We Go Together Like Bacon and Eggs Quiz

Answer: Bailey

Barnum and Bailey Circus was an American organisation which began with the merging of two circuses. One was owned by P.T. Barnum and James Bailey, and the other was owned by the Ringling brothers. The new production became known as "The Greatest Show on Earth", and excellent marketing kept it to the fore of large public entertainment for years.

It became a joint venture from 1907 when the Ringling brothers purchased Barnum and Bailey's circus, but the two ran separately until they combined as the one giant show in 1919.

The last performance under the big top was in 1956, where the show moved from outdoors to indoors entertainment, which was all a bit sad, really. Since then, it's changed hands and formats many times.

Answer: Veronica

I used to love these "Archie" comics about Riverdale teenagers Archie Andrews (the typical small town boy), Betty Cooper (the poor blonde in love with Archie), Veronica Lodge (the rich girl), Reggie Mantle (the sometime con-artist) and Jughead Jones (always hungry and definitely lazy). Between them all, they possess the various characteristics of average teenagers everywhere, and usually get up to a series of comical mishaps.

Other minor characters pop in and out of the pages from time to time as well.

These include Midge Klump, girlfriend to the dim-witted athlete of the school Moose Mason, the headmaster of Riverdale High Mr Weatherbee, teacher Miss Grundy, Veronica's father Hiram Lodge - and so on. The series was created in 1941 by Bob Montana and is still going strong into the 21st century.

Answer: Roundheads

Commonly described as the English Civil War, the period of history for England was actually a series of three separate wars spanning the dates 1642-1646, 1648-1649 and 1649-1651. The two opposing sides were the Parliamentarians who were given the nickname "Roundheads".

They fought against King Charles I and his supporters, known as the "Cavaliers" or Royalists. The Roundheads wanted a constitutional monarchy, while the Cavaliers wanted an absolutist monarchy. By the end of 1649, Oliver Cromwell, heading the Parliamentarians, established the brief rule of the British Republic, known as the Commonwealth, and lopped off the head of Charles I.

The rather repressive Republic ran from 1649 until 1660 when the Parliamentarians were finally defeated, and Charles II, son of the beheaded Charles I, was restored to the throne.

Answer: Paste

This is a keyboarding direction where one can highlight any section of text they wish, cut it out with the stroke of a key, and miraculously transfer it intact to wherever is wished in another section of any document. It's a miracle! And to think I started out work on an old manual typewriter. You have no idea how much I feel like a dinosaur right now.

Answer: Sybil Fawlty

Fawlty Towers was a very funny British comedy series first broadcast on the BBC in 1975. Sadly only twelve episodes were made, but these have been shown periodically ever since, still being received with the same gales of laughter. Set in the seaside town of Torquay, it features the part owner of Fawlty Towers, the frenetic and snobbish Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese. Basil longs to be part of the upper echelon of society, and believes that setting up a posh hotel will help him make it there.

Instead, he is forced to cater to a various assortment of all class members as his guests, and always, always with disastrous and hilarious consequences. The other owner of the hotel is his wife Sybil (played by Prunella Scales) who manages, in spite of Basil's continual blunders, to run the hotel efficiently whenever she steps in. Basil is terrified of her - and with good reason.

They are backed up by a brilliant cast of actors, including Polly the waitress (played by Connie Booth, Cleese's wife at the time of shooting); Manuel, played by Andrew Sachs, the confused and very funny Spanish waiter from Barcelona who doesn't understand English; and an assortment of other characters playing the guests, who are all screamingly funny.

Answer: Sullivan

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were a team of composer and songwriter from the English Victorian age. Together they created fourteen comical stage operettas, which are still proving as popular today as they were back then. Filled with beautiful and memorable melodies and hilarious lyrics, these works were initially performed between 1871 and 1896. Productions included "The Pirates of Penzance", and "The Mikado" and "H.M.S. Pinafore".

The two men never got along together particularly well, in spite of remaining together in partnership for as long as they did, and often argued.

By the close of the century, after their partnership finally ceased, they weren't even speaking to each other if they happened to be at the same public venues together. Sullivan, in poor health for some time, died in 1900 and Gilbert died in 1911.

They had ultimately fallen out, of all things, over the cost of a carpet. This was an argument so petty that, if they'd only taken a step back long enough to examine the ridiculous issue which culminated in a court case, they would have realised it was excellent material for another operetta.

Answer: Wooster

Bertie Wooster is a character in a series of hilarious novels by English writer P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975). He is a somewhat brainless member of the upper class idle rich set, springing from a humorous and eccentric family of which he's fond, but prone to lampooning.

In almost every story featuring Bertie, he has fallen hopelessly in love with another most unlikely girl, but never gets round to settling down with any of them. Jeeves is Bertie's long-suffering valet, a beautifully drawn character, who is the perfect foil for the scatter-brained Bertie.

He is a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge, and an expert on all matters that are of prime important to all young scatter-brained English men of fortune. In fact, Jeeves controls Bertie beautifully, without Bertie ever having the least idea that this indeed is the case. All up, they're an immensely entertaining and amusing series of stories and truly well worth the read.

Answer: The Swan

Taken from Greek mythology, this tale, which was later put into various writings and paintings by the great masters of their art, tells the story of the God Zeus, who has fallen love with the beautiful human woman Leda. Leda is the daughter of one king and the wife of another, and Zeus desires her. To achieve his ends he disguises himself as a swan that subsequently saves Leda when, one day, she is being pursued by an eagle. Still in the guise of the swan, he then seduces the terrified woman. Later that night, Leda also sleeps with her husband.

The result of the two unions is that Leda becomes pregnant with two eggs. When the eggs are, er, hatched, they produce four children, one lot producing Helen (of Troy) and Clytemnestra, and the other egg hatching out Castor and Polydeuces. Castor and Clytemnestra are the children of Leda and her husband, while Helen and Polydeuces are the children of Leda and Zeus. Depictions of the tale by the later masters are somewhat lusty to say the least, especially the description of the incident by the poet William Butler Yeats in his poem "Leda and the Swan". To be honest, and I don't care how artistic both written and painted versions are supposed to be, the whole thing gave me the creeps when I had to study it at university, and it's quite turned me off swans for life.

Answer: Douglas

McDonnell Douglas was formed as a merger in 1967 between the McDonnell and Douglas aircraft companies. Its products include, among many other, the Skyhawk, Phantom II, Harrier II, Hornet, the DC series, Helicopters, a proposed double decker plane, computer systems, missiles, and - wow - space launch vehicles and the Skylab space station. Isn't it wonderful when science fiction becomes fact?

Answer: Sluggo

The daily comic strip and newspaper character "Nancy" was created by Ernie Bushmiller in 1938 and can still be seen here and there today. Nancy first appeared in another comic strip, "Fritzi Ritz" in 1933 as the niece of its main character, but such was her popularity, she was given her own strip in 1938.

It's a story about an eight-year-old girl and all her various adventures, and was so popular at one stage, that by 1970, it was running in over 880 newspapers. The characters include Nancy, her aunt, her best friend Sluggo Smith, and various other characters. Sluggo is an urchin who is described as coming from the wrong side of the tracks, and is more often than not, portrayed as lazy and having a nap. Either that, or he's been knocked unconscious by the town bully, Spike.