# Pick the odd one **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023 "2005-09-23T08:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/41 "2005-09-25T15:57:05Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Hey, you may have something there. But also, Apple Jacks is the only one not made by Post (it’s Kellogg’s). Well, it’s a tradition in this thread for there to be multiple valid answers! We’ve got 3 for this one! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/42 "2005-09-25T22:27:30Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas; Iquique, Chile; Iceland; Yellowstone National Park Hot Springs, AR is not volcanic. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/43 "2005-09-26T02:07:16Z")
1. Jimmie Finlayson, Mae Busch, Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton Ben Turpin, but I can’t remember why. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/44 "2005-09-26T02:41:14Z")
Ben Tupin was the only one with crossed eyes. Or it’s Buster Keaton, who’s the only one who didn’t work for Mack Sennett (and may be the only one one who was never hit in the face with a pie). Or Mae Busch, the only female. Or Finlayson, who was not a natural born US citizen. > [@](#): > > 1. Lal Shastri, Felix Bandaranaike, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi Bandarnaike was not Prime Minister of India; he’s the only Sri Lankan. Gandhi was the only woman. > [@](#): > > 1. Naked Came the Stranger; Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask; The Kinsey Report; The Kama Sutra Naked Came the Stranger was fiction. It was also published pseudonymously, and is the only one with more than 20 recorded authors. The Kama Sutra was published anonymously and was not originally published in English, and I don’t believe it was ever a NY Times Best Seller, like the others. The Kinsey Report is the only one whose original name is not listed (It was two books – _Sexual Behavior in the Human Male_ and _Sexual Behavior in the Human Female_). Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex . . . was the only one made into a comedy film. > [@](#): > > 1. T-formation; first down; woomik; forward lateral “Woomik” is not an American Football term. A forward lateral is the only illegal play. T-formation is the only one that describes the way the player can line up. Really, you can pick just about any one of the items as being different. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/45 "2005-09-26T07:17:14Z")
Buster Keaton never worked (so far as I know) with Laurel & Hardy. (Jimmie Finalyson not a natural-born American citizen? Was he Canadian??) _Naked Came the Stranger_ was the only book not a discussion of sexuality. And I did mean for Bandaranaike to be the odd one out, for the reason you stated. As for Woomik–What, Me Worry? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/46 "2005-09-26T13:10:52Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > (Jimmie Finalyson not a natural-born American citizen? Was he Canadian??) Scottish. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/47 "2005-09-26T20:55:13Z")
1. Belle Poitrine, Bubber, Magdalena Montezuma, Letch Feeley Bubber _(First Lady)_ was not a character in Patrick Dennis’ _Little Me._ 2. _Collier’s, Liberty, Scientific American, Quinto Lingo Scientific American_ is not a defunct magazine. 3. Perfective aspect, stem-changing verbs, preterit, personal _a_ 4. Perfective aspect is a term used in Russian grammar. The others are from Spanish grammar. 5. _Good Times, One Day at a Time, Welcome Back Kotter, The Jeffersons Welcome Back Kotter_ is the only non-Norman Lear sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/48 "2005-09-27T20:58:49Z")
1. Alpha-Bits; Apple Jacks; Honeycomb; Grape Nuts Apple Jacks, as one poster noticed, is the only Kellogg’s cereal. 🙂 2. T-formation; first down; woomik; forward lateral Doesn’t anyone remember 43-Man Squamish? 😃 3. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas; Iquique, Chile; Iceland; Yellowstone National Park Iquique is the only one of the four places without water. 4. Oliver Ellsworth; Michael Musmanno; Morrison Waite; William Howard Taft Justice Musmanno was never a Chief Justice of the United States–unfortunately. Here’s another set of ten: 5. _Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, It’s a Wonderful Life_ 6. Osceola, Tallahassee, Key West, Phenix City 7. Bobo Newsom, Bob Feller, Eddie Cicotte, Bill Dinneen 8. Fort Ord, Vandenberg AFB, Otis AFB, Camp Pendleton 9. Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Don Martin, Don Orehek 10. Latissimus dorsi, gastrocnemius, vagus, sternocleidomastoid 11. Amminadab, Zebulun, Issachar, Simeon 12. _Oklahoma!, Carousel, My Fair Lady, South Pacific_ 13. Cacciatore, Arroz con Pollo, Hassenpfeffer, Campbell’s Noodle Soup 14. Mike Mansfield, Jacob Javits, Hillary Clinton, Bobby Kennedy ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/49 "2005-09-27T21:04:41Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. _Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, It’s a Wonderful Life_ Psycho didn’t star Jimmy Stewart > [@](#): > > 1. Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Don Martin, Don Orehek I be;lieve Don Orehek drew in Cracked Magazine, not Mad, unlike the others. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/50 "2005-09-27T21:17:24Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Psycho didn’t star Jimmy Stewart. And \*It’s a Wonderful Life \* was the only non-Hitchcock film ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/51 "2005-09-27T21:21:23Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > : > 41. _Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, It’s a Wonderful Life_ > 42. Osceola, Tallahassee, Key West, Phenix City > 43. Bobo Newsom, Bob Feller, Eddie Cicotte, Bill Dinneen > 44. Fort Ord, Vandenberg AFB, Otis AFB, Camp Pendleton > > 1. _Oklahoma!, Carousel, My Fair Lady, South Pacific_ > 2. Cacciatore, Arroz con Pollo, Hassenpfeffer, Campbell’s Noodle Soup > 3. Mike Mansfield, Jacob Javits, Hillary Clinton, Bobby Kennedy 1. _It’s a Wonderful Life_ was directed by Frank Capra, the others by Alfred Hitchcock. 2. Phenix City is in Alabama, while the others are in Florida. 3. I believe Bill Dinneen was an umpire. I know the others were pitchers. 4. Otis AFB is not in California. 5. _My Fair Lady_ was written by Lerner and Loewe, not Rodgers and Hammerstein. 6. Hassenpfeffer is rabbit, while the other dishes contain chicken. 7. All were/are U.S. Senators, but Mansfield was from Montana, while the others represented New York. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/52 "2005-09-28T02:48:24Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > 1. All were/are U.S. Senators, but Mansfield was from Montana, while the others represented New York. Also possible: Javits was a Republican, the others on the list are Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/53 "2005-09-28T07:27:51Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > 1. I believe Bill Dinneen was an umpire. I know the others were pitchers. Dinneen was a pitcher too, before his umpiring days. Try again. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/54 "2005-10-01T03:25:16Z")
1. Latissimus dorsi, gastrocnemius, vagus, sternocleidomastoid Vagus is a nerve, the rest are muscles ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/55 "2005-10-01T05:20:34Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > 1. Indianapolis, Baltimore, San Diego, St. Louis > San Diego is not the capitol of it’s state The capitol of Missouri is Jefferson City. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/56 "2005-10-01T05:22:49Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > St. Louis - not located near a large body of water Well, there is that little river we call the Mighty Mississippi. The Big River. The Big Muddy. You’ve probably heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/57 "2005-10-01T07:26:18Z")
1. Unlike Bill Dinneen (1903), Eddie Cicotte (1919), or Bobo Newsom (1940), Feller never won a World Series game. ☹ 2. Amminadab was not one of Jacob’s sons. Here are the next ten: 3. William King, Spiro Agnew, Hannibal Hamlin, John C. Calhoun 4. KISS, the Royal Canadians, AC/DC, Darryl Hall & John Oates 5. Janice, Topo Gigio, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Dr. Strangepork 6. 1804 silver dollar, 1922 quarter, 1894 dime, 1913 nickel 7. Camille, Katrina, Andrew, Susquehanna 8. Rocky Road, divinity fudge, dulce de leche, tin roof sundae 9. _Roe v . Wade, Stogner v. California, State of New York v. Kringle, Mapp v. Ohio_ 10. Dan Rowan, Woody Guthrie, Ted Knight, Audie Murphy 11. Fold-In, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, The Hate Book, Quivering Quotations 12. Wassail bowl, yule log, the dropping ball, reindeer ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/58 "2005-10-01T16:18:28Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Janice, Topo Gigio, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Dr. Strangepork > 2. Rocky Road, divinity fudge, dulce de leche, tin roof sundae > 3. _Roe v . Wade, Stogner v. California, State of New York v. Kringle, Mapp v. Ohio_ > 4. Wassail bowl, yule log, the dropping ball, reindeer 1. Janice is from Rocky Horror. The others are from the Muppet Show. 2. Some of these cases are fictional. One is not. However, I can’t tell which one, and I will not google it, so nevermind. 3. The dropping ball is from New Years, all others are from Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/59 "2005-10-01T17:30:57Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. William King, Spiro Agnew, Hannibal Hamlin, John C. Calhoun I’m not sure who William King was, but the other three were all U.S. Vice-presidents, and I think they were all “replaced” by other VPs under the same president (Hamlin by Andrew Johnson, Agnew by Gerald Ford). > [@](#): > > 1. Janice, Topo Gigio, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Dr. Strangepork Online sources are unclear about whether the Electric Mayhem guitarist’s name is spelled “Janice” or “Janis.” If this is who you are referring to then I’ll pick Topo Gigio as the only non-Muppet. > [@](#): > > 1. Fold-In, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, The Hate Book, Quivering Quotations The first two, at least, are Mad Magazine features written & drawn by Al Jaffee. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023/60 "2005-10-01T17:46:03Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Camille, Katrina, Andrew, Susquehanna Susquehanna was the name of a hat company, not a hurricane. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-odd-one/323023.md?page=4)