The Year of the Tiger Trivia Quiz

Answer: Shere Khan

"The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of short stories that were first published in 1894. It was later made into a film by Disney featuring popular songs like the "Bare Necessities". In the original stories, Shere Khan was a crippled tiger whose attempt at hunting humans had led to Mowgli getting separated from his parents. The character is said to have been named after an Afghani prince Kipling met on a visit to Afghanistan.

All the other options are also characters from the book.

Answer: Breakfast cereal

Tony the Tiger is the mascot for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and is associated with the popular catchphrase "They're Grrrrreat!". The character was first developed in 1952 as part of a contest to come up with mascots for Kellogg's different cereal brands.

Other contenders were Katy the Kangaroo, Elmo the Elephant and Newt the Gnu, none of which attained Tony's popularity and were soon phased out.

Answer: Rocky III

The song was commissioned by Sylvester Stallone for "Rocky III" when he was unable to buy the rights to use Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust". The Oscar ultimately went to "Up Where We Belong" from "An Officer and a Gentleman". However the song did help Survivor win the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

Answer: Siegfried & Roy

Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn are German entertainers who first met when they were both working aboard a German ocean liner. Siegfried is an illusionist who started off by performing magic for passengers on the ship. The duo soon moved to Las Vegas, eventually becoming associated with the hotel, The Mirage. Unfortunately the show had an abrupt end when Roy was injured by a seven year old tiger during a performance in 2003.

The two have also started a tiger conservation project to help protect white tigers from extinction.

Answer: Tyger

William Blake was an English poet of the Romantic Age. Apart from his poetry, he is also well known for his engravings of Dante's "Divine Comedy".

"The Tyger" is a companion poem to "The Lamb" another poem by Blake from the anthology "Songs of Innocence".

Answer: Sub Zero Heroes

Diego initially starts off as a negative character who intends to lead the other two into an ambush. On the way, Manfred saves his life causing a change of heart and Diego almost loses his life trying to save the baby.

The movie series was also made into a video game.

Answer: Life of Pi

"Life of Pi" is the story of Pi, a small boy whose parents own a zoo. A ship carrying Pi, his parents and animals from the zoo sinks on its way to Canada leaving him stranded on a lifeboat in the company of the four animals. The tiger is named Richard Parker after a character from an Edgar Allan Poe novel.

Answer: Limerick

Limericks are five line poems with a fixed rhyming pattern in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other as do the third and fourth. The name is believed to refer to the city of Limerick in Ireland. This style of poetry was popularised by Edward Lear, a 19th century English author and poet.

Answer: TTFN

Tigger's popular catchphrase TTFN stood for 'Ta Ta For Now' and wasn't written by Milne in the original stories. It was added by the creative team at Disney which adapted the stories for television. Winnie the Pooh's other friends in the Hundred Acre Woods included Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga and Rabbit.

When Danny Boyle won the Academy Award for Best Director for "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009, he jumped up and down on the stage after receiving it to keep a promise he had made to his children when they were younger that if he ever won an Oscar, he would go onstage and jump up and down like Tigger.

Answer: Calvin

'Calvin & Hobbes' is a comic strip that was created by Bill Watterson and first published in 1985. Both The two are named after John Calvin, a French priest during the Protestant Reformation and Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher respectively. The comic strip was syndicated and ran for ten years with reruns in print even today.

One of the many popular quotes from this comic: "Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words."