# Aphabetic Pairs -- interesting facts **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 6, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877 "2017-04-06T12:40:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877/161 "2017-04-28T21:11:22Z")
FZ = French Zone After World War II, Germany was divided into five sectors. The far east was returned to Poland, and what is today’s Germany was designated as the American, British, Soviet and French Zones of occupation. The French Zone, the smallest, adjacent to France, combined with the American an British Zones to form the Bundesrepublik, while the Soviet Zone became the DDR, “East Germany”. Beriin remained separate, and itself was divided into four zones occupied by those four countries. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877/162 "2017-04-29T02:41:16Z")
GA = _Green Acres_ \*Green Acres \* ran on CBS from 1965 to 1971. Though the show was still getting good ratings in 1971, it was canceled as part of the so-called “rural purge,” because CBS decided it wanted to reach for what they thought were the more sophisticated urban and suburban viewers. Other shows canceled included _Petticoat Junction_, _The Beverly Hillbillies_ and _Hee Haw_. Pat Buttram of \*Green Acres \*was quoted as saying at the time: “It was the year CBS canceled everything with a tree, including _Lassie_.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877/163 "2017-04-29T04:17:49Z")
GB- George Burns, ne Nathan Birnbaum, played Mr. Kite and sang “Fixing a Hole” in the astonishingly bad movie version of “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877/164 "2017-04-29T19:20:10Z")
GC = George Carlin. Comedian, and the first host of _Saturday Night Live_. During his stint in the Air Force, he was court martialed three times. ---
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GD - George DiCaprio is an American writer, editor, publisher, distributor, and former performance artist, known for his work in the realm of underground comix, where he collaborated with such notables as Timothy Leary and Laurie Anderson. He is the father of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877/166 "2017-04-29T20:26:14Z")
GE- Drummer Graeme Edge is the only original member of the Moody Blues who’s still a member of the band. ---
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GF = Good Friday, a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. Good Friday assumes a particular importance in the plot of Richard Wagner’s music drama _Parsifal_, which contains an orchestral interlude known as the “Good Friday Music”. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877/168 "2017-04-29T23:02:36Z")
GG = Green Ghost Manufactured first in 1965 by the Transogram Company, _Green Ghost_ was the first children’s board game designed to be played in the dark. ---
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GH = Good Housekeeping Good Housekeeping has been one of America’s most popular magazines for over a century. When it became a success in 1911, it was bought by Hearst Publications, continued to be a big seller throughout the depression, and in 1939, it generated more revenue than all the other Hearst publications combined. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877/170 "2017-04-29T23:56:14Z")
GI- Garth Iorg of the Toronto Blue Jays lost to his brother Dane Iorg of the KC Royals in the 1985 American League championship series. ---
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GJ = Guadalajara, Jaslico Guadalajara, Mexico’s second city with nearly 5-million people, is one of the oldest cities in the Americas. It was first settled by the Spanish only 40 years after Columbus discovered America. ---
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GK = Gil Kane, comic book artist who created the look for the Silver Age Green Lantern and Atom, and was co-creator of Iron Fist (who now has a Netflix series). ---
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GL- Rush vocalist Geddy Lee was born Gary Lee Weinrib. His mother’s thick Yiddish accent made “Gary” sound like “Geddy,” which became his nickname among friends and family. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877/174 "2017-04-30T16:47:36Z")
G = Galapagos Mockingbird Of the 16 species of mockingbirds in the world, four are endemic to the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Mockingbird is the most widely distributed, being found on most of the islands in the archipelago. ---
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GN = Good News, a frequent translation of the Greek word εὐαγγέλιον (otherwise “gospel”). The word was most often used to describe a military victory. In the 1st Century A.D. it was best known from the official Priene calendar of Rome, where the “good news” was to commemorate Augustus Caesar, emperor of the Roman Emperor, and (according to the calendar) the son of the god Apollo. ---
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GO = _Glass Onion_ The walrus was Paul. ---
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GP = Grand Panjandrum. It was a massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II. It was one of a number of highly experimental projects, including Hajile and the Hedgehog, that were developed by the Admiralty’s Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD) in the final years of the war. The Panjandrum was never used in battle. The term was coined by Samuel Foote in an impromptu recital in 1753 designed to test the memory of an actor who said he could repeat anything if he heard it once. The actor, Charles Macklin, succeeded. > [@](#): > > “So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf, to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. ‘What! no soap?’ So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.” ---
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GQ - General Quarters. “Red alert” or “battle stations” aboard a warship, when all hands must go immediately to their duty stations. ---
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GR = Genereal Roca The General Roca railroad connects Buenos Aires with the southern Andean resort town of Bariloche. Originaly established in 1862, it was renamed in the 1948 reorganization of Argentine railways. ---
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GS = _Get Smart_, a secret agent spoof sitcom of the sixties. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. Don Adams, who starred as Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, directed 13 of the episodes, and wrote two. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aphabetic-pairs-interesting-facts/783877.md?page=10)