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Quiz about Three of a Kind Part 35
Quiz about Three of a Kind Part 35

Three of a Kind, Part 35 Trivia Quiz


Three of a kind beats two pair but only if you can identify what the three things given in the questions have in common.

A multiple-choice quiz by FatherSteve. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
FatherSteve
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
389,261
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
8 / 10
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Top 20% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. What do the Night of Broken Glass (9-10 November 1938), the largest ski resort in Western Washington, and a brand of American hot sauce bottled near New Orleans have in common? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What do Danny Thomas' TV sitcom (1953-1964), Idi Amin (c. 1920-2003), and a 1941 song by Bobby Troup about a woman named Daisy Mae who wanted "a diamond ring, bracelets" and "a brand new car, champagne, caviar" have in common?
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Question 3 of 10
3. What do a men's fraternal organization with the initials FOE, an American Motors Corporation AWD model built 1980-1987, and a golf score of two under par on a hole have in common?
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Question 4 of 10
4. What do the second of the "Dirty" Harry Callahan series of movies, the official airplane on which the President of the United States most often travels, and a legal doctrine which excuses performance of an obligation if prevented by an "Act of God" have in common? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What do a word-guessing-game in which losing guesses result in body parts being drawn, a slang psychological term meaning a mild mental or emotional problem, and Meat Loaf's eleventh studio album, released in 2010, have in common? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What do a ball made of heavy rubber with two handles on which one sits and bounces, an American Southern Gospel singing family group, and a family of small jumping insects which suck the sap from green growing things have in common?
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Question 7 of 10
7. What do the play in American football where a player drives the ball forward with his foot, a song made popular by Dean Martin in the 1960s about "what the fella once said," and a citrus soft drink introduced by Royal Crown in 1965 have in common? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What do epistaxis, a crazy-difficult climbing route up Yosemite's El Capitán, and the man who shot Wild Bill Hickok in a saloon in Deadwood have in common?
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Question 9 of 10
9. What do an SNL actor who played Clark Griswold and Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher in the movies, an area of land in the UK set aside for hunting game, and an American stock-car racer who won the 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series have in common?
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Question 10 of 10
10. What do a voluminous book about Nazi Germany, a sucker designated to take the blame for a criminal act or enterprise, and a cover (usually wood) which protects the keys of a piano when it is not being played have in common?
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1. What do the Night of Broken Glass (9-10 November 1938), the largest ski resort in Western Washington, and a brand of American hot sauce bottled near New Orleans have in common?

Answer: Crystal

Called Kristallnacht with reference to the broken glass left by mobs, this German pogrom killed one hundred Jews and saw 30,000 Jewish men taken away to concentration camps. Mobs destroyed a thousand synagogues as well as numerous Jewish homes and businesses. Insurance payments owed to Jews whose property was lost or damaged were diverted to the government.

Crystal Mountain is an alpine ski resort in Washington's Cascade Mountains. Its nine lifts are the most of any ski area in the state. A year-round high-speed gondola connects to a summit restaurant. Plans to expand and improve the resort exist.

Crystal Hot Sauce was bottled at a small plant on Tulane Avenue in NOLA until Hurricane Katrina destroyed the facility in 2005. The family-owned company moved its facility up-river to Reserve, Louisiana. The sauce is made with red cayenne peppers whereas Tabasco is made with tabasco peppers. There are intense partisans for each.
2. What do Danny Thomas' TV sitcom (1953-1964), Idi Amin (c. 1920-2003), and a 1941 song by Bobby Troup about a woman named Daisy Mae who wanted "a diamond ring, bracelets" and "a brand new car, champagne, caviar" have in common?

Answer: Daddy

"The Danny Thomas Show" was originally called "Make Room for Daddy" (1953-1957) until it moved from ABC to CBS. It was filmed by Desilu Studios. Danny Thomas portrayed Danny Williams, a nightclub singer. Jean Hagen played his wife Margaret and Marjorie Lord his second wife Kathy; their children, Terry and Rusty were played by Sherry Jackson and Rusty Hamer. Annette Funicello guest starred as an Italian exchange student.

"Big Daddy" Idi Amin (c. 1920-2003) was President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He worked his way up through the ranks of the British Colonial Army from cook to lieutenant. After independence, he led a coup against President Milton Obote in 1971 and appointed himself president. He called himself Dada or "Big Daddy" and fathered around sixty children.

Bobby Troup's song "Daddy" is addressed by a female singer to her "daddy" asking him to buy her "everything." The refrain was "Daddy, you oughta get the best for me," and pointed out how good she looked in sables and "clothes with Paris labels." The song was made famous by Sammy Kaye and his band Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye.
3. What do a men's fraternal organization with the initials FOE, an American Motors Corporation AWD model built 1980-1987, and a golf score of two under par on a hole have in common?

Answer: eagle

The Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.) was founded in 1898 in Seattle, Washington. The original "aerie" is still there; the group has become national. The group supported the adoption of Mother's Day and of Social Security. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a lifelong member as was "Jimmy" Hoffa.

American Motors sold the AMC Eagle from 1980 to 1987. At the time, they were the only four-wheel-drive passenger cars produced in the US. The car was a proto-cross-over vehicle in that it combined passenger car comfort with sports capacity. The buy-out of AMC by Chrysler resulted in the end of the model.

Golf holes are normally rated between three and five strokes to determine par. Performance on a hole is rated with reference to par. One over par is a bogey; two over par is a double bogey. A birdie is one under par. An eagle is two under par. An albatross is three under par (also called a double eagle).
4. What do the second of the "Dirty" Harry Callahan series of movies, the official airplane on which the President of the United States most often travels, and a legal doctrine which excuses performance of an obligation if prevented by an "Act of God" have in common?

Answer: force

"Magnum Force" (1973) features Inspector Callahan at odds with corrupt cops who form a sort of death squad to kill bad guys who escape legal punishment on technicalities. The director was Ted Post, who also directed Clint Eastwood in "Rawhide" on television and in "Hang 'Em High." David Soul and Robert Urich have small parts.

"Air Force One" is not so much an airplane as a call sign. Since 1953, the official air traffic control designation of any aircraft carrying the President of the United States has been Air Force One. Boeing 707s have been chosen for this work in the past; Boeing 747s carry the presidential party subsequently.

When a war or a hurricane or a strike or an earthquake or a crime or a volcanic eruption or a riot or a flood prevents a party to a contract from performing some promised act (e.g. in a contract), liability may be excused under the doctrine of "force majeure." This means that an intervening superior force made performance impossible and the failure to perform therefore excusable.
5. What do a word-guessing-game in which losing guesses result in body parts being drawn, a slang psychological term meaning a mild mental or emotional problem, and Meat Loaf's eleventh studio album, released in 2010, have in common?

Answer: hang

In the game of hangman, the first play imagines a word or phrase and writes a number of blanks corresponding to its letters. The second player guesses the letters. Each wrong guess allows the first player to draw a body part (arm, leg, head) of a stick figure on a scaffold until six wrong guesses have been recorded, in which case the second player loses.

When a psychological or emotional problem prevents a person from enjoying life and functioning normally, it may be referred to as a "hang up." Because it is an informal term, the definition is imprecise but may include fixations, irrational fears, intense preoccupations and the like.

Meat Loaf's album "Hang Cool Teddy Bear" was released on 19 April 2010. Brian May of Queen and Adam Ahuja were among the musicians who joined in the recording, as did actor Hugh Laurie. Purchasers of the album were treated to complimentary sheet music for "Los Angeloser" and an official Meat Loaf metal keyring.
6. What do a ball made of heavy rubber with two handles on which one sits and bounces, an American Southern Gospel singing family group, and a family of small jumping insects which suck the sap from green growing things have in common?

Answer: hopper

The space hopper was a toy introduced in the early 1970s which is still sold in the UK and the USA. The operator sits on the ball, holds onto the handles and bounces up and down, moving the whole apparatus forward and back. The toy is known by many others names: hippity hop, pogo ball, Pon-Pon, skippyball and the like.

The Hoppers are (mostly) related musicians from North Carolina who formed a Gospel group in 1957 and have performed and recorded regularly ever since. They sang at the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. They tour with the Gaither Homecoming.

Numerous members of the insect family Cicadellidae are known colloquially as leafhoppers. They have highly developed hind legs which allow them to jump. Their diet is the sap of plants and trees; many are destructive and are therefore considered pests.
7. What do the play in American football where a player drives the ball forward with his foot, a song made popular by Dean Martin in the 1960s about "what the fella once said," and a citrus soft drink introduced by Royal Crown in 1965 have in common?

Answer: kick

There are several types of kicks in American football: the kickoff which begins the 1st and 3rd quarters, scrimmage kicks which essentially move the ball downfield while turning it over to the other team, an attempt to score a field goal, and several others. In some instances, the ball may be drop-kicked; in others, it may be place-kicked, which can be off the turf or a tee.

Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn wrote "Ain't that a Kick in the Head?" in 1960 and Dean Martin recorded it with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Martin also sang the song (albeit a different arrangement) in the movie "Oceans' 11." Martin's daughter Deana, an accomplished jazz singer in her own right, recorded the song on her album "Memories are Made of This" in 2005. "Like the fella once said, 'Ain't that a kick in the head?'"

Coke had Sprite. Pepsi had Mountain Dew. 7-Up had 7-Up. The Royal Crown Company introduced Kick in an attempt to compete for a portion of the lemon-lime-citrus soft drink market. A 2000 website blurb for Kick said "The caffeinated citrus category continues to be one of the hottest categories in soft-drinks and shows no signs of slowing." The product was discontinued two years later.
8. What do epistaxis, a crazy-difficult climbing route up Yosemite's El Capitán, and the man who shot Wild Bill Hickok in a saloon in Deadwood have in common?

Answer: nose

The medical term for a nosebleed is epistaxis. The term derives from the Greek; stazein means "to allow to fall in drops" (consider the term "stalactite" which has a similar etymology). Most nosebleeds are not serious, quickly resolving themselves. They occur when vessels within the nasal mucosa rupture.

"The Nose" of El Capitán was, at one time, considered unclimbable. It is now a world-famous climbing route which attracts teams and individual free climbers to continue to set records on its face. The ascent is only 2900 feet but the technical challenges are legendary.

On 2 August 1876, Wild Bill Hickok was playing poker in Nuttal and Mann's Saloon in Deadwood in the Dakota Territory. John McCall (also known as Crooked Nose Jack or Broken Nose Jack) walked in and shot Hickok in the back. Jack was hanged for the crime on 1 March 1877.
9. What do an SNL actor who played Clark Griswold and Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher in the movies, an area of land in the UK set aside for hunting game, and an American stock-car racer who won the 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series have in common?

Answer: chase

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase (b. 1943) is an American actor and comedian who became known through his roles on TV's "Saturday Night Live" where he was a member of the original cast. He was won awards for both his writing and his acting. He has played the lead in five "National Lampoon Vacation" movies and both "Fletch" movies.

In Great Britain, certain parcels of land, usually forested or partially forested, are designed for hunting. Ownership may be private but some rights to hunting obtain. The notion is very old, dating from the 13th Century. Technical legal definitions distinguish a chase (private property) from a forest (public property) and a park (which is enclosed).

William Clyde "Chase" Elliott (b. 1995) moved quickly up through the ranks of short-track stock-car racing. In 2014, he became the first rookie ever to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series. He may come by his skill through heredity, his father being Bill Elliott who won the Winston Cup stock-car championship in 1988.
10. What do a voluminous book about Nazi Germany, a sucker designated to take the blame for a criminal act or enterprise, and a cover (usually wood) which protects the keys of a piano when it is not being played have in common?

Answer: fall

William L. Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" was published in 1960. At 1245 pages, the publisher did not expect large sales and ordered a first printing of only 12,500 copies. The book went on to sell a million copies in hardcover and another million in paperback. German criticism of Shirer's work fueled sales. Numerous primary sources are used to lend considerable authenticity to the work.

In colloquial English, especially among a criminal subculture, a "fall guy" is a person chosen to whom blame and culpability is intentionally directed in order to protect those truly criminally responsible. The fall guy is said to "take the fall" if arrested, charged and convicted of the crime. The origin of the term is unknown but the Oxford English Dictionary cites to a 1906 short story by Helen Green called "At the Actor's Boarding House" as its first use.

The fall (or fallboard) is a hinged cover which folds down to prevent injury to the keys of a piano when it is unused. The fallboard may be hinged or may simply slide out and over the keyboard. The name of the piano maker is sometimes displayed in gold letters on the fall.
Source: Author FatherSteve

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