Three of a Kind, Part 15 Trivia Quiz

Answer: sugar

The Sugar Bowl, played since 1935, is now part of the College Football Playoff system which is too confusing to comprehend. The Sugar Bowl has historically been associated with the Southeastern Conference but this has varied and changed over the years.

Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (b. 1947) is a wealthy English business magnate. He chaired Tottenham Hotspur from 1991 to 2001. He has appeared in the British version of the American TV series "The Apprentice" since 2005.

Walter Lantz Studios introduced Sugarfoot the cartoon horse in "A Horse's Tale" (1954). The character continued to appear with Woody the Woodpecker until "Wild Bill Hiccup" in 1970.

Answer: zigzag

A zigzag pattern is one in which constant turns, back and forth, produce a jagged but nonetheless regular line. Zigzag is also a verb meaning to take a course which describes a zigzag pattern. The English word comes from the French ziczac which derived from the German zickzack.

U.S. forces surrendered the Bataan Peninsula to Japan in 1942. In the 1945 campaign to retake the Philippines, the fighting led straight up Zig Zag Pass. The battle is known as "Avenging Bataan."

From 1979 until 1988 BCTV produced "Zig Zag" in Vancouver, British Columbia. The hosts were Marilyn Smith (later seen on TV's "Goosebumps") and Terry David Mulligan. A segment called "The Biff and Bart Show" with Rick Ducommun and Bill Reiter ultimately consumed the show.

Answer: quince

The quince is a fruit, something like an apple or a pear, only hard and astringent and sour. Once cooked, they are quite wonderful in jams, jellies, poached fruits, puddings and pies. Some count it an indispensable ingredient in marmalade. The original meaning of the word marmalade comes from the Portuguese word for quince: marmelo. The seeds contain mild toxins.

The Spanish word for fifteen is quince (KEEN-say). The Spanish word for a young woman's celebration on her womanhood, Quinceañera, derives from this word, on the assumption that the girl/woman has turned fifteen years of age.

Peter Quince writes a play which he wishes to perform for Theseus and Hippolyta on their wedding day. He drafts fellow craftsmen into the cast. Shakespeare uses the play-within-a-play device also in "Loves Labours Lost" and in "Hamlet."

Answer: white

The White Rabbit is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865). He is the one who leads Alice underground saying "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" This is changed in the 1951 Disney movie where he says/sings "I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye! I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" He appears in Grace Slick's Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit" (1967).

After the February and October Revolutions, the Russian Civil War was fought between the Red Army and the White Army made up of tsarist military officers, the bourgeoisie, the Cossacks, and others opposed to the Bolsheviks. The Whites were supported by the United States, France, Great Britain and Japan.

Tony Joe White (b. 1943) is a singer-songwriter born in Louisiana. He wrote both "Polk Salad Annie" (made popular by Elvis Presley and Tom Jones) and "Rainy Night in Georgia" (made popular by Brook Benton).

Answer: bush

George Walker Bush is both himself a former president of the United States (2001-2009) and the son of a former president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993). He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He served as Governor of Texas (1995-2000).

Large parts of the State of Alaska are not reachable by either the North American road network nor by the Alaska State Ferry System. Such areas are referred to collectively as "the bush." The term is used in a parallel way in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

The British rock band Bush first performed in London in 1992 and became much more famous in the United States than in Great Britain. Their first album "Sixteen Stone" was a great commercial success in the U.S. The band dissolved in 2002 but reunited in 2010 both to record and tour. "Man on the Run" is their sixth album.

Answer: samba

The origins of samba are in Angola and the Congo, from which they were carried by the slave trade to colonial Brazil. Both the music and the dance are called samba. Both are closely associated with Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and with "Dia Nacional do Samba" (National Samba Day) on December second.

According to Ancient Sanskrit literature, Lord Krishna had many sons by many wives but none by Jambavati. She asked Krishna for a son and Krishna asked Shiva for a son and the result was Samba. He was not an entire delight in that he caused much destruction and was cursed with leprosy, at one point.

There are many varieties of rice grown in and around India. Samba is a variety of rice with a distinctive taste (starchy, some say) and a characteristic shape (small ovals, smaller than basmati). It is grown throughout Sri Lanka and in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Answer: chestnut

Eight or nine species of chestnut grow in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere: the European, Chinese, Japanese, and American chestnuts. These do not include horse chestnuts (a different tree and nut) nor water chestnuts (an aquatic tuber used in Asian cooking).

In music, particularly in symphonic or other classical music, when a piece becomes so popular and repeatedly performed as to become "worn out" in the sense that people grow weary of it, it is called "a chestnut." The usage dates from 1885 where it was first used with reference to a joke or anecdote told too many times. Emphasis is often added by saying "an old chestnut" although this is clearly redundant.

The Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) is not a nut at all but rather the corm of an aquatic plant grown in Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. It may be eaten raw, pickled, stir-fried or even dried and ground into flour to make the "water chestnut cake" often found in dim sum restaurants.

Answer: hero

The hero sandwich is often made on a large bread roll or even a small loaf of French bread. It is variously known as a submarine sandwich, a grinder, a poor boy (in New Orleans), a torpedo, a spuky, or a hoagie. The term "hero" arose in New York City and Northern New Jersey in the 1950s on the theory that it takes a hero to eat one of these sandwiches.

"Guitar Hero" is a game (originally released on PlayStation 2 in 2005) wherein the player holds a controller that looks like an electric guitar. The player attempts to play along with recorded music while a recorded audience screams its adulation.

Hero is a young female character in William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing." She is sweet, kind, obedient and quiet (at least around her elders). She becomes involved in affairs of the heart -- her own and Beatrice's -- which work out quite satisfactorily in the end, as such matters usually do in Shakespeare's comedies.

Answer: Friday

The Paschal Triduum is the three days leading up to Easter morning: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. These are the "most" holy days of Holy Week, which begins with Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday seven days before Easter. Good Friday is the day on which the Lord's Crucifixion is recalled liturgically.

Radio voice actor Jack Webb created the role of Detective Sergeant Joe Friday of the Los Angeles Police Department when he produced "Dragnet" as a radio series in 1949. The series migrated to television in 1951 and has produced several theatrical films.

T.G.I. Fridays (where, presumably, every day is Friday) opened in 1965, was sold several times, and grew into a global operation in sixty countries. Outlets are now located in hotels and baseball stadiums. The restaurant name has been licensed to Heinz which brands a grocery-store line of frozen foods.

Answer: mule

A mule is the product of breeding a female horse (mare) to a male donkey (jack). A hinny is the product of breeding a male horse (stallion) to a female donkey (jenny). Mules and hinnies have generally greater endurance than a horse, are more resistant to disease than a horse, require less food than a horse, and are less inclined to spook and run if startled.

The Moscow Mule (also called a Vodka Buck) was invented at the Cock and Bull restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1941. It is made with the sharp-tasting ginger beer, never with the milder ginger ale. It is customary to serve this drink in a copper mug.

John "Mule" Miles (1922-2013) played for the Chicago American Giants of the Negro League from 1946-1949. Their manager gave him the nickname "mule" because of how hard he hit. He was inducted into several halls of fame for black baseball players. In 2008, he was ceremonially "drafted" by the Seattle Mariners, as were 29 other Negro League greats to other modern teams.