Sunday, June 15, 2008

Father's Day - Random Trivia Answers

  • A1) Jon Voight. Dad won the 1978 Best Actor Oscar for Coming Home while his daughter Angelina Jolie captured the 1999 Best Supporting Actress award for Girl, Interrupted.
  • A2) Willie Norwood. The single-named singer's father is not only her voice coach but a Dove Award winner on his own.
  • A3) Michael Gainsborough. The father and son actors both used the last name Hawkins at one time.
  • A4) Martin Sheen. Charlie Sheen is Emilio's brother, but his last name would have given the answer away.
  • A5) Donovan. Actress Ione Skye was born to singer Donovan Phillips Leitch and model Enid Karl [Stulberger] on September 4, 1970.
  • A6) Monty Hall. The game show host has been immortalized by the "Monty Hall Problem" from Let's Make a Deal, while Joanna Gleason has appeared in Hannah and Her Sisters and The Wedding Planner.
  • A7) Tommy Leonetti. The singer was a one-hit wonder with "Free" in 1956, while his daughter Kimberly Beck was the original Nancy Bradford in the Eight Is Enough pilot and has appeared in over sixty movies.
  • A8) Jupiter. Vulcan and Hebe were Mars's siblings by Juno, while Apollo, Diana, Proserpina, Pluto, and Minerva were half-siblings.
  • A9) Keith Carradine. Martha Plimpton, whose mother Shelley Plimpton never married Carradine, earned an Emmy nomination for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2002.
  • A10) Edgar Rosenberg. The British television producer helped Joan Rivers get her big break on the FOX network.
  • A11) Ravid Shankar. The five-time Grammy award winner uses the last name of her mother, Sue Jones, rather than her sitar player father's.
  • A12) Cronos. His wife saved Zeus from harm by giving Cronos a rock wrapped in a blanket, which he promptly ate.

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