How Can That Be? Another Fieg Quiz!

1.  When Judy Kestner has spare time on her hands, as often as not she can be found wandering the South Texas monte with her friend Susan Foster spying on wildlife with her binoculars.  Among the animals she has seen is the titmouse which is:
A.  A pregnant prairie dog
B.  A lactating Norway rat
C.  A suckling mole
D.  A black-crested songbird

2.  The recently married Diana Fieg Doyle, formerly Diana Monaco, has, among the decorations in her master bedroom, three color prints of:
A. Colorful wildflowers of the Catskills
B.  Currier and Ives snow scenes with horses and sleighs
C.  Copies of bucolic oil paintings in the style of the Hudson River School
D.  Battle scenes of the Civil War

3.  When he was stationed at Travis Air Force Base in California, Ed Fieg and his wife Barbara Harris made frequent auto trips to the Midwest to visit their relatives.  In the course of their trips, Ed always endeavors to spend time "in the rocking chair."  The rocking chair is:
A.  A hand-crafted pioneer recliner situated on the porch of a popular B&B
B.  A 5,500-foot mountain summit from which 13 states can be seen
C.  A special oscillating seat that can be used in the car to prevent back strain
D.  A position taken between two speeding tractor-trailer trucks to prevent being stopped by the police.

4.  When streaking across Utah on I-80 along the Great Salt Lake, Ed Fieg noticed that the highway patrol had painted on the side of its door:
A.  A shield, because it's the Freedom State
B.  A star, because it's the Constellation State
C.  A sunburst, because it's the Sunrise State
D.  A beehive, because it's the Beehive State

  5.  When Lisa Fieg boarded an airplane in New York to visit relatives in Iowa, she was stopped by eight inspectors who confiscated her:
A.  Pocket knife
B.  Cigarette lighter fluid
C.  Nail polish remover
D.  Tweezers, to avoid a tweezing catastrophe

6.  The Brown Booby, a sea bird spotted by Judy at an inland freshwater lake in South Texas, is named such because:
A.  It has two small mammary glands
B.  It is flightless and its waddling walk makes it appear comical
C.  The name Blue-footed Booby was already taken
D.  Of its stupidity in dealing with mankind.

7.  For a number of years Marsha and Bill Adams resided in northern Iowa just across the Minnesota line from the city of Worthington.  Not far off is the city of Keister, which in German means:
A.  Keyhole
B.  Keystone
C.  Kite string
D.  Buttocks

8.  When Diana Fieg Monaco and Bill Doyle recently tied the knot, the name of the officiator was:
A.  Brad Pitt, same as the famous actor
B.  Ann Romney, same as the wife of last year's Republican presidential candidate
C.  Judy Sheinlein, same as the T.V. judge
D.  Lisa Puglisi, same as the daughter-in-law of Doris Fieg Holm 

9.  Largely due to a preponderance of the birth of females, the Fieg family line is down to three male heirs of child-rearing age carrying the name (Brian, Eddie Jr.and Max) and one who is a child (Caleb).  Susan Fieg Williams' husband, Ed, is a descendant of the vaunted Carabelli clan of the Cleveland, Ohio area.  The number of male heirs carrying on that famous name in the next generation total:
A.  267
B.  333
C.  966
D.  0

10.  In the mid-1600s in the recently settled New World city of New Amsterdam (now New York City), a Fieg ancestor by the name of Jan was forced to invent a last name for himself to distinguish his family from those of  the many other Dutch Jans who were living in the area.  The name he chose was Voorhees.  Today, from that one individual have been counted descendants numbering more than:
A.  26
B.  120
C. 333
D. 100,000

The correct answer to every question, as many of you may have guessed, is the letter D.

D-d-d-d-dat's all, folks!