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Mascot

1 For example, the athletic teams of the ________ are nicknamed the Volunteers, while their mascot is a dog named Smokey.

2 The word mascot has been traced back to a dialectic use in Provence and ________, where it was used to describe anything which brought luck to a household[3].

3 The word was first popularized in 1880, when French composer Edmond Audran wrote a popular comic ________ titled La Mascotte.

4 Mascots are also used as fictional spokespeople for consumer products, such as the rabbit used in advertising and marketing for the ________ brand of breakfast cereal, Trix.

5 Team mascots may take the form of a ________, person, live animal, inanimate object, or a costumed character, and often appear at team matches and other related events.

6 The ________, for example, have such an individual in fan Freddy Sez.

7 For example, the ________ uses the bald eagle as a formal emblem; the bulldog is also popularly associated with the U.S.

8 Former Toronto Blue Jays mascot ________ was a costumed character created by a Blue Jays fan, ultimately hired by the team to perform at their home games.

9 Since the mid-20th century, costumed characters have provided teams with an opportunity to choose a fantasy creature as their mascot, as is the case with the ________' mascot, the Phillie Phanatic.

10 Other British military mascots include a pair of drum horses, an ________, and a ferret.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Baylor University began its organized football team in 1899, but adopted a mascot only after the completion of the 1914 season?
  • former Disney animator Jack Dunham created the official rooster mascot for St-Hubert, a Canadian BBQ restaurant chain?
  • despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
  • the Curse of the Colonel refers to a reputed curse placed on the Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot, Col. Harland Sanders?
  • the Griffin, the new athletics mascot for the College of William and Mary, beat out a king and queen, a phoenix, a pug, and a wren for the position?
  • the Masked Rider mascot (statue pictured), one of the Texas Tech University traditions, was the first mascot in major college sports featuring a live horse?
  • the National Courtesy Campaign was the first government campaign in Singapore to adopt a mascot?
  • Youppi of the Montreal Expos was the first mascot to be thrown out of a major league baseball game?
  • The Masked Rider mascot of Texas Tech University wears a black and red outfit and rides his black horse around to enthuse fans of the Texas Tech Red Raiders?
  • Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy who first appeared at a Navy football game in 1893?
  • Andy the Clown performed at Chicago White Sox games for 30 years, outlasting an attempt to replace him with two new mascots?
  • Harold Bell co-created Woodsy Owl (pictured), mascot of the United States Forest Service, on the set of the television series Lassie?
  • Inuka, a polar bear who is the mascot of the Singapore Zoo, is the first and only polar bear born in the tropics?
  • Ralphie (pictured), the live mascot of the Colorado Buffaloes, is actually a female American bison?
  • Mark Knight, a political cartoonist for the Herald Sun, created Leuk the Duck, a mascot for charity named after leukemia?
  • Washburn University's mascot, "the Ichabod", is named after Ichabod Washburn, an owner of the world's largest wire mill?
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