Notable Notes - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Bee. The United States Playing Card Company was founded in 1892. [Note that "Ace" would also have fit the quiz.]
• A2) Babe. The 1995 pig story won for Best Comedy. Styx took the single, which refers to DeYoung's wife Suzanne, to the top of the charts for two weeks in December 1979.
• A3) Cabbage. The two gave birth to the Cabbage Patch Doll in 1978, and Coleco began manufacturing them en masse four years later.
• A4) Beef. The McDonald's competitor repeatedly asked, "Where's the beef?", until it became a cliche.
• A5) John Cage. The avant-garde artist also composed a song with nothing but four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence, which he claimed was made up of smaller rhythmic intervals.
• A6) Egg. Let me be the first to note that Ruggedo's name anagrams to "dour egg". The remorseless villain, who was originally known as Roquat the Red, is eventually banished from his underground cavern but continues to cause trouble even after other authors had taken over L. Frank Baum's series.
• A7) ABBA. "Voulez-Vous" is French for "do you want" and is meant suggestively in the title track.
• A8) Gaea. The original Greek goddess's name is usually spelled Gaia, but the variation is not uncommon.
• A9) Lou Bega. Born as David Lubega on April 13, 1975 in Munich, Germany, the singer remade a 1952 Perez Prado instrumental, adding new lyrics and sampling the original version extensively.
• A10) Tommie Agee. Agee captured the award, given by Rawlings since 1957, with the Chicago White Sox in 1966 and the New York Mets in 1970.
• A11) Charles Babbage. Babbage failed to get his first attempt working, as the British government stopped funding his work, but successfully completed his second implementation in 1849, twenty-seven years after he proposed his first design.
• A12) Badge. Although people have postulated that the song's name comes from either its chord arrangement or the strings on a guitar, neither theory is correct; the name comes from Ringo Starr's misreading of Bob Dylan's writing of the word "bridge".