Mind Your P's and Q's Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dan Quayle

James Danforth "Dan" Quayle was vice president of the United States under George Herbert Walker Bush from 1989-1993. His nomination was considered both surprising and controversial at the time. His performance at the televised debate with Lloyd Bentsen was a disaster when he compared himself to slain president John Kennedy. Bentsen commented "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy".

After that Quayle made often inconclusive and rambling remarks. Here are a few:

"You take the UNCF model that what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future"

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. ... No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history"

He also scored with blaming the decline in moral values to the fictional character Murphy Brown and failure to spell potato correctly.

Answer: Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn (nee Antonio Rodolfo Quiñones Oaxaca) was born in Mexico. "Zorba the Greek" was his most famous role as the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba. Quinn had the ability to adapt himself into many ethnic and cultural characters. He won two Academy Awards in supporting roles "Viva Zapata!" (1952) and "Lust for Life" (1956)--a Mexican in the former and a Frenchman in the latter.

In addition, Quinn had earmarks of a polymaph as one critic said "Quinn's many expressions of creativity together-his art, collecting, and acting-we can see that he was a creative genius"

Answer: Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, was virtually unknown until she was selected as the Republican candidate for vice-president by John McClain in 2008. Joe Biden won the vice-presidential debate but Palin did better than expected. After losing that election, she resigned as governor. Since then she has remained in the public eye. Among her activities are speaking and endorsing in behalf of conservative candidates; commentator of television news; producing a nature related television series; writing a best selling autobiography; and producing a failed TV channel.

Answer: Muammar Qadhafi.

Qadhafi or Gaddafi (one of several spellings) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He governed Libya as Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 2011. He was ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism but later ruled according to his own ideas. During a coup in 2011 he was captured by rebels and was executed begging for his life.

Answer: Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton once said "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!" Dolly admits she wears blonde wigs, uses botox, has had plastic surgery and avoids being photographed without her total paraphenalia. However, with some patience you can find a few. She has been performing all her life but had a break-through when she began to work with country singer Porter Wagoner.

She has 25 Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum albums and has wins or nominations too numerous to list. Some claim the cloned sheep Dolly was named for her. In addition, Parton has two Academy Award nominations. She owns Dollywood, a theme park in Tennessee. A lot of jokes circulate about the size of her breasts.

Answer: Dennis Quaid

Jerry Lee Lewis is a flamboyant 'stand up' piano player noted for his style and his personal life. He has recorded with the most successful country artists of his time. The story of his life was told in the film "Great Balls of Fire" (1989) starring Dennis Quaid as Lewis.

Lewis' piano playing cousins include Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. In addition to his seven wives (one only thirteen years old), he once while drunk showed up at Elvis Presley's estate Graceland with a loaded gun.

Answer: Robin Quivers

Robin Quivers is a nurse who turned to media reporting. As such she was recruited to host the news segment of Howard Stern radio program. Stern, noted for his free-wheeling style, is packed with sexual content and occasionally poorly timed and "off-color" material. Quivers would read the news item and be constantly interrupted by Stern with his jibes, rants, and innuendo. Surprisingly, it worked. Stern once said that he would quit his show if he lost Robin. Quivers does add a note of rationality to the show.

Answer: Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley is the daughter of Elvis Presley and has been married four times including man-child Michael Jackson. They had first met in 1975 when she was seven. Their adult friendship began in 1992. They stayed in contact by telephone. As child molestation accusations became public, Jackson became dependent on Lisa for emotional support.

She said, "I believed he didn't do anything wrong, and that he was wrongly accused and, yes, I started falling for him. I wanted to save him. I felt that I could do it." She tried to persuade him to go into rehabilitation.

In January 1996, citing irreconcilable differences, Lisa Marie filed for divorce.

Answer: Ross Perot

Ross Perot, a billionaire, announced his intent to run for president on the Larry King Show. He made bids in 1992 and 1996. His television campaign programs featured lots of charts, graphs, and statistics. His main theme was fiscal responsibility but was light on social issues.

In 1992 he received 19,741,065 popular votes or 18.9% of the votes cast. In 1996 received only 8,085,402 or 8% of the popular vote.

Answer: Plato

Socrates was an enigmatic figure, illiterate, and is known chiefly through the accounts of Plato, his star pupil. Found guilty of corrupting the morals of Athenian youth, he was sentenced to death. Plato and Socrates overlap so it is difficult to separate their philosophies.