Entertainment Trivia

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In 1963, Shirley MacLaine did it, in 1978, Brooke Shields did it, and in 1983, Rebecca De Mornay did it. What did they do? They played the role of hookers in films. What were the film's titles?

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Extremely popular in the 1990's, he is the only athlete to have played in both a Super Bowl game and a World Series game. Who is he?

8

When this 31-year old died in New York of a perforated ulcer in 1926, women rioted in the streets, and some committed suicide. Who was the person who inspired such a strong emotional reaction?

19

In the 1976 film, Network, frustrated television viewers were urged to stick their heads out of their windows and yell what angry cry?

6

In the mid-1960's, playing the role of an undercover agent, he became the first black actor to star in a weekly TV series. Who is he, and what was the name of the TV series?

7

The first time Clint Eastwood was nominated for an Oscar, he won - for best director and best picture. For what film?

9

In the first celebrity fundraiser, in 1971, musical stars Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and Ringo Starr joined event coordinator and former Beatle George Harrison to raise money for hungry residents of what starving nation?

7

This song, written by Bob Dylan in April,1962, became a famous protest song, perhaps the theme song of the 1960's civil rights movement. What's the title?

6

Paramount's most lucrative property of the 20th century was a TV series until 1969, and went on to generate movies, spin-off TV shows, an animated series, hundreds of books and comics, fan clubs and conventions. What is it?

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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What is the title of the 1986 film written by Nora Ephron, directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep?

13

Prophetically, just a few months before the Three-Mile Island nuclear reactor accident in Pennsylvania, a 1979 film dealt with the subject of a nuclear accident. That film was entitled The China Syndrome. Who were three stars?

17

This actor died of AIDS in1991. He had kept his illness a secret, fearing he wouldn't be able to work in Hollywood. He was star of a 1978 film about an American imprisoned in Turkey for drug smuggling. What is his name and the name of the film?

4

The last six words of this 1933 film were "It was beauty killed the beast." Which film?

10

Humphrey Bogart won the Academy Award as Best Actor only once in his career - for which 1951 film that also starred Katharine Hepburn?

3

Name the five creatures who traveled together down the yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz.