Three of a Kind, Part 7 Trivia Quiz

Answer: bear

Sugar Bear was created as a mascot (spokesbear?) for General Foods in the 1940s. He was voiced in animated TV spots to sound rather like Bing Crosby. To this day, Sugar Bear appears on the cereal box but the name of the product has been changed from Sugar Crisp to Golden Crisp to accommodate sugar-phobic health-conscious consumers.

Jasper the Bear began his career as a cartoon character in Maclean's Magazine in 1948. He was elevated to mascot status in 1962 when he came to symbolize Jasper National Park. A statue of Jasper the Bear is located in Jasper, Alberta, where tradition-minded tourists can be photographed with him.

Teddy Ruxpin is an animatronic bear and an animated television series (1987-88). The sound of an adventure to be "read" by the bear was contained on one track of a two-track cassette tape, the signals for eye- and mouth-movement on the other.

Answer: Buster

Buster Crabbe (1908-1983) was a raised in Hawaii. He won a bronze medal in the 1928 Olympic Games for the 1500 meter freestyle and a gold medal in 1932 for the 400 meter freestyle. He played Tarzan in the movies, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in the serials, and Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion on television.

Buster Merryfield (1920-1999) was probably best known for his role as Uncle Albert, the elder who replaced the character Grandad played by Lennard Pearce when Pearce died in 1984. He was well known for his catchphrase "During the war..."

The son of a professional musician, Buster Williams (b. 1942) grew up in a house used for his dad's band practice. He grew up to be a distinguished and valued jazz sideman bassist as well as the leader of his own groups.

Answer: constitution

The original Enterprise was a Constitution-class starship. The Constitution-class deployed by the United Federation of Planets was a Class I Heavy Cruiser, active 2240-2270. She carried a crew as light at 205 and as heavy as 430. She cruised at Warp 2 but was capable of much higher speeds. The ships were designed for prolonged long-distance missions.

The Apostolic Constitutions purports to be written by the original Apostles but dates from 375-380 AD. It is exceptionally useful in determining how worship was conducted in the Early Church. It prescribes a list of books in the New Testament which excludes Revelation and adds four not in the presently-accepted canon.

Constitution Island is today a part of the West Point Military Academy Reservation. During the Revolutionary War, the Americans attempted fortifications which were then destroyed by the British, until retaken by the Americans in 1778.

Answer: crystal

Crystal radios or "crystal sets" operate with no external power on the capacity of certain crystals (typically the mineral galena) to detect radio signals. Without amplification, these signals can be heard on a sensitive headset. Boy Scouts and others interested in the basic principles of radio continue to build crystal sets today; mine was in a wooden cigar box.

Crystal Mountain has been a large and successful ski resort since 1962. Even in the off season, it invites hikers and diners to its beauty. There is an actual Crystal Mountain; it is a subsidiary peak on Mount Rainier. Another name for Crystal Mountain is Silver King.

The fourth of the Indiana Jones films starring Harrison Ford is "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull" released in 2008. Steven Spielberg directed; John Williams composed. The film was set in 1957, to account for Harrison Ford's age.

Answer: Holly

Truman Capote's novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1958) was made into the classic film of the same name in 1961. Audrey Hepburn played Holly Golightly. Capote disclosed that Holly Golightly was his favourite of all the characters he'd created. Blake Edwards directed the movie, advancing the setting to 1960 from the 1940s in the original novella.

Holly Holiday, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, is a substitute music teacher on Fox's "Glee." Paltrow is an accomplished singer and dancer but these gifts have not been widely exposed. Her first appearance earned her an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

Holly Cole (b. 1963) is a Canadian jazz singer with a remarkably diverse repertoire. With her trio, she has recorded jazz, folk, show tunes, country-western and rock music. She was awarded an honourary doctorate by Queen's University in Ontario in 2014.

Answer: Molly

The Black Molly is a peaceful, live-breeding, all-black tropical fish which lives well in both fresh and salt water. They are omnivorous and will eat algae as well as blood worms, tubifex worms and the like.

Molly Malone is a fictitious seller of fish and shellfish in 17th Century Dublin, Ireland. She is memorialized by several statutes in Dublin. The song which kept her in the modern mind begins "In Dublin's fair city, Where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, As she wheeled her wheel-barrow, Through streets broad and narrow, Crying, 'Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!'"

The term Molly anchor was, at one time, trademarked but has fallen into common usage to describe any sort of anchor which expands behind a hollow wall to secure a load snugly up against the drywall.

Answer: pine

There are over 125 species of pine tree, almost all of them native to the Northern Hemisphere. They are coniferous, evergreen and resinous. They are useful as producers of lumber.

Blake Crouch wrote a series of novels called "Wayward Pines" which were made into a television series by Fox. In the story, a Secret Service agent goes to Wayward Pines, Idaho, to search for two missing agents. He finds more than he was seeking.

Albert M. Pine, known in the G.I. Joe world as Alpine, is a mountain climber, communication specialist and accountant.

Answer: pinto

Ford Motor Company introduced the Pinto as a two-door in 1971 and as both a hatchback and a station wagon in 1972. Over three million were made. Lawsuits, recalls and prosecutions marred the model's run.

The municipality of Pinto, near Madrid, has a monument which it claims to be the geographic center of the Iberian Peninsula. The town's name derives from the Latin "punctum" meaning "point" which refers to the centerpoint of the peninsula. There's a good chance that this is largely made up.

Freida Selena Pinto was born in Mumbai, India, and worked as a model until discovered by Danny Boyle for "Slumdog Millionaire." Her last name is Portuguese (in which language it means "little bird") which derives from the early Portuguese efforts to colonize India.

Answer: white

Jack London's (1876-1916) novel "White Fang" (1906) is a sort of mirror to his 1903 novel "Call of the Wild." It follows the adventures of a cross-bred wolf-dog who has difficulty fitting into the world of wild wolves and the world of tame dogs. In addition to the exciting story, London raises serious issues of morality, loyalty, and redemption.

The yolk of an egg is surrounded by a clear substance often called "white" or "egg white" or "glaire." Egg white is made up almost entirely of water, contains little or no fat nor carbohydrates, and is protein rich. Beaten egg whites create a foam which is exceptionally useful in cooking.

Barry White (1944-2003) was a singer-songwriter born in Texas who grew up in Los Angeles. After a troubled youth, he became a producer, composer, and performer of soul music. He earned 106 gold albums and 20 gold singles and sold more than one million records worldwide. "I've heard people say that too much of anything is not good for you, baby, but I don't know about that."

Answer: wizard

"The Wizard of Id" has been published since 1964, 'tho the work of producing it has been passed along two family lines. At one point, it appeared in a thousand newspapers around the world. Jim Henson contemplated producing a television series of "Wizard of Id" using puppets.

John Robert Wooden (1910-2010) won ten NCAA national championships as the head coach of the UCLA basketball team. He was named "coach of the year" six times. His winning ways earned him the nickname "the Wizard of Westwood" which is a reference to the neighbourhood in Los Angeles which is the home to the UCLA campus.

Donald Jeffry Herbert (1917-2007) was a children's science educator who produced educational films, wrote juvenile science books and appeared in "Meet Mister Wizard" (1951-1965) and "Mister Wizard's World" (1983-1990). His popular programme inspired over 5000 Mister Wizard Science Clubs.