NAME THAT ANIMAL
Basking, Nurse, Thresher
Shark
“Ain’t she sweet? See her …”
“… walking down the street. Well, I ask you very confidentially, ain’t she sweet?”
Jack Webb, Harry Morgan, and Ben Alexander
Dragnet (1951)
The main function of this pair of organs is the production of urine, which removes waste from the body.
Kidneys
This Muskogean language word, often translated as “old field” or “old town,” is also the name of the capital of Florida.
Tallahassee
Bactrian, Dromedary
Camel
“Come on and hear …”
“… come on and hear, Alexander’s Ragtime Band. Come on and hear, come on and hear, it’s the best band in the land.”
Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, and Jerry Mathers
Leave It To Beaver (1957)
This paired organ releases an egg every month in preparation for fertilization.
Ovaries
If you graduated from Yale, you spent four years in this state, whose Algonquin name means “at the long tidal river” or just “long river.”
Connecticut
Brown, Black, Kodiak
Bear
“By the light …”
“… of the silvery moon, I want to spoon, to my honey I’ll croon love’s tune.”
Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, and (occasionally) Warren Beatty and Tuesday Weld
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)
One of the most important functions of this gland/organ is to produce insulin that helps regulate sugars in the blood.
Pancreas
The most widely accepted theory for the origin of this city’s name is that it stems from the word Shikaakwa, which means “smelly onion” in the MiamiIllinois Indian language. Among its many other nicknames are “The City of the Big Shoulders” and “Second City.”
Chicago
Morgan, Appaloosa, Percheron
Horse
“He floats through the air with …”
“… the greatest of ease. The daring young man on the flying trapeze.”
Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, and Richard Crenna
Our Miss Brooks (1952)
This organ regulates of the nervous system and controls all bodily functions.
Brain
Straddling the border of Georgia and Florida, the name of this swamp is likely derived from the Hitchiti Indian word meaning “bubbling water.”
Okefenokee
Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island Red, Leghorn
Chicken
“Another bride. Another groom. Another … ”
“… sunny honeymoon. Another season. Another reason. For making whoopee.”
Walter Brennan, Kathleen Nolan, and Richard Crenna
The Real McCoys (1957)
This organ stores bile, which is released when the body needs it for digestion.
Gallbladder
The name of this city, which was critical during the Civil War because of the multiple railroads that converged there, is believed to have derived from a Creek Indian word meaning “rock rising to a point” – most likely a reference to Tennessee’s Lookout Mountain.
Chattanooga