Three of a Kind, Part 21 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Friday

"Freaky Friday" was based on a children's novel by Mary Rodgers published in the US in 1972. It imagines what would happen if a mother and daughter switched bodies. The first stars Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as Ellen (mother) and Annabelle (daughter). In the second, Jamie Lee Curtis plays Tess (mother) and Lindsay Lohan plays Anna (daughter).

The 62nd sura of the Quran is named "Friday" after the day of assembly. "O ye who believe! When the call is proclaimed to prayer on Friday, hasten earnestly to the Remembrance of Allah, and leave off business (and traffic): That is best for you if ye but knew!" ~Quran, sura 62, ayat 9.

Helen Patricia "Pat" Friday (1921-21 June 2016) was a Big Band singer famous for her work with Glenn Miller. She also sang with Roy Rogers 'tho she preferred jazz. She recorded "I Know Why (and So Do You)" and "At Last." Lynn Bari's singing in both "Sun Valley Serenade" and "Orchestra Wives" was dubbed by Pat Friday.

Answer: mule

"Death Valley Days" ran first on radio from 1930 to 1945 and then on television from 1952 to 1970 (and in syndication to 1975). The show was an anthology of stories about the American Old West. Ronald Reagan hosted and narrated the show 1964-65. It was sponsored by Pacific Coast Borax Company, the maker of 20-Mule Team Borax.

"It's not uncommon for high school students from San Diego County to cross into Mexico to party or visit family, particularly since the legal drinking age south of the border is 18. Agents say that kids are approached at the mall, in their neighborhoods, or at parties. Drug mules as young as 12 have been caught at the border." ~Al-Jazeera America, 18 February 2014.

Muhlenberg College describes itself as "the home of the mules." Certain of the school's athletic events are attended by a student in a mule costume.

Answer: sky

"Delta Sky" magazine is produced by MSP Communications, a Minneapolis-based publisher of industry magazines for businesses such as General Mills and the Minnesota Twins. The magazine, available both in print and digital editions, is a mix of corporate promotion and customer entertainment.

"Sky King" began as a radio programme about an Arizona rancher who flew a Cessna private aircraft to solve crimes, save lives and generally experience adventure. The show featured pilot Schuyler "Sky" King, his niece Penny and nephew Clipper. It ran as a television programme in the 1950s and in syndication in the 1960s.

Saturn built a sporty roadster at its Wilmington, Delaware, plant called the Saturn Sky, or the Pontiac Solstice, or the Opel GT, or (in Korea) the Daewoo G2X. The model ceased production when Pontiac and Saturn ceased to exist.

Answer: fire

Amazon hyped and sold the Kindle Fire in 2011 to compete with Apple's iPad. The unit has evolved into the 2016 Fire HD 8 which comes with its own personal assistant Alexa.

June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore wrote "Ring of Fire" which went on to become Johnny Cash's best-selling best-charting single. She said she was inspired by a line of poetry in one of her uncle's books which said "Love is like a burning ring of fire."

"Saint Elmo's Fire" is a "coming of age" movie that follows a group of recent graduates from Georgetown University into adulthood. The film received highly mixed reviews: some identified with the characters and their situation; others found it adolescent and hackneyed.

Answer: Mercury

Occupying the innermost orbit of all the planets in the solar system, Mercury has the smallest mass, as well. It orbits the sun in about 88 days and has the greatest orbital eccentricity. The planet's name was borrowed from the Roman messenger to the gods.

Farrokh Bulsara was the Parsi name of Freddie Mercury who, with Brian May and Roger Taylor, formed the band Queen in 1970. His death was from complications arising from AIDS.

Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Bodhi Elfman and Peter Stormare appear in a 1998 movie, "Mercury Rising," which was intended to be a thriller but wasn't particularly thrilling. The plot turns on the question "Can the pure and brave FBI agent protect the autistic boy from evil agents of his own government who want to kill him?" Roger Ebert pointed his thumb down and Rotten Tomatoes gave it only a 17% approval.

Answer: creek

"Schitt's Creek" (which is styled as "Schitt$ Creek" because of the issues of wealth and bankruptcy involved) appeared on CBC in January of 2015. It is the story of a wealthy family which lost their fortune and have nothing left but a rundown small town which they once bought on a lark. The show has been shown on US television and has been twice renewed.

The Muscogee Creek Tribe allied with the Confederacy in the Civil War. Their Black slaves were emancipated by an 1866 treaty with the United States and became "Creek Freedmen." Many who wished to stay were allowed to become full members of the Creek Nation.

Walnut Creek, California, is located in Contra Costa County, just east of Oakland. It was named after a Spanish land-grant, Rancho Arroyo de Las Nueces and Bolbones, so named for the California Walnut trees which were indigenous to the area.

Answer: holly

Denise Holly Ulinskas drew Holly Hobbie, a rag-doll character with an enormous bonnet, for American Greeting cards. She expanded her circle of "friends" to include other similar characters. A series of Holly Hobbie dolls were sold and several straight-to-DVD Holly Hobbie movies were produced.

Holly Hunter has won one Oscar and four Emmy awards for her lead acting. She has also produced "Saving Grace" for television (2007-2010). She is deaf in her left ear but has overcome that disability in acting.

Wynyard Browne wrote a play about an English parson who neglects his adult children, which leads to conflict on a snowy Christmas Eve. The 1952 film adaptation of the play starred Ralph Richardson as Reverend Martin Gregory. The film's title, "The Holly and the Ivy," is the name of a traditional British Christmas carol.

Answer: harbor/harbour

Bar Harbor has been a major tourist destination since the 1880s and the location of summer homes for presidents, industrialists and other notables. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was born there. Parts of the town are in Acadia National Park. Martha Stewart and John Travolta have been regular visitors.

Even before the codification of the criminal law, it was a Common Law criminal offense to harbor a fleeing fugitive from the police. In most penal codes, harboring is a form of rendering criminal assistance which makes the harborer an accessory after the fact. See, generally, 18 U.S. Code § 1071 and parallel state statutes.

Harbour Air Seaplanes offers both scheduled service and charters in British Columbia. Since 1982, the airline has grown steadily both by expanding its schedule and by acquiring other small carriers. In 2015, its purchases made it the largest seaplane airline in Canada.

Answer: Xavier

Xavier University of Louisiana was founded in 1915 by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament to educate black students. It is known to students as "the Emerald City" because of the number of campus buildings with green roofs. The university's male athletic teams are called "the Gold Rush" and the women's teams "the Gold Nuggets."

In the Marvel Comics world of X-Men, trainees are schooled at X-Mansion, the home of Professor Charles Francis Xavier (also known as Professor X) in Westchester County, New York. The location houses the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning and the headquarters of the X-Corporation.

Francisco de Asís Javier Cugat Mingall de Bru y Deulofeu was born on 1 January 1900 in Catalonia, Spain, and raised in Havana, Cuba. He led orchestras in the movie industry in Hollywood and at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City for decades. His fifth marriage, to Charro Baeza (1966-1978) was perhaps the best known.

Answer: lonesome

George Gobel, who appeared in radio, on television and in motion pictures, called himself "Lonesome George" as part of his downcast, poor-me, persona. When three US B-52 Stratofortress bombers circled the globe nonstop in 1957, one of them was nicknamed Lonesome George after him. The last Galapagos tortoise, who died without heir in June of 2012, was nicknamed Lonesome George because he had neither spouse nor girlfriend.

The song "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" was written in 1926 and recorded by several artists in 1927. Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker suggested this song because it was one of Mrs. Parker's favourites. There is a lengthy section in the middle of the song which is spoken rather than sung and sounds like it was derived from William Shakespeare's "As You Like It."

The novel "Lonesome Dove" was intended to be a movie script but ended up being the basis for a four-part television series. The TV version was nominated for nineteen Emmys and won seven. McMurtry expanded the first novel into four.