Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger first aired on this date in 1933 on Detroit's WXYZ. Before settling on the permanent name of "Scout," what did Tonto call his horse for the first few episodes?

 2)  Yogi Bear got his "big break" in what other Hanna-Barbera animated hit show?

3)  What did the first "J" in JRR Tolkien's name stand for?

 4) TV's Melrose Place centered around the lives of a group of twenty-somethings who lived in the same apartment complex in this city.


Answers:

1)  "Paint Horse" - that made sense because Tonto's horse was a Palomino, which is commonly known as a "painted horse."





2) Yogi Bear made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character on The Huckleberry Hound Show. He was given his own show in 1961.

Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound


3)  John

4)  Los Angeles, California

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