Saturday, December 29, 2007

Final Mystery - Random Trivia Questions

The last random weekly quiz of 2007 is also your final trivia mystery of the year. As usual with this type of puzzle, deducing the common theme could help you answer other questions. Good luck.

Final Mystery Questions

  • Q1) What cartoonist won the 1967 National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip (Humor) Award for B.C. and the 1968 Reuben Award Cartoonist of the Year for both B.C. and The Wizard of Id?
  • Q2) What Purple Heart-winning author's daughter Edith was once married to Geraldo Rivera?
  • Q3) Who was Russia's first elected president?
  • Q4) What Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 became President of Austria in 1986?
  • Q5) What U.S. First Lady's first name was actually Claudia?
  • Q6) What baseball announcer gave the play-by-play in Meat Loaf's song "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights"?
  • Q7) What security guard was long considered the only suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics?
  • Q8) Who is the only track-and-field athlete besides Carl Lewis to win the same event at four consecutive Olympics?
  • Q9) What stand-up comedian and talk show host was born as Joseph Abraham Gottlieb?
  • Q10) What singer jokingly told reporters that he was born as Stanley Applebaum?
  • Q11) What author won a Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction for Armies of the Night in 1969 and in fiction for The Executioner's Song in 1980?
  • Q12) What singer hit the pop charts with the New Year's Eve favorite "Same Old Lang Syne" in 1980?

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