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.

Father's Day - Random Trivia Questions

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there (including mine -- special wishes for a successful surgery and recovery)! This week's random quiz asks you to name the famous fathers of the following famous daughters and sons. Can you bridge the generation gaps?

Father's Day Questions

• Q1) Angelina Jolie (actress)
• Q2) Brandy (singer)
• Q3) Christian Slater (actor)
• Q4) Emilio Estevez (actor)
• Q5) Ione Skye (actress)
• Q6) Joanna Gleason (actress)
• Q7) Kimberly Beck (actress)
• Q8) Mars (Roman mythology)
• Q9) Martha Plimpton (actress)
• Q10) Melissa Rivers (actress)
• Q11) Norah Jones (singer)
• Q12) Zeus (Greek mythology)

U.S. Presidents - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Theodore Roosevelt. In 1906, he was honored for his role in the Russo-Japanese War peace treaty.
  
• A2) Warren Harding. His dedication of the Francis Scott Key Memorial was broadcast on June 14, 1922.
  
• A3) Lyndon Johnson. He garnered an impressive 61.1% of the vote in 1964.
  
• A4) William Taft. He took charge of the Supreme Court in 1921, eight years after his presidency ended.
  
• A5) Franklin Roosevelt. His Douglas DC-4 was dubbed the "Sacred Cow".
  
• A6) 4. The presidential capitals are Jackson (Mississippi), Jefferson City(Missouri), Lincoln (Nebraska), and Madison (Wisconsin).
  
• A7) Bill Clinton. Clinton captured 43.0% of the vote in 1992 to George Bush's 37.4% (Ross Perot's 18.9% kept both far away from a majority), and 49.2% in 1996 to Bob Dole's 40.7% (Perot 8.4%).
  
• A8) Jimmy Carter. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1946.
  
• A9) Chester Garfield. He was born on November 19, 1831 in a 30-by-20-foot log cabin in Orange Township, Ohio. The first log cabin president was Andrew Jackson, born in Waxhaw, North Carolina on March 15, 1767.
  
• A10) John Quincy Adams. John C. Calhoun was his Vice President during his two terms from 1817 to 1825.
  
• A11) Millard Fillmore. The thirteenth U.S President was born on January 7, 1800. The last born in the 1700s was James Buchanan, two presidents later.
  
• A12) John F. Kennedy. The thirty-fifth U.S. President was born on May 29, 1917. Four of the next five presidents were born after him.

U.S. Presidents - Random Trivia Questions

The third Monday in February is now celebrated as Presidents Day, although it is officially still called Washington's Birthday by the federal government. In honor of Washington, Lincoln, and the other forty-one U.S. presidents, please enjoy the inaugural Trivia Why's U.S. Presidents quiz.

U.S. Presidents Questions

• Q1) Who was the first U.S. President to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
  
• Q2) Who was the first U.S. President to give a radio speech?
  
• Q3) What U.S. President was elected with the highest percent of the popular vote (note: only tabulated since 1824)?
  
• Q4) Who was the only U.S. President who was also Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
  
• Q5) Who was the first U.S. President to have a Presidential aircraft?
  
• Q6) How many U.S. state capitals are named after U.S. Presidents?
  
• Q7) Who was the only U.S. President elected twice with less than half of the popular vote each time?
  
• Q8) Who was the first U.S. President to graduate from a military academy other than West Point?
  
• Q9) Who was the last U.S. President born in a log cabin?
  
• Q10) Who was the only U.S. President to share a first name with any of his Vice Presidents?
  
• Q11) Who was the first U.S. President born in the 1800s?
  
• Q12) Who was the first U.S. President born in the 1900s?