Take the quiz.
- Topo Gigio is a puppet Italian mouse. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show more than fifty times.
According to Wikipedia
He is also "the spokes-mouse" for the United Nations.
To this day the mouse is well-known in Italy and Spanish-speaking countries. I remember watching Ed Sullivan having wonderful conversations with Topo Gigio.
- We're the young generation and we have we've got something to say.
This is a lyric from "Hey, Hey We're the Monkees", the song that started off the TV Show The Monkees. As I was growing up people were debating whether The Beatles or The Monkees would have the more enduring fame. Now we know.
One of the Monkees most famous songs is Daydream Believer, which I suspect most of you could recall some of the words to and music for.
According to Wikipedia,
Gene Roddenberry was inspired to introduce the character of Chekov in his Star Trek TV series in response to the popularity of Davy Jones, complete with hairstyle and appearance mimicking that of Jones.
I did not know that. I recall watching many episodes of The Monkees. None of them, as far as I can recall, had much of a plot. I think I got bored of them eventually.
- The cone of silence was a prop on the television show Get Smart, used for comedic effect. Glass cones would descend from the ceiling, encasing Max and his boss. But they never worked correctly.
The term has entered the vernacular. E.g., from Wikipedia, Rick Warren hosted a Presidential election event where he said:
"Now, Senator Obama is going to go first. We flipped a coin, and we have safely placed Senator McCain in a cone of silence."
I watched lots of episodes of Get Smart. I thought Agent 99 was hot.
- Max Headroom is a television character and a television show of the same name. It became briefly famous when it first came out. At least I recall it as creating quite the stir. I think I watched a few episodes and wondered what all the fuss was about.
According to Wikipedia,
Max Headroom is a fictional British artificial intelligence, known for his wit and stuttering,...
Max Headroom was shown to have been created from the memories of Edison Carter. The character's name came from the last thing Carter saw during a vehicular accident that put him into a coma: A bar with a sign warning of low clearance, marked "MAX. HEADROOM: 2.3 M".
The languages used to represent zero, one, two, three, and all were Hungarian, Romanian, Czech, Polish and Serbian, respectively. Unfortunately, it looks like I mispelled 'unal'. It should have been 'unul'. doh! The commonality, if any, stems from them all being Central European countries.
All the translations came from
this website.