People Trivia

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Although this person had been already dead for over 25 years, he shared the Grammy Award for best record in 1991. Who was he?

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Who was the mother of King Solomon?

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What is Hilary Clinton's maiden name?

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This television personality, born in 1957 in South Carolina, has a photographic memory, and was champion speller in her high school, which comes in handy in her TV role. Who is she?

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Born Jewish in Minnesota in the 1940's, he became a world famous musician in the 1960's, converted to Christianity in the 1970's, but returned to his faith as an orthodox Jew in the 1980's. Who is he?

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Almost every night from the 1960's until the early 1990's, after a drumroll, which person would announce: "And now, Heeeeere's Johnny"?

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He was in a safe house, on anti-depressant drugs. He was miserable. He couldn't leave his home because he would be hounded by the media - in fact his life could be in danger! 1992 in Los Angeles. Who is he?

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She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1932. While attempting to fly around the world, she crashed in the Pacific Ocean (1937) and was never hear from again. Who was she?

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She became one of the world's richest women in 1975 at the age of 24, when she inherited money from her father, one of the world's richest men. She died in 1988. Who was she?

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What do these well known people have in common? Dan Aykroyd, Neil Young, Michael J. Fox, and Peter Jennings?

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BONUS 3: Which one of these people never won the Nobel Peace Prize: Mother Theresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, or Yassir Arafat?

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The American cartoonist entertained his followers with drawings of extremely complicated contraptions designed to perform extremely simple tasks. Who was he?

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Which 17th century English physicist and mathematician is said to have discovered the principle of gravity?

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When he graduated from high school in 1917, he chose journalism instead of college and spent seven months as a newspaper reporter. While driving a Red Cross ambulance in Italy in 1918 he was severely wounded by shrapnel. Who was he?

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Today she's a well-known movie star, but as a child in New Mexico in the 1960's she needed an operation to repair her cross-eyes. One of her earliest roles was a coke addict in the 1985 film, St. Elmo's Fire. What's her name?