THE AUNTIE EM KWIZ ANSWER
Yes sirree bob, that Em, she sure was a one for fishin’.
Yes sirree bob, that Em, she sure was a one for fishin’.
On the day of her marriage to the future Uncle Henry, the future Auntie Em (pictured above): a. looked forward to the dream of exploring the Nile with her beloved. b. looked forward to Henry selling the farm and moving with her to Chicago. c. looked forward to a lifetime of drudgery with a twinkle […]
In the photo, Wally is just leaving a shambled party wearing his hat as he normally did. One bright contestant, Sarah, surmised the correct answer to be a and e. Congratulations, Sarah.
Wallace Beery: a. never did learn how to wear a hat. b. never did earn that degree in horticulture. c. never did forget the debt he owed to porpoises. d. never did become a sheepherder in Montana. e. never did leave a party until a shambles was achieved.
The V-man lived on a train with his pet spiny anteater, Terrible Ivan, from the age of six to the age of 12. When Terrible Ivan died, Vlad left the train to pursue butterflies.
As a youth in Russia, Vladimir Nabokov: a. became the youngest tractor factory foreman ever. b. startled Muscovites with his spot on wounded bear routine. c. wrote a novel outside in the dead of winter on the bark of a birch tree. d. designed pants. e. lived on a train.
7 one-nighters in Wales followed by 7 one-nighters in Cornwall were the lone two weeks of existence for ‘Daph and Dyl’, eccentric comedy dance team consisting of Daphne DuMaurier and Dylan Thomas out to engage in a bit of a lark.
Dylan once: a. toured Wales and Cornwall teamed with Daphne DuMaurier as the slapstick comedy duo, ‘Daph and Dyl’. b. drained a full stein of beer the size of the mayor of Hamburg. c. swam up the Nile to its source. d. shipped out for Shanghai on a submarine. e. balanced on one leg for […]
If you ever wanted to know more than you wanted to know about Queen Elizabeth I’s bevy of seamstresses, you only had to ask Jimmy and then sit back and listen for an hour or so.
Jimmy Durante was: a. the Elephant Man’s brother. b. responsible for a string of robberies on Long Island in 1914. c. staff physician backstage at the Ziegfeld Follies. d. a walking encyclopedia of Elizabethan English trivia. e. ragtime’s answer to the question: Why?