Often appearing on the same vaudeville bill with Houdini was Weevil the Giant Insect. Little did the public know that Weevil and Houdini were one and the same. Weevil the Giant Insect’s act consisted of ballroom dancing with a lady selected from the audience, scuttling to a ragtime piano, and scurrying up the backdrop to […]
With the recent interview of Houdini’s ghost, it follows as paprika on chicken that there should be a Houdini kwiz. Other vaudeville aliases of Erich Weiss besides Harry Houdini were: a. Daffy Steptoe, the tap dancing violinist. b. Herman Spore, songs and mayhem. c. Dexter Bilge, the mountain man poet. d. Darius Slide and his […]
She was sailing along on Moonlight Bay when of a sudden in a flash it came to her – moon, room, bunnies, mouse, everything.
Margaret Wise Brown wrote GOODNIGHT, MOON: a. on a dare. b. on a fishing trawler out of Newfoundland. c. on a slow boat to China. d. on a grizzly bear rug in Saskatoon. e. on Moonlight Bay while sailing along.
‘Hey, why not’ is the correct answer, as those were the exact words spoken by team leader Grady Bafflemint after a grueling 5 hour session with the publicity gang during which no consensus whatsoever could be reached on finding a catchy nickname for the foreign tunestress.
Jenny was called The Swedish Nightingale because: a. she was both Swedish and a nightingale. b. the only other suggestion was Bingles, the Opera Girl. c. she once taught a nightingale to speak Swedish. d. because people kept getting her mixed up with Florence Nightingale, and she grew tired of being asked to look at […]
He maintained a strict haggis diet for several years, including those during which he penned Peter Pan.
When writing Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie would often: a. fly out the window. b. shout ‘Zoot alors!’ in his sleep. c. eat nothing at all save haggis. d. hop about on one foot while tapping himself on the head with a spoon. e. laugh maniacally.
No sirree, calling Wild Bill Mr. Hiccup was that feller’s terminal mistake.
The man Wild Bill is looking at has but a brief span of time left to dwell on this world of sorrows before winging his way to eternal rest because: a. he made sport of Bill’s hat. b. he made sport of Bill’s abundant flow of hair. c. he flat out insulted Bill’s mustache. d. […]
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