Thursday, May 26, 2022

RHS '59ers May 2022 Trivia


 

1. What were the names of the three Pep Boys?
 



2. Traditionally who were the three wise men who followed the Christmas star?
 
Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar



3. Who were that "old team: of Republicans that FDR made fun of in a famous speech?
 



4. "Baseball's Sad Lexicon"  was a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The eight-line poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan watching the Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop, second baseman, and first baseman completing yet another a double play. Who were the three players immortalized in the poem?
 



5. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" a 1949 Technicolor musical film produced in the Arthur Freed unit of MGM, starred Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly,  and Jules Munshin as a great baseball double play combo [inspired by the 1910 poem] was directed by Busby Berkeley. Who were the double play makers whose merits were sung in the picture?