QUESTION OF THE DAY ARCHIVE -- April 2001

Copyright 2001 Ray Hamel

April 2, 2001
What singer made her directorial debut directing her own music video for "I Found Someone"?
A: CHER


April 3, 2001
What Pulitzer Prize-winning play, satirizing big business and big government, ran for 837 performances on Broadway in the 1930s?
A: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU


April 4, 2001
Who married Philip Covington III and Wally Logan in a double wedding ceremony on TV?
A: JAN AND MARCIA BRADY, respectively.


April 5, 2001
What actress, best known for playing a TV grandmother, played Lurch's mother on the original "The Addams Family"?
A: ELLEN CORBY, who played Grandma Esther Walton on "The Waltons"


April 6, 2001
What actress appeared in the slasher-film satire "Pandemonium" billed only as "A Friend"?
A: EILEEN BRENNAN


April 9, 2001
The title of the Teddy Bears' 1958 hit "To Know Him, Is To Love Him" came from the epitaph on the headstone of the father of what songwriter?
A: PHIL SPECTOR


April 10, 2001
What former "Saturday Night Live" cast member worked with Jon "Bowzer" Bauman on the syndicated game show "The Pop 'n' Rocker Game"?
A: PHIL HARTMAN


April 11, 2001
Who was the first left-handed golfer to win the U.S. Amateur golf tournament?
A: PHIL MICKELSON


April 12, 2001
On TV, who looked after children named Victor, Mike, Jilly, Diane and Loomis?
A: PHIL AND BERNICE FISH on "Fish"


April 13, 2001
The title character of what comic strip was shanghaied for a seven-week journey on the steamer Black Castle?
A: PHIL HARDY. Now that everyone's had their fill of "Phil," we'll move on.


April 17, 2001
"May God keep you in his tender care, until he brings us together again" was part of the ending theme song for what TV variety show?
A: THE DONNY AND MARIE SHOW


April 18, 2001
What song was a hit for Dobie Gray, Bryan Ferry and Ramsey Lewis?
A: THE IN CROWD


April 23, 2001
What group was originally known as the Sentimental Four until they signed a fifth group member?
A: THE FIVE KEYS


April 24, 2001
In what Disney film did Helen Reddy sing "Candle on the Water"?
A: PETE'S DRAGON


April 25, 2001
The Eddie Gottlieb Trophy is awarded for what sports accomplishment?
A: NBA ROOKIE OF THE YEAR


April 26, 2001
The title of what Elizabeth Taylor movie was based on an old telephone number?
A: BUTTERFIELD 8


April 30, 2001
Although Liv Tyler's father is Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, what other rock star is listed as her father on her birth certificate?
A: TODD RUNDGREN



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