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OK, since nobody got all the answers to the last Quiz on the Wiz, I?m lowering my standards and presenting a little poisoned-apple punditry. These are about regular, Disney-type fairy tales, known by all of us, and pretty easy to find on the net. Here are your suitably ambiguous clues, see how many you know without a web search:
1. Snow Drop
2. ring around the rosie
3. in the original, the vandalous little brats were toast
4. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
5. Biddy
6. tried to snack on the apple-eater (and her kids!)
7. 17th century author, kinda like the chubby newsman on the road
8. details the way certain sounds in one language correspond with sounds in another
9. the earliest (history-wise) pretty (and sooty) step sister
10. worn out shoes
11. two snarly, gnarly statues by the gate
12. in Scotland, she was a bovine corpse (phew!)
13. Jacob and Wilhelm
14. She was 67 years old, when her hair turned from silver to......blonde!
15. She had ?little? self-esteem, but she wasn?t about to go connubial on that frog!
16. Enchanted by Dame Gothel, she dropped ?em for a handsome stranger.
17. It was flat to fly, and round to roll; in Norway the Ginger Bread Man was a......
And finally, what's worse than finding a worm in your poisoned apple?
NYUK
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"And finally, what's worse than finding a worm in your poisoned apple?"
Finding HALF of a worm! [img]eek.gif[/img]
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Yessah, yessah, yessah! We got a winnah here! Young lady, you can have your choice of a gen-u-wine kewpie doll, or this realistic stick-on nose wart.
(Now, step aside and let the other suckers up.)
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Number 7 is Chaucer.
Gimme my prize!
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9. Cinderella?
10. The Elves and the Shoemaker?
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number 7 is not Chaucer. Gimme back those Chinese handcuffs! It's a fairy tale writer, whose name sounds like a famous newsman on-the-road of the 80's
Number 9 is kinda right (Cinderella), but I'm looking for character in the earliest version.
Number 10 is not the elves and the shoemaker. Gong!
Number 13 is the Brothers Grimm, Jake and Willie. BTW, Wilhelm married a girl who first told them a version of a fairy tale, but Jacob continued to live with the couple after they were married, and treated the children as his own. How's that for a fairy tale?
You guys are gonna have to get sharper pencils.
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"Ring around the rosie" was a childrens' rhyme originating from the Black Death. ("Achoo achoo, all fall down")
I think the brats who were toast might have been an early version of Hansel and Gretel (sp?).
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Atta boy Peter! (And I thought that all the smarty women folk would show us up on this)
#2 does refer to the rash accompanying the bubonic plauge. A "pocket full of posies" were helpful in combatting the stench of death in the streets. And it was a nursery rhyme rather than a for-really fairy tale, but I thought it interesting.
#3 - in an early version, the witch has Hansel and Gretel over for lunch. And I do mean FOR lunch! Serves 'em right for nibblin' on the siding.
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I'll make a guess about #8. I'm not sure if onamatapoea (misspelled, I'm sure) is the right term, but there is a term for a word that sounds like the thing itself. The word "piss" for example.
Number #17 = frisbee
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Well, Peter, nice tries, but you need to move your desk closer to the blackboard.
Number 8 is gonna be tough, it's a linguistic principal, known as "_______ Law". But there are a couple of easy ones I thought would be answered by now.
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I'm totally lost--I knew the "ring around the rosie" question, but that's it. I've never actually read any fairy tales [img]redface.gif[/img]
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Flapjack: Not by the hair of your chinny chin chin!
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All right flora! I guess gingerbread did not grow wild in Norway, because their version features a runaway pancake, made with new milk, no less! I doubt they would have chased one made with old milk. (shudder)
Anyhow, if you were answering #17, you get this neat set of google-eye glasses!
I was about to post the answers to all the rest, since it looks like there's not a lot of fairt tale fanciers hereabouts, but I'll wait a while.
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Lon, you're telling me my insight into Norwegian psychology is wrong? Boy, if that isn't the frozen limit!
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OK, it's time to fold the tent:
1 Snow White in the original Grimm version.
2 bubonic plague
3 Hansel and Gretel
4 ?Hey there, Little Red riding hood,
you sure are lookin? good.
You?re ever thang a big bad wolf would want. AAAOOOOWWWW!?
From ?Little Red Riding Hood?, by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, 196?
5 Little Red Riding Hood?s given name
6. In an expanded version of Snow White, she marries the Prince and has kids. But the prince doesn?t dare tell his folks, because Mom is an ogre who later tries to eat them. Talk about your mother-in-law problems - ?Hi, Mom, I, uh, just called up to ask, uh, how long does your recipe say to boil a four-year-old??
7 Charles Perrault was a 17th century French writer who compiled many of the tales we know today. (Charles Couralt was the traveling newsman, famous for his on-the-road series)
8 Grimm?s Law of linguistics. The Grimm brothers were professional linguists who developed a mammoth dictionary of German language.
9. There are over 700 known versions of the Cinderella tale. The earliest is a 9th century version which has the abused step-sister, namedYeh-hsien, who gets her wishes granted from the bones of a giant fish. Oh, dem bones, dem bones!
10 The ?twelve dancing princesses? would sneak out to cut a rug every night, but were busted when Daddy noticed that they each wore out a pair of shoes daily.
11 After Beauty brought out the Prince in her Beast (sound familiar, ladies?), her two evil step sisters became stone statues at the palace gates.
12 In the early Scottish version of Cinderalla, she is named Rashin Coatie, and instead of a fairy god-mother, she has the dead body of her pet calf. I can?t figure why Disney didn?t use this version.
13. The bros. Grimm
14. Goldilocks, originally an old woman in the story of the three bears in 1837, later became Silver Hair, and then Goldilocks in 1904, when the story was 67 yers old.
15. Tiny Thumbellina?s first adventure began when she was kidnapped to be the bride of a frog. Not exactly thrilled at the prospect of playing leap-frog among the lilly pads, she escaped to become the missus of the Flower King.
16 After being enchanted by her doting mother, Dame Gothel, and imprisoned in a tower, Rapunzel droped her braids to a passing handsome stranger. He climbed up to her window, and the story doesn?t say, but I imagine she really let her hair down then.
17. Pancake
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Lon, do you talk like that cajun guy in "Joe Dirt"?
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Doggone-it, Lonster! I apologize. That's what I get for being so terse that even I can't figure out what I'm drivin' at. I was thinking of another ditty by the Phay-rows.
Thanks for the google eyes, hon. I'm passing them on to Nunna Ya here, cuz they clash with my naturally googly peepers.
Fairy tales have held me in better stead in understanding and predicting human nature than any psyche theories or bible stories ever have. I have some close relations who'd make some great material themselves {and I've got the scars to prove it}. Luckily, the bookcase was filled with old musty wonders when I was a sprout, and now wish I'd read more of them out loud as a mommy. {We were pretty enthralled with the Greek and Norse Gods here at that time. Might have been a testosterone effect}. The weird thing is the fable names and the titles are lost in a fog to me. It's kinda like the fact that I was raised on classical music & can't remember the titles - though every note is forever etched deep within my bones. Too young to learn, but too old to forget.
Have any of you re-read these stories now that you are grown, and are there any books or collections you'd care to recommend to a geezerette?
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flora, you're not going to try and tell us you had two ugly step-sisters and a fairy god-mother, now are ya?
I haven't read many of the stories in a long time, and never read most of them. Just absorbed them through Disney and the Fairytale Theater videos with Shelly Duval. Those are great, and some of Kit's and my favorites.
But, I had fun setting up the quiz, and learned quite a bit about the old tales. They musta had an abundance of ugly step sisters and handsome princes back then.
Oh, and don't bother giving Nunna ya your glasses, I got an eye patch that will probably do the job better. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
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I loved "Little Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. All I could think of was "Wooly Bully". [img]confused.gif[/img]
