Zebra Crossing Trivia Quiz

Answer: pedestrians

Zebra crossings were first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1949.

Arguably, one of the most famous zebra crossings is featured on the cover of the 1969 album "Abbey Road" by The Beatles.

Answer: referees

The name comes from the black and white striped uniforms that are worn to distinguish the referees from the players of either team.

Before the black and white shirts were worn, referees wore white dress shirts in order to appear professional. However, if one of the teams wore a white uniform, things could get confusing. After a quarterback mistook him for a player and passed him the ball, Lloyd Olds asked his friend George Moe, owner of a local sports store, to create a shirt that would prevent any more confusion. While Olds was booed at first for his novel clothing, it worked.

Answer: Life of Pi

Both the novel and film versions of "Life of Pi" deal with truth and the nature of stories. Do you choose to believe that the fantastic story of Pi's survival alongside zoo animals is real? Or is it a fiction created to deal with a harsh reality? Does it matter?

The plot is the life story of the boy, first as a child trying to navigate the truth of religion, and then as a young man forced to survive as the boat transporting his family and what's left of their zoo overseas sinks.

Answer: Fruit Stripe

Fruit Stripe was created in 1969 by James Parker. While there have been several mascots over the years, Yipes, a zebra with multi-colored stripes, has endured the longest.

The gum has stripes painted on each piece, and while the initial flavor is strong, it does not last long.

Contrary to the image, Fruit Stripe is a chewing gum, not a bubble gum.

Answer: 1981

George Streisinger (1927-1984) first cloned zebrafish at the University of Oregon in 1981. Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was born in 1996.

Zebrafish are ideal for such genetic studies. They are relatively easy to care for, can rapidly produce a large enough population to study, and their eggs are transparent, which allows researchers to monitor embryonic development.

Answer: fairy chess

Fairy chess is a game that uses "unorthodox" pieces, either as part of a real game or as a puzzle challenge. There are hundreds of possible pieces, most of which expand or combine the moves of the traditional pieces.

Traditionally, the zebra is a (2,3) jumper, similar to the knight which is a (1,2) jumper.

Answer: Madagascar

In "Madagascar" (2005), the animals from the Central Park Zoo find out that life in Madagascar outside of captivity is not what they expected.

Chris Rock provides the voice of Marty the zebra.

Answer: Tennessee

Tennessee ("the Volunteer State") has four state insects. Both the firefly and ladybug are state insects, the honeybee is the state agricultural insect, and the zebra swallowtail is the state butterfly.

The zebra swallowtail has black and white striped wings, unlike the blue wings in the drawing.

Answer: University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Theodore Woodward (1914-2005) of the University of Maryland School of Medicine came up with the aphorism in the 1940s to remember to avoid an exotic medical diagnosis when a more common diagnosis would work.

While the exotic reasons should not be eliminated from consideration, the more likely scenarios should be ruled out first.

Answer: The Magnetic Fields

The Magnetic Fields were founded by singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt in 1989.

Their best known work is the three-volume concept album "69 Love Songs". "Zebra" is the final track on the album.