Pot-pourri
This vitamin may make you flush and feel like your skin is crawling.
What is a niacin?
If everyone else got their share before you, this stereotypical cowboy actor's name might come to mind.
Who was Slim Pickens?
This bumbling Army private would occasionally get the crap beaten out of him by Sarge.
Who was Beetle Bailey?
If you were into Viking humor, you may have liked this comic strip.
What was Hagar the Horrible?
No need to take a pill to get your daily dose of this vitamin; just get yourself out into the sun.
What is vitamin D?
This intelligence agency morphed out of the office of Strategic Services at the end of Word War II.
What is the CIA?
If there were a mash-up of Christmas & Valentine's Day, this silent film era actor might have capitalized on it, given his name.
Who was Rudolf Valentino?
This comic strip featured a former show girl who was married to a guy whose name became a sandwich.
What is Blondie (& Dagwood)?
This detective had "a bulldog jaw" according to the song named after him. He also had a two-way wrist radio!
Who was Dick Tracy?
The lack of this vitamin leads to scurvy (which in turn led to British sailors being called "limeys").
What is vitamin C?
This dog was instrumental in saving many lives in Alaska during an epidemic and as a result is honored with a statue in Central Park.
Who was Balto?
With a unique voice and buggy eyes that caused him to be typecast as villainous, this actor's surname is a homophone (homonym) for what they call a cab in England.
Who was Peter Lorre?
This NYC mayor read the Sunday Funnies over the radio when a newspaper strike left kids disappointed over no funnies.
Who was Fiorello LaGuardia?
This comic featured an original "odd couple" whose names were used to refer to any bumbling, mis-matched pair.
Who were Mutt & Jeff?
If you experience leg cramps in the morning when waking up, you may be in need of this mineral (it makes for great wheels on sports cars, too!).
What is Magnesium?
This section of the Bronx was named after the Reverend John Throckmorton.
What is Throgg's Neck? or Throg's Neck.
A type of knife is my moniker since a Monkee had my name.
Who was David Bowie?
Sadie Hawkins Day was created in this comic strip that featured Daisy Mae & at times, Joe Btfsplk.
What was Li'l Abner?
A teenager-turned army pilot and his buddy, journalist Pat Ryan wind up in China, fighting the invading Japanese “pirates”, led by the evil Dragon Lady.
What was Terry & the Pirates?
These two minerals need to be balanced for good health. Too much of one will cause high blood pressure; too much of the other harms the kidneys.
What are Sodium & Potassium?
The original name of this, one of the last and best hits of the Beatles, was No Pakistanis before it was released.
What was Get Back?
A gilded flower in Jurassic Park.
Who is Jeff Goldblum?
With initials MM, he wore a bowler hat, smoked a cigar and had a kid brother named Kayo.
Who Was Moon Mullins?
A doe-eyed orphan boy adopted by a G.I. whose ethnicity was a bit of a mystery was featured on the front page of the Sunday News for a long time.
Who was Dondi?
This B vitamin is responsible for turning one's pee-pee neon yellow.
What is Riboflavin or vitamin B2?