A, My Name Isn't Alice Trivia Game | Thematic Names

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1. A, my name is Alice. You could get anything you want at my restaurant. Who sang about me?

Answer: Arlo Guthrie

Alice Brock later published a cookbook, drawing on the popularity of Arlo Guthrie's rambling 1960s counterculture narrative that begins with a Thanksgiving meal she cooked. Woody Guthrie, Arlo's father, was a counter-cultural folk singer of the Great Depression era. Bob Dylan and Roger Miller also are known for breaking with formal traditions in music.

2. A, my name is Alice. I wrote an epistolary novel called "The Color Purple". Who was the main character of this story, an abused orphan that eventually becomes an independent woman who supports herself designing and sewing pants?

Answer: Celie

"The Color Purple" was written by Alice Walker in the form of letters that gradually unfold Celie's story. The movie version was directed by Stephen Spielberg and starred Whoopi Goldberg as Celie, Oprah Winfrey as Sophia, and Margaret Avery as jazz singer Shug Avery. Annie is the name of a fictional character who is an orphan, while Pamela is a character in a 1740 epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson.

3. A, my name is Alice. The song "Alice Blue Gown" was written about me. My father was a leader of his nation and had a bear named for him. Who was my father?

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Alice Lee Roosevelt (married name Longworth) was a teenager when Theodore Roosevelt became president. Americans were excited to have a lively, outgoing society girl in the White House, and many eagerly followed her fashion trends. The Broadway song "Alice Blue Gown" was based on one of Alice's favorite colors. The teddy bear got its name from her father, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.

4. A, my name is Alice. An Oxford scholar of mathematics and logic wrote about my adventures underground and through the looking glass. What was his name?

Answer: Charles Dodgson

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1871) under the pen name Lewis Carroll (not Louis Carrell). He held a lectureship in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford, from 1855 to 1881.

His American contemporary Samuel Langhorne Clemens wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain. C.S. Lewis, who also created child characters, taught literature at Oxford and Cambridge in the 20th century.

5. A, my name is Alice. I was a widowed single mom who worked at Mel's Diner. A fellow waitress was always telling people, "Kiss my grits!" Who played me on the television series with my name?

Answer: Linda Lavin

Tony Award winning Broadway actress Linda Lavin played Alice Hyatt in the television series, which ran from 1976 to 1985. Ellen Burstyn portrayed Alice in the 1974 movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"-the inspiration for the television series. The sassy Southern waitress was named Flo; she was played by Polly Holliday, and there's no connection to singer-actress Florence Henderson or singer-songwriter Flo Rida.

6. A, my name is Alice. I was the wife of bus driver Ralph Kramden, played by Jackie Gleason, on the American television series "The Honeymooners" in the 1950s. What actress played the part of Alice Kramden for most of this long-running series?

Answer: Audrey Meadows

Audrey Meadows won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in 1955 for her role as Alice. Reflecting the frustrations of a struggling working class couple in a cramped city apartment, Ralph often threatened to hit Alice "right in the kisser" or send her "to the moon"; however, an unfazed Alice responded with sarcasm and gritty common sense. Lucille Ball, Ann Sothern, and Harriet Nelson also appeared in 1950s situation comedies.

7. A, my name is Alice. I wrote a cookbook that caused my name to be given to a special kind of brownies. The most famous book with my name on it--"The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"--was really a memoir written by my long-time companion and lover, whose life I shared in Paris. Who was this famous writer, a patron of modern artists?

Answer: Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas remained a couple from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Their home at 27 Rue de Fleurus became a haven for "lost generation" writers like Hemingway and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and they were among the first to recognize the power of modern artists like Picasso and Matisse.

8. A, my name is Dame Alice. I am better known as the Wife of Bath. Who created me, my fellow pilgrims, and our comic and tragic tales?

Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

In the years just before 1400 A.D., Geoffrey Chaucer created characters in "The Canterbury Tales" whose vibrant personalities continue to entertain and instruct many readers of medieval literature. Margery Kempe had been on pilgrimages, much like Dame Alice; her autobiography reflects the conflicts between marriage and religion for a real woman during Chaucer's time period. Shakespeare and Tolkien come from later eras, but both owe much to Chaucer.

9. A, my name is Princess Alice, later Her Royal Highness The Grand Duchess of Hesse and By Rhine. I was the third of my parents' nine children. Because of her grief over my father's death, when I married, my mother said it was "more like a funeral than a wedding". Who was my mother, who ruled Great Britain from 1837 to 1901?

Answer: Queen Victoria

Princess Alice, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, was a compassionate, capable woman, who supported Florence Nightingale and the nursing profession, fostered liberal theology, and served as a caregiver and comforter during many tragic times both inside and outside her royal families. One of the Grand Duchess Alice's seven children was the Empress Alexandra, the wife of Tsar Nicholas II, who died during the Russian Revolution in 1917. Alice's great-grandson, Prince Philip, married Queen Elizabeth II of England.

10. A, my name is Alice. In a song called "White Rabbit", the listener is told to go ask me when I'm ten feet tall. The characters and imagery come from the novels "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking Glass" (1871). But who wrote the 1960s song?

Answer: Grace Slick

Grace Slick wrote the song before joining Jefferson Airplane, but the psychedelic "White Rabbit" became a major hit for them. Tom Petty dressed as the Mad Hatter in the video for "Don't Come Around Here No More"; and the imagery of musicians like Donovan and John Lennon owe much to the surreal world of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books.

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A, My Name Isn't Alice Trivia Quiz

Remember the alphabetical jump rope game that begins "A, My Name is Alice" (or something else that begins with A)? This quiz is about people and characters surrounding people and characters named Alice, NOT Alice herself.

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