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The Questions…

1. According to the late Chuck Jones, the legendary chief animator at Warner Bros. Studios, what was his inspiration for the cartoon character Wile E. Coyote?

2. Who were Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus?

3. St. Paul, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1854 on the site of a small settlement on the Mississippi River. What was the settlement called?

4. In the 1983 “Dirty Harry” movie Sudden Impact, Clint Eastwood snarled, “Go ahead, make my day.” The phrase was voted #6 of the top 100 movie quotes of all time. But in truth, an actor uttered that same line in another, earlier film. What actor and what movie?

5. In 2013, aware that the least favorite piece on a Monopoly board was the iron, Hasbro (founded in 1923 by the Hassenfeld brothers) conducted a poll to let Monopoly fans select a replacement. What did the fans choose?

The Answers…

1. Jones said he was inspired by the description of a coyote in Roughing It by Mark Twain. The coyote, Twain wrote, is “a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton” and “a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry.”

2. The ancient Greek gods of the north, south, east, and west winds, respectively.

3. The community was “Pig’s Eye,” named for Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant, who ran a tavern there.

4. It was Gary Swanson in 1982 in Vice Squad. He sneered, “Go ahead, scumbag, make my day.”

5. A cat. It beat out a toy robot, a helicopter, a diamond ring, and a guitar.