Tigers That Never Really Were Trivia Quiz

Answer: Shere Khan

Shere Khan is a Bengal tiger who, despite a crippling injury to his leg, thinks himself to be the king of the jungle. He is motivated by jealousy and hatred of the man cub, Mowgli, and seeks to kill him. In Disney's original adaptation of "Jungle Book" (1967), Shere Khan was voiced malevolently by George Sanders, the "ne plus ultra" of those who have voiced this character.

Answer: Kellogg's Frosted Flakes

Kellogg's introduced both Frosted Flakes and their cartoon spokesman Tony the Tiger in 1951. He had a deep bass voice and his catch line was "They're g-r-r-r-r-eat!" Thurl Ravenscroft voiced Tony for many years. After Ravenscroft's death in 2005, there have been several substitutions. Kellogg has had recourse to the courts on several occasions to protect its distinct spokestiger from usurpers such as Exxon Oil ("put a tiger in your tank") and the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea mascot (Hodori).

Answer: William Blake

Blake published this poem in 1794 as part of a collection of poems titled "Songs of Experience." It is a theological poem, asking how the same God with the same intentions for the world can have created both the gentle, innocent lamb and the fearsome, lethal tiger. Blake may have set this poem to a tune.

Its loss has prompted others to compose offerings for it: Benjamin Britten, Marianne Faithful, Duran Duran.

Answer: "Operation Petticoat" (1959)

In "Operation Petticoat," Cary Grant skippers the Sea Tiger, a decrepit diesel-electric submarine painted pink. In "Down Periscope," Kelsey Grammer is the captain of the Stingray, also a diesel-electric boat which is near to retirement. In "Three Little Sew and Sews," the Three Stooges are ships' tailors who commandeer a submarine. In "The Boatniks," Robert Morse is a Coast Guard officer whose ship patrols the area around Balboa Island.

Answer: Native American/Indian

Tiger Lily appears throughout the works and adaptations of J.B. Barrie's Peter Pan stories. Beginning with the 1904 play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" and the 1911 novel, Tiger Lily is a Native American princess. She is the daughter of Chief Great Big Little Panther, the leader of the Piccanniny tribe.

In Neverland, she is the true friend of Peter Pan (and perhaps romantically interested in him, as well). In the 1953 Disney movie, she was depicted as tan skinned, with black eyes and long black hair, held in a head band with a feather.

This appearance and her fringed buckskin dress are stereotypical.

Answer: Pi

Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" is the story of a sixteen-year-old Indian Tamil boy who survives 227 days after a shipwreck floating in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. The boy's name is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel. His parents named him for a swimming pool in France. On top of being an interesting and well-written story, the book is a religious allegory, a philosophical discourse, an exploration of comparative religion, and a consideration of spirituality and metaphysics. U.S. President Barack Obama wrote a personal letter to Martel praising the book.

Answer: Tiger Tanaka

Tiger Tanaka leads the Koan-Chosa-Kyoku (the Japanese Secret Service). He comes to Bond's aid in this mission against Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Tanaka was played in the film by Tetsurō Tamba. He appears in later post-Fleming James Bond derivatives.

Answer: South India

Sambo was a brave little boy who lived with his father Black Jumbo and his mother Black Mumbo. He cleverly outwits four tigers who are intent on eating him. The tigers end up turned into ghee (clarified butter) and Sambo saves the day. The author thought she was creating a children's story with an attractive black hero; critics fifty years later found both the title and the story racist.

The story is still published but under titles such as "Little Brave Sambo" and "The Story of Little Babaji" and "Sam and the Tigers," with illustrations that show the family to be East Indian.

A US restaurant chain called Sambo's grew from the 1950s to the 1970s to over a thousand outlets. Accusations of racism in the name and decor of the restaurants led to their demise in the early 1980s.

Answer: Crusader Rabbit

Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger were the creation of Jay Ward, later the producer of "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show." The show was shot in black and white. Crusader Rabbit was first aired in Los Angeles and then syndicated from 1950 to 1952. It was revived as a sort of nostalgia program for 260 colour episodes in 1959.

The heroes were often pitted against bad-guy Dudley Nightshade and equally-bad guy Whetstone Whiplash and his hench-person Bilious Green.

Answer: Winnie the Pooh

Tigger is the only major character introduced by A.A. Milne in the 1928 "The House at Pooh Corner" rather than in the 1926 "Winnie-the-Pooh." Like all of the animals in the Pooh series, Tigger was based upon an actual stuffed animal owned by Milne's son Christopher Robin.

He is especially enthusiastic in his relations with the other animals, not all of whom appreciate it. And he bounces. In his song in the Disney movies (1968, 1977, 2000), he says "The wonderful thing about Tiggers / Is Tiggers are wonderful things / Tops are made out of rubber / Their bottoms are made out of springs."