The Dogged Trivia Quiz

Quiz & Answers

1. This dog was stamped for achieving a great height nearly fifty years ago.

Laika (first dog in orbit, aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957, memorialized on several postage stamps).

2. This fearsome canine was the original underground guard dog.

Cerberus

3. This sled dog is memorialized with a statue in New York's Central Park.

Balto (lead dog in the original Alaska Iditarod)

4. This dog is a star, but is almost never seen during the daytime.

Sirius

5. This dog's name would be familiar in a board room, and he was the subject of a famous speech.

Checkers (Nixon's dog)

6. This dog was the mascot of a firm with a winning name, and was attuned to the voice of his master.

Nipper (RCA Victor mascot)

7. A judge's St. Bernard from a quiet California town found adventure in the wild, in a story by a local writer with an urban name.

Buck (from Jack London's Call of the Wild)

8. An actress who appeared in two films about San Francisco sleuths played the hen-pecking TV wife of a banker who was troubled by this ghostly dog.

Neil (the St. Bernard from Topper, starring Lee Patrick, who appeared in The Maltese Falcon and Vertigo)

9. This dog recognized his master when he returned from a lengthy odyssey.

Argus (Odysseus' dog)

10. This dog followed a master who was a red coat in golden days, who traveled in the northwest and who gave his four-footed companions regal names.

Yukon King (of the 1950s TV show Sergeant. Preston of the Yukon, set during the gold rush in the Canadian Northwest; Sgt. Preston’s horse was named Rex.)

11. This dog appeared in two 1930s films featuring protagonists who unearthed what had been buried.

Asta starred in The Thin Man (Nick Charles had been a detective, and helps unearth the body of Claude Wynant, the “Thin Man” who had been murdered) and in Bringing Up Baby, in which Cary Grant plays a paleontologist.

12. This faithful Asian dog was stationed every day waiting for a master who did not return.

Hachiko (the Japanese Akita who in the 1920s, returned every day for eleven years to the Japanese train station where his deceased master would meet him upon his return from work).

13. This dog with a repetitive name traveled to a green place with four companions.

Toto (from The Wizard of Oz)

14. This dog with a metallic name lived in a fort.

Rin Tin Tin

15. A famous and now-gone San Francisco restaurant was named for a dog; what was the restaurant's name?

The Old Poodle Dog