Saturday, December 27, 2008

End of the Line - Random Trivia Questions

It's the end of another year, but Trivia Why's stops for nothing. Persistence is my virtue (and stubbornness is my vice if you're a half-empty type of person), so I give you one last random quiz in passing.

End of the Line Questions

  • Q1) What actor famously remarked, "You're gonna need a bigger boat", on the big screen?
  • Q2) What author captured the 1969 Edgar Award for Best Novel for A Case of Need using the pen name Jeffery Hudson?
  • Q3) Who founded the National Review magazine in 1955?
  • Q4) What actor was married to Jackie Witte from 1949 to 1958 before a second marriage that lasted half a century?
  • Q5) Who is the only person to play in the Super Bowl with the same team in three different decades?
  • Q6) What chess player invented a variation in which each player's first row of pieces is scrambled before the start of the game?
  • Q7) What comedian received four Grammy Awards, for FM & AM, Jammin' in New York, Brain Droppings, and Napalm & Silly Putty?
  • Q8) What Mexican-born animator gave his voice to Snoopy and Woodstock in the animated television specials?
  • Q9) What singer and guitarist was born in Mississippi as Ellas Otha Bates?
  • Q10) What comedian hosted The Cheap Show in 1978 and Mindreaders in 1979?
  • Q11) What Major League Baseball pitcher held the rookie record for strikeouts for almost three decades until Dwight Gooden topped him?
  • Q12) What actor portrayed Frank Catton in Ocean's Eleven through Thirteen and gave his voice to Zuba in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa?

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