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Knife trivia- Feel free to answer or post a new challenge--

I'll start with an easy one- You probably all have seen this tang stamp or a variation there of on a Remington knife- What does UMC stand for??

A little tougher one- What famous author mentioned a particular style knife in two of his most famous works and helped make the knife famous ?? Name the author and / or the knife ??

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Permalink Reply by Shlomo ben Maved on January 9, 2015 at 12:28

The answer is the gun that shot Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo and started World War One.

Belgian-made 9×17mm (.380 ACP) Fabrique Nationale model 1910 semi-automatic pistol

Shlomo ben Maved said:

I'll offer this in rebuttal:

What [one] gun is responsible for the deaths of millions of people?

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on January 10, 2015 at 18:46

Shlomo,

Your rockin the answers!

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Permalink Reply by Ms Data on January 12, 2015 at 21:57

#1 Bobby Darrin released "Mack the Knife" as a single in ________.
1957
1958
1959
1960

#2 The character Mack the Knife first appears as a character named MacHeath in ______.
On the Waterfront
Wuthering Heights
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Beggar's Opera

#3 Bobby Darrin decided to perform "Mack the Knife" after seeing a production of ____________ in Greenwich Village.
The Threepenny Opera
The Fantastics
The Pirates of Penzance
The Edge of Night

#4 Finish the lyric: "Oh the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear/ And it shows them ______ _____ ."

#5 Finish the lyric: "You know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe/ Scarlet _________ start to spread."
Bloodstains
Ribbons
Billows
None of the above

#6 Finish the lyric: "D'ya hear 'bout Louie Miller? He disappeared, Babe/ After drawin' out all ___________."
The money he had
His available cash
His brother Dash
His hard-earned cash
His monster mash

#7 Four people mentioned in the song are Jenny Diver, Sukey Tawdry, Miss Lotte Lenya, and ___________.
Doggie Hound
Reggie Brown
Lucy Brown
Sally Round

#8 The last line of the song is "Watch out Old Macky is back."
True
False

#9 "Mack the Knife" was also a hit for ______.
Frank Sinatra
Louie Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
All of the above
Frank Sinatra and Louie Armstrong

#10 "Mack the Knife" was atop the Hot 100 list for 9 weeks in the year 1958.
True
False

#11 "Mack the Knife" was knocked out of the top spot briefly by _________, sung by ____________.
"Cryin'"; Roy Orbison
"Oh Carol"; Neil Sedaka
"Bernadette"; The Four Tops
"Mr. Blue"; The Fleetwoods
"Rocky Mountain High"; John Denver

#12 The song is about ____________.
A bank robbery
A murder
A love affair
A snooky tawdry

#13 "Mack the Knife" was produced and released by ______.
Sony records
Atlantic records
MoTown
Apple records

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Permalink Reply by Shlomo ben Maved on January 12, 2015 at 22:41

1 - 1959

2 - The Beggar's Opera by John Gay (1685-1732).-- Actually the song is from "Die Dreigroschenoper" the 1928 musical called "The Three Penny Opera"

3 - "The Three Penny Opera"

4 - Pearly white -- not the original words

5 - Billows -- Ditto

6 - Hard earned cash

7 - Lucy Brown

8 - False -- "Look out, old Macky's back!!"

9 - All of the above but Louis Armstrong was first in 1955

10 - False, 1959

11 - "Mr. Blue"; The Fleetwoods

12 - A murder

13 - Originally by Fulton Records then Atlantic

FYI - McDonald's did a commercial version of it called Mac Tonight

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Permalink Reply by Tobias Gibson on January 13, 2015 at 8:54

What Shlomo said. You rock Shlomo!

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Permalink Reply by Michael D. on January 13, 2015 at 19:20

If the original Remington knives were so popular and made so much money for the company, why did Remington decide to shut down the knife line?

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Permalink Reply by Shlomo ben Maved on January 13, 2015 at 19:34

The "Great Depression" forced them to sell to Dupont in 1933. who made them until 1940 when they switched to military production and eventually sold the equipment to PAL who made some from leftover parts and eventually sold all the equipment and name in 1950.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on January 13, 2015 at 19:45

Nicely done on Mack the Knife! And such a shame the Great Depression knocked out Remington!

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Permalink Reply by Ms Data on January 13, 2015 at 21:27

I think we should test Shlomo for steroids!

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Permalink Reply by Shlomo ben Maved on January 13, 2015 at 22:12

Steroids screw up the mind and the penis--I don't have any problems with either.

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Permalink Reply by Michael D. on January 13, 2015 at 22:43

The Great Depression did not knock out Remington brand knives. All Remington knives were produced at their plant in Bridgeport, CT, starting in 1920. During the depression Dupont purchased all of Remington - gun, ammo and knife production. Remington became a division of Dupont.Remington knives continued to be made in Bridgeport up to 1940 under the Remington brand. A business decision was made to seek greater profits by converting all manufacturing in Bridgeport over to ammunition because war was going on in Asia (Sino-Japanese War - Chinese were big customers) and naturally Europe. America was not yet at war. That's when they sold the tooling to PAL. The Bridgeport plant closed in 1986.

Reference: Remington Cutlery: Past & Present, Remington Cutlery Collector's Club, Madison, N.C.

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Permalink Reply by Michael D. on January 13, 2015 at 22:54

According to knife "experts", why did Case become the most collectable knife in the world? Other great companies fell by the wayside so why did Case survive?