Final Mystery - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Johnny Hart (February 18, 1931 - April 7, 2007). The New Yorker would go on to win three more National Cartoonists Society awards and Sweden's Adamson Award.
• A2) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007). The satirical sci-fi writer called his World War II wound "ludicrously negligible", but drew deeply upon his battle and prisoner-of-war experiences for his fiction.
• A3) Boris Yeltsin (February 1, 1931 - April 23, 2007). Following a successful coup of Mikhail Gorbachev that Yeltsin did not support, the former Communist Party member took office on December 12, 1991 and served until December 31, 1999.
• A4) Kurt Waldheim (December 21, 1918 - June 14, 2007). Throughout his six-year term, neither he nor his wife Elisabeth were welcomed by the U.S. because of his possible role in anti-Jewish war crimes during World War II.
• A5) Lady Bird Johnson (December 22, 1912 - July 11, 2007). Born as Claudia Alta Taylor, Lyndon Johnson's wife's lifelong nickname was bestowed upon her early on by a nurse who considered her "purty as a ladybird", which is called a ladybug here.
• A6) Phil Rizzuto (September 25, 1917 - August 13, 2007). The Scooter won the 1950 American League Most Valuable Player award and still holds several World Series records including career games played.
• A7) Richard Jewell (December 17, 1962 - August 29, 2007). Although he was originally deemed a hero in Atlanta for helping evacuate the site, the FBI treated him as a suspect. It wasn't until 2005, when Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to the attack, that Jewell's name was finally cleared.
• A8) Al Oerter (September 19, 1936 - October 1, 2007). The New Yorker took home discus gold from Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo, and Mexico City from 1956 to 1968. Lewis won the long jump from 1984 to 1996.
• A9) Joey Bishop (February 3, 1918 - October 17, 2007). The Rat Packer had his self-titled The Joey Bishop Show as a both a NBC and CBS sitcom from 1961 to 1965 and an ABC talk show from 1967 to 1969.
• A10) Robert Goulet (November 26, 1933 - October 30, 2007). The baritone, born to Jeanette and Joseph Goulet in Lawrence, Massachusetts, captured the 1968 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for The Happy Time.
• A11) Norman Mailer (January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007). Armies of the Night also won the National Book Award. The multi-genre author also captured the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2005.
• A12) Dan Fogelberg (August 13, 1951 - December 16, 2007). The song peaked at #9, seven spots below his first and best Top Ten hit, "Longer", the previous year.

Let us take a non-trivial moment of silence to honor all twelve people above, each of whom said their last goodbye in 2007. Some other notable passings include Anna Nicole Smith, Art Buchwald, Benazir Bhutto, Bill France, Jr., Brad Delp, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Chip Reese, Clete Boyer, Darryl Stingley, Dennis Johnson, Don Ho, Eddie Feigner, Evel Knievel, Gump Worsley, Ike Turner, Jane Wyman, Joe Nuxhall, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Lee Hazlewood, Lew Burdette, Liz Claiborne, Luciano Pavarotti, Marcel Marceau, Richard Jeni, Rod Beck, Skip Prosser, and Wally Schirra.