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January 14-15, 2011

Answers to Hour Bonus 1 - Puppets

Number Answer
I. General Puppet Trivia
1 Pinocchio
2 "A Taste for Love"
3 Madame
4 Those are industry terms describing lighting. Gobo = goes between optics, and traveling mattes insert objects into prerecorded background scenes.
5 Shari Lewis
II. Sesame Street
6 Following a rash of pedophilia and sexual abuses cases, the show's creators were concerned that kids would be afraid that their parents wouldn't believe them if they reported pedophilia or sexual abuse.
7 Countess Dahling von Dahling, Countess von Backwards, Lady Two.
8 Kami
9 123 Sesame Street
10 Cookie Monster. (Actually the muppet wiki has a whole list of muppets with five fingers.)
11 Elmo. In 2002, he testified in front of the Education Appropriations Subcommittee to urge more funding for music in schools.
12 Bert collects bottle caps. He has 486. (Dave Letzler notes that he also collects paper clips.)
13 A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter
14 Monsterpiece Theatre
15 A Frisbee. (Though a spaceship does appear at the end.)
III. The Muppets
16 The fabulous baseball diamond
17 "The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence"
18 Hormel sued the Muppets for naming one of the warthog characters "Spa'am".
19 A Studebaker
20 Rubber chickens
IV. Identifying pictures of puppets
21 Sweedums
22 The Lonely Goatherd
23 Punch and Judy
24 Statler and Waldorf / Jacob and Robert Marley
25 Mahna Mahna
26 Roosevelt Franklin
27 Telly Monster
28 Trekkie Monster
29 Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
30 Howdy Doody
31 Greg the Bunny
32 King Friday XIII
33 Topo Gigio
34 Rod and Nicky
35 Charlie McCarthy
V. Puppet Governments
36 Phillippe Pétain
37 Manchukuo
38 Afghanistan
39 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
40 Oman
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