Three of a Kind, Part 23 Trivia Quiz

Answer: eagle

From 1792 until 1933, the United States Mint produced a ten-dollar gold coin. This coin bore the image of an eagle and was called an eagle. It was the largest of the four authorised base-unit denominations. Gold was removed from circulation in 1933 and the coins became collectors items.

Michael "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards (b. 1963) represented the U.K. in Olympic Ski jumping. He finished last in both the 70m and 90m events in 1988. His poor showing resulted in a rules change to prevent him from competing in subsequent Winter Olympics. He became rather a folk hero -- farsighted, unsponsored, overweight, plucky -- and a favourable movie was made of his life in 2016: "Eddie the Eagle" starring Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman.

If Eagle River were not a community wholly within the confines of the Municipality of Anchorage, it would be the fifth largest city in Alaska. It is located on the Eagle River (which flows from the Eagle Glacier into the Cook Inlet), near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and Chugach State Park in the Chugach Mountains.

Answer: Egyptian

The all-women American band, the Bangles, recorded "Walk Like an Egyptian" in 1986 and it went on to become Billboard's number-one song of 1987. The music video was nominated by the MTV Video Music Awards for Best Group Video of 1987. A few years later, the video was deemed inappropriate for airplay following the 9/11 attack on the United States; it is difficult to understand why.

Near the end of his career, Saint-Saëns wrote a piano concerto which provided to be his last. It was for his own Jubilee Concert in 1896. He wrote this piece while vacationing in Luxor and it came to be known as his "Egyptian" Concerto.

The discovery of King Tut's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 prompted the building of a great many theatres with Egyptian architecture such as Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. About a hundred such theatres were built, including the Egyptian Theatre of Boise, Idaho, erected in 1927. The theatre is worth visiting as one of the few remaining examples of the grand cinema tradition.

Answer: force

There is, throughout the Universe, a power called "The Force" in the "Star Wars" franchise. Good guys, like the Jedi knights, draw upon the light side of The Force. Bad guys, like the Sith, utilize the dark side. The common expression "May the Force be with you" entered the language through these movies and their progeny.

The Scottish writer Alistair MacLean wrote "The Guns of Navarone" in 1957. It was adapted into an adventure film by J. Lee Thompson and Carl Foreman in 1961. The second novel, "Force 10 from Navarone" (1968), adopted the cinematic revisions of the film in order to tell what happened next. That novel was adapted into a sequel film in 1978.

Roughly equivalent to the U.S. Navy's United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG), or DEVGRU, known as SEAL Team Six, is the
U.S. Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, known as Delta Force. These highly-trained, highly specialized units operate on missions of counterterrorism, hostage rescue, direct action against high- value targets, and reconnaissance. Surrounded by myth, they are nonetheless the best of the best.

Answer: ginger

Geri Halliwell was given the name "Ginger Spice" when she became a member of The Spice Girls. She was the first to leave the 1990s pop group and pursue a solo career. Her name was a reference to her red hair. Her birthday is August 6th.

Virginia Katherine McMath is best known by her stage name, Ginger Rogers, and by her movie partnership with Fred Astaire, although her career extended well beyond the period in which they were a famous dance team in the movies. She played Dolly in "Hello, Dolly" on Broadway. She made 73 films.

About 2% of the world population has red hair: 4% of the English, 6% of the Scots, and 10% of the Irish, more or less. Queen Elizabeth I was a redhead. In British slang, redheads are described as "ginger" which is often considered derogatory or insulting.

Answer: hang

The song "Hang on, Sloopy" was recorded by several groups before it became firmly associated with the version laid down by The McCoys in 1965. It has since become a sort of theme song the State of Ohio, the Ohio State University, the Cleveland Indians baseball team, the Cleveland Browns football team and the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.

Recreational hang gliding evolved in the 20th century to a technologically sophisticated and regulated endeavour. The idea is simple enough: suspend a person under a wing stretched on a fixed frame and use the principles of gliding to control the result. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, is the home of a popular school and community of hang gliding enthusiasts.

The expression "hang a Louie" means to turn a motor vehicle to the left. The origin on this expression is unknown and much disputed. A believable explanation is that it refers to the left hook of famous American boxer Joe Lewis.

Answer: hopper

The Hopper is an HD DVR which records primetime programmes digitally and omits the commercials. The feature is called AutoHop and it has driven the market since 2012 to provide comparable service. It is imperfect, as the viewer may see one or two seconds of an advert before the feature kicks in.

Hedda Hopper (born Elda Furry) (1885-1966) danced in the chorus, acted in Broadway plays, appeared in over a hundred movies and became a wicked and vicious gossip columnist. She had a career-long feud with Louella Parsons and didn't get along well with Sheilah Graham. She was the subject of the 1985 made-for-TV bio-pic "Malice in Wonderland" based on George Eells 1972 novel "Hedda and Louella: A Dual Biography of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons."

The role of Hopper, the head of the grasshopper gang, is voiced by Kevin Spacey in this film. The producers first sought Robert De Niro to play this part but he declined. When producer John Lasseter met Kevin Spacey for the first time, he asked if he would be interested in playing Hopper and Spacey said instantly that he would.

Answer: kick

A drum kit normally includes one bass drum. The drum is played by a padded "beater" attached to a foot-activated pedal. In such an arrangement, it is called a kick drum.

There are many movements in many kinds of dance called "kicks." For example, in a "kick ball change" one foot kicks and then moves behind the other for a ball change. In jive dancing, the characteristic foot movements are referred to as "kicks and flicks."

Clarence Francis "Kick" Buttowski is the protagonist of the Disney animated series "Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil." Kick wanted to grow up to be a stuntman and lived every day as if it were his own personal action adventure. The show ran from February of 2010 to December of 2012.

Answer: law

Dewey, Cheatem & Howe is the name of a fictitious law firm whose name is a play on the expression "do we cheat them and how." It is enduring, having been used by the brothers on "Car Talk," by Groucho Marx, the Three Stooges, Daffy Duck, Leisure Suit Larry and several others.

The comedy "Monster in Law" got terrible reviews (Jennifer Lopez was nominated for a Raspberry Award as Worst Actress) but did very well at the box office. It was Jane Fonda's first film since "Stanley & Iris" in 1990.

Judge Roy Bean was a saloon owner and Justice of the Peace of Val Verde County in Texas. He styled himself "The Law West of the Pecos" and hung a sign to that effect outside of his saloon. Judge Bean was at least as criminal as some of the criminals who appeared before him.

Answer: Lydia

Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg wrote "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" in 1939; Groucho Marx sang it in the Marx Brothers movie "At the Circus" in the same year. Lydia's tattoos included the Battle of Waterloo, The Wreck of the Hesperus, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Buffalo Bill, and her Social Security Number. Kermit the Frog sang it on "The Muppet Show" in 1976.

In C.S. Forester's novel "The Happy Return" (which was published in the United States under the title "Beat to Quarters"), Horatio Hornblower was captain of HMS Lydia, a ship of the 5th rate, with 36 guns.

Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819-1883) produced and promoted Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Made from roots and herbs, it was a patent medicine sold outside the medical community. Part of the reason for its popularity, especially during Prohibition, was that it was compounded of 40 proof ethyl alcohol.

Answer: nose

The nose cone of a rocket or plane is so shaped as to offer the least possible aerodynamic resistance when in motion. The science of making a precisely shaped nose cone is highly complex, especially in vehicles which leave and re-enter the atmosphere.

Wine aficionados or connoisseurs spend as much time and attention on the aroma of a wine as on its flavour. Their descriptions of the nose of a wine run from simple straightforward qualities like fruity, floral, herbal, or woodsy, to fanciful/demented qualities like flamboyant, opulent, angular or chewy.

Big Nose Kate was the common-law wife of Doc Holliday, the dentist, the gambler and the friend of Wyatt Earp. She was born in Hungary, became a prostitute in the Old West and partnered with Doc Holliday until his death of tuberculosis in 1887.