Hello Everybody. Lots of ground to cover today, starting with the fact that because of our Memorial Edition of Trivia Time last weekend, (February 15), we didn't get to run our annual PRESIDENTS DAY FAMOUS FIRSTS QUIZ.
Regards of your political views or beliefs, do you know....
As usual, we'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results of that aforementioned MEMORIAL TRIVIA TIME QUIZ.
TRIVIA TIME: RUSSELL JOHNSON
Although he performed other roles before and after, Johnson will probably be best remembered as The Professor on Gilligan's Island, but what was the character's actual name? Roy Hinkley.
TRIVIA TIME: DAVE MADDEN
While perhaps best known as Ruben Kincaid on The Partridge Family, what was Madden's first job in show business? Stand up comic.
TRIVIA TIME: PETE SEEGER
While there are many accomplishments within his legendary career both on and off the musical stage, what musical instrument is Seeger accredited with introducing to American audiences?
The Steel Pan Drum.
TRIVIA TIME: MAXIMILIAN SCHELL
What movie role within his long acting career won Schell an Oscar?
Hans Wolfe in Judgement In Nuremberg, 1961.
TRIVIA TIME: SHIRLEY TEMPLE-BLACK
While the world will remember her fabled acting career as a child star during The Great Depression, she later distinguished herself as an American ambassador to what countries? Ghana (1975-1976) and Czechoslovakia (1989-1992).
TRIVIA TIME: SID CAESAR
There is no way to sum up this man's illustrious comedic career in just a few words, but what was his FIRST television show? The Admiral Broadway Revue (1949). True story: the show was cancelled after 26 weeks NOT because of poor ratings, but because Admiral couldn't keep up with the consumer demand for television sets!
TRIVIA TIME: RALPH WAITE
In what is perhaps his most remembered role, what was the full name of his character on The Waltons? Many e-mailed saying John Walton, but because Richard Thomas played "John Boy", aka: John Walton, Junior; that made Waite's character John Walton SENIOR!
Regards of your political views or beliefs, do you know....
Who
was the first President of the United States…?
01. To have previously served as
Vice President?
02. To serve without a Vice
President?
03. To hold the office as an
Independent? (And yes, it has been done.)
04. To hold the office as a
Democrat?
05. To hold the office as a
Republican?
06. To be born in the United
States after it became an independent country?
07. To not be born within
the continental United States?
08. To be born in a hospital?
09. To physically live in the
White House?
10. To work in the Oval Office?
(The West Wing, where it resides, was a later addition.)
11. To remarry while in office?
12. To ever have his photograph
taken?
13. To ever use a telephone?
14. To ever speak on radio?
15. To ever appear on television?
16. To ever make a coast to coast
TV broadcast?
17. To delay delivery of the
annual State of the Union address?
NOTE: EACH ANSWER IS JUST ONE PRESIDENT.
NOTE: EACH ANSWER IS JUST ONE PRESIDENT.
As usual, we'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results of that aforementioned MEMORIAL TRIVIA TIME QUIZ.
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| Johnson in "Black Saddle", 1960 |
TRIVIA TIME: RUSSELL JOHNSON
Although he performed other roles before and after, Johnson will probably be best remembered as The Professor on Gilligan's Island, but what was the character's actual name? Roy Hinkley.
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| Madden, circa 1970s |
TRIVIA TIME: DAVE MADDEN
While perhaps best known as Ruben Kincaid on The Partridge Family, what was Madden's first job in show business? Stand up comic.
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| Seeger, circa June 2007 |
While there are many accomplishments within his legendary career both on and off the musical stage, what musical instrument is Seeger accredited with introducing to American audiences?
The Steel Pan Drum.
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| The Steel Pan Drum |
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| Schell, circa 1970s |
What movie role within his long acting career won Schell an Oscar?
Hans Wolfe in Judgement In Nuremberg, 1961.
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| Temple the Ambassador |
While the world will remember her fabled acting career as a child star during The Great Depression, she later distinguished herself as an American ambassador to what countries? Ghana (1975-1976) and Czechoslovakia (1989-1992).
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| Caesar, circa 1961 |
TRIVIA TIME: SID CAESAR
There is no way to sum up this man's illustrious comedic career in just a few words, but what was his FIRST television show? The Admiral Broadway Revue (1949). True story: the show was cancelled after 26 weeks NOT because of poor ratings, but because Admiral couldn't keep up with the consumer demand for television sets!
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| Waite, circa 2012 |
In what is perhaps his most remembered role, what was the full name of his character on The Waltons? Many e-mailed saying John Walton, but because Richard Thomas played "John Boy", aka: John Walton, Junior; that made Waite's character John Walton SENIOR!
