FunTrivia Entertainment Mix: Vol 29 Quiz

Answer: Kong

While Donkey Kong made his debut as an antagonist in the arcades back in the 1980s, his later appearances on home consoles made him the friendly playable character in a series of platforming-style games. He has since become one of Nintendo's most famous faces, appearing with a whole slew of other Kongs in his games. Diddy, Dixie, and Cranky all appear throughout the massively popular "Donkey Kong Country" series; all four are playable in "Tropical Freeze" for the Wii U.

Question by player kyleisalive

Answer: Kiryu Kazuma

Originally only available on the Sony Playstation, "Yakuza" and its sequels are a popular series of games that follow the life of a man as he tries to navigate the world of Japanese organized crime. Kiryu had a substantial role in the first several games which include the prequel "Yakuza 0", and several sequels: "Yakuza 2" through "Yakuza 6". Following "Yakuza 6", a new main protagonist has been introduced in the game "Yakuza: Like a Dragon", and his name is Ichiban Kasuga.

Question by player davegrilla

Answer: Cirque du Soleil

Founded in 1984 by Quebec street performers Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix, Le Cirque du Soleil presented many successful shows around the world and usually has a permanent show in Las Vegas. The Cirque defines itself as a contemporary circus. It mixes various, international circus styles.

Question by player Kabdanis

Answer: Wonder Woman

First appearing in DC Comics in December 1941, Wonder Woman is an Amazon princess whose real name is Diana of Themyscira. A fictional island nation in the DC Comics universe, Themyscira is the homeland of the Amazons. Also known as Paradise Island, it is named after the mythological capital city of the Amazon tribe in Greek mythology, Themiscyra.



Question by player EnglishJedi

Answer: Hitchcock movies

Cary Grant tied with James Stewart, by appearing in four Alfred Hitchcock movies. Leo G. Carroll, also known for "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", with six, was the actor most cast by Hitchcock in his Hollywood heyday. Clare Greet appeared in seven earlier movies for the director, and had the most appearances in Hitchcock's movies - apart, that is, from Hitchcock himself, who made 39 cameo appearances in movies he directed.

Question by player Upstart3

Answer: The Far Side

"The Far Side" debuted as a daily comic strip in 1980 in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and was soon nationally syndicated, running until 1995. It's one of those "you get it or you don't" type of cartoons - some people never saw the appeal, but those of us with twisted senses of humor were addicted.

The cartoons often focused on personified or talking animals, nerdy scientists or tormented pet owners. A "Far Side" of the day calendar appeared in 1985 and for many years was the top selling desk calendar. Larson retired the daily calendars in 2002 (to give someone else a chance at the title, it was rumored), but luckily, we can still buy books of cartoon collections to provide us our "Far Side" fix.

Question by player PDAZ

Answer: Victorian, Queen Victoria

The "Mad History of Sex" was a silly version of history, beginning when cave people got a thrill bumping elbows. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously. Although many romantic novels were written in the Victorian Era, Mad claimed there was no sex at that time because of how Queen Victoria looked.

Question by player zorlock7

Answer: crinoline

The word crinoline originally denoted a stiff fabric made of cotton or linen and horsehair ("crin" in French), which was used to make petticoats. In the 1850s, these stiff petticoats were replaced by an elaborate, cage-like structure with steel hoops (though other materials were also employed) that gave skirts a distinctive bell-like shape.

These undergarments, which were produced in huge quantities in Western countries, were extremely popular with women of every social class - despite being cumbersome and also potentially dangerous.

By the 1870s, crinolines had been largely replaced by bustles, which served to give shape to the back of a dress. A chemise was a simple undergarment worn next to the skin, while a codpiece was a Renaissance ancestor of the modern jockstrap, and a culotte (frequently used in the plural) is a kind of divided skirt.

Question by player LadyNym

Answer: Saddle shoes

Saddle shoes are usually white leather with a saddle-shaped black or blue decoration over the middle of the foot. Urkel was a stereotypical "nerd" with clothes of clashing colors and patterns, "high water" pants, and saddle shoes. Lucy wore saddle shoes as did many school girls in the 1950s when the cartoon started.

Question by player wjames

Answer: Simone Micheline Bodin

There is no consensus regarding who could be called the first supermodel, but it certainly could have been Bettina, who was given her professional name by fashion designer Jacques Fath. When she was offered a job by Christian Dior, she continued to work with Fath, but she did eventually associate with Hubert de Givenchy, who named his first collection after her in 1952. All of the other models listed were from the 1960s and 1970s.

Question by player ponycargirl