Pat Answers Trivia Quiz

Answer: Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), a former postal clerk and beer salesman, was one of the founders of the Mouvement National Congolais, a party that sought Congolese independence from Belgium. He was elected Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo after it achieved its independence in 1960.

He was deposed a mere ten weeks later during a coup called the Congo Crisis. His supporters have always maintained that his murder during his imprisonment following the coup was carried out with the complicity of the Belgian and US governments who feared communist takeover of The Congo.

Answer: His dog

William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) was a very complex man, if not something of an eccentric. As leader of the Liberal Party, King served as PM from 1921-26, 1926-30, 1935-48. He was a cautious politician who tended to come down on the side of prevailing public opinion when determining his government's policies. King dabbled in Spiritualism and maintained contact, via mediums, with his mother after her death.

His peccadilloes were not known to anyone outside his immediate family and circle of friends until well after his death when his journals were discovered.

Answer: Patricia Roc

Patricia Roc (1915-2003) was a popular leading lady in British films of the 1940s and 1950s, starring in the so-called Gainsborough Melodramas 'Madonna of the Seven Moons' and 'The Wicked Lady'. Her one and only foray into Hollywood was 'Canyon Passage' (1946) in which she co-starred with Reagan and Susan Hayward. Hayward commented "That Limey glamour gal is a helluva dame." Roc's romance with Reagan (who was married to Jane Wyman at the time) was short-lived, ending when she returned to England.

Patricia Neal was an American, not British, actress. Patricia Dainton is a British actress but she retired in 1961 and never made a movie in Hollywood, and Pat Bredin is a British singer who was the first UK representative in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Answer: Patrick Roy

Patrick Roy (which is pronounced Rwah in French) was born in Sainte-Foy (pronounced Fwah), Quebec, is the legendary former goalie for the Montreal Canadiens and the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League. When Roy retired, both Montreal and Colorado retired his jersey number, 33.

In 2004, a panel of 41 Canadian and American sportswriters named him the greatest goaltender in NHL history, and in 2006 Roy was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The butterfly style of goal tending was perfected by him.

Answer: Patrick Stewart

I wonder if, when he was asked if he would accept the Chancellorship of the University of Huddersfield, Stewart's response was his signature line from Star Trek:TNG "Make it so."

Born in 1940, Stewart is best-known in North America as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men movies. In the UK, however, he is primarily an icon of the theatre, as a distinguished Shakespearean actor. He is a political activist (a Labour Party supporter), and a patron of Refuge, a UK charity that provides shelter for women who have suffered domestic abuse. A scholarship funding post-graduate studies into domestic violence at the University of Huddersfield also bears his name.

Stewart was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2010, and is properly addressed these days as Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart.

Answer: Pat Boone

The hint gave it away, surely? Pat Boone not only sang about white buck shoes but they were his trademark footwear (thereby setting a fashion-trend that infested North American high schools in the mid-1950s). Probably the most squeaky-clean teen idol ever, Boone was the cultural antithesis of Elvis Presley, who had been an opening act for Boone before he (Presley) hit the big time. In 1953, just before his nineteenth birthday, Boone married Shirley Foley, daughter of country music stars Red Foley and Judy Martin. They have four daughters, one of whom is Debby Boone whose major hit song was the saccharine 'You Light Up My Life'.

A fundamentalist Christian, Boone has written books about morality and has never accepted a music gig or a film role that would violate his Christian ethic (he flatly refused to kiss his co-star Shirley Jones in his first movie, 'April Love', because she was a married woman!). He's anti-gay rights, anti-liberal (he compares liberals to cancer) and gave the Dixie Chicks a public tongue-lashing for daring to question George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq.

As to that baptism, there's no actual proof that it ever happened. Pat Boone has never claimed to have done the deed and Dylan himself never discusses his religious beliefs.

Answer: Cumbria, Northern England

Scholars generally agree that Maewyn Succat (aka Patrick) was born in Banna Venta Berniae in what is now Cumbria, UK. He was the grandson of a Christian priest and son of a deacon, and when he was 16 he was kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland which, at that time, was still pagan. He escaped after six years and eventually made his way to Northern France where he studied for the priesthood. He returned to Ireland (he petitioned the Pope for permission to do so) to begin his successful missionary work. He died c460.

The other three choices existed in Patrick's time and were home to Brythonic Celts who spoke the same language as Patrick. The Irish Celts spoke a different Celtic language which evolved into Gaelic.

Answer: Julia Sweeney

Born in Spokane, Washington, Julia Sweeney worked as an accountant before making a career in show business. She is a cancer survivor who uses her experience with the disease in her work to inspire and encourage other cancer patients. Nowadays she does mainly monologues and voice-over work, along with the occasional guest slot on television shows. She lives in Chicago with her husband, scientist Michael Blum, and daughter Tara.

Cahill, Silverman and Cleghorne have all been featured on 'Saturday Night Live' but none of them played Pat.

Answer: Pat Benatar

It's difficult to imagine Pat Benatar starring as Maddalena in 'Rigoletto' at the Met, isn't it? Opera's loss was rock's gain when Benatar dropped out of the classical program at Juilliard in 1972 to marry her high school sweetheart, Dennis Benatar. They divorced in 1979. In 1982 she married guitarist Neil 'Spyder' Giraldo and they have two daughters.

Benatar won four consecutive Grammy Awards between 1980 and 1983 and was twice named by 'Rolling Stone' as that magazine's favourite female vocalist. She has also been named by 'Billboard Magazine' as the most successful female rock vocalist of all time, based on overall record sales, and the number of hit songs and their charted positions.

Answer: Brady

Nellybelle was the name of Pat Brady's jeep and his trusty mount during all those rides on the range with his long-time pal Roy Rogers. Brady and Rogers met in 1935 and when Roy moved on to movies, his buddy Pat moved with him. This Pat Brady died in 1972.

Pat Brady, the cartoonist, was born in 1947 and is the creator of the long-running (in North America) strip 'A Rose is a Rose'. In 2004 he won the Reuben Award as the outstanding cartoonist for that year.



Pat Brady (1926-2009), the football player, graduated from the University of Nevado-Reno where he played college football. He played in the Canadian Football League in the 1951 season before joining the Pittsburgh Steelers as QB for the 1952, '53 and '54 seasons. An Achilles tendon injury during the pre-season in 1955 put paid to his career.

The other Pat is Medal of Honour winner Pat Brady (born 1936) a native of Philip, South Dakota. He won his citation for ferrying 51 wounded soldiers to medical aid under heavy fire in Vietnam. He retired as a Major General and must have had to build a very large cabinet to hold all his medals!