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Abbreviation of a state depicted in a 1940’s film, one of whose characters is a prize winning animal with the same name as the title of a famous portrait of the young son of a local merchant of Bath (c. 1770).
Answer: IA
The movie was “State Fair”; the pig was named Blue Boy, after Gainsborough’s famous painting and the state is Iowa.
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The movie was “State Fair”; the pig was named Blue Boy, after Gainsborough’s famous painting and the state is Iowa.
Posted by: DonV | Jan 2, 2005 8:38:41 PM
In figuring this out, I found the correct painting, but the wrong movie. "Blue Boy" is also the name of a horse in "Wrong Again", a 1929 Laurel and Hardy movie. In that movie, Laurel and Hardy mix-up the horse and the painting--they think that when someone complains about the missing "Blue Boy", that the person is referring to the horse, when the person is actually referring to the painting (so they bring the person the horse, instead of finding the painting). The date confused me (1929 is not 1940s), but since I didn't have time to work on all of the other clues, I didn't spend time to look for other Blue Boy references, either. If I had had the time to do the whole contest, I was thinking about asking if the 1940s date was a typo.
Posted by: Monica/MLR | Jan 4, 2005 10:33:23 AM
I remember that Laurel & Hardy film, but I don't think there was a reference to a particular state in it, so you would probably have to continue on anyhow.
Posted by: DonV | Jan 4, 2005 11:52:54 AM
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