Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The 3 for 1 general quiz

1. The name of a weed.

2. Ella's sibling tormentors.

3. Little Jack Horner?

1. Understated by correct
2. The question is who is their sister, not who are they, so as Quislet said the answer is simply Cinderella
3. not correct

1. A weed
2. Cinderella
3. Pop! goes the weasel?

OK I did some research and I know that Pop goes the weasel is incorrect. I'll give a couple more people a crack at this one before I go with my researched answer.

Okay, I'll say:

1. A weed
2. Cinderella
3. Humpty Dumpty

Matthew E has it--Humpty Dumpty it is! I don't remember the full details, but it was a canon during a war in England between royalists and republicans, hence the "all the king's horses and all the king's men" reference.

Salvation Jane by the way is a beautiful but somewhat poisonous and prolific flower that grows in Australia, especially South Australia. After I found out about it I always thought it could also be the name of a creepy Batman villain.

1. Name the three major-league North American sports teams named after bears. (I think there are only three.)

2. What musician was born Otha Ellas Bates and later changed his name to Ellas McDaniel?

3. A cuckoo is a bird. There's a species of cuckoo that can't fly and is therefore called the flightless cuckoo. What's it better known as?

Hint: there's a vague connection between questions 2 and 3.

1) Boston Bruins - hockey; Chicago Bears - Football; Chicago Cubs - baseball

2) Muddy Waters?

3) roadrunner?

1. No.
2. No.
3. Yes.

What do you mean "no" to my answers for the first question? Those are three North American major-league sports teams named after bears.

I'll explain why not when someone gives the right answer. But those are not three North American major league sports teams named after bears.

The name "Chicago Cubs" came from a batch of inexperienced players.

1) Boston Bruins - hockey; Chicago Bears - Football; Memphis Grizzles - basketball.

2)Bo Diddley.

3)roadrunner

Yes, yes, and yes.

As Kent said, the Cubs weren't named after bears; the word 'cub' at the time the team was named also meant something like 'eager young kid', and the Chicago ballclub had, or wanted the public to think it had, eager young players. This meaning lives on only in the phrase 'cub reporter'.

I don't know much about Bo Diddley. What's the connection between him and the roadrunner?

Bo Diddley had a song in the '50s called 'Road Runner'. (It's one of his better ones, which is saying something.) In the '60s, a garage band called the Gants covered it and put in 'meep meep' sounds to link it to the cartoon Road Runner.

1. What European capital takes its name from a god of thunder?

2. What (specifically) do Run DMC, the Indigo Girls, Neil Young and Lenny Kravitz have in common?

3. Taking six trains (not counting cross-same-city connecting subways), what is the farthest place one can reach, if starting out from John O'Groats?

1. Tirana?

2. They've all covered Aerosmith songs?

3. Vladivostok?

1. no.
2. no. Wrong band/artist, right theme.
3. no; further than that (but good guess).

1) Oslo?

2) They all covered Aerosmith songs?

3) Tierra del Feugo?

1. no, but you're closer geographically and ethnically than EDE.
2. still as incorrect as when EDE guessed it.
3. wrong continent.

1. Reykyavik
2. They all covered Youngbloods songs
3. Kuala Lumpur

All of these are complete guesses

1. nope, but geographically the closest guess yet.
2. nope. still on the right theme, and a closer era/genre.
3. Good guess! but slightly too far - there's a gap in service that makes KL unconnected.

double post! Arrrgh!

1. Oslo
2. No earthly idea
3. Bangkok

1. Oslo is still as wrong as when it was guessed last page.
2. you named the ocrrect planet, at least.
3. Closest guess yet. still a few hundred miles or so off.

1. Edinburgh?

2. Covered Bob Marley songs

3. Er... Yangon?