Saturday, February 7, 2009

Friday the 13th - Random Trivia Questions

In less than a week, we will have the first of two consecutive Friday the 13ths (which of course, can only happen with February and March in non-leap years) and the first of the maximum three this year (November always has a Friday the 13th in these cases). Almost one in every two hundred people are born on Friday the 13th, but do you know these lucky thirteen?

Friday the 13th Questions

  • Q1) What leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang was born as Robert LeRoy Parker?
  • Q2) Which U.S. First Lady lived the longest?
  • Q3) What Irish author earned the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"?
  • Q4) What actor, the son of William and Consuelo Yarmy, won back to back to back Comedy Emmy Awards from 1967 to 1969?
  • Q5) What dictator's writing credits include Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization and World Politics Today in 2000 and Che: A Memoir in 2005?
  • Q6) What actor played the title character, Colonel Hogan, in Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971?
  • Q7) Which of the Monkees actually played a musical instrument on their self-titled debut album?
  • Q8) What former pop star's "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" hit #1 on the country charts in 2008, making him the first African American solo act to do so in a quarter century?
  • Q9) What Major League Baseball pitcher saved the most games in his career?
  • Q10) Who was the only NFL quarterback to throw a touchdown pass to himself?
  • Q11) What basketball player was selected 17th in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers straight out of high school and was named the Most Improved Player in 2002?
  • Q12) What twin sisters founded The Row, a high-end fashion line?

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