Celebrities Mixture Trivia

1. Which famous John, known for calling people "Pilgrim", died in 1979?

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Answer: John Wayne

John Wayne was born Marion Morrison in Iowa in 1907. He took the nickname Duke after his big Airedale Terrier. It was in the 1962 movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" that Wayne used "Pilgrim" over 20 times.

Question by player Trufflesss

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Answer: Princess Diana

Lady Kitty Spencer is the eldest daughter of Charles Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, and his first wife, Victoria Lockwood, which makes her Diana's niece. On 24 July 2021, Kitty married the South African born entrepreneur, Michael Lewis, in an elaborate and star studded wedding at the Villa Aldobrandini in Rome. The bride wore no less than five custom made Dolce and Gabbana dresses throughout the celebrations. The now styled Lady Kitty Lewis is a brand ambassador for both Dolce and Gabbana and the jewellery house, Bulgari.

Question by player KayceeKool

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Answer: Phoenix

In mythology, the Phoenix consumes itself in flames, and then is reborn from the ashes. Rudolph Valentino was a matinee idol, star of such silent films as "The Sheik", "Blood And Sand", and "The Eagle". Known as the "Latin Lover", he died of peritonitis at the early age of 31, creating hysteria among his many female admirers.

Question by player lowtechmaster

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Answer: Nephew

Cage's father, August, is the brother of director Francis Ford Coppola, and he is cousin to Sofia and Roman Coppola. Nicolas adopted the stage name 'Cage' early in his career so any successes he had were his own and not through his famous uncle.

Question by player leith90

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Answer: carpet layer

Chaney was interested in acting, much to the chagrin of his father. At his insistence, Chaney trained as a carpet layer and wallpaper hanger. He worked at these jobs in between acting gigs.

Question by player Trufflesss

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Answer: Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette was already a successful performer when she met George Jones, who was 11 years her senior. In 1968, Wynette and Jones divorced their respective spouses (Don Chapel and Shirley Corley), and got married the following year. Sadly, Jones was dealing with severe alcohol problems, and at one point spent 10 days in a padded cell after a drinking spree. Though the couple had a daughter, Tamala Georgette, in 1970, and often toured together, Jones's drinking and erratic behaviour eventually led to the end of their marriage. Wynette and Jones divorced in 1975, but continued to record together for years. In spite of his alcohol-related health issues, Jones survived Wynette (who died in 1998 at the age of 55 after years of dealing with medical problems) by 15 years, dying in 2013 at the age of 81. "Stand by Your Man" (1968) is Wynette's best-known song.

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Answer: Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

Mary Pickford was born in Canada as Gladys Marie Smith in 1892 and was one of the pioneering actresses in early Hollywood. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was born in Colorado as Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in 1883 and was best known for his swashbuckling roles in "Robin Hood" (1922) and "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924). They got married in 1920 and remained married for 16 years. They were both founding members of the Motion Picture Academy and, along with Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith in 1919, founded United Artists as an independent film studio. In recent years, Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner and MGM resurrected United Artists in 2005 and then in 2011, MGM gained 100% control of UA.

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Answer: Angelina Jolie

Ms. Jolie underwent the surgery after she had tested positive for a genetic mutation which left her with an exceedingly high risk for developing breast and ovarian cancer. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died in 2007 after a decade long struggle with ovarian cancer.

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Answer: Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey (aka Ringo Starr) married Maureen Cox in 1965; they were divorced ten years later. Ringo went on to marry actress Barbara Bach in 1981, while Maureen married Hard Rock Café co-founder Isaac Tigrett in 1989. Although they had some rough patches following their divorce, particularly over money, Ringo remained on friendly terms with her and when she died from leukemia, in 1994, following an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant from their son Zak, Ringo and their children were at her bedside, along with her husband.

Question by player PDAZ

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Answer: Emma Watson

Emma Watson's competition for the Best British Style included Amal Clooney and David Beckham. She has also won awards for her style at the Teen Choice Awards.

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Answer: Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson garnered $89.4 million for the fiscal year ending June 1, 2019. His earnings include an upfront salary of $23.5 million for the film 'Jumanji: The Next Level'. Other notable sources of income include his acting in 'Hobbs and Shaw', a spin-off from 'The Fast and the Furious' franchise. He also earned $700K per episode for his role in the HBO TV show 'Ballers'.

Question by player lout62001

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Answer: Tennessee

Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919-1991) was a radio disk jockey, a recording artist and television host. He was born in Bristol, Tennessee, and adopted the nickname while hosting a country-Western music radio programme. His most successful recording was of "Sixteen Tons". Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was an American playwright born in Columbus, Mississippi. He adopted "Tennessee" as his nom de plume in 1939 for unknown reasons ('tho many have been suggested). He is well-known for "The Glass Menagerie" (1944), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947), "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955), and "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1959). He bequeathed his literary rights to the University of the South, an Episcopal college in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Question by player FatherSteve

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Answer: A Hard Day's Night

"A Hard Day's Night" is a 1964 musical comedy starring the legendary Beatles. It was a "mockumentary" of a day in the life of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they rocketed to fame. At the time, Phil Collins was a child actor and was used as an extra in the film. He later gained fame as the drummer, and eventual lead singer, for the group Genesis. I learned this tidbit by reading the memoir "Not Dead Yet" (2016) by Collins. I am a big fan with a huge crush!

Question by player scansade

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Answer: New Jersey, USA

Born on September 23rd 1949, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen was born and raised in New Jersey, where he still has a home today. He has Irish, Dutch, and Italian ancestry. His paternal great-grandmother migrated from Mullingar, Ireland, to Freehold, New Jersey, in about 1852. His maternal grandfather was born in Naples, Italy. The name Springsteen is Dutch.

Question by player Chavs

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Answer: Zelda

Zelda Williams, the daughter of Robin Williams and Marsha Garces, was born in 1989. She was named after the eponymous character from Nintendo's video game series 'The Legend of Zelda'. She appeared with her father in advertisements for 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D'.

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From Quiz City Folk (Part 6): Actresses

Answer: The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet (2013)

The story is about a ten-year-old boy scientist named T.S. Spivett (played by Kyle Catlett) who gets a phone call from the Smithsonian Museum informing him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his proposal of a perpetual motion machine. The Smithsonian invites him to come give a speech. Without telling his mother (Helena Bonham Carter) and father, he boards a freight train to get to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The film was a French/Canadian production and filmed throughout Canada instead of across the United States. The capital city of the state of Montana is Helena. There has been plenty of filming done over the years in Montana, and specifically filmed in Helena is the TV series "Yellowstone" premiering in 2018. The 1998 Christopher Guest comedy "Almost Heroes" shot some scenes in Helena, as did the 1977 adventure film "Grayeagle".

From Quiz The Dakota and its Residents

Answer: Rudolph Nureyev

He lived from 1938-1993. He often danced with Margot Fonteyn. His apartment was called "The Nutcracker Suite." Although he was considered difficult to work with, he seemed to have had no problems with the other tenants. That is not an easy thing. To buy an apartment a person must go through a rigorous screening process. This process begins with a $1000 fee for an investigation into your life. Many people have been rejected from living in the building, including Bill Joel, Carly Simon, Cher, and Madonna.

From Quiz Barry Crimmins

Answer: Bobcat Goldthwait

Bobcat Goldthwait is a prominent stand up comic and actor best known for his role as Zed in the "Police Academy" movies. He directed a documentary about Barry Crimmins' life and comedy. Bobcat started out as a comic in a comedy club that Crimmins' owned and Crimmins was his mentor. He was close friends with Crimmins and he and Crimmins' wife were with him when Crimmins died.

From Quiz Where There's a Will There's a Way

Answer: William Shatner

Shatner played Captain James T. Kirk in "Star Trek" for 79 episodes, as well as seven movies, with a Saturn Award for "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1983) being the only award other than the Razzies that he won. He also played Sergeant Thomas Jefferson "T. J." Hooker in the cop show "T.J. Hooker" for 90 episodes.

From Quiz Classic Hollywood Blondes

Answer: Judy Holliday

This was Holliday's 2nd movie. She also created the role in the original Broadway production. Judy also appeared in such films as "It Should Happen to You", "The Marrying Kind" and her last, 1960's, "Bells are Ringing". She died of cancer in 1965 at the age of 43.

From Quiz Someone You'd Admire

Answer: Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof gained fame through his band "The Boomtown Rats". He has been a huge force behind a wide range of humanitarian causes and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, as well as receiving a KBE (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth II in 1986. Because he is not a citizen of the British Empire, this is an honorary knighthood which also means neither he nor anyone else is entitled to call him "Sir Bob". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire for more details on this last point.

From Quiz Famous Duos...One Person Short

Answer: Peter Scolari

While Hanks went on to win Academy Awards for 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' (and nominated for more), Scolari stayed busy going back and forth from the small screen, where he shone on the hit series 'Newhart', to the big stage, where he excelled in a production of 'Stop The World, I Want To Get Off'. He did find time to reunite with Hanks for two productions, 'That Thing You Do' (1996), and 'The Polar Express' (2004).

From Quiz Celebrity Car Accidents

Answer: Mark Hamill

In "The Empire Strikes Back", he had scars on his face. The scene where the Wampa attacks Luke Skywalker was supposed to explain his face injuries. The accident happened in December, 1976, and he had to have most of his face reconstructed.

From Quiz One Night in Hollywood...

Answer: Demi Moore & Bruce Willis

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis were married in 1987 by singer Little Richard who was also an ordained minister; they divorced in 2000, but have reportedly remained friends since. Moore was born Demi Gene Guynes in New Mexico in 1962; in the 1980s she signed to a modelling agency and had small roles in several films, eventually appearing as Michael Caine's daughter in the 1984 romantic comedy "Blame it on Rio", the film that brought her to the notice of a wider audience. She met her husband-to-be, Bruce Willis, on the set of "Stakeout" (1987), and they have played opposite each other in several films since. Her accolades include Best Actress at the Saturn Awards for her role in "Ghost" (1991). Willis was born Walter Bruce Willis in West Germany in 1955 and began his acting career in the 1980s, coming to prominence as the detective David Addison in the TV series "Moonlighting". He has appeared in over one hundred films, but is perhaps most well known for the role of John McClane in the "Die Hard" series, and has received many accolades including Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Award in 2002. The clues refer to Demi (= half), Moore (= half a James Bond, Roger Moore), and Bruce (from the Monty Python "Bruces Sketch").

From Quiz FunTrivia Celebrities Mix: Vol 18

Answer: Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born March 22, 1976, in New Orleans, and raised in Tennessee. She first came to notice as a 23 year-old playing a high school student opposite Matthew Broderick in 1999's "Election" for which she won a Golden Globe nomination. She won a second nomination for "Legally Blonde" in 2001 and had the biggest movie of her career so far with "Sweet Home Alabama" a year later. She won a Best Actress Oscar in 2005 for playing June Carter in "Walk the Line" and won an Emmy as a producer for the first season of "Big Little Lies" in 2017. She married Ryan Phillipe in 1999 but they separated in 2006. Ms Witherspoon earned a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010.

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From Quiz FunTrivia Celebrities Mix: Vol 17

Answer: Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal hosted the Oscars nine times, compared to Bob Hope's nineteen. He has been a popular host of the Academy Awards ceremony, but is unlikely to return again. When asked once by another actor, Billy quipped "I've done nine....I think I'm okay." Johnny Carson is third with five hosting appearances, followed by Whoopi Goldberg and Jack Lemmon with four apiece.

Question by player vyvviking

From Quiz FunTrivia Celebrities Mix: Vol 16

Answer: Royal Navy

After World War II, Sean Connery enlisted in the Royal Navy. While in the Navy, he got two tattoos. One says, "Mum and Dad" and the other says "Scotland Forever". He received a medical discharge and began his professional career; one of his jobs was modeling. During a body building session he heard that there were auditions for a play called "South Pacific". He earned a role in the play and worked his way up from a Seabee to a starring role. Seriously, he was almost a body builder before he worked in five James Bond movies beginning with "Dr. No" in 1962.

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From Quiz FunTrivia Celebrities Mix: Vol 15

Answer: Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver are bestselling authors of a series of 19 short stories designed for slow readers, published by Scholastic, Inc. Ron Howard was Richie in the TV Show, "Happy Days". Penny Marshall played the role of Laverne in the "Laverne and Shirley" TV show. Lin Oliver is the co-author with Henry Winkler of the 19 published children's stories.

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