Easy-Peasy Rhyme-Time Name-Game Quiz

Answer: Doctor Dolittle

Introduced in Hugh Lofting's "The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts" (1920), the pushmi-pullyu is a beast with heads on opposite ends of its body. It look a bit like a llama but the doctor says it is a "gazelle/unicorn cross." It uses one head to speak while the other is eating, thus it can never be accused of speaking with its mouth full.

The term has entered the lexicon as a name for a person who can hold opposite ideas at the same time.

Answer: a bear

The nursery rhyme says "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, / Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. / Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't really fuzzy. / Was he?" This children's poem (or lyric) is about a bear suffering from alopecia. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the unfortunate racial epithet "Fuzzy Wuzzy." That latter was British slang for Black African people, especially those with woolly hair, particularly the Hadendoa people of the Sudan with whom the British Army fought in the 19th century.

This sense of the term became well known through Rudyard Kipling's poem "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" (1892) which expresses admiration for these warriors.

Answer: a boy

Rootie Kazootie was a human boy created by Steve Carlin for American television in 1950-1954. Rootie hosted "The Rootie Kazootie Club." Rootie was athletic and wore a baseball cap with the bill turned up. Polka Dottie was Rudy's girlfriend. Gala Poochie Pup was his dog. Poison Zoomack was the bad guy intent on stealing Rootie's magic kazoo and Dottie's polka dots.

Answer: Howdy Doody

Howdy Doody was a pioneering marionette in the beginnings of American children's television. His good friend was a boy named Dilly Dally. Other marionette characters were Phineas T. Bluster and the Flub-a-Dub (a composite animal). Human characters included Clarabell the Clown, Chief Thunderthud and Princess Summerfall Winterspring.

In the Bill Murray motion picture "Scrooged," the Ghost of Christmas Past shows Murray's character watching "Howdy Doody" in his childhood.

Answer: Pulp Fiction

In the opening scene of "Pulp Fiction," a couple is having breakfast in a diner. The young man (played by Tim Roth), whose real name is Ringo, is called Pumpkin by his girlfriend. The girl (played by Amanda Plummer), whose real name is Yolanda, is called Honey Bunny. At the end of their meal, they both pull out .32-caliber pistols and announce a robbery.

Answer: DIY home improvement

Andy Kane (b. 1965), best known was "Handy Andy," worked on the BBC television series "Changing Rooms" (1996-2004). On the show, two contestant couples worked with interior designers and carpenters to remodel a room in each other's home. The programme was similar to Ty Pennington's American TV show "Trading Spaces" which was derived from it. Handy Andy made several guest appearances on the US version, as well.

Answer: a penguin

Paul Smith, a director in Walter Lantz' studios, created Chilly Willy in 1953. He was a penguin who could never get warm. Theatrical cartoons starring Chilly Willy appeared from 1953 to 1972. His circle included a dog named Smedley, Maxie the Polar Bear, Wally Walrus, Gooney the Albatross, and Col. Pot Shot.

Despite the 2006 Coca-Cola TV advert showing a penguin sharing a coke with a polar bear, it is well known that the two creatures occupy different hemispheres.

Answer: Welcome Back Kotter

"Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975-1979) followed a group of misfits known as the Sweathogs and their empathetic schoolteacher, himself a former member of the gang. An occasional cast member was Rosalie "Hotsie" Totsie, a minister's daughter played by Debralee Scott (1953-2005). Her reputation for sexual promiscuity underpinned her claim in the first season that one of the Sweathogs got her pregnant. She fabricated the story to punish the boys for bad-mouthing her reputation.

Answer: Casper the Friendly Ghost

Hairy Scary is a thousand-year-old male ghost in the "Casper the Friendly Ghost" franchise. Hairy serves as a sort of father-image big-brother mentor to young Casper. Hairy loves to scare people and can't understand why Casper doesn't. Between 1945 and 1959, Famous Studios made over 50 theatrical animated short features.

The series then morphed into television, comics, and straight-to-DVD movies.

Answer: English nursery rhyme

Many people first learned of Humpty Dumpty from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871). Carroll elaborated on a nursery rhyme in existence at the time he wrote about Alice. The nursery rhyme may have originated as a riddle. "Humpty Dumpty" has been set to music several times. The line which says, "All the king's horses and all the king's men" was the source of the title of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel "All the King's Men."