2005 and the song consists almost solely of Ralphisms as lyrics. The album actually managed to reach fourth position on the Austria Top 40 and German Top 100 albums charts. It also managed a respectable twenty-fourth place on the US Billboard Top 200 chart in 2005.

Answer: Lauren's son David is married to Bush's granddaughter Lauren

Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz in New York City in 1939. He is a well known fashion designer, having created the Ralph Lauren Corporation. The Ralph Lauren brand is one of the world's most well known brands, designing products in the apparel, fragrance, home and accessories markets.

Lauren's second eldest child David was born in 1971 and married ex-President George H.W. Bush's granddaughter Lauren in 2011. David and Lauren Lauren became parents in 2015 with the birth of their son James.

Ralph Lauren was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1987 and after surgery to remove it, made a full recovery.

Answer: Fiennes

Lord Voldemort is the antagonist to the boy wizard Harry Potter in the series of books written by English author JK Rowling. Films have been made of all the books, but Voldemort only appears in corporeal form from the fourth film, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005). Ralph Fiennes has portrayed Voldemort in four films and had a cameo role in the sixth film, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (2009).

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, pronounces his name as "Rafe" instead of the conventional Ralph. He is an English born actor and has acted in, produced and directed a number of movies since his movie debut in 1992 as Heathcliff in "Emily Brontė's Wuthering Heights" in which he acted opposite Juliette Binoche.

He is the eldest of six children and his younger brother Joseph is also an actor.

Answer: Cat

Rotten Ralph is the brainchild of writer Jack Gantos, illustrated by Nicole Rubel. The first book in the series, called "Rotten Ralph" was published in 1976 and the last book "Three Strikes for Rotten Ralph" was published in 2011. Rotten Ralph is a cat, a very mean cat, that plays practical jokes on his human family.

The television series was based on the books and aired from 1998 to 2001, a total of 55 episodes. Rick Jones, a Canadian voice actor, provided the voice for Ralph. He has amassed a significant resume from his first voice acting role in the 1983 children's series "The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings".

Answer: Brooklyn Dodgers

New York born, Ralph Branca, was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943. He played for them from 1943 - 1953, then the Detroit Tigers from 1953 - 1954. He pitched for the New York Yankees for one season in 1954 and returned to the Dodgers to end off his twelve season career in 1956.

Branca was the pitcher who delivered the pitch to Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants who is responsible for the home run known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World". It was a three run home run in the ninth inning of the third game decider of the 1951 National League tie-breaker series played between the Dodgers and the Giants. This was the first game to be televised nationally and it was broadcast on radio all across America, including to servicemen stationed in other countries. In a strange co-incidence, the phrase "shot heard round the world" was coined by another Ralph, Waldo Emerson this time, in his poem "Concord Hymn" in 1837 about the American Revolutionary War's first clash.

Answer: Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. was Martin Luther King Jr's closest friend and confidant. A Civil Rights Movement leader in his own right, he together with King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957. Following Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat for a white person and her subsequent arrest, the Montgomery bus boycott campaign was implemented in Montgomery, Alabama. A subsequent federal ruling declared that racially segregated buses were unconstitutional. Both King and Abernathy took part in the boycott. The SCLC was created shortly after the boycott after a number of ministers and leaders came together at King's invitation.

King was assassinated in 1968, shot in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison, but died in prison after having served 29 years. Abernathy took over as leader of the SCLC upon King's death. He served as president until 1977.

Answer: John Bunyan

"The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come; Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream" written as a religious allegory by English author John Bunyan and published in 1678. An allegory is a means of taking complicated concepts and simplifying them for the reader, often with hidden symbolic meanings. A good example of this would be Orwell's "Animal Farm" wherein which the pigs represent the Russian Revolution's political figures.

Ralph Vaughn Williams was an English composer born in 1872, who was responsible for a number of ballets and operas written in a career that spanned almost fifty years. "The Pilgrim's Progress" was Williams' last opera and he completed it in 1951. It is noted that he turned down a knighthood, but did accept the Order of Merit in 1935 as this would not give him any honorary title (Sir) and he could remain Dr Vaughn Williams.

Answer: Pluto

The New Frontiers program launched by NASA is a series of space exploration missions. The New Horizons (New Frontiers 1) mission to explore Pluto was launched in 2006. The Juno mission (New Frontiers 2) was launched in 2011 to Jupiter and OSIRIS-REx (New Frontiers 3) was launched in September 2016 an is an asteroid study with the idea of retrieving a sample of that asteroid.

The new Horizons space probe includes two photographic instruments. the first is called Alice. Alice is a spectrometer for ultraviolet imaging. The second is the 6 cm (aperture) Ralph telescope. Ralph has two channels, one a broad band and colour channel visible-light CCD imager and the other a near infrared imaging spectrometer.

Ralph and Alice are named after the husband and wife in the 1950s sitcom "The Honeymooners".