Three of a Kind, Part 28 Trivia Quiz

Answer: hanger

Hangers shaped like people have existed for at least ten centuries and probably longer. Modern clothes hangers are made of wood, metal, plastic, sometimes padded with stuffed cloth. The idea is to minimize wrinkling between wearings by hanging rather than folding.

In the belly of a cow, there is a muscle in the diaphragm called the hanger steak. This tender cut of beef is best marinated and cooked quickly and served rare or medium rare.

According to legend, during the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship ran aground near Hartlepool in England. The crew were all killed but their pet monkey, dressed in a French military uniform, survived. The Hartlepudlians held a trial, convicted the monkey of spying and hung him. They were thereafter known as monkey hangers.

Answer: snood

Male turkeys are born with a protuberance on their foreheads which fills up with blood and grows much longer during either courtship or combat. In domestic turkeys, this bit, called a snood, is removed from chicks.

A snood, worn at the back of the head, is a sort of hairnet (if loosely woven) or hood (if tightly woven). Snoods are worn entirely by women, save for a few professional football players who use them, as well. Snoods worn by Orthodox Jewish woman are completely opaque.

The puzzle video game Snood was introduced in 1996 on Mac and in 1999 on Windows. It is available online for a cost. There are two versions. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who can play pretty much anything he wants, says Snood is one of his favorite games.

Answer: eye

The most common visual organ is the eye, although other organs are light-sensitive and allow for visual-like response. An eye may detect as little as light and dark or as much as the super-detailed long-distance acuity of the eyes of hunting birds.

Sauron is an essentially evil creature in J. R. R. Tolkien's world. He is the necromancer identified in "The Hobbit." When his body was destroyed, he took the form of the Eye of Sauron. When the Ring was destroyed, the Eye was also destroyed as was Sauron's kingdom.

Opposite the pointed end, a needle affords an opening through which thread may pass. This opening is commonly called the eye of the needle. The expression invokes the meme of Jesus' teaching about the entry of the rich into Heaven, Matthew 19:23-26, Mark 10:24-27, and Luke 18:24-27: as difficult as for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.

Answer: world

Antonín Dvorák was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895. During this tenure, he was influenced by American music, especially the black music of the American South. He wrote his most popular symphony "From the New World" in 1893 which composition demonstrates those influences.

In the Disney TV series "Boy Meets World" (1993-2000), Cory Matthews grows up and works out his relationship with Topanga Lawrence. In "Girl Meets World" (2014-2017), Cory and Topanga's daughter, Riley, and her best friend, Maya, as they come of age ... with Riley's dad as their history teacher.

The Spanish word for "everyone" is "todo mundo" which literally translates "all the world." The French word for "everyone" is "tout le monde" which literally translates "all the world." In addition to meaning "planet Earth," the English word "world" also means all of human civilisation, past and present, around the entire globe.

Answer: willow

There are several hundred deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Salix, all called "willow." Other names are sallows and osiers. Willows are found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. Willow bark has been known since ancient times as the source of a pain reliever: salacin, which is metabolized into salicylic acid, which is a precursor to aspirin.

Old Man Willow is a tree, of sorts, in J.R.R. Tolkein's Ring stories. Her is depicted as sentient, malicious and capable of moving his roots and branches, although incapable of changing location. Tom Bombadil had power over Old Man Willow.

The "Willow Pattern" is also commonly known as "Blue Willow." It is a pattern of elaborate illustrations of a Chinese romantic story on ceramics. It was exceptionally popular in England in the late 18th Century. Examples can be seen in the background on such television programmes as "The Andy Griffith Show," "Murder, She Wrote," and "The Munsters."

Answer: snow

Snow is water which precipitates in clouds as ice crystals and falls to Earth. Snow occurs naturally but, in addition, there is a science dedicated to producing "artificial snow" for ski resorts in need of such a thing.

Phoebe Snow (1950-2011) was an amazing American musician. Her voice spanned four octaves. She was a gifted guitarist. She wrote numerous songs. She withdrew from performing from 1975 to 2007 to care at home for her severely brain-damaged daughter.

Cahn and Styne wrote "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" during a heatwave in Hollywood in July of 1945. The word "Christmas" appears nowhere in the song, but it has become a secular Christmas standard. It has been covered by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Glen Campbell, Martina McBride, Carly Simon, Rod Stewart, and Sarah McLachlan.

Answer: peanut

Charles M. Schulz was one of the most beloved comic authors in America. The strip was wonderfully literature which explains its appeal to both children and adults. There are several television specials built around holidays; TV Guide called these specials the fourth greatest TV cartoons of all time.

Charles "Peanut" Tillman (b. 1981) played cornerback for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette before playing twelve years for the Chicago Bears. He perfected a method of causing fumbles called "the Peanut Punch" after his nickname.

Planters Nut and Chocolate Company developed a dapper mascot in the form of a peanut with a monocle, top hat, spats and a cane. "Mister Peanut" has represented the firm ever since. On television, Mister Peanut is voiced by SNL alumnus Bill Hader (who is allergic to peanuts).

Answer: turkey

Meleagris gallopavo, the domesticated turkey or wild turkey, is native to North America and ubiquitous on Thanksgiving. In 2015, the average American ate 16 pounds of turkey, the fourth most popular protein choice in the USA.

The "turkey trot" was a frenetic dance which fit well with the ragtime tunes to which it was danced. It was denounced by the Vatican (which made it more popular) but waned and disappeared in the 1910s.

Any event or competition in which one side or player is overwhelmed by another is known colloquially as a "turkey shoot." This applies to military engagements, athletic games and skill competitions of all kinds. The phrase derives from the reputed ease with which wild turkeys may be shot by hunters.

Answer: yellow

The original Yellow Cab Companies began in Chicago, Illinois, and in New York City; there are many others. No definitive history has yet established which of many companies came precisely first. The companies in various cities today are a mix-up of related and unrelated businesses.

"I am Curious (Yellow)" and "I am Curious (Blue)" were originally intended to be released as one very long movie. The names reference the colours of the Swedish flag. The movies were banned here and there as pornographic but prevailed in American courts.

The "Curious George" books were born in France in 1939, the creation of Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey. The Reys fled Paris on bicycles to escape the Nazis. The story line of Curious George is that the Man with the Yellow Hat captured the little monkey in Africa and took him to a zoo in Europe. George escaped and came to live in the house of the Man with the Yellow Hat ... from which further adventures ensued.

Answer: phantom

Lee Falk (who also created Mandrake the Magician) created the Phantom in 1936. Falk drew this African jungle hero until his (Falk's) death in 1999. The Phantom has since appeared on television, in movies, in comic books and video games. A variety of authors and artists have succeeded Falk in producing the Phantom.

Published by Random House in 1961, Norton Juster's "The Phantom Tollbooth" is illustrated by Jules Feiffer (who was Juster's housemate at the time). The story follows young Milo through the gate of the tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom. He sets out on a hero's quest to rescue two princesses -- Rhyme and Reason -- from the Castle in the Air and learns the value of learning along the way.

A series of eight murders in Texarkana, a town on the Texas-Arkansas border, were attributed to "the Phantom Killer" or "the Phantom Slayer" depending upon which salacious newspaper headlines one read in the Spring of 1946. The victims were killed in pairs. The Texas Rangers never charged anyone. The 1976 movie "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" retells the story of the Texarkana Moonlight Murders.