Three of a Kind, Part 38 Trivia Quiz

Answer: hound

The 1953 Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller song "You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog" was originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton but the Elvis Presley recording of 1956 was definitive.

The AGM-28 Hound Dog missile was a supersonic, air-launched turbojet missile produced by North American Aviation in 1959. It served as a principal American armament for fifteen years.

"Sherlock Hound" was an animated television cartoon which aired in 1984 and 1985. The series was produced by a partnership between Japanese and Italian companies. Only 26 episodes were made. In the Japanese-language version, the detective is known as Homozu and his medical-doctor partner as Watoson.

Answer: Simon

American songwriter Paul Simon (b. 1941) sang with Art Garfunkel as Simon and Garfunkel (1956-1970). Their relationship, while successful, was turbulent and filled with creative differences.

Stephen Simon (1937-2013) was the musical director of the Handel Society of New York but is perhaps better known/remembered for his orchestral recordings for young people such as "Casey at the Bat" and "The Tortoise and the Hare."

Ross Bagdasarian Sr. created the Chipmunks -- Alvin, Simon and Theodore -- for a novelty recording in 1968. The franchise grew into an animated television series in which David (Dave) Seville acted as their manager and subsequently as their adoptive father. Simon was the thinker in the trio, identifiable by his eyeglasses.

Answer: crush

The jazz standard "I've Got a Crush on You, Sweetie Pie" was written by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Oddly, it was used in both the 1928 Broadway production of "Treasure Girl" and the 1930 Broadway production of "Strike Up the Band." It was also used in the 2012 musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It."

Once wine grapes have been picked, they must be crushed to break their skins and liberate the nummie juice inside. The older method of crushing involves winemakers with bare feet; the more modern method involves mechanical crusher-destemmers. Pigéage is the French term for punching the "cap" of floating wine skins, stems and seeds back down into the fermenting vat, which is also classically accomplished with bare feet.

Cary Elwes (the guy from "The Princess Bride") and Alicia Silverston starred in "The Crush" (1993). The horror movie was shot in Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1992. It was written and directed by Alan Shapiro.

Answer: eye

The London Eye, a 135-metre-tall Ferris wheel, was dedicated (by Tony Blair) in 1999 and opened to the public in 2000. It was the world's tallest Ferris wheel when it opened and is now "the world's tallest cantilevered observation wheel" according to its owners.

The 2008 movie "The Eye" is a remake of a 2002 Pang Brothers film also called "The Eye." It is about a classical violinist who regains her sight and unwittingly gains second sight through surgery. There was also a Hindi remake of the Pang Brothers' original called "Naina" (2005).

The all-seeing eye atop the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States (and on the back of the one-dollar bill) is called "The Eye of Providence." The symbol is often used with rays of light emitting from it (the "glory") and is often enclosed in a triangle. In Christian art and architecture, it often connotes the Holy Trinity. It also appears in the Seal of Colorado, the iconography of Freemasonry, the Coat of arms of Braslaw, Belarus, the coats of arms Delta Tau Delta, Phi Delta Theta and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternities, the seal of The University of Mississippi, on the Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, Russia, and the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Answer: world

"We Are the World" is a song and "charity single" originally recorded by the supergroup United Support of Artists (USA) for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie (with arrangements by Michael Omartian) and produced by Quincy Jones for the album "We Are the World."

First there was Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in 1955. Then there was Disney World in Orlando, Florida, in 1971. Other Disney theme parks followed. It has grown from the Magic Kingdom, the first part to open, to Epcot in 1982, to Disney's Hollywood Studios in 1989, to Disney's Animal Kingdom in 1998.

Richard Mason's novel "The World of Suzie Wong" was made into a film of the same name in 1960. Lead actress Nancy Kwan was nominated for a Golden Globe but lost to Greer Garson. It has also been adapted into a play and a ballet. There have been two unauthorized sequels.

Answer: Willow

Willow Palin (b. 1994) is one of Sarah Palin's five children; the others are Bristol, Track, Piper, and Trig. Willow was threatened by fellow students at Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School but completed high school out of state and became a beautician. She has appeared on reality TV.

Ann Ronnell wrote "Willow Weep for Me" (both tune and lyrics) in 1932. It was a popular hit in 1932, a hit again for Chad and Jeremy in 1964, and has been covered by Stan Kenton with June Christy, Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, The Coasters, Al Hirt, Lou Rawls, Earl Grant, Jack Jones, George Benson, Barbra Streisand, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Oscar Peterson, Rosemary Clooney, Willie Nelson and Diana Krall.

A variety of species in the genus Salix (willows) are call pussy willows: Goat willow (Salix caprea), Grey willow (Salix cinerea) and American pussy willow (Salix discolor). Fuzzy grey catkins appear before leaves on these plants signaling the arrival of spring. They are part of the Lunar New Year celebration in Asia. In some Eastern Orthodox churches, pussy willow branches replace palms carried in procession on Palm Sunday. In Barbara Robinson's "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" (1971), a character threatens to stick a catkin down the ear of her rival for the part of the Blessed Virgin in the Christmas Pageant.

Answer: snow

David Guterson was a school teacher on Bainbridge Island, Washington, when we wrote "Snow Falling on Cedars" in the mornings before class. The 1994 novel explores the tensions created by the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War. Essentially, the book is a courtroom murder mystery written by the son of a highly accomplished and respected criminal defense attorney in Seattle. It was adapted to film in 1999.

The Snow Leopard is a member of the Genus Panthera which includes lions, tigers, jaguars and leopards. It is a large carnivore which ranges over mountainous areas in Central and Southern Asia. It is threatened by poaching and loss of habitat. 2015 was declared the International Year of the Snow Leopard by the twelve nations within its habitat.

"The Hunger Games" is a series of three YA dystopian novels by Suzanne Collins and the motion pictures based on them. The stories are set in Panem, its wealthy Capitol and its 12 districts. Coriolanus Snow is the psychopathic president of Panem and the Capitol. He is a primary antagonist to Katniss and Peeta, the heroine and hero respectively.

Answer: turkey

A bowler who makes three consecutive strikes is said to have bowled a turkey. The origin of this expression (like the origin of similar names for golf scores) is mired in myth and mystery. A common explanation is that bowling alley proprietors rewarded successful bowlers with grocery prizes. Three strikes in a row was much harder to achieve in the 19th century.

The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) is sometimes known as the turkey buzzard. It is native to the United States. It is a large bird, up to around five pounds, with a featherless head and is, to some eyes, ugly as sin. Turkey buzzards live in community and are scavengers, living off carrion.

Turkey Tetrazzini (or Chicken Tetrazzini or Tuna Tetrazzini) is not an Italian dish but rather an American contrivance. In it, meat is mixed with pasta in a mushroom sauce (often based on canned mushroom soup, seasoned with sherry) and topped with Parmesan cheese. The baked casserole is popular at potluck suppers. The name of the dish honours Italian opera star Luisa Tetrazzini. It was invented in about 1908, perhaps at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco (where Luisa Tetrazzini was then resident) or at the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City. Good Housekeeping magazine published a recipe that year.

Answer: yellow

In North America, the wasps such as Vespula maculifrons, Dolichovespula arenaria and Dolichovespula maculata are called yellowjackets or yellow jackets because most of them are yellow and black in colour. They are predatory wasps, communal in nature, who will protect their nest violently and en masse. They are not bees; they can sting repeatedly.

When uranium ore is concentrated and pulverized, it becomes yellowcake, even though it is not always (or even often) yellow. Modern yellowcake tends to be brown or black. It is a coarse powder which smells awful, is insoluble in water and melts at 2880°C. The production of yellowcake is an intermediary step toward concentrated uranium. The U-235 produced at low concentrations powers civilian reactors generating electrical power; the more highly concentrated U-235 powers naval surface ships and submarines.

Sometimes identified as FD&C Yellow Number 5, tartrazine is a synthetic lemon-yellow dye used as a food colouring. Mixed with FD&C Blue Number 1, it is also useful in making food green. It makes the soft drink Mountain Dew distinctively yellow. The ubiquity of this colourant poses a health risk to those people who are sensitive to it; it causes asthma and hives. A move by a public-interest group to ban it in the US was unsuccessful.

Answer: phantom

Gaston Leroux wrote "The Phantom of the Opera" ("Le Fantôme de l'Opéra") in 1909. It has been adapted to the stage and the screen. A lost silent-screen version was made in Germany in 1916; the 1925 silent version starred Lon Chaney Senior. Andrew Lloyd Weber turned it into an incredibly successful musical in 1986 (London's West End) and New York's Broadway in 1988.

The removal of any part of the body may produce the sensation that the limb (or the tooth, the eye, the breast) is still attached. The sensation is most often one of pain. These sensations occur in more than half of all amputations but tend to reduce in severity and frequency over time.

The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber was introduced in 1960. It is a tandem two-seater twin-engine aircraft developed for the United States Navy but later adapted and adopted by the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force. Top speed exceeds Mach 2.2. It was proved in the Vietnam War. It was used by both the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds as their demonstration aircraft.