More Trivia
For a whopping 20 blog points, what is the last name of the plumber Mario, famed from all those video games (I just learned this today, at Burger King no less)?
On a related note, I used to think Mario's first girlfriend (before he hooked up with that weird mushroom chick in the sewer world) was named Chivalry. In the instruction book to the original Donkey Kong for our old Coleco Vision system, it talked about the fact that Mario's girlfriend had been captured by Donkey Kong, but that Chivalry wasn't dead, so you needed to go save her. Having never heard that word before (hey, it was the 80s), I assumed that must be her name.
BTW, a magazine article I was reading recently revealed the origin of the name Donkey Kong (I had always heard the story that it was supposed to be Monkey Kong, but a typo had occurred). It turns out that the game's Japanese creator thought that the name Donkey Kong would convey to Americans "Stubborn Monkey."

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