Greg Pliska, musical director for the Broadway show War Horse and our very own Quiz Guy, has a puzzle about Animal Hybrid Phrases combining two common expressions involving animals. For example, what do you get when stuffed animal stocks go down? A Teddy Bear Market. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Animal Hybrids Quiz”
You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Grant Barrett.
And I’m Martha Barnette. And now we’re joined by our lovely and talented quiz guy, Greg Pliska.
Hi, Greg.
Hello, Grant. Hello, Martha. It’s nice to be lovely and talented today.
Yes, it is. What do you have for us?
Well, I’ve got a puzzle in honor of the Broadway show that I’m working on.
That would be?
The show is called War Horse, and it’s at Lincoln Center.
And it’s a fantastic piece of theater, which I hope you’ll come see.
I’m dying to see it.
I’ve seen a trailer online, and it just looks terrific.
So do we have to solve a puzzle to get into your show?
You do.
Oh, I do.
Everyone else has got a free pass.
No, I put together this little quiz that involves phrases with animals in them.
I’ve taken one phrase that ends with an animal and melded it with another that begins with the same animal to create a new hybrid phrase.
Oh, good.
Oh, genetic engineering on the radio.
Exactly.
The Island of Dr. Pliska.
So, for example, if I said Lincoln Center show about the Marx Brothers in the trenches.
Okay.
So it would be War Horse Feathers.
What is the name of that Marx?
Yeah, that’s it.
Horse Feathers.
War Horse Feathers.
Okay.
Giddy up.
When stuffed animal stocks go down.
When stuffed animal stocks go down.
Teddy Bear Market.
Teddy Bear Market.
Exactly.
Nice.
This is like a place I want to visit.
Yeah, exactly.
A MASH character who loves skateboarding.
Oh, Tony Hawkeye.
Tony Hawkeye, very good.
Nice, nice.
Hawkeye from MASH and Tony Hawk, the great skateboarder.
An itchy rash you get from eating too much fried fast food.
An itchy rash?
An itchy rash.
An itchy rash.
Something bug?
Oh, fried chicken pox.
Yeah, and specifically, I was thinking Kentucky Fried Chicken Pox, but there you go.
Fried Chicken Pox, exactly.
Where Mr. Green Jeans got convicted on trumped-up charges?
Mr. Green Jeans.
Kangaroo Court.
Captain Kangaroo Court.
Oh, yes.
Captain Kangaroo Court.
Exactly.
The band that sang Stayin’ Alive, More Than a Word List, and If I Can’t Have the Word in a Sentence?
More than a word.
So it’s not spelling BG.
It is exactly spelling BG.
Okay.
Right?
They say staying alive, more than a woman, and if I can’t have you.
Right.
Though I want to hear if I can’t have the word in a sentence, personally.
Another one for the kids.
Highest ranking troop member with no hair.
Bald Eagle Scout?
Bald Eagle Scout.
Exactly.
Okay.
Here’s another one.
Theory that a slight difference in a Puccini opera performance
Can change weather patterns on the other side of the world.
So the butterfly effect.
Madam Butterfly Effect.
The Madam Butterfly Effect, exactly.
Oh, she sang it differently.
It’s going to be thundering in New York tomorrow.
Nobody will sleep.
Yeah.
Having turned in your friends, you have turned in feet.
So you are?
Stool pigeon toad.
Stool pigeon toad.
Very good.
Exactly.
Here’s one.
Movie about conservative Democrats taking hostages at a bank in Brooklyn.
What?
Blue Dog Day Afternoon.
Exactly.
The Blue Dog Day Afternoon.
A Henry James novel about an American heiress with an incurable addiction to ice cream treats.
Dove Bar.
Dove Bar is the ice cream treat.
Now you need a Henry James novel that has dove at the end of the title.
Wings of the Dove Bar.
Wings of the Dove Bar, exactly.
That’s the one.
Oh, Greg, those were fantastic.
It’s a pleasure.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them.
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