Three of a Kind, Part 17 Trivia Quiz

Answer: harbor

"Pearl Harbor" won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing but none of the major categories. It won Golden Globes for the Best Original Score in a Motion Picture and the Best Original Song in a Motion Picture. It was nominated for the following Razzie Awards: Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Ben Affleck), Worst Screen Couple (Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale), Worst Remake or Sequel, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay ... but it didn't win any of those, either.

Frances Langford first recorded the Hugh Williams and Jimmy Kennedy song "Harbor Lights" in 1937. It was thereafter recorded by Rudy Vallée in 1937, Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra in 1950, Bing Crosby in 1950, Pat Boone in 1957 and the Platters in 1960.

When the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobson May entered Great Egg Harbor (at the mouth of the Great Egg River) in 1614, he was amazed at the number of nests filled with birds' eggs he saw. Thus he named it "Eyren Haven" or Great Egg Harbor.

Answer: Xavier

St. Ignatius of Loyola is well known as the founder of the Jesuit Order; less well known is his companion St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) whom the Society of Jesus considers its co-founder. Francis Xavier was a Navarrese-Basque (which is now an area within Spain). His missions to Japan and Goa were productive.

Xavier Davis was born into a musical family in 1971. He grew up to become a well-known jazz pianist, musical arranger and musical producer. In addition to his leadership of the Xavier Davis Trio, he performed with the Christian McBride Big Band. He taught at both Michigan State University and the Julliard School.

Xavier Roberts (b. 1955) is an American businessman responsible for the Cabbage Patch Kids phenomenon. He manufactured quilt dolls and sold them as "Little People" before buying a former medical clinic in Cleveland, renaming it Babyland General Hospital, and producing Cabbage Patch Dolls from there. The market evolved worldwide in the 1980s and 90s.

Answer: woolly

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is one of several species of mammoth. It lived in North America and Eurasia until around 10,000 years ago. Humans hunted them.

The woolly lemur lives only on the island of Madagascar. It is also known as the avahis or the woolly indris. A new species of woolly lemur was discovered in Western Madagascar and named taxonomically Avahi cleesei after the English comedian John Cleese. This was done as an appreciation of his efforts to save wild lemurs from extinction.

Alfred L. Werker directed "Wild and Woolly" (one of several movies to have that name) in 1937. The script was written by Frank Fenton and Lynn Root.
Jane Withers (b. 1926), in addition to starring with Brennan, portrayed "Josephine the Plumber" on Comet Cleanser TV commercials in the 1960s and 70s.

Answer: monk

Since around 1850, the term "monk" has been used for any primate and for a monkey, in particular. For example, in the nursery rhyme "The Animal Fair," the line appears "The monkey, he got drunk, and sat on the elephant's trunk. The elephant sneezed and fell on its knees and that was the end of the monk, the monk, the monk."

Monk's House is an 18th Century cottage located at Rodmell in Sussex. It was purchased by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1919. The house ended up in the National Trust where it is maintained and gardened for public view.

Anne Perry's Inspector William Monk was a Northumbrian who worked both as a police officer and a private investigator. He appears in 22 novels, as of 2016. His wit tends toward irony and sarcasm which lends humour to his serious pursuits.

Answer: drone

Drone bees exist solely to mate. There are not many in a hive. They do not gather nectar. They do not have stingers. They are just there for the propagation.

In the "Jeeves and Wooster" canon of P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster and many of his chums are members of a club named the Drones. It also appears in several, of the Blandings Castle stories. The club often provides the backdrop or setting for a story, e.g. its annual golf rally, darts tournament or fat uncle contest.

The 2013 American film "Drones" rides the public interest in the military use of drones to kill "targets" from a distance. Two soldiers wrestle with the ethical issues of killing by pressing a button.

Answer: flag

A flag may symbolize a nation, or a state or other political subdivision, a military unit, a commercial product, a religious entity, or many other things. The study of flags is called vexillology; the term derives from the Latin word vexillum which means a banner or a flag.

Flagstaff, Arizona, is the home of the Lowell Observatory, the U.S. Naval Observatory, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station, and Northern Arizona University. It was the first place in the world to receive the denomination "International Dark-Sky City" by the International Dark-Sky Association, which combats night light pollution. The city's motto is "Service at a Higher Elevation."

It is common to say that one flags something to which one wishes to call attention, that the something is thereafter flagged and the process is one of flagging. No actual flags need be involved to properly use this term; it can be done with stickers, X-marks or a hundred other methods.

Answer: pack

A backpack is a cloth (often canvas or nylon) bag, sometimes attached to a lightweight frame of metal, bamboo or plastic, carried on the back while hiking. From the noun, an intransitive verb evolved, e.g. "We backpacked the Pacific Crest Trail."

North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, NC plays intercollegiate sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Organization. The teams of the university have been known as the Wolfpack. This was first used as a pejorative in 1922 but it stuck. The mascots are personified as Mister and Missus Wuf.

A deck of playing cards, normally fifty two (e.g. for bridge or poker) is also referred to as a pack of cards. "'Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!'" ~Chapter 12, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.

Answer: square

Red Square divides the space between the Kremlin (where the President of Russia lives) and Kitai-gorod (where many shops and department stores are located) in Moscow. It has been the venue of major religious events, military events, political events, and mercantile events. There is a sense in which Red Square is the center of Russia because the streets which radiate out from it link with the principal highways in the country.

A piece of wood intended for woodworking is "square" if all six of its sides are at a perfect ninety degrees to the adjacent surface. A 'try square" is a tool made to test squareness. It is traditionally a metal blade on which measurements are scribed, mounted on a wooden handle or stock. Modern try squares may be made of all metal or all plastic or some combination.

Western American Square Dancing finds its origins in the English country dances and the European Quadrille. Such dances traveled to America with pioneers and immigrants, taking on American qualities over time. Square dancing is now firmly associated with the American West, which explains the prevalence of cowboy hats, pearl-button shirts, cowboy boots, and prairie skirts at square-dance events.

Answer: bolt

A "bolt cutter" uses simple principles of physics to amplify human force applied to the handles to a pair of cutting blades capable to slicing steel. They were invented to remove bolts from shipping crates. Their uses have since been expanded to include life-saving rescue work and auto theft.

Carol Bolt (1941-2000) was a Canadian dramatist whose plays included "Buffalo Jump" (1972), "Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists" (1974), and "Famous" (1997). Upon her death from liver cancer, the CAA Award was renamed after her. It is not well known that she also wrote one episode of "Fraggle Rock" in 1983.

Horses may be startled or otherwise frightened and respond by running away (often with a rider or wagon driver accompanying). This behaviour is called bolting and it can be very difficult to correct.

Answer: Pluto

Pluto (Hades) was the god of the dead whose province was the Underworld. He kidnapped his wife Persephone and carried her away under the earth. Both the dwarf planet Pluto and the element Plutonium are named after him.

Unlike Goofy (a dog with human attributes), Pluto is a dog with canine attributes, and is the pet of Mickey Mouse. Introduced in 1930, Pluto has appeared both in ensemble cartoons and as the lead character in his own. Rarely seen is Pluto's son "Pluto Junior" nor is there any explanation of how he came to be.

The U.S. Air Force imagined that a cruise missile could be powered by a ramjet in which super-heated air from a nuclear reactor was used to keep the missiles aloft for days at a time. Two were built and tested at a secret location in Jackass Flats, Nevada. The enterprise was code named Project Pluto.