Spring/Summer 2006: Week 1, Round 8
Miscellaneous: The Lucy Show
This is not just a round about Lucille Ball and friends. All of
these questions have something to do with the name Lucille and its diminutives
1. Who named his guitar Lucille?
A: BB King
2. Who wrote and performed the song Lucille in the 1950s?
A: Little Richard
3. What was the production company that owned the Lucy Show and I Love Lucy?
A: Desilu
4. After a pretty wild youth, which jazz musician was straightened out by his 4th wife Lucille?
A: Louis Armstrong
5. The bones of early hominid Lucy, an example of Australopithecus afarensis, were found in which country?
A: Ethiopia
6. The actress Lucy Liu had been playing bit parts on television since 1991. She got her first continuing role on what series in 1998?
A: Ally Mc Beal
7. Lucy Lawless, a.k.a. Xena, the Warrior Princess, has more recently appeared in a continuing role in what other TV series?
A: Battlestar Galactica
8. In the comic strip Peanuts, What is Lucy and Linus's last name?
A: Van Pelt
9. Which Canadian author is our best-selling literary export to Japan?
A: Lucy Maud Montgomery
10. Opera by Donizetti with a famous mad scene. Set in Scotland, which may explain it.
A: Lucia de Lammermoor