Babe Magnet Meltdown Trivia Quiz

Answer: Boston Red Sox

Babe Ruth first played for the Boston Red Sox until he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, an act which supposedly resulted in 86 years without a World Series victory (known as the "Curse of the Bambino) until the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004. He spent the majority of his career as a New York Yankee, but briefly played with the Boston Braves in 1935 before retiring.

Answer: Salvatore

Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (1935-1998) followed his musical career with one in politics. He served as the mayor of Palm Springs (1988-1992) and in the House of Representatives (1994 until his death in 1998).

Answer: The Sheep-Pig

"The Sheep-Pig" (1983) was written by Dick King-Smith. Other works by King-Smith adapted for television or movies include "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" (2007) and "The Foxbusters" (1999-2000).

Answer: Paul Bunyan

In 1916, William Laughead took old lumber camp stories, unified them with the central character of Paul Bunyon, and adding stories of his own. This creation of modern stories as supposed folklore has been called "fakelore" by some scholars.

Answer: Laurel and Hardy

The movie is known by quite a few titles: "Babes in Toyland", "Laurel and Hardy in Toyland", "Revenge Is Sweet", "March of the Wooden Soldiers" and "Wooden Soldiers". The movie is loosely based on the 1903 operetta "Babes in Toyland" by Victor Herbert. Many of the characters and songs are from the operetta, but the plot is very different.

Answer: Basin City

Some of the stories were adapted into a 2005 "Sin City" movie, which followed the artistic style of the comics: high contrast black and white art with a spot color of yellow, blue, or red depending on the story. "The Babe Wore Red" can be found in the collected volume titled "Booze, Broads & Bullets".

Answer: pocket billiards (pool)

Babe Zaharias (1911-1956) was an All-American basketball player. She won three medals at the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles (2 gold: 80 meter hurdles, javelin throw; 1 silver: high jump). In 1935 she began playing golf, becoming the first woman to make the cut at a PGA event at the Los Angeles Open in 1945 and winning a total of 82 tournaments.

The top Greatest Female Athlete of All Time by "Sports Illustrated" in 2000 was Jackie Joyner-Kersee, also an Olympic track and field medalist.

Answer: 1

Ba Be Lake is one continuous body of water, though it is mainly supplied by three rivers (Nang, Ta Han, and Nam Cuong) and is divided into three zones (Pe Lam, Pe Lu, and Pe Leng). Ba Be Lake is the largest (natural) lake in Vietnam.

Answer: naive or innocent

The expression refers to an inexperienced person, like a child lost in the woods.

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) held the (radical at the time) religious view that all things came from God, and therefore were divine; that the "truth" did not have to be revealed by God or through religious doctrine but could be experienced through the natural world.

This belief probably influenced his outspoken opinions against slavery. He was a literary contemporary and associate of Thoreau (who started keeping a journal at Emerson's request), Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Walt Whitman, among others.