Three of a Kind, Part 52 Trivia Quiz

Answer: drive

The roots of the Modern English verb "drive" are in the Old English word "drifan" meaning to compel to move (as in driving cattle). From the 17th century, it came to mean the operation of a carriage and, from that, an automobile.

In the game of golf, the first stroke made on each hole is the drive. This is accomplished with a club intended to move the ball a great distance down the fairway toward the hole. It is taken from the tee.

In computer parlance, any device capable of recording, storing, reading and making available information can be called a drive. The definition changes with the technology. A hard-drive is a relatively non-portable device. Floppy-disk drives, and Zip drives are obsolete. Disc drives and flash drives are current.

Answer: India

British author E.M. Forster's 1924 novel "A Passage to India" plays out against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.

The White House cat owned by President George W. Bush and his family was named India (1990-2009).

American actress India Eisely played Ashley Juergens in the television series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" (2008-2013) on ABC TV. She also appeared in motion pictures: "Underworld; Awakening" (2012), "Kite" (2014), "My Sweet Audrina" (2016), and "Dead Reckoning" (2020).

Answer: salmon

The colour salmon is a pale pink-orange. The name of the colour derives from the colour of the flesh of the salmon fish. It has been used as a term for colour since at least 1776. The imperfection of this term is that the flesh of salmon varies from almost but not quite white through light to dark orange. The colour depends on the particular subspecies and the amount of the carotenoid astaxanthin in their diet.

The "Salmon Site" in in Lamar County, near Baxterville, Mississippi, is the only nuclear test site known to have been used anywhere in the eastern United States. The area is over a deep underground formation known as the Tatum Salt Dome. The first explosion there on 22 October 1964 was code-named The Salmon Event; the second on 3 December 1966 was code-named the Sterling Event.

The Right Reverend Edward L. Salmon, Jr. was the Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina from 1990 until 2008. Born in Natchez, Mississippi, he studied at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and the Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained priest in the Diocese of Arkansas and served as a rector in various congregations until his election as Bishop of South Carolina. He was theologically conservative, opposed the blessing of same-sex unions, but did not leave the church over the issue. He completed his ecclesiastical career as the dean of Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin.

Answer: Mason

Charles Mason (1728-1786) was one of the two men who drew the Mason-Dixon Line in 1763 to 1767. The other was Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779). The line was important to settle a boundary dispute between Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Much later it came to be thought of as the boundary between the Southern slave states and Northern free states. On the Moon, there is a crater named in honour of Mason.

George Mason University was founded in 1949 and named after one of the Founding Fathers. It grew to become the largest public university in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The law school is called the Antonin Scalia Law School; the athletics teams are called the Patriots. Alumni include Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, and Archie Kao, an actor who portrayed Kai Chen, the Blue Ranger on television's "Power Rangers."

Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (b. 1944) was a founding member of Pink Floyd for which he played the drums. He formed Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets in 2018 to perform Pink Floyd's early hits. He supported Arsenal F.C. and actively opposed the ban on fox hunting in 2004.

Answer: finger

Foods shaped like human fingers are often called fingers. While fish do not have fingers, their flesh can be minced and molded into finger-like shapes, breaded, and baked or deep-fried. The result is "fish fingers." Mozzarella cheese, cut into batonnets, breaded, and deep-fried are sometimes called "cheese fingers." Cadbury makes a milk-chocolate-covered crispy biscuit called a "chocolate finger."

In 1895, an area called McIntyre's Crossing in Tennessee was renamed Finger. The new town straddled the line between Chester and McNairy counties. The modern chain of Hard Rock Cafes was modeled on the Finger Diner. Buford Pusser, the Sheriff of McNairy County, whose life was the basis for the motion picture "Walking Tall" (1973), was born in Finger. The town's story is told in John E. Talbott, "Let's Call It Finger: A History of North McNairy County and Finger, Tennessee, and Its Surrounding Communities" (2014).

On "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" (1968-1973), Dan Rowan and Dick Martin awarded "The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award" to people who had recently done things which they adjudged stupid. The actual award was a mounted gilded hand with tiny wings spread on the index finger.

Answer: rotary

Helicopters are rotary-wing aircraft, also known as rotorcraft. This means that they generate lift by spinning multiple blades around a central vertical shaft. Rotary-wing aircraft include not only helicopters but also autogyros and gyrodynes.

Traffic circles and traffic roundabouts are species of rotary intersections. In them, traffic flows in one direction only around a central island. Modern rotary intersections can be found in large scale in connection with freeways and in smaller scale at the intersection of surface streets. An additional benefit is the opportunity to make a U-turn without slowing traffic flow.

In 1895, Moise Dreyfuss created the first Rotary watch at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. From 1920, the Dreyfuss family aggressively marketed their Rotary watches in Great Britain. Rotary was the official supplier of wrist watches to the British Army during WWII. These watches are now sold in over 35 nations. The headquarters are in Great Britain.

Answer: pipe

What is known in most of the United States as a garden hose is known in the UK, Australia and parts of the Old South as a hosepipe. "Pipe" implies something rigid to most speakers of American English; there is no such connotation in British English.

The most common use of piping bags is to place (often decoratively) frosting or icing on a baked dessert. Any semi-solid may be pushed through a piping bag; rosettes of mashed potato are a savoury example. Reusable piping bags are often made of treated cloth; disposable piping bags are often made of plastic film. Piping tips placed at the delivery end of a piping bag define the size and shape of the food deposited.

In a pipe organ, sound is produced by passing air through a series of pipes, each tuned (by height and diameter) to produce a different note. A wind-chest forces the air into the pipe; its oscillations produce the tone. The pipes are sometimes called resonators.

Answer: parade

When cadets, students or candidates in a military training school, academy or college are graduated, the ceremony is widely called a passing out parade. The parade often includes marching in formation past a reviewed senior officers, dignitaries and guests. The ceremonies probably began with the United Kingdom and spread throughout the Commonwealth and colonies.

"Parade" magazine was founded in 1941 as an enclosure to Sunday newspapers in the United States. At its height, it had the largest weekly-magazine circulation in the US at 32 million. The final print issue was stuffed into newspapers on 13 November 2022 when the magazine became an on-line e-magazine made available through the websites of subscribing newspapers.

The popular song "Harlem on Parade" (1942) extolled the patriotic virtues of Black soldiers who had joined the military to fight in World War II. The irony was that it was sung by a white singer (Anita O'Day) fronting the orchestra of a white drummer (Gene Krupa). The lyrics were perhaps aspirational: "Every heart within the crowd / Beats it out with head unbowed / Uncle Sam is mighty proud of Harlem on Parade."

Answer: dead

Between 1946 and 1956, a number of caches of ancient scrolls were found in caves near Qumran, Palestine, on the northern edge of the Dead Sea. These scrolls cast new light on Jewish religion, Hebrew history, early Christianity, and Rabbinic Judaism. In the popular press, these texts were called the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Qumran Caves Scrolls. The texts date from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD.

The Grateful Dead was founded in 1965 by Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Phil Lesh, and Bill Kreutzmann. An early form of the band was called the Warlocks. The Grateful Dead wove together so many genres of music -- rock and roll, folk, country, bluegrass, blues, gospel, reggae, jazz, and psychedelia -- as to be uncategorizable. They laid down their instruments in 1992.

Humphrey Bogart played Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock opposite Lizabeth Scott as Coral "Dusty"/"Mike" Chandler in "Dead Reckoning" (1947). The female lead was intended for Rita Hayworth but she was in the midst of a contract dispute with Columbia Pictures. John Cromwell directed. In the film, Scott sings "Either It's Love or It Isn't."

Answer: rush

The English verb "rush" means to hurry, to hasten, to dash or sprint or bolt, to expedite. The English noun "rush" means a hurried movement (as in "a rush for the door" or "a gold rush"), a stampede, a scramble. There is also a defensive play in American football in which defenders rapidly move forward toward the quarterback. Moving the ball forward on the ground (as opposed to passing) is also called rushing.

According to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Scriptures, the baby Moses was placed in an "ark of bulrushes" and floated on the Nile to escape the Pharaoh's edict that all Jewish male babies should be killed. The "ark" means a small boat. The scripture describes it as sealed up with asphalt and pitch. The materials from which it was made are called "bulrushes" meaning tules/thules growing by the river or papyrus stalks (Cyperus papyrus).

After a full day on the set of a movie or television programme, the day's work is collected -- either in a print of the film exposed or in the digital images taken -- and displayed to the director, editor, cast and crew, to see what they accomplished. These are sometimes called "dailies" and sometimes called "rushes," due to the speed with which they need to be assembled. These rushes often disclose technical problems which require re-shooting, before the set is struck.