Johnny and Me Trivia Quiz

Answer: Highbret

The lowbret (or lower labret) is a piercing below the bottom lip but above the chin. Conversely, if there was one, a highbret would likely appear over the upper lip but below the nose (and I suspect that would be called something else besides a lip ring altogether).

A 'snakebite' is/are two piercings in the lower lip on opposite sides and a 'spiderbite' is a snakebite with another piercing in the middle of the two existing punctures. And, quite frankly, it all sounds mighty painful/uncomfortable to me.

Answer: El Paso, Texas (83% chance of a sunny day)

Florida, Maine and California just aren't of any worthy sunniness, it seems, but El Paso is at #4 on the list. The top spot for the statistically and historically proven sunshine goes to Yuma, Arizona, though, with nine out of ten days likely to require a little UV ray protection.
In searching that out I found this little factoid, too (albeit unrelated to anything sunny): The coldest football game ever played was the NFL Championship Game on December 31, 1967 when the temperature was -13F in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Yikes to that! I like football enough but that's just ridiculous.

Answer: Katherine Rose Schwarzenegger

It's actually Katherine Eunice (born in 1989 and named after her grandmother Eunice Shriver, even though Rose MIGHT have been, had they used it, a suitable tribute to her great-grandmother Rose Kennedy). Christina was born in 1991, Patrick in 1993 and the baby Christopher in 1997.

Answer: When he took office there was no official President or Vice President in place - a glitch or two left the country without executive leadership briefly.

Taylor refused to take the oath on the Sunday he was supposed to, as did his Vice President (Millard Fillmore) due to religious constraints. The President before him had officially left on the scheduled date so, technically, there was no President/Vice President for one whole day starting on March 4, 1849.

This has never happened since and was a first at the time. He wasn't in the bottom two in terms of height (in fact, he ranked at #36, not tall but not as short as all that). No arsenic, either, as determined in the 1990s. All signs point to that cherries and ice cream on a hot July day gave him a deadly bout of food poisoning, but the rumor of a homicidal poisoning still (and likely always will) persist. Taylor only served as Chief Executive for 16 months, by the way.

He died five days after that poorly planned summer dessert.

Answer: Nicole Sullivan (actress/comedienne; notably from TV's "MADtv")

All four mentioned had won their respective games/episodes so all appeared at the finale that year, with Miss Sullivan (quite a poker player - nothing novice about that one!) emerging the victor. There have been some 8 tournaments as of late 2006 with champions including Maura Tierney ("ER"), Brad Garrett ("Everybody Loves Raymond"), Kathy Najimy ("Sister Act") and Jason Alexander ("Seinfeld").

The game is No Limit Texas Hold-'Em and the final payoff is, so far, a whopping half a million to some lucky charity!

Answer: Joan Fontaine

Fontaine won her Oscar for 1941's "Suspicion" but maintained her Hollywood visibility for decades after that and did so in rather decent movies, among which "A Certain Smile" could easily be counted. The story was a bit murky (a young woman falling in love with her philandering uncle?) and starred Rossano Brazzi, Bradford Dillman and Christine Carere.

Answer: Prior to the initial opening of the ride Walt himself and several children poured water from every continent into the waterway thus ensuring, symbolically, that the boat ride truly did reflect all cultures globally.

First of all Mr. Disney liked "It's A Small World" just fine so never set out to sabotage it, nor did the architects make judgements as to which countries are better than what ~ that just wouldn't be a "happiest place in the world" sort of thing to do.

The "live action" singers wouldn't have happened since the attraction had its test run at the 1964 New York World's Fair and was moved, piece by international piece, across the country as it was. There was an annointing (of sorts) of the place with waters from every continent, though, thus officializing it as entirely representative (in some way) of genuine parts of the whole world. That, of course, was the "happy" thing to do.

Answer: "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

While it boldly stretched the line between truth and whimsy "In Cold Blood" was released in 1966 and was the stuff of a 1967 feature film, a few years before "Love Story" found the masses. I think, at the time, nearly every person who could read complex sentences had had a look at Segal's little novel - the 'Cinderella' love story, the class struggle(s), the posh New England college settings and the tearjerking ending all served to digest easily with everyone (and the novel was significantly short, too, which made it a lunch time staple).

The movie of it was a major smash hit starring, notably, Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw. I think it could easily be said it was their best career work and also that playing Oliver and Jennifer required noticeably little in the acting department. Each received Oscar nominations for it, nonetheless.

Answer: Julia Child - chef/author

Miss Child was, for a woman, quite tall indeed! Her height was recorded as 188cm, or 6'2". How ironic that she spent the bulk of her life stooped over a kitchen counter, stove or dining room table.
As for Geena Davis? She won an Oscar for her riveting performance (as a rather kooky-but-endearing dog walker) in 1988's "The Accidental Tourist". Initially, unlike any of the other ladies mentioned here, she parlayed her physicality into an early modeling career. Later in life she became an ace archer and mother of twins while continuing her acting endeavors.

Answer: Home

The episode in question aired in Season 4 and was the only one of the shows to receive a warning/rating as to content. It involved the discovery of the remains of an infant who had some heretofore unseen varieties of birth defects on a Pennsylvania farm.

The only occupants there were three brothers (the Peacocks) ~ or maybe there were a few others hiding somehere? The "Home" program was, it is soundly said, NOT one for the faint of heart; the visuals alone were on the stomach-churning side. Johnny's lovely song fitting into these horrors? It was playing on the car radio as the local sheriff and his wife were being savagely beaten in an entirely apocalyptic fashion. Nothing "wonderful" about the scene as it unfolded.