Single Name Basis

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 07 - 03:23 AM

I looked through this whole thread, and I didn't find

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Could I have missed it?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 06 Dec 07 - 03:36 AM

"Forgive my ignorance Bert, but who is Brunell"
Isombard Kingdom Brunel, English Engineer (1806-59)
Responsible for Clifton and Hungerford Suspension Bridges and the steamship The Great Britain, among other great feats of engineering.
Immortalised in a verse of Tom Lenihan's song about poitín (illicit Irish whiskey) 'Paddy's Panacea'.

Come guess me this riddle, what beats pipes and fiddle?
What's stronger than mustard and milder than cream?
What best whets your whistle, what's clearer than crystal?
What's sweeter than honey and stronger than steam?
What will make the dumb talk, what will make the lame walk?
What's the elixer of life and philosopher's stone?
What helped Mr Brunnell to dig the Thames Tunnel?
Sure wasn't it whiskey from old Inishowen?

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: Rowan
Date: 06 Dec 07 - 04:20 PM

Well, Azizi, I remember Rudolph and Trigger, never read Heidi, can't remember reading Ivanhoe (although I lived in the Melbourne version of it for a while), so any heroines escape me, and I think your "orge" might be Shrek. I'll pass on the rest.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: s&r
Date: 06 Dec 07 - 06:40 PM

M
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Goldfinger
As in James Bond

Stu

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: s&r
Date: 06 Dec 07 - 06:44 PM

11. Rudolph
13 Trigger
14 Willie
15 Maybelline
16 Heidi?
20 Ivanhoe

Stu

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: Azizi
Date: 06 Dec 07 - 09:00 PM

Congratulations Rowan & Stu!

You both gave the correct answers for these questions:

11. What's the single name of Santa Claus' red nosed reindeer?-Ruldoph

13. What is the single name of the horse that television cowboy Roy Roger's rode? Trigger

16. This single name is both the title of a classic children's novel and the name of its lead character-an orphaned Swiss girl who prefers to live in the mountains with her grandfather, but is taken by her aunt to the city to live with a family who has a young daughter in a wheelchair. What's the name of this book & this girl's name? -Heidi

20. What is the single name of the novel by Sir Walter Scott in which the knight {whose name is the title of the story} saves the life of a beautiful Jewish woman who is accused of being a witch?-Ivanhoe

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Rowan gave the correct answer to this additional question:

12. What is the single name of the orge who stars in the Academy awared winning film of the same name which spoofs fairy tales?-Shrek

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Stu gave the correct answers for these additional questions:

14. What's the single name of the man who Johhny Otis sang about in his song about hand jive? Willie [and the Handjive]

15. What's the single name of this 1955 record by Chuck Berry in which the singer asked the woman {whose name is the same name as the record title} why can't she be true? Maybelline

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These questions still are waiting for someone to post the correct response:

17. Speaking of books, what are the single names of the boy and girl whose series of books were "fun" to read for many Americans anyway in the early years of elementary school. [Sorry if folks outside of the USA don't know this series]

18. What were the single names of the dog and cat who were pets of the aforementioned boy & girl and their little sister Baby Sally?

19. What is the single name of the very popular Swahili love song whose title translates as "My angel" and whose lyrics in English begins "My angel, my angel, I love you, my angel". Hint: This song's name is also the name of an Indian supermodel and a Bollywood actress.

Also, someone can get "extra credit" by posting the single name of the woman who is referenced in the question about Ivanhoe.

Anyone game?

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: Azizi
Date: 07 Dec 07 - 07:00 AM

Okay, here's some more clues for questions #17 & #18:

The series of books I'm referring to were used in schools to teach children how to read and they usually have the the word "Fun" in the title.

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Also, here's a clue for the extra credit question about the single name of the woman referred to in the Ivanhoe question: This old testament Biblical female name is the same as the title & name of the girl who is the lead character in the children's novel about Sunnybrook Farm.

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: Azizi
Date: 07 Dec 07 - 07:12 AM

With regard to question #19, I may have mistaken this term of endearment for an actual single name, though it has sometimes been given as a personal female name in the USA {I've seen given to African Americans more than any other racial/ethnic group}. But it is also the name of a an Indian supermodel and a Bollywood actress.

And since, I may have goofed by including this term of endearment as a single name, I'm gonna post that answer-right-now:

19. What is the single name of the very popular Swahili love song whose title translates as "My angel" and whose lyrics in English begins "My angel, my angel, I love you, my angel". Hint: This song's name is also the name of an Indian supermodel and a Bollywood actress.-"Malaika"

Here's the entry from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaika [I've placed the information about the song first]

"Malaika, which means "angel" in Swahili, was a song first recorded by Kenyan musician Fadhili William and his band Jambo Boys in 1960. Authorship of the song is often attributed to Fadhili William, but that is somewhat disputed.

It was later re-recorded at Equator Sound Studios by the British-born Kenyan music promoter Charles Worrod, who marketed the ballad to eventually becoming an internationally acclaimed song. The song went on to be popularised by international artists such as Helmut Lottie, Hep Stars, Rocco Granata, Miriam Makeba, Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger, Boney M and Angélique Kidjo".

"Malaika" is also a spider genus (Phyxelididae) found in South Africa.

"Malaika" is also the name of a best selling music group in South Africa.

-snip-

The single name of the Bollywood actress/supermodel is Malaika Arora Khan

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: Azizi
Date: 07 Dec 07 - 07:18 AM

Here's the lyrics to the song "Malaika":

MALAIKA
{Fadhili William}

Malaika, nakupenda Malaika
Malaika, nakupenda Malaika
Nami nifanyeje, kijana mwenzio
Nashindwa na mali sina, we,
Ningekuoa Malaika
Nashindwa na mali sina, we,
Ningekuoa Malaika

Kidege, hukuwaza kidege
Kidege, hukuwaza kidege
Nami nifanyeje, kijana mwenzio
Nashindwa na mali sina, we
Ningekuoa kidege
Nashindwa na mali sina, we
Ningekuoa kidege

Pesa zasumbua roho yangu
Pesa zasumbua roho yangu
Nami nifanyeje, kijana mwenzio
Ningekuoa Malaika
Nashndwa na mali sina, we
Ningekuoa Malaika

ANGEL

Angel, I love you angel
What should I do, your lover
I am defeated by money
I don't have any
I would marry you, angel

Money is troubling my soul

Little bird
I always dream of you little bird

-snip-

Source: http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/abba/732/318.txt

That website adds this comment:

"This remains one of the Hep Stars' fans
favorite songs. There are many inaccuracies
in other versions out there, these are the
correct and complete lyrics. The Hep Stars
didn't sing all the verses. Thanks to the
Kamusi Project for the lyrics and translation"

-snip-

Here's a YouTube video of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQz9dCoZ3E
Malaika by Angelique Kidjo {singer from Benin, West Africa}

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Dec 07 - 02:33 PM

78 rpm city...here I come, "Mantovani", "Hutch"

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: PoppaGator
Date: 07 Dec 07 - 04:12 PM

Brazilian athletes (soccer, basketball, etc.) customarily assume one-word names at the beginning of their professional careers. Those who become famous worldwide (or indeed anywhere outside Brazil) are no different in this regard than any of their lesser-known teammates and other compatriots.

Historical persons from the distant-enough past are also one-word-named by default; that is, they never (to our collective knowledge) had second names to begin with.

I think the most meaningful answers here are names of real people (not ficitonal character or cartoon animals) who (1) become mega-famous and (2) have relatively distinctive first names to begin with, and who therefore can become instantly recognizable by first-name-only (or in some cases, last-name-only).

One fairly prominent musical artist, someone I actually used to know in person, would seem to qualify:

Lucinda

I knew her as Cindy Williams, and as a frighteningly talented teenage prodigy. Around that time, the movie American Grafitti came out and one of the actresses, also named Cindy Williams, emerged into the limelight. Cindy went into a bit of a pout: "Someone else is gettin' famous with my name!"

Not long afterward, I spotted a utility bill at her apartment addressed to "Lucinda Williams." I told her she should use her full name; after all, her old man was a poet and her folks presumably knew what they were doing when they gave her such a euphonious name. I even predicited (correctly!) that by being Lucinda, she might very well become plenty famous enough by that one name alone.

"Naw, I hate that name ~ sounds like an old lady!"

Last time I saw her (1973? 74?), she hadn't relented and was still Cindy. She apparently changed her mind and her name by the time she moved to Austin or shortly thereafter, and defintitely before recording her first albom.

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 07 Dec 07 - 07:34 PM

Satchmo

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: Dan Keding
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 06:23 PM

For all you BBC Mystery fans --

Morse - the inspector not the code.
Frost - the inspector not the bite.
Lewis - once a sgt. now an inspector not a French king.
Foyle - inspector who foils criminals.

Dan

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: PoppaGator
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 03:30 PM

A lot of famous people become recognizable by their last names only (Shakespeare, Einstein), but we generally know them by first-and-last name ~ not quite the same thing as first-names-onlies like Cher or Madonna, whose last names were never part of their public personna, or even like Beyonce or Kobe or Kareem, each of whom gradually came to the point where their last names were no longer necessary to identify them.

Subject: RE: Single Name Basis
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Dec 07 - 05:49 PM

Did anyone mention Leadbelly? I didn't see it here.

Pete also.

Lightnin'

Wagner (classical--not Porter)

Ojay ;-)