Mystery Madness - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Mary Todd Lincoln. A decade after losing her husband and four years after losing her son Thomas, Abraham's widow spent three months in a mental institution before being released to her sister.
• A2) Archie Moore. The Ole Mongoose knocked out somewhere around 141 of his opponents.
• A3) George Shultz. The Princeton University and MIT graduate performed the first two roles in Nixon's Cabinet and the third in Reagan's.
• A4) Larry Doby. The first black American League player took Johnny Sain deep in the third inning of game four of the 1948 World Series, and the Cleveland Indians would go on to defeat the Boston Braves in six games.
• A5) Dick Van Dyke. Having captured a Tony Award, Van Dyke repeated the role in a television movie three years later.
• A6) Christopher Plummer. The Canadian Shakespeare actor has won two Emmy Awards, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers in 1977 and for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for Madeline in 1994.
• A7) John Davidson. The Pittsburgh native hosted two incarnations of The John Davidson Show, from 1969 to 1970 and from 1980 to 1982.
• A8) Ferguson Jenkins. In 1971 during the fifth of six straight 20-win seasons with the Chicago Cubs, the Ontarian posted 24 wins, 263 strikeouts, and a 2.77 ERA.
• A9) Ted Nugent. The Detroit native has released 31 albums as a solo act and with the Amboy Dukes, Damn Yankees, and Damnocracy.
• A10) Jamie Foxx. As an aspiring comedian, the Texan tried to increase his chance of getting on-stage during open mike night by submitting the female-sounding names Stacy King, Tracy Brown, and Jamie Foxx. When the club called the last of these up to the stage, his new name was cemented.
• A11) Sergei Fedorov. The center earned the Hart Memorial Award in 1994 after tallying 56 goals and 64 assists with the Detroit Red Wings.
• A12) Taylor Swift. "Tim McGraw" reached #6 on the country charts while Swift's self-titled debut album hit #1.

All of these answers were born on December 13, the day this quiz was originally posted. To make it a little easier, they were listed in chronological order, with the birth years being 1818 (Lincoln), 1913 (Moore), 1920 (Shultz), 1923 (Doby), 1925 (Van Dyke), 1929 (Plummer), 1941 (Davidson), 1943 (Jenkins), 1948 (Nugent), 1967 (Foxx), 1969 (Fedorov), and 1989 (Swift).