LITTLE ROCK — 1. Major league baseball players with the most hits in their careers are Pete Rose (4,256) and Ty Cobb (4,189). Who ranks third? 2. “Love Makes the World Go ’Round” is considered the theme from what popular stage musical? 3. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, how are Snow White and the vain queen related? 4. Who was the only woman on the initial panel of the television show What’s My Line? 5. Name the youthful character created by Eleanor H. Porter, who has been portrayed on stage and in movies by Helen Hayes, Mary Pickford and Hayley Mills. 6. Harry Truman won the Democratic nomination for vice president in 1944, with a second-ballot victory over the man who was vice president at the time. Identify him. 7. What is meant by the expression “the cut of his jib”?
Answers
1. Hank Aaron, with 3,771 hits. Stan Musial is fourth with 3,630. 2. Carnival 3. The queen is Snow White’s stepmother. She dislikes Snow White because the magic mirror says Snow White is fairer than the queen. 4. Dorothy Kilgallen. Arlene Francis joined the panel on the second show. 5. Pollyanna 6. Henry A. Wallace 7.The expression on a person’s face. “Jib” actually refers to a triangular foresail, which helped sailors at sea identify vessels in the distance.
Weekend, Pages 35 on 12/31/2009