Lamps That Never Really Were Trivia Quiz

Answer: a woman's leg

The "major award" arrives in a box marked "FRAGILE" and "THIS SIDE UP." The old man, assuming it must be from Italy, insists that the first word be pronounced "frah-JEE-lay" which he claims to be the Italian pronunciation. The lamp is in the shape of a woman's leg, wearing black fish-net stockings.

Answer: Pixar

Luxo Senior and Luxo Junior are the two lamps portrayed in this computer-animated film. John Lasseter directed. The short, called "Luxo Jr.," was Pixar's first animation after Lasseter left Industrial Light and Magic. The two-minute film took four and a half months to complete.

Answer: The Jimi Hendrix Experience

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp" was first recorded and released in Europe but later (1968) released as a single in the US, on the B- side of "All along the Watchtower." It was written by Jimi Hendrix who also played the harpsichord on the intro. The back-up vocals were recorded by the R&B group Sweet Inspirations.

Answer: Jesus

As related in Matthew 25:1-13, there were ten virgins invited to a wedding. Five brought oil for their lamp and five did not. The groom is late. The unprepared virgins run out of lamp oil. Only the prudent virgins go in to the party. Jesus told this parable as a lesson about preparation for the Judgment Day.

Answer: Stanley and the Magic Lamp

The Flat Stanley books were written by Jeff Brown (1926-2003) and a number of other authors since his death. "Stanley and the Magic Lamp" (1985) was the second in the series. In it, Stanley discovers a lamp with a wish-granting genie inside.

Students make Stanleys (coloured paper cut outs of Stanley) and mail them around the world in return for which the recipients photograph the Flat Stanley in an exotic location and send back the picture.

Answer: Lamp Unto My Feet

"Lamp Unto My Feet" brought together Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish people to discuss their respective histories, cultures and theologies. The name of the programme was taken from Psalm 119:105 "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." (King James Version).

Answer: The old lamp lighter

"The Old Lamp Lighter" was written in 1946 and recorded by several artists that year: Sammy Kaye on RCA Victor and Kay Kyser on Columbia. The song was revived in 1960 by a recording by the Browns. The refrain says "He made the night a little brighter wherever he would go, the old lamplighter of long, long ago."

Answer: Mary Roberts Rinehart

A college professor inherits a seaside house which may be haunted in Mary Roberts Rinehart's (1876-1958) "The Red Lamp." The presence of spirits with ill intent may be signaled by a red glow which appears about the house in the night.

Answer: All of these

Alice Tisdale Hobart, drawing on her experience as the wife of an executive on the Standard Oil Company, tells a story about the emerging Chinese economy following the Nationalist Revolution. Her 1933 novel became a bestseller in 1934. The book was made into a movie starring Pat O'Brien in 1935. It was remade as "Law of the Tropics" in 1941.

Answer: Aladdin

The story of "Aladdin's Lamp" has an incredible number of variations, including one by Walt Disney Studios. It is in the nature of folklore that stories are mutable. At the core of almost all of them is a boy -- young and poor -- who comes into possession of a lamp which contains a wish-granting genie.