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A Christmas Quiz -- Part 8
8 years ago
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Subject - "How to Train Your Dragon 1"
1.) The character design for Toothless is based on a number of animals, including a giant salamander. However, his facial design was based on an equally misunderstood character from the Disney stables. Which character was this?
2.) The village where most of the action takes place is called "Berk". However, the word "berk" is also slang for "fool" in another dialect. What dialect is this?
3.) When Hiccup and Astrid are flying to dragon island, one of the dragons accompanying them is carrying a character from another animated feature. Who is this guest flyer?
Subject - "How to Train Your Dragon 1"
1.) The character design for Toothless is based on a number of animals, including a giant salamander. However, his facial design was based on an equally misunderstood character from the Disney stables. Which character was this?
2.) The village where most of the action takes place is called "Berk". However, the word "berk" is also slang for "fool" in another dialect. What dialect is this?
3.) When Hiccup and Astrid are flying to dragon island, one of the dragons accompanying them is carrying a character from another animated feature. Who is this guest flyer?
2. There's... um... some 19th Century Rhyming slang, which among other things was the source of a lot of the slang in then 2nd Ed. D&D Planescape setting. 'Berk' was the shortened form of 'Berkley Hunt', which was... famously used near the beginning of Shawn of the Dead in the Winchester Arms, and also an unfortunate ad campaign for Australia's Northern Territories.
3. No idea.
Hint: Look at the proportion of his mouth when compared to his face.
I don't know what else is in there but the cat is strong in that one.
Sasta's got a lot more detail than I had about 'berk'. I'd have just said 'Cockney'.
And #3 is a stumper.
2> British slang, originally started in the 1930s, being the shortened version of Berkeley Hunt. In Cockney rhyming slang hunt is a rhyme of cunt.
3> Gloria from Madagascar, as one of the dragons is carrying a dead hippopotamus that looks just like her.
2. "Berk" is British slang. I'm not sure what it means, but I think it might be less than complimentary.
3. Gloria the Hippo from "Madagascar".