Bifurcated Trivia: The Answers
April 23, 2021 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2021 at 1:50 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
It's been a week, and what little interest there was seems to have dried up like a jellyfish in the Sahara. So, here are the answers (in bold):
1. What do the following words have in common? diamond, checkers, socks, pumpkin, lump.
They are the names of pets of famous people (awty was close with presidential pets). Diamond - Isaac Newton's dog; Checkers - Richard Nixon's dog; Socks - Bill Clinton's cat; Pumpkin - Kurt Vonnegut Jr's dog; Lump - Picasso's dog.
2. What do the following actors have in common? Stephen Fry, Danny Trejo, Mark Wahlberg, Nick Nolte, Robert Mitchum.
All served prison sentences. Correctly answered by awty and Bel.
3. Canada has had 12 of these, the UK 8, New Zealand 5, and the USA 4. What are they?
Heads of government with the first name 'William'.
4. Where can you find a man, a rabbit, a witch, a toad, and a tree that aren't really there?
On the face of the Moon. awty got it.
5. What do the following male names have in common? Christian, George, Bernard, Charles, Leonard.
They are the real first names of performers universally known by the nickname 'Buddy'. In order:
Christian 'Buddy' Ebsen
George 'Buddy' Guy
Bernard 'Buddy' Rich
Charles 'Buddy' Holly (Holley)
Leonard 'Buddy' Hackett (Hacker)
*****
6. Father of a flower girl, he's a common dustman and has been described as 'the most original moralist in England'.
7. 'His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under he left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird. He was very tall and strong, with a face as big as a ham - plain and pale, but intelligent and smiling.'
8. '...stumping along with great yellow boots on his thick legs, and charging through grass and rushes like a cow going down to drink. He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright and his face was as red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter.'
9. '...a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long, white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot without a single speck of colour about him anywhere...with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere.'
10. 'Certainly good looking. That black hair falling over the right eyebrow. But there is something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold.' Also scarred on the right cheek and the back of the right hand.
awty nailed each and every one of these: Alfie Doolittle, Long John Silver, Tom Bombadil, Dracula, and James Bond.
Boru
1. What do the following words have in common? diamond, checkers, socks, pumpkin, lump.
They are the names of pets of famous people (awty was close with presidential pets). Diamond - Isaac Newton's dog; Checkers - Richard Nixon's dog; Socks - Bill Clinton's cat; Pumpkin - Kurt Vonnegut Jr's dog; Lump - Picasso's dog.
2. What do the following actors have in common? Stephen Fry, Danny Trejo, Mark Wahlberg, Nick Nolte, Robert Mitchum.
All served prison sentences. Correctly answered by awty and Bel.
3. Canada has had 12 of these, the UK 8, New Zealand 5, and the USA 4. What are they?
Heads of government with the first name 'William'.
4. Where can you find a man, a rabbit, a witch, a toad, and a tree that aren't really there?
On the face of the Moon. awty got it.
5. What do the following male names have in common? Christian, George, Bernard, Charles, Leonard.
They are the real first names of performers universally known by the nickname 'Buddy'. In order:
Christian 'Buddy' Ebsen
George 'Buddy' Guy
Bernard 'Buddy' Rich
Charles 'Buddy' Holly (Holley)
Leonard 'Buddy' Hackett (Hacker)
*****
6. Father of a flower girl, he's a common dustman and has been described as 'the most original moralist in England'.
7. 'His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under he left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird. He was very tall and strong, with a face as big as a ham - plain and pale, but intelligent and smiling.'
8. '...stumping along with great yellow boots on his thick legs, and charging through grass and rushes like a cow going down to drink. He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright and his face was as red as a ripe apple, but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter.'
9. '...a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long, white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot without a single speck of colour about him anywhere...with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere.'
10. 'Certainly good looking. That black hair falling over the right eyebrow. But there is something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold.' Also scarred on the right cheek and the back of the right hand.
awty nailed each and every one of these: Alfie Doolittle, Long John Silver, Tom Bombadil, Dracula, and James Bond.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
