Three of a Kind, Part 11 Trivia Quiz

Answer: daddy

"Daddy" Warbucks is a major character in the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" (1924-2010), in the movies (1932, 1938, 1982, 1999, 2014) and in the Broadway musical "Annie" (1977). His character is one of the richest men in the world.

"Big Daddy" Don Garlits was the father of modern American drag racing. He was the first to attain 170, 180, 200, 240, 250 and 270 miles per hour in the quarter-mile drag format. His car "Swamp Rat XXX" (the one that broke the 270 mph mark) took residence at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was created in 1993 as part of the renewal of interest in swing music in American and Europe. They released an eponymous album in 1994 and have succeeded ever since. In other media, they appeared as themselves in an episode of "Scobbie Doo" and in the 1996 film "Swingers."

Answer: Egyptian

Egyptians are an ethnic group in North Africa which make up over ninety percent of the population of Egypt. Their official language is Modern Standard Arabic but they also use an adapted form called Egyptian Arabic which contains many ancient Egyptian words. Theirs is one of the most ancient cultural histories of any people on earth.

Mika Waltari wrote the historical novel "The Egyptian" in Finnish. It was translated into English from a Swedish translation and made into a movie. It is the story of a physician in the 18th Dynasty during the reign of Akhenaten. The film starred Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney and Peter Ustinov.

There is only one bird -- the Egyptian vulture -- in the genus Neophron. This is a small Old World bird which feeds primarily on carrion but will also prey on small live animals. These clever vultures drop rocks on the eggs of other birds to break into and eat them.

Answer: spice

Almost every food has its own flavour. Other flavours may be introduced to food by adding herbs and spices. Herbs are the green leafy parts of a plant; spices are everything else: flowers, buds, bark, roots, berries, seeds, twigs and any other part which is not an herb.

The Spice Network was created in 1994 as a paid pornography channel alongside the Playboy TV Channel. Both were sold and repackaged by other owners to an international market.

Synthetic marijuana is also known as K2, Spice, Incense, Yucatan Fire, Moon Rocks and Black Mamba. To produce synthetic cannabis, other leaves are sprayed with chemicals which produce effects similar to those of tetrahydrocannabinol when smoked.

Answer: white

The story of "Snow White" was collected (1812) and edited (1854) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. It was turned into a Broadway play in 1912 and into a Walt Disney movie in 1937. In the play, the dwarves were named Blick, Flick, Glick, Snick, Plick, Whick and Quee. In the Disney movie they were Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy and Dopey.

The "White Power" movement arose in the United States in response to the term "Black Power" used by Stokely Carmichael of the Black Panther Party. George Lincoln Rockwell of the American Nazi Party used the term extensively.

James Springer White wrote about, edited and taught the faith of the Seventh-Day Adventists. He was married to Ellen G. White who was also a prolific writer and founder of the church. Together they are buried in Battle Creek, Michigan, where they founded Battle Creek College as a sort of Adventist seminary.

Answer: boxer

Of all the animals in George Orwell's "Animal Farm" (1945), Boxer the horse is the strongest and works the hardest. He is not, however, particularly bright. In the allegory of the novel, Boxer stands for the proletariat in Communist Russia. Although Orwell was himself a socialist, he does not treat the working class kindly.

The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against Western influence, Christian missionary practices and imperialist expansion in China. The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists were known in the West as "the Boxers." They were opposed by the Eight-Nation Alliance of Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. The film "55 Days at Peking" (1963) is set during the Boxer Rebellion.

Paul Simon wrote and Simon & Garfunkel recorded "The Boxer" in 1968-9. It appears on their album "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" (1970). It is a sad lament in the first person followed by a cry of perseverance in the third person by a boxer.

Answer: crystal

The Crystal Cathedral was built 1977-1981 to house the congregation of Robert H. Schuller's Dutch Reformed congregation in and around Garden Grove. Its organ is also one of the largest in the world. Schuller's ministry went bankrupt in 2010 and sold the building to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange which will use it as a cathedral once it is renovated.

Waterford Crystal was founded in Ireland in 1783 and has been through many tumultuous changes of ownership since. It is located in Waterford City, Ireland. Its products are marketed together with those of Royal Doulton, Royal Albert and Rogaska.

The Crystal Geyser Water Company was founded in 1977 in Calistoga, California. It produces bottled sparkling water in recyclable PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles. The company is wholly owned by a Japanese pharmaceutical company.

Answer: bath

Many liquids may constitute a bath, e.g. water, mud, milk, champagne. To give a bath to someone is to immerse them in such liquids. Baths are most often given for cleansing purposes but have many other purposes, as well: to soothe, to heal, to initiate or to add a scent.

King George I created the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The name derives from purification rituals associated with knighthood which included bathing. The members are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross, Knight Commander or Dame Commander and Companion, either Civil or Military Division. The Sovereign of the Order is the king or queen of the U.K.

An investor who commits heavily to a particular investment and loses all or most of the capital or position is said to have "taken a bath." The term appears to have entered the lexicon of investment from that of gambling where it referred to "being cleaned out" by gambling losses.

Answer: nose

In creatures which have one, the nose is a location where air enters and leaves the body (respiration) and where sense organs detect odors (olfaction). In humans, the nose is found on the face. The word "nose" entered Modern English from Old English (nosu), Proto-Germanic (nusus), Old Norse (nos), Old Frisian (nose) and Dutch (neus).

Gogol's "The Nose" was published in a literary journal owned by Alexander Pushkin in 1836. It parodies a government official in Saint Petersburg whose nose departs him and which succeeds in society on its own.

In the southwest part of the Town of Mohawk, the Mohawk River passes between two steep bluffs: the Big Nose and the Little Nose, known collectively as The Noses. They are sometimes called "The Gateway to the Upper Mohawk."

Answer: Molly

Molly Pitcher is the popular nickname given to whichever woman it was who fought in the Battle on Monmouth. There is a consensus of historical opinion that her true name was Mary Ludwig Hays. It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to distinguish between folk tales and historical fact about this champion of liberty.

It is a surprise to many that the career of Molly Ringwald began with the American television programme "The Facts of Life" (1979-80). Her success as a teen actor was assured by her roles in "Sixteen Candles" (1984), "The Breakfast Club" (1985), and "Pretty in Pink" (1986). She has played many Broadway roles and has recorded jazz as a singer.

The Molly Maguires arose in 19th century Ireland as a protest against landlords, creditors, banks and others who oppressed agrarian tenants. The movement came to America in connection with the exploitation of Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania. Many of the Molly Maguires were charged with murder, convicted and hanged ... a number for crimes they did not commit.

Answer: Friday

The English word Friday derives from the Old English Frigedaeg, meaning the day of Frigge. This connection is also apparent in Old High German, Modern German and Dutch. In Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, the word is Fredag which means Freyja's Day. The Romance languages all connect Friday with Venus, e.g. viernes in Spanish, venerd́ in Italian, vineri in Romanian and vendredi in French.

According to Daniel Defoe's novel (1719), Robinson Crusoe rescued Friday from cannibals who had imprisoned him with ingestive intent. He named him Friday because of the day on which he was freed. Crusoe converted Friday to (Puritan) Christianity.

Ice Cube plays a young man in South Los Angeles, falsely accused of theft, who loses his job. He becomes enmeshed in drug dealing and (spoiler) nearly loses his life as a result. This silly movie produced two silly sequels.