Saturday, July 14, 2007

Mystery Pairs - Random Trivia Questions

Another mystery for you to work out! Answer the following dozen trivia questions and, for big bonus points, try to figure out what common theme links each pair of answers (1 with 2, 3 with 4, and so forth).

Mystery Pairs Questions

  • Q1) What American boxer is known as the Duke?
  • Q2) What supermodel appeared in Duran Duran's 1986 video for "Notorious"?
  • Q3) What rap singer, born as Maxwell Dixon, uses a stage name that is a homonym of a character in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado?
  • Q4) What point guard holds the NBA playoff record of playing 62 minutes in an overtime contest and is the only person besides Magic Johnson to average 20 points and 10 assists while making over half of his field goals in a season?
  • Q5) What doctor's patients included composer Gustav Mahler, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Little Hans, Rat Man, and Wolf Man?
  • Q6) What American explorer was the first to reach the geographic North Pole, at least as certified by the National Geographic Society?
  • Q7) What jazz musician was known as the King of the Jukeboxes?
  • Q8) What former Governor of New York became the 41st Vice President of the United States, earning the position ahead of George Bush?
  • Q9) What broadcaster hosted Eyewitness to History on CBS in the early 1960s?
  • Q10) Who was the youngest Major League Baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season?
  • Q11) What author's 1981 book The Soul of a New Machine won both a Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award?
  • Q12) What singer, songwriter, and guitarist has produced and directed several movies under the pseudonym Bernard Shakey?

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