Today's Questions and Answers

1. In the very first Calvin and Hobbes strip, what does Calvin use as bait in the tiger trap in which he catches Hobbes?



Click here to reveal answer TUNA FISH SANDWICH

2. Despite a professional-looking transparent plastic binder and gory illustrations, Calvin's report on these creatures was not well-received, considering they aren't "bugs" at all.



Click here to reveal answer BATS

3. Bill Watterson's first comic strip submission to syndicates starred a dirigible pilot who shared a name with what alter ego of Calvin's, who visits such destinations as Zorg, Gloob, Zog, and Bog?



Click here to reveal answer SPACEMAN SPIFF

4. What is the name of Calvin's first-grade teacher, who drinks Maalox straight from the bottle and is named after a character in C.S. Lewis' epistolary allegory The Screwtape Letters?



Click here to reveal answer MISS WORMWOOD

5. When Calvin calls his dad at work asking for a story, his dad tells him the story of "the hydraulic pump (fig. 1), the wheel shaft flange (fig. 2), and the evil" one of these, a sort of claim often encountered in Calvin's dad's subspecialty of intellectual property law.



Click here to reveal answer PATENT INFRINGEMENT

6. Calvin gets a lot of milage out of cardboard boxes. Name two out of the three devices Calvin creates that are used by, variously, crawling underneath the box with the opening pointing downward, climbing into the box with the opening pointing upward, and walking into the box with the opening facing out to the side. (Note that none of these describe the operation of the Cerebral Enhance-O-Tron, which has a cardboard box control module but requires the donning of a colander to conduct electrical brain impulses.)



Click here to reveal answer TRANSMOGRIFIER, TIME MACHINE, DUPLICATOR

7. What is the name of Calvin's long-suffering but highly-compensated babysitter, who he once managed to lock out of the house for an entire evening, but later showed a surprising aptitude for the nuances of Calvinball?



Click here to reveal answer ROSALYN

8. Speaking of Calvinball, the rules stipulate that the game can't be played the same way twice. However, in every game, players must wear what accessory, which no one is allowed to question?



Click here to reveal answer MASKS

9. What is the name of the "high-gloss, literate, and sophisticated" magazine Calvin reads, which includes such features as guidelines for a mandibular fitness regime?



Click here to reveal answer CHEWING

10. In 1990, Bill Watterson gave the commencement address at his alma mater. What is that midwestern liberal arts college, where David Foster Wallace somewhat more famously spoke at commencement in 2005?



Click here to reveal answer KENYON COLLEGE

11. Bill Watterson's work has started to appear in public again on occasion. His return to the newspaper comics page came in 2014, when he drew three guest strips for what comic that stars Rat, Pig, and Zebra?



Click here to reveal answer PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

12. What are the last three words of the final Calvin and Hobbes strip, spoken by Calvin from the pilot seat of a toboggan?

