Three of a Kind, Part 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: bulldog

Yale's bulldog mascot was chosen in the 1890s. Yale alumni claim that their choice of an animal mascot was the first in the United States. Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe (played by Dan Butler) was the host of a radio talk show devoted to sports until he was fired and later put in charge of the station's archives. Bulldog teases Frasier incessantly and acts the macho man, 'tho he is afraid of reptiles.

The bulldog edition of a newspaper comes first off the presses. It is the earliest edition, sometimes printed to deliver to outlying areas.

The term dates (probably) to the newspaper wars in New York City in the 1890s. Early editions were then an attempt to get a paper on the streets ahead of competing publications.

Answer: penguin

"Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales" appeared on CBS from 1963 to 1966. It involved Tennessee Tuxedo, a penguin, and Chumley, a walrus. The programme ran in syndication and in DVD release and was revived on YouTube in 2014. "La Marche de l'empereur" was a highly-successful documentary detailing the reproductive cycle of the emperor penguins of Antarctica.

The American release was much adapted (new Morgan Freeman voiceover; new orchestral score) and also highly successful. Formal evening wear is called a dinner suit in England and a tuxedo in the US.

The American term derives from Tuxedo Park in the Hudson Valley of New York. Nicknames for the American version include penguin suit, monkey suit and soup-and-fish.

Answer: face

Dirk Benedict played the A-Team character Templeton Peck, also known as "Face" or "Face Man" for his good looks. The A-Team ran from 1983 to 1987. Faceman frequently wore suits and drove a Corvette. Al Jolson's recording of "Baby Face" may have been the best known of the early covers but this song was also recorded by Little Richard in 1958, Bobby Darin in 1962, and Paul McCartney in 1974. "Baby face, you've got the cutest little baby face" entertained multiple generations. "The Face" is an international format in which people famous in the fashion industry work with would-be spokesmodels to produce the one best suited to a specific product or company. Naomi Campbell started the show and was a coach in the Australian, British and American versions of the show. Fashion photographer Nigel Barker, well known for his work on "America's Next Top Model" was cast as the host of the American version of "The Face."

Answer: law

In "Burke's Law" (ABC 1963-65; CBS 1994-95), Gene Barry played Amos Burke, captain of the Los Angeles Police Department's homicide unit. The captain was also a millionaire which explained why he was driven by a chauffeur in a 1962 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II. David Jude Heyworth Law (b. 1972) uses his middle name.

As Jude Law, he was nominated for many awards for his portrayal of Dickie Greenleaf in "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1999) and for "Cold Mountain" in 2003. He also has an accomplished career on the British and American stage.

In Jewish culture, the teachings of the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) together with the commentaries of the rabbis upon them constitute "The Law." This term means more than a code of dictates or a book of statutes; it includes the larger sense of custom, guidance and teaching.

Answer: buffalo

The Cape Water Buffalo is a native of Africa, wild, dangerous and not amenable to domestication; the Asian water buffalo is friendly to humans and easily domesticable. The cape buffalo kills over 200 people per year by goring them to death. The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team which plays home games at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.

They consider their "hometown" to be the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area. They were founded in 1960 and were owned continuously by Ralph Wilson from then until his death in 2014.

The original Buffalo Soldiers were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. They were all African-American. The Native Americans against whom they fought named them "buffalo soldiers"; the name came to be used for all black American cavalry soldiers.

Answer: pie

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport (IATA = PIE) is located near Tampa, Saint Petersburg and Clearwater in Florida. The airport was built in 1941 as a military training base; it has functioned as a public airport since the 1950s. Proto-Indo-European, a hypothetical language, is supposed by language scholars to have preceded and contributed to most modern Indo-European languages.

This proto-language is abbreviated PIE. A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry-dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients.

Answer: cherry

The cherry is a smaller stone fruit, one of many plants in the genus Prunus. The fruits are called cherries, the trees are called cherry trees and the wood of the tree is called cherry wood. While Cherry Jones (b. 1956) may be best known for playing President Allison Taylor on television, the bulk of her career has been on Broadway.

She has an extensive resume of roles on film, on stage, on television and even recording voice books. "The Cherry Orchard" opened in 1904. The author died before he could see its great initial success. Directors were divided as to whether to present the play as a comedy or a tragedy.

The universality of themes is evident in its continued modern production.

Answer: moon

"Moonlight Serenade" was written by Glenn Miller, perhaps with some collaboration by Joseph Schillinger. It became the theme song of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. It was first recorded as an instrumental fox trot to which words were later added. The part of Austin Moon is played by Ross Lynch opposite Ally Dawson played by Laura Marano.

The show, about the music industry, ran on the Disney Channel from 2011-2016. Wondering what to do on a bank holiday, Wallace and Gromit build a space ship and travel to the moon in search of cheese in Nick Park's first short stop-action animated Wallace and Gromit film.

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, but lost to "Creature Comforts." The winning film was also produced by Nick Park!

Answer: bear

Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear were characters in Joel Chandler Harris' seven-volume series of Uncle Remus stories (ca. 1881) and therefore in Disney's "Song of the South. (1946)" Br'er Bear and Br'er Fox are frequently at cross purposes to Br'er Rabbit. The stories are Afro-American folktales collected and edited by Harris into the Deep South Gullah dialect. Haydn's Symphony No. 82 in C major was one of six symphonies commissioned for performance in Paris in 1786.

It was nicknamed "the Bear" because the opening of the last movement recreates a bagpipe tune which reminded people of the music played to accompany the dancing bears of street performers. An 1829 piano arrangement of this music was entitled "Danse de l'Ours" for this reason. "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" is a much later adaptation of an earlier story which did not involve a pretty young girl but rather a foul, ugly old lady, and did not involve a family of bears but rather three bachelor bears who lived together in a house in the woods.

Answer: fairy

In the Disney version of the story, Cinderella is assisted by her Fairy Godmother, voiced by Verna Felton. Fairy Godmother has magical powers to make ball gowns, turn pumpkins into carriages and mice into horses. Cinderella claims to have lost her faith but her Fairy Godmother responds "Nonsense, child. If you'd lost all your faith, I couldn't be here. And here I am." Procter & Gamble have manufactured Fairy Liquid, a green dishwashing soap, for over fifty years.

It claims to leave one's hands as soft as one's face. "Fairy liquid" is sometimes used generically to mean any brand of dishwashing liquid.

The Fairy Flag (Am Bratach Sėth in Gaelic) is a magical device -- a small silk flag about 18 inches square -- possessed by the chiefs of the Clan MacLeod.

It is kept at Dunvegan Castle with an ancient drinking cup and an ancient horn. The Fairy Flag was the gift of the fairies to the Clan MacLeod and has the power to win military battles, to cure the illnesses of livestock, to increase fertility in women and beasts, and to draw herring into Loch Dunvegan ... really!