Three of a Kind, Part 10 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) served under General Ulysses S. Grant and then succeeded Grant as General of the Armies of the United States when Grant became president. His memoirs are an important first-hand source of knowledge about the Civil War. At the main entrance to New York's Central Park stands Augustus Saint-Gaudens' gilded bronze Sherman Memorial.

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is the foundational federal law governing trade competition and its restraint. It is named for Senator John Sherman, Republican of Ohio. Its primary goal is to prevent monopolies and cartels before they happen.

As a regular feature of "The Rocky and Bullwinkle" show on American TV (1950s-1960s), Mister Peabody appeared in "Peabody's Improbable History." In that series, Mister Peabody - the world's smartest dog, a Nobel laureate and Olympic medalist - and his adopted human son, Sherman, travel through time in the WABAC (pronounced way-back) machine.

Answer: pinto

A pinto horse is not a separate breed but rather a coloration of coat which is distinctive. There are puristic arguments about exactly what constitutes a pinto. The word pinto means "painted" in Spanish and a synonym for the pinto horse is the "paint" or "painted" horse. There are more pinto horses in North America than anywhere else.

In "Palo Pinto Gold," the son of a murdered Texas Ranger goes after his father's partner who killed him for gold. Palo Pinto is an actual town in Texas.

Maria V. Pinto (b. 1957) was born on the South Side of Chicago and has built her high-fashion career in Chicago, after spending some time in New York City. She has also designed costumes for the Joffrey Ballet.

Answer: creek

The nomenclature of hydrology is difficult because single terms are used in different ways in different places. For example, in Canada, the US and Oceana, a creek is a small fresh-water stream, whereas, in parts of Maryland, New England, the UK and India, a creek channels salt water into and out of a swamp with the tide.

Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is alternatively titled "A Dead Man's Dream." It was published in 1890 in the San Francisco Examiner. From a literary point of view, it is an attempt at the sort of stream of consciousness writing which would become popular years later.

Chris Thile plays mandolin, Sara Watkins plays violin and Sean Watkins plays guitar in Nickel Creek, originally known as The Nickel Creek Band when it formed in 1989. They recorded six albums before a hiatus in 2007, coming back together in 2014 for another album and a concert tour to support it.

Answer: sugar

Sugar Mountain is situated inside the Pisgah National Forest, offering skiing in the winter and golfing in the summer. The "mountain" reaches 5,236 feet. The area straddles the Eastern Continental Divide.

Val Kilmer plays Batman in 1995's "Batman Forever." His antagonist is Two Face, played by Tommy Lee Jones. Two Face has two assistants: Sugar, the good one, played by Drew Barrymore, and Spice, the bad one, played by Debi Mazer. Sugar is patterned on a prototypic gun-moll of the 1920s and 1930s.

Irving Kahal (1903-1942), Sammy Fain and Pierre Norman wrote "When I Take My Sugar to Tea" in 1931. It was released for publication rather than for a movie or Broadway show. It has been recorded variously by Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Leon Redbone.

Answer: bottle

The Fireballs recorded "Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine, when you gonna let me get sober? Leave me alone, let me go home. I wann'a go back and start over." This was followed by covers by the Kingston Trio, the Royal Guardsmen, the Irish Rovers and Judy Collins.

A bottle rocket is a black-powder-driven rocket engine attached to a stick which is used to stabilize the device during and immediately after launch. It normally has no fins or other guidance. Very small and very cheap, these fireworks are manufactured primarily in Asia.

A fiasco is a glass jug partially covered in a woven straw basket which normally contains wine. The basket both protects the bottle in shipment and creates a holder which allows a round-bottomed bottle to stand stably on a table. The plural of fiasco is fiaschi. These have been used in Italy since at least the middle of the 14th Century.

Answer: barber

Modern barbers pretty much constrain themselves to wash and cut hair, to shave their customers, and maybe even to give the occasional facial. Medieval barbers were more like medical practitioners, engaged in dentistry, bloodletting, leeching, fire cupping and the like. The red stripes on a barber's pole represent blood spilled in the processes.

Bertrand Russell's "barber paradox" states that the barber is the one who shaves all those and only those who do not shave themselves. The question is: Does the barber shave himself? The impossibility created has entertained students of philosophy for generations.

Red Barber contributed mightily to the baseball vocabulary of Americans. His "Barberisms" are collected, along with much of his life story, in his autobiography "Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat" (New York: Doubleday, 1968). He was inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and won a Peabody Award for his post-retirement broadcasts on National Public Radio with Bob Edwards.

Answer: hopper

Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was an actor, director, still photographer, sculptor and painter, among other talents. He teamed with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in "Easy Rider" which both contributed to and detracted from his success. His directing fared well at Cannes; his acting less well at the Oscars.

A "hopper balloon" is very much like a typical hot-air balloon save that, in place of the basket in which several people ride, it has a single seat in which the sole pilot sits. Hopper balloons are smaller (and generally less expensive) than standard hot-air balloons. Several are sold commercially and many others are made by their owners from kits or designs.

Grasshoppers are insects of the order Orthoptera, related to katydids and crickets. When they swarm in immense numbers, they are called locusts. Grasshoppers are eaten by numerous predators including humans. The Seagull Monument on Temple Square in Salt Lake City commemorates the 1848 invasion of locusts into the Salt Lake Valley and their extermination by flocks of seagulls which appeared and ate them all.

Answer: gum

A kookaburra is a kingfisher more associated with trees than water, despite the "fisher" in its name. Its loud call is distinctive and the name of the bird comes from an attempt to replicate that sound: koo-kuh-boo-ruh. An Australian nursery rhyme (and round) has it: "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree. Merry, merry king of the bush is he. Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra! Gay your life must be."

The name "Gum" is an acronym for the Russian name Glįvnyj Universįånyj Magazķn which translates, word for word, "main universal store." There are a number of department stores in Russia which bear this name but the most famous is the one facing Red Square. This mall housed over a thousand small shops from 1812 until the revolution. The store nationalized them all but was itself surrendered to private ownership with the fall of the Soviet Union.

Chewing gum, which has been masticated by humans since prehistory, is technically any substance chewed for pleasure (flavour, exercise, discharge of nervous energy) without being swallowed. Modern chewing gum is a form of rubber. Some find the habit obnoxious in others; the government of Singapore banned the sale and use of chewing gum in 1992.

Answer: Wednesday

The fourth day of the week in Old English was wodnesdęg, meaning Woden's Day. Woden is another form of Odin. Compare this with the Old Norse Ošinsdagr, for instance. According to Germanic and Scandinavian legend, Odin created the earth and the sky, man and woman.

The Sheffield Wednesday Football Club was created in 1867 by the Sheffield Wednesday Cricket Club which had been founded in 1820. It is one of the oldest teams of its sort in the world. It fell out of the Premier League in 2000 and has not yet (as of 2016) found its way back. The "Wednesday" in the football club's name refers to the day of the week on which the cricket club played its matches.

The term "Wednesday" or "Wednesday's Child" often refers to an orphan or a child put up for adoption. Wendy "Wednesday" Martin is an American author who writes extensively about step-parenting. She earned a PhD in comparative literature and cultural studies at Yale University. Her book "Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel and Act the Way We Do" (2009) is a memoir.

Answer: pine

All pine nuts are edible but not all pine nuts are big enough to be worth harvesting. In both the New World and the Old World, certain pine trees produce edible nuts which are used in cooking. They figure significantly in Korean, Chinese, Mexican, Native American and Italian cooking, in the latter being called pignoli (pronounced pin-YOH-lee).

Christopher Whitelaw Pine (b. 1980) replaces William Shatner as the captain of the Enterprise in "Star Trek" (2009), "Star Trek into Darkness" (2013) and "Star Trek Beyond" (2016). Chris Pine signed a contract for a fourth film as did Director J. J. Abrams.

PINE was developed by students and faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle. Its first edition was published in 1989 and it was regularly supported until it was replaced in 2006 by another programme called ALPINE. It operated in UNIX, Linux and Windows environments.