Herbs and Roses Trivia Quiz

Answer: Herb Brooks

Herbert Paul Brooks Junior was born on August 5th, 1937. He is best remembered for being the Head Olympic Coach for the USA team that won Olympic Gold in 1980 at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. During the Games, the American team upset the heavily favored Soviet Union team 4-3 in the semi-finals in a game that has become known as the "Miracle on Ice." Herb Brooks coached for many years in the National Hockey League and also coached the French Hockey team at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the USA team once again at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games where they won the silver medal. Sadly, Herb was killed in an automobile accident in 2003. Schneider (Buzz), Johnson (Mark) and Eruzione (Mike) were the scorers for the USA team in the historic victory over the Soviet team in 1980.

Answer: Rose Kennedy

Rose Kennedy was born in Boston Massachusetts on July 22nd, 1890. She married Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and had nine children including United States President, John F. Kennedy, and two United States Senators, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Moore Kennedy. Rose was a remarkable woman and an American philanthropist. She outlived four of her nine children, passing away on January 22nd, 1995 at the age of 104.

Answer: Herb Alpert

Herbert "Herb" Alpert was born on March 31st, 1935 in Los Angeles, California. Originally he started as a musician and founded the group "Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass." TJB won six Grammy Awards and 15 of their albums won gold discs, 14 went platinum.

Incredibly, in 1966 Alpert recordings outsold the Beatles.In the same year the Guiness Book of Records recognized his band with the distinction of being the first to place five albums simultaneously in the Top 20 of the Billboard Top Album rankings. Later in his career, Alpert became a recording industry executive.

He and his business partner Jerry Moss founded A&M Records. Alpert's instrumental #1 hit was "Rise" in 1979, and his vocal #1 hit was "This Guy's in Love With You" in 1968.

Answer: Jalen Rose

Jalen Anthony Rose was born in Detroit Michigan on January 30th, 1973. In college he played for the University of Michigan and helped them to two consecutive Final Four appearances in 1992 and 1993. Teamed with Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson, he was dubbed one of the "Fab 5." Jalen Rose played a total of thirteen years in the NBA with six different teams: Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors, New York Knicks, and the Phoenix Suns.

His most notable success was playing alongside Reggie Miller when Indian made the NBA Finals in 2000. Jalen Rose was voted as the NBA's Most Improved Player for that season.

After his playing career, Jalen Rose became a successful sports commentator and analyst and in 2011 he opened the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy in his hometown.

Answer: Herb Caen

Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caen was born in Sacramento, California on April 3rd, 1916. Herb first began writing for the "San Francisco Chronicle" in 1936. After the radio column was discontinued in 1938, Herb proposed a daily column about the city itself. His "It's News to Me" column first appeared on July 5th of 1938. With the exception of 3 years' service in the U.S. Air Force, and an eight year stint at the "San Francisco Examiner", Herb Caen's column appeared every day except Saturdays until 1991.

Herb was a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay area and was rewarded with a special Pulitzer Prize in April of 1996 for "extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city." Herb Caen was a brilliant writer and coined such original words as beatnik and Frisbeetarianism.

Answer: Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne was born July 24th 1979 in Sydney Australia. At age 14 she made her first appearance in film for the movie "Dallas Doll" (1994). In 2002, she played Dorme, the handmaiden to Padme Amidala in "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones." Later that year she also appeared with Matt Dillon in "City of Ghosts." In 2008, Rose was awarded a Golden Globe as Best International Actress for her work on the show "Damages." Then in 2012, she won the award for the "Best Gut-Wrenching Performance" at the MTV Movie Awards for her performance in "Bridesmaids."

Answer: Herb Elliott

Herbert James "Herb" Elliott was one of the greatest middle distance runners of his era. In August 1958 he became the world record holder in the mile running a spectacular 3:54.5, beating the record of Derek Ibbotson by 2.7 seconds. Herb Elliott would go on to break 4 minutes in the mile a further 17 times. Two more world records would follow in the 1500m event.

In 1958 Herb ran 3.36.0 and then at the Rome Olympics he captured Gold by lowering his own world record to 3:35.6. In 2000 at the Sydney Olympics, Herb Elliott was honored as one of the final torch bearers at the Opening Ceremony.

In 1964 he received an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) from the Queen of England. Then in 2002, he received a further honor in the Queen's Birthday Honours List being appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).

Herb Elliott continues to be one of the most beloved athletes in the history of Australian sport.

Answer: Sister

Mary Tudor was born on March 18th 1496 to King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. She was the fifth child and the younger sister of Henry VIII. Mary Rose was married to King Louis XII of France at the age of 18. Louis was 34 years her senior and passed away just three months after marrying Mary. Mary's second marriage was to Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. This marriage produced four children and a grand-daughter in Lady Jane Grey, who ruled England for a grand total of 9 days in July of 1553.

Answer: Herb Hoover

Herbert "Herb" Henry Hoover was born on the 18th of May, 1912 in Knoxville Tennessee. Herb was fascinated by machinery and aircraft and spent 22 years at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In 1934 he graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and was accepted into the Army Air Corps training program. A few years later, Herb took a position as an experimental test pilot with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Hampton, Virginia. He volunteered to fly the XC-35 in bad weather for research. Herb had an uncanny ability to safely land planes that had mechanical difficulties or equipment failure. Herb was a part of the Air Force-NACA transonic flight research program. He made his first NACA glide-familiarization flight in October of 1947, just one week after Chuck Yeager had become the first pilot to exceed the sound barrier in the AF XS-1. In December, Herb Hoover made the first rocket flight ever performed by a NACA civilian pilot reaching Mach 0.71.On March 10th, 1948 in a XS-1 plane, Herb achieved Mach 1.065 (703 miles per hour) to become the first civilian pilot and the second pilot ever to exceed the speed of sound. True to form, that flight also ended in a crash landing, but also true to form, Herb Hoover guided the plane to the ground with minimal damage. In 1949, he was awarded the Air Medal for meritorious achievement.

Answer: Roseanne Barr

Roseanne Cherrie Barr was born on November 3rd, 1952 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is best known for her outrageous comedy and larger than life performances. In 2012, she also put herself forward as a Presidential nominee of the California-Based Peace and Freedom Party. From 1988 to 1997 she starred in her own sitcom, "Roseanne." The show earned her Emmy Awards and Golden Globes for Best Actress. On July 25th, 1990, Roseanne performed "The Star Spangled Banner," at the Jack Murphy Stadium prior to a game between the San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds. She was horribly off-key and ended the National Anthem grabbing her crotch and spitting like a baseball player. Needless to say this offended many Americans including President H.W. Bush who called her performance "disgraceful."