Who Let the Dogs Eat? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jezebel

The story is recounted in 1 Kings, that Jezebel was a Phoenician princess who married King Ahab. She instituted the worship of pagan gods, which Biblical prophets tended to frown upon, to put it mildly. Eventually, Ahab died in battle and the prophet Elisha decided that Jezebel must be punished for her naughtiness and anointed a new king named Jehu, who took control of the country. Jezebel mocked him by comparing him to a former king who had reigned for only a week, so he ordered her servants to give her the heave-ho out the royal palace window and she fell to her death. Jehu trampled her body with his horse, but later decided to give her a proper burial.

However, by this point it was too late: his servants found only her skull, feet, and the palms of her hands, as stray dogs - not wanting to pass up a free meal - had chowed down on her flesh.

There are many lessons that could be drawn from this, the importance of cleaning up after throwing someone into the street being one of them, I guess.

Answer: "a fool repeats his folly"

Dogs often get a bad rap in the Bible as they were considered unclean animals. In Proverbs, a "fool" refers to someone who is considered ungodly and morally depraved and not necessarily of low intelligence, which is the modern sense of the word. Hence, moral turpitude is being compared to something repulsive like eating vomit despite it being bad for you.

Answer: Jordan Belfort

Jordan Belfort was convicted of fraud over his stock-market manipulation schemes and was ordered to pay millions of dollars in restitution to over 1500 people whom he defrauded. He wrote his memoir after being released from prison, in which details not only his criminal activities but his lavish and indulgent lifestyle.

Hence, he was something of a horndog as well as being a wolf to the people he defrauded. As to the saying, "Homo homini lupus," some people have complained that it is unfair to wolves who are less vicious than humans can be.

Answer: Carlos

Sánchez, a Marxist-Leninist who was responsible for a string of terrorist attacks in France and elsewhere in the 1970s, was given the code name "Carlos" by his associates because of his South American roots. He was later dubbed "the Jackal" by the press after the discovery of Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel "The Day of the Jackal" among his belongings after he had fled from his lodgings.

In the novel, "the Jackal" is the code name of an assassin who tries to kill the French President.

Answer: Adam and the Ants

Goddard performed under the stage name Adam Ant and fronted two band line-ups called Adam and the Ants from 1977 to 1982. As the name of the song might suggest, the lyrics are about fierce competition between bands for musical success. The song appeared on the album "Kings of the Wild Frontier" and the single reached number four on the British charts, being their first top ten hit.

In his autobiography, Goddard stated that the name of the song was inspired by a quote by Margaret Thatcher, who had something of a dog-eat-dog outlook.

Answer: Theobromine

Like humans, dogs appreciate sweet tasting treats and will readily pig out on chocolate if given the chance. Eating a small amount will probably not do any harm, but if a dog were to eat, say, a whole bar of the stuff, they would become quite sick within a few hours, and would feel nauseous and probably vomit, have a high heart rate, diarrhea, and show signs of hyperactivity.

A very large intake could lead to tremors, seizures and possibly death. Of course, the severity of the symptoms will also depend on the size of the dog, with smaller dogs having worse outcomes.

Theobromine, like caffeine, is a central nervous system stimulant, which dogs metabolize more slowly than humans, meaning that the effects on them last longer and their bodies are not built to handle it. So, please keep your chocolate products secure and away from where dogs can reach them!

Answer: A confused mess

Also referred to as a "dog's breakfast," this expression refers to something that is made up of jumbled elements that do not go together neatly, much like a dog's meal might be made of whatever scraps are available with little regard for culinary aesthetics.

The term has sometimes been used to describe a person dressed in an outfit made up of disparate elements, as in "dressed up like a dog's dinner."

Answer: Leslie O'Kane

"Give the Dog a Bone" is the third of seven novels about Allie Babcock, a dog therapist who solves murder mysteries. In the novel, an eccentric millionaire claims that his golden retriever named Maggie is channeling the spirit of his late wife. He convinces Allie to become the dog's legal guardian in the event that he dies, which he soon does.

His fortune will go to whichever of his relatives Allie picks to be Maggie's new owner, and Allie becomes involved in solving his murder. Leslie O'Kane has written 28 mysteries and all of her sleuths have a cat or dog. All of the Allie Babcock novels feature an image of a dog on the cover.

Answer: Erich Kastner

Originally published in German in 1932 under the title "Fabian, the Story of a Moralist," the novel was republished as "Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist" in 2012. The story takes place in berlin after the stock market collapse in 1929 and before Hitler's rise to power in 1933. The protagonist, Jakob Fabian, has a doctoral degree in literature but loses his job as an advertising copywriter and takes to wandering the streets during the day and going to cabarets to meet girls at night. The novel is notable for satirical observations about a city in decline because of mass unemployment, in which sexual permissiveness becomes the norm. Going to the dogs, indeed. Erich Kästner was a successful screenwriter and is best known for his poems and children's books. Although he never won the Nobel prize, despite being nominated four times, he was awarded the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960 for his autobiography, "When I was a Little Boy." Like the protagonists in his novel, he had a doctoral degree in literature and lived in Berlin during the period described. He had the indignity of having his works banned by the Nazis but was alter immortalized by having an asteroid (number 12318) named after him in 1992.

Note on spelling: Kästner is actually spelled with an umlaut "ä" but this symbol has problems displaying properly in the question-and-answer sections on this site, so I used a plain "a" instead.

Answer: Smokin' in the Boy's Room

In the rather surreal video, the protagonist, Jimmy, has a mishap on the way to school in which a Doberman wearing an inverted pentagram (must be a hellhound, I guess) runs off with his homework. He is laughed at when he explains to his teacher what happened and is sent to the principal who paddles him. While in the bathroom, members of Motley Crüe pull him through a mirror into a dystopian parallel universe where his school is run on comically Orwellian lines. Upon returning through the mirror, against all odds, the principal appears with Jimmy's homework in hand, which is marked with an "A" and offers him an apology. For reasons that hardly seem clear, he defiantly rips up the homework in front of the principal, and the band members give him a thumbs up for this. (Presumably, he was making some kind of point, but don't ask me to explain what it is exactly.) The song reached number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was the band's first Top 40 hit. The original version by Brownsville Station reached number three in Canada and on the US Billboard Hot 100. The lyrics of the song are pretty much what the title suggests, being about covert smoking at school.

Unbelievable as it might sound, "Take Care of Your Homework" is a 1969 by Johnnie Taylor. "Black Dog on My Shoulder" is a 1990 song by Manic Street Preachers. "Who let the Dogs Out?" is a ludicrous 2000 song by Baha Men that was ranked third on a 2007 poll conducted by Rolling Stone of the 20 most annoying songs. As you may have guessed, the title of this quiz is a parody of this song title.