FunTrivia Celebrities Mix: Vol 23 Quiz

Answer: Liza Minnelli

It was Liza Minnelli who won the Oscar Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for "Cabaret" in 1973; the same for the Golden Globe Awards that year; and, the Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Program - Variety and Popular Music, for her "Liza with a Z" (subtitled: "A Concert for Television"). Liza Minnelli worked with Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse to produce, direct, choreograph and arrange the television program.

The show was originally broadcast in September of 1972 and, as expected, it included songs from Minnelli's film, "Cabaret".

Question by player cowboybluedog

Answer: To live to be 100

George Burns vowed to live to be 100, when the average life span for men was more than 25 years sooner, never mind his famous cigars. Yet true to his word he was married to fellow comedian Grace Allen from 1926 until her death in 1964, and he lived for one hundred years and 49 days. Good night, George (1896-1996).

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Answer: Sinead O' Connor

Sinead O' Connor left her mark on the music world with her awesome performance of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U," a song among the best ever recorded according to Billboard Music Awards. As much as her musical talent was evident and brilliant, her personal life was a troubled account of child abuse, violence, bipolar disorder, suicidal thoughts, and controversial public behavior.

In 1992, she tore a photo of the Pope while on Saturday Night Live to protest sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church.

In the 1990s she was ordained a priest in the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church, a church operating outside of the Catholic Church. In 2018, she announced she joined Islam in a Twitter message: "This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim.

This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian's journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant. I will be given (another) new name. It will be Shuhada'." She had previously changed her name to Magda Davitt, which she changed to Shuhada' Davitt and then to Shuhada' Sadiqat.

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Answer: Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey was born into poverty in 1954 in rural Mississippi. As a teenager, she was an honor student, a debate champion, and a beauty pageant winner. She studied communications in college and worked on local television stations before gaining huge success with her own talk show which ran for 25 remarkable seasons.

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Answer: Canada

Born in London, Ontario, Gosling would later find fame on Canadian-made kids shows before hitting the big screen in movies like "Remember the Titans" and "The Notebook". He was a leading action star later in his career and received Academy Award nominations for "Half Nelson" (2006) and "La La Land" (2016).

Neil Armstrong, who Gosling portrayed in the 2018 film "First Man", was born in Ohio.

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Answer: Matthew Perry and Luke Perry

Matthew and Luke are two of the four evangelists in the Bible, but the actors have no relationship in common. The others are either father and son or brothers (in the case of Arness and Graves).

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Answer: Jason Momoa

Jason Momoa has no siblings. Jason Bateman's sister Justine most famously played Mallory Keaton on the sitcom "Family Ties". John Cusack's sister Joan has been nominated twice for Academy Awards, for "In and Out" and "Working Girl". Jake Gyllenhaal's sister, Maggie, has also received an Oscar nomination, for her role in "Crazy Heart".

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Answer: Magda

The Gabor sisters were born in Hungary. They moved to the US with their parents after World War II. Like her sisters, Magda was married multiple times.

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Answer: Loretta Young

His first wife was Josephine Dillon (1924-1930). He divorced her to marry Rhea Langham (1930-1939). He divorced her to marry Carole Lombard (1939-1942) who died in a plane crash. His fourth wife was Silvia Hawkes (1949-1952) - another marriage that ended in divorce.

His last wife was Kay Williams, from 1955 until his death in 1960. She delivered Gable's only son, John Clark Gable, in 1961. He had an affair with Loretta Young that produced a daughter in 1934. She was known as Judy Lewis after Loretta Young married Tom Lewis.

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Answer: Rita Hayworth

Rita became an international sex symbol after her stunning portrayal of the title character in the 1946 film "Gilda". One man who was smitten by her performance was Prince Aly Khan and, in 1949, they married, making Rita the first actress to become a princess. Grace Kelly became the second when she married Prince Rainier seven years later. Grace's marriage lasted, but Rita's ended in divorce after less than five years.

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