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~ Monday, March 17, 2003
LONG LIVE THE KING! A Vitamin Q kings list special! Kings of food and drink: 1 King of beers - Budweiser 2 King of rices - basmati / carnaroli 3 King of nuts - almond 4 King of stout - Guinness 5 King of puddings - 4 eggs, 1 pt milk, 8oz sugar, 4oz breadcrumbs, 4 tbsp jam, 1 tsp vanilla essence 6 King of wines - Tokay / champagne 7 King of fruits - mango / durian 8 King of spices - pepper 9 King of cheese - parmigiano reggiano 10 King of red wine - Cabarnet Sauvignon 11 King of blues / English cheeses - stilton 12 King of mushrooms - shiitake 13 King of white wine - Chardonnay 14 King of the sea - North European crayfish 15 King of 'winter taste'- echizen crab (Japanese delicacy) 16 King of Italian wines - Barolo Kings of the natural world: 1 King of beasts / the jungle - lion 2 King of the sea - herring 3 King of woods - teak 4 King of terriers - Airedale 5 King of birds - wren 6 King of trees - oak 7 King of hair - bhringaraj ('hair restoring' herb) 8 King of hunting dogs - Weimaraner 9 King of the mountain - tiger 10 King of herbs - ginseng 11 King of the garden - rhododendrons 12 King of fish - salmon / sturgeon 13 King of Spain's trumpeter - old name for a donkey 14 King of flowers - peony 15 King of dyes - indigo 16 King of the forest - Scots pine Some fictitious monarchs: 1 King of New York - (gangster Frank White as played by Christopher Walken) 2 King of the Jungle - Tarzan (one of the monkeyman's monickers) 3 King of the Hill - Hank Hill (animated redneck with a conscience) 4 King of Comedy - Rupert Pupkin (wannnabe in the movie of same name) 5 King of the fairies - Oberon (Shakespeare's fairy king) 6 King of Terror - ? (Nostradamus' unidentified apocalyptic leader) 7 King of the Trows - Broonie (troll leader in Scottish folklore) Some things which are kings of their domains: 1 King of gems - ruby 2 King of trails - Highway 75 from Winnipeg to Galveston 3 'King of carpet cleaning' - Dry-Chem 4 King of craftsmen - blacksmiths 5 King of instruments - trombone / pipe organ 6 King of crystals - diamond 7 King of sports - horse racing 8 King of trains - the Orient Express 9 King of scents - amber resin 10 King of metals - gold Some other people nicknamed or self-styled as kings: 1 King of steel - Andrew Carnegie (magnate fae Fife) 2 King of one-liners - Henry Youngman (US comic) 3 King of the pulps - Max Brand (writer of westerns etc) 4 King of the witches - Alex Sanders (British mystic) 5 King of the mini-series - Richard Chamberlain 6 King of terror - Genghis Khan (Oriental warlord) 7 King of origami hearts - Francis Ow (paper folder) 8 King of clout - Babe Ruth (baseball basher) 9 King of Off Broadway - Edward Albee (US playwright) 10 King of the wild frontier - Davy Crockett (pioneer and folk hero) 11 King of beige - Giorgio Armani (fancy togmaker) 12 King of hops - Michael Jackson (beer expert, a pun on his namesake) 13 King of Hollywood - Clark Gable 14 King of Welsh rugby - Barry John 15 King of the showmen - Pat Collins (fairground legend) 16 King of the ice - Elvis Stojko (skater) 17 King of the paparazzi - Rino Barillari 18 King of Hay-on-Wye - Richard Booth (self-styled king of Welsh town) 19 King of clowns - Felix Adler 20 King of blood - Edwin Cohn (biologist) 21 King of Stonehenge - the Amesbury Archer (unknown skeleton) 22 King of mystery - John Dickson Carr (crime writer) 23 King of the ferret leggers - Reg Mellor (top man of arcane and painful sport) 24 King of X - John Holmes (well-hung tragic star of naughty films) 25 King of horror- Stephen King 26 King of the Gipsies - Bamfylde Moore Carew (English vagabond) 27 King of the cowboys - Roy Rogers 28 King of Kings - Joshua bar-Joseph (aka Jesus Christ) 29 King of chefs - Auguste Escoffier 30 King of cocktails - Dale DeGroff (mover and shaker) 31 King of handcuffs - Harry Houdini (alas, not king of Canuck college boys) 32 King of Pirates - Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) 33 King of spam - Alan Ralsky (businessman) 34 King of wildcatters - Hugh Ray Cullen (oil prospector) 35 King of the Stretford End - Denis Law (60s / 70s Scottish soccer star for Manchester Utd) 36 King of bark - Christopher III of Scandinavia (added tree bark to his subjects' food during a famine) 37 King of runners - Paavo Nurmi (aka the Flying Finn) 38 King of painters - Parrhasios (ancient Greek dauber) Source: various by RcL (The King of Q) SPELLING ANSWERS: the wrong ones are 5 / 8 / 14 / 18 / 20 / 21 / 22 |