May 2, 2000
What cartoon character's favorite expression was "Hokey
smoke!"?
A: ROCKET J. SQUIRREL
May 3, 2000
What hit song for the Moonglows lists DJ Alan Freed as
co-writer?
A: SINCERELY
May 4, 2000
What major league baseball team hit an embarrassing low team total
of 49 home runs in 1979?
A: HOUSTON ASTROS
May 5, 2000
What rock group appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" performing
"Little Red Rooster," "Everybody Needs Somebody," and "2120
South Michigan Avenue"?
A: THE ROLLING STONES
May 8, 2000
Prior to his role as the pompous caretaker Jonathan Higgins on
"Magnum, P.I.," John Hillerman played a pompous radio
criminologist named Simon Brimmer on what TV mystery series?
A: ELLERY QUEEN
May 9, 2000
At what sport did Andrew Clark excel in the movie "The Breakfast
Club"?
A: WRESTLING
May 10, 2000
The 1965 song "Dawn of Correction" by the Spokesmen was an
answer song to what #1 hit?
A: EVE OF DESTRUCTION by Barry McGuire
May 11, 2000
What actor performed the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the annual
CBS radio network production of "A Christmas Carol" every
Christmas Day starting in 1934 and for about 20 years thereafter?
A: LIONEL BARRYMORE
May 12, 2000
Who played Lois Lane's father on "Lois and Clark: The
Adventures of Superman" and Miss Parker's father on
"The Pretender"?
A: HARVE PRESNELL
May 15, 2000
In what movie did John Wayne tell Maureen O'Hara:
"There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate,
except those in your own mercenary little heart!"?
A: THE QUIET MAN
May 16, 2000
What singer's ballads include "Take Time to Know Her,"
"Out of Left Field," and "It Tears Me Up"?
A: PERCY SLEDGE
May 17, 2000
What comic strip introduced the beverage Kickapoo Joy Juice?
A: LI'L ABNER
May 18, 2000
What TV show's theme song was performed a capella by the
Roger Wagner Chorale?
A: I MARRIED JOAN
May 19, 2000
The liner notes accompanying Sugar Ray's "14:59" CD
spoof what specific type of printed material?
A: AIRPLANE SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
May 22, 2000
Williamsport, Pennsylvania is the host of what annual
sporting event?
A: LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES
May 23, 2000
What recent Academy Award nominee has suffered from
scoliosis, a curvature of the spine, since childhood?
A: CHLOE SEVIGNY
May 24, 2000
Who had the role of leading man in 5 films featuring
swimming star Esther Williams?
A: VAN JOHNSON. She also made 4 movies with Red
Skelton.
May 25, 2000
What actress was nicknamed "The Alabama Foghorn"?
A: TALLULAH BANKHEAD
May 26, 2000
In the works of what science fiction writer does Earth undergo
the Squeem Occupation and the Qax Occupation?
A: STEPHEN BAXTER
May 30, 2000
While stranded at a gas station in "The Blues Brothers," Elwood
Blues assists a young lady and offers to meet her later at a
motel. Who played this passing motorist?
A: TWIGGY
May 31, 2000
There was a big stink raised when Deborah Norville replaced
Jane Pauley on "The Today Show" in 1989. Who had Pauley
replaced 13 years earlier?
A: BARBARA WALTERS
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