August 3, 1999
What TV comedy show featured a dance troupe called the Fly Girls?
A: IN LIVING COLOR
August 4, 1999
What comic strip character was a fan of another comic strip
character, detective "Fearless Fosdick"?
A: LI'L ABNER
August 5, 1999
The pop singer Melanie had a top ten hit in the UK (and a
minor US hit) with a remake of what Rolling Stones song?
A: RUBY TUESDAY
August 6, 1999
On the TV series "James at 15," James lost his virginity to a
foreign exchange student visiting his high school from what
country?
A: SWEDEN
August 9, 1999
What comedic actor made dramatic guest appearances as a
surgeon on "Ben Casey" and as a businessman with mob ties
on "Wiseguy"?
A: JERRY LEWIS
August 10, 1999
What singer sang a duet with Kermit the Frog on "Kermit
Unpigged" and a duet with Frank Sinatra on "Duets II," both
in 1994?
A: LINDA RONSTADT. Jimmy Buffett also appeared on both
albums, but he did not sing with Kermit.
August 11, 1999
What actor appeared in drag as a 250-pound asthmatic lesbian
in the 1981 production of the Andy Warhol play "Pork"?
A: HARVEY FIERSTEIN in his acting debut.
August 12, 1999
What acerbic Hollywood gossip columnist used "bells" to
rate motion pictures on his radio show?
A: JIMMIE FIDLER
August 13, 1999
What unusual item was used to take Wilfrid Hyde-White's
temperature at the end of the 1959 movie "Carry On, Nurse"?
A: DAFFODIL
August 16, 1999
What actress wore a $500,000 diamond necklace to the 1994
Academy Awards, loaned to her by jeweler Harry Winston,
and then refused to return it?
A: SHARON STONE
August 17, 1999
What actress made her big screen debut as the fantasy
woman seen kissing on a passing train in Woody Allen's
"Stardust Memories"?
A: SHARON STONE
August 18, 1999
In October 1995, what actress was awarded France's highest
award for artistic merit, the Order of the Chevalier of Arts and
Letters, for "serving world culture" and was extolled for "your
presence, your physique, troubling and captivating, have
given you a special place in our cinema fantasyland"?
A: SHARON STONE
August 19, 1999
What doll issued by Mattel in the 1960s could say 11 things
including "Will you play with me?", "Let's play house,"
"Please change my dress," and "Tell me a story"?
A: CHATTY CATHY
August 20, 1999
The character played by Halle Berry in the 1994 movie version
of "The Flintstones" shares her name with what popular
actress?
A: SHARON STONE
August 23, 1999
What former high school classmate did Ron Howard direct in the
movie "Ransom"?
A: RENE RUSSO
August 26, 1999
What TV sitcom centered around the "Lewis and Clarke"
radio show?
A: GOOD MORNING, WORLD
August 27, 1999
What did comic strip character "Happy Hooligan" wear on his
head in place of a hat?
A: TIN CAN
August 30, 1999
Deidre Hall continued her daytime role on "Days of Our Lives"
while she played a widowed mother on what primetime series?
A: OUR HOUSE
August 31, 1999
What actor, who often served as the emcee for the Academy
Awards ceremony, won special Oscars in 1940, 1944, 1952 and 1965?
A: BOB HOPE
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