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  1. A 1712 satire, "The Law is a Bottomless Pit," created this character who has been used to describe the entire English population. Who is the character?
    John Bull.

  2. Who wrote it?
    Dr. John Arbuthnot.

  3. Johnny Appleseed was the alias of what early American?
    John Chapman.

  4. John of Gaunt's more famous, and ambitious, brother?

  5. Who were John Lackland's parents and Brothers?

  6. In the 1957 version of Superman, who played Perry White?
    John Hamilton.

  7. John Paul II become Pope in what year?
    1978.

  8. Before then his name was?

  9. There have been two Pope John XXIlls in the history of the Catholic Church. When was the first Pope John XXIII?
    1410.

  10. How much time was there before the next Pope John XXIII?
    Almost 550 years.

  11. Why such a long time?
    Because the first Pope John XXIII was an anti-Pope, one of the illegitimate claimants to the papacy.

  12. This famous Scientist wrote his laws of motion in the early 1600s?

  13. Saint John is given credit for writing which gospel of the New Testament?

  14. Who were the parents of John the Baptist?(first names)

  15. Who had John the Baptist killed?
    Salome.

  16. Who created the John Birch Society? When?

  17. Johnny Carson has been doing the "Tonight Show" for longer than most of us have been alive. What was the date of his first show?
    October 2, 1962.

  18. Rosemary's baby, aka The Anti-Christ/Satan, had these as his first two names.

  19. Baltar of "Battlestar Galactica" was played by this John.
    John Colicos.

  20. Who created the series "One Step Beyond"?
    John Newland.

  21. Tarzan, Lord Greystoke and Lord of the Apes, was the son of:

  22. What song is "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" set to?

  23. Who is the confederate captain of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Barsoom" books?

  24. On what fateful day did Burroughs son (John) launch a comic strip based on the books?
    Some day in the early 1930s-- but the same day as the first "Flash Gordon."

  25. What John played the Lone Ranger?
    John Hart, who briefly replaced the better-remembered Clayton Moore.

  26. What is the the name of Smee's cutlass in James Barrie's "Peter Pan"?

  27. This nice sounding man was the villain of the Doc Savage novels "Fortress of Solitude" and "The Devil Genghis."

  28. Who created the score for the 1973 film version of Richard Bach's "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"?
    John Denver.

  29. Alan Hale played what role 3 times between 1922 and 1950?
    Little John (Robin Hood).

THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE ABOUT STAR TREK

  1. John Hoyt played who in "The Cage"?

  2. What was the name of the historian in "Patterns of Force"?

  3. Who played Rodent in "City on the Edge of Forever"?

  4. The actor who was Tamar in "Return of the Archons"?

  5. Pilot of the ship caught in the Enterprise's tractor beam in "Tomorrow is Yesterday"?

  6. Man who played Hegist in "Wolf in the Fold"?

  7. What does the name "John" mean? In what language?

COMIC BOOK SECRET IDs AND THEIR "REAL NAMES"

SECRET ID

  1. Swordfish
  2. Element Lad
  3. The Human Torch
  4. Amazing Man
  5. Spyman

REAL NAME

  1. Prof. John Raymond
  2. Jack Ryder
  3. Johnny Blaze
  4. Jonathan Crane
  5. John Stewart

The Human Torch is Johnny Storm. Jonathan Crane is the Scarecrow.

THE FOLLOWING ARE SECTIONS OF POEMS BY JOHN KEATS. WHICH?

  1. "And so she ever fed it with thin tears.
    Whence thick, and green, and beautiful it grew.
    So that it smelt more balmy than its peers"

  2. "The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass.
    And silent was the flock in woolly fold:
    Numb were the Beadsman's fingers, while he told
    His rosary"
    "The Eve of St. Agnes."

  3. "Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
    And watching, with eternal lids apart,
    Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite"

  4. "What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
    What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?"
    "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

  5. "I met a lady in the meads
    Full beautiful, a fairy's child:
    Her hair was long, her foot was light.
    And her eyes were wild."
    "La Belle Dame sans Merci"

  6. "She was a cordian shape of dazzling hue.
    Vermilion-spotted, golden, green, and blue:
    Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard.
    Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd"
    "Lamia."

  7. "Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun:
    Conspiring with him how to load and bless
    With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eyes run"
    "To Autumn."

AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO PREFER MORE CONTEMPORARY WORKS:

Given the Title, identify the Author.

  1. "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape"

  2. "The Song of the Tortured Girl"

  3. "The Abnormal Is Not Courage"

  4. "Into the Glacier"

  5. "Under Cancer"

  6. "A Trip to Four or Five Towns"

(NOTE: This concluded the Johns Hour Bonus. Or so went the original plan. However, Genitals obviously had second thoughts about handing out such a puny, sub-150-questions Hour Bonus. And so, they also handed out the only Hour Bonus appendix to date. Namely.....)

JOHNNY COME-LATELIES
(AN ADDENDUM TO THIS BONUS)
MORE QUESTIONS YOU WISH WE HADN'T ASKED...

IDLE RANDOMNESS:

  1. We already asked you about John Paul II. Now it's time for John Paul I: When was he elected Pope?
    1978.

  2. Until what year did he serve?
    1978, the same year.

  3. What was HIS real name?

  4. Who was the NINTH astronaut to land on the Moon? (Hint: there's a road, FL 423, named after him near Orlando)
    John L. Swigart Jr.

  5. In "The Godfather," which role did John Cazale play?
    Fredo Corleone.

  6. What was the protagonist's name (first AND last) in Dalton Trumbo's anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun"?

  7. In the 1947 movie "Mother Wore Tights," whose puppet was Johnny?

TREK ADDENDUM:

  1. In the episode "Errand of Mercy": Who played Kor?
    John Colicos

  2. Who did John Abbott play?

WHETHER OR NOT JOHN WANTS TO:

  1. There were 97 deaths as a result of Hurricane Juan. When did it hit? (year and season)
    October 26- November 6, 1985.

  2. Where is the outflow of the St. John River? Within 20 miles, how long is it?
    The Bay of Fundy (Maine & New Brunswick, Canada); approx. 400 miles.

  3. Where is the outflow of the San Juan River? Within 20 miles, how long is IT?

AND THE LAST, FINAL, JOHN GOES WHERE HE WANTS SECTION

(MATCH THE EXPLORERS AND THEIR DISCOVERIES OR REGIONS OF EXPLORATION)

  1. Juan de Solis
  2. Jean Nicolet
  3. John Rymill
  4. Juan Ponce de Leon
  5. John & Sebastian Cabot
  6. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
  7. Captain John Smith
  8. John Cabot
  9. Sir John Franklin
  10. John Davis

  1. Atlantic Coast
  2. sought the Northwest Passage; last seen near Lancaster Sound
  3. Labrador to Hatteras
  4. Newfoundland/Nova Scotia
  5. got as far as Sanderson's Hope, 72'12'N
  6. Lake Michigan; Wisconsin
  7. Antarctic
  8. San Diego Harbor
  9. Florida
  10. Rio de la Plata
(Aren't you glad we gave you this? :->)