March 4, 1999
Cool Cat, Chickie Baby and Dirty Dog made up the resident
jazz combo on what children's TV show?
A: PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE
March 5, 1999
What group, with a #1 hit in the U.S. in 1992, was named after
a 1962 song by Bernard Cribbins?
A: RIGHT SAID FRED. Their hit song was the novelty "I'm
Too Sexy."
March 8, 1999
What was the first name of the late wife of Dr. Richard Kimble
on the TV series "The Fugitive"?
A: HELEN
March 9, 1999
What comic book character was the subject of a concept
album by Jan and Dean, and had his TV theme song featured
on the records "Ready Steady Who!" by The Who and
"Honest Dollar" by NRBQ?
A: BATMAN
March 10, 1999
What Cleveland third baseman robbed Joe DiMaggio of 2 hits
to help end DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941?
A: KEN KELTNER
March 11, 1999
What actor was nominated for an Academy Award twice, for
two different films, for playing the role of Henry II?
A: PETER O'TOOLE, for "Becket" and "The Lion in Winter"
March 12, 1999
What two long-running popular adventure comic strips
debuted on the same day -- January 7, 1929?
A: TARZAN and BUCK ROGERS
March 15, 1999
What superhero group can be contacted through a toy
telephone at the Pokey Oaks Kindergarten?
A: THE POWERPUFF GIRLS
March 16, 1999
Prior to their stints on "M*A*S*H," Jamie Farr and William
Christopher appeared together as a couple of hippies in what
1968 film?
A: WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL
March 17, 1999
In what movie was a U.S. Senator assassinated at the Space
Needle in Seattle?
A: THE PARALLAX VIEW
March 18, 1999
What specific group of individuals were (or are) subject to
Tecumseh's Curse?
A: U.S. PRESIDENTS
Tecumseh was killed in a battle under the command of William
Henry Harrison. Harrison died in the office of U.S. President
about 30 days after taking the office. Since then, the President
elected every 20 years has either been killed or died while in
office, although Ronald Reagan may have broken the curse.
ELECTION YEARS:
1840 -- W.H. Harrison (died in office)
1860 -- Abraham Lincoln (assassinated)
1880 -- James Garfield (assassinated)
1900 -- William McKinley (assassinated)
1920 -- Warren G. Harding (died in office)
1940 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (died in office)
1960 -- John F. Kennedy (assassinated)
1980 -- Ronald Reagan (survived his assassination attempt)
March 19, 1999
Which former U.S. Vice-President was a direct descendant of
Mayflower pilgrims John Alden and Miles Standish?
A: DAN QUAYLE
March 22, 1999
Who was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Director?
A: LINA WERTMULLER in 1976 for "Seven Beauties"
March 23, 1999
In what movie did Cary Grant explain his appearance in a
woman's bathrobe by exclaiming "I just went GAY all of a
sudden"?
A: BRINGING UP BABY
March 24, 1999
When a 1959 plane crash claimed the life of Buddy Holly, he
was scheduled to play a concert in Fargo, North Dakota.
Radio station KFGO put out a call for bands to fill-in at the
concert. What local boy, and future pop star, brought his
band, The Shadows, out to play Buddy Holly songs?
A: BOBBY VEE
March 25, 1999
What rock band was the subject of the 1980
quasi-documentary "Rude Boy"?
A: THE CLASH
March 26, 1999
In what movie does Peter Falk recall his adventures in the
jungle with the lines: "They have tsetse flies down there the
size of eagles. The natives had a name for them: Jose Greco de
Muertos -- Flamenco Dancers of Death"?
A: THE IN-LAWS
March 29, 1999
The title character of what TV series was named after a former
crush of NBC programming head Brandon Tartifkoff, and
owned a dog named after Tartikoff himself?
A: PUNKY BREWSTER
March 30, 1999
"Too Late to Cry" was the debut album for what child prodigy
who won the Illinois State Fiddle Championship at age 12?
A: ALISON KRAUSS
March 31, 1999
What lengthy novel opens with the lengthy line: "On a
late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along
the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift
into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of
the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years
ago"?
A: HARLOT'S GHOST by Norman Mailer
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