Entertainment Trivia

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This person had so many musical hits in the 1950's that he became the first artist ever to release a "Greatest Hits" album. It stayed in the Billboard top album charts for over 7 years! Which musical artist is this?

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Carol Channing won the Tony award as Best Actress for her role in one of Broadway's longest running shows. What was the title?

15

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

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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?

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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?

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

13

One of the most popular TV shows of the mid 1980's was Cagney and Lacey . Who were the two stars of this show?

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In 1988, 160,000 people attended the largest rock music gathering ever held in East Germany. The Communist newpapers hailed the American rock performer as a friend of the working class. Who was he?

7

TV's Star Trek is set in which century?

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Which actor played the role of Officer Gannon on TV's Dragnet, and the role of Sherman Potter in M.A.S.H.?

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In this 1992 film comedy, Nicholas Cage loses his fiance played by Sara Jessica Parker in a Las Vegas poker game to mobster James Caan, and a corps of "flying Elvises" helps him rescue her. What is the film title?

15

In the film, The Lion King, the voice of the hyena was played by which humorous woman?

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When she insured her legs for $1,250,000 in 1937, this movie star became known as "the Girl with the Million Dollar Legs." Who was she?

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Title roles in films: a. Who played the title role in the 1981 film, Gandhi? b. Which female played the role of the object of Gene Wilder's desire in the 1984 film, The Woman in Red? c. In the 1963 film, who played the title role of Zorba the Greek?

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"The Simpsons" first appeared in the mid-1980's as a short segment on what woman's TV series?