Mixed Entertainment Before and After Trivia

1. The actor who played George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life" put on his safari gear to escort Deborah Kerr in search of her husband in the film "King Solomon's Mine".

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Answer: James Stewart Granger

The 1946 Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life" is one of the most beloved holiday movies of all time. The movie stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a miserable loan officer who gets to see what life would be like in his town if he had never been born. "King Solomon's Mine" is a 1950 adventure film about experienced hunter and guide Allan Quatermain (Stewart Granger) who gets hired by a rich female socialite named Elizabeth Curtis (Deborah Kerr), to lead an expedition into the jungles of Africa in search of her missing husband.

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Answer: Boy George Clooney

Boy George is the lead singer for the '80s band "Culture Club" The band had major hits such as "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", and "Karma Chameleon". At the 1984 Grammy Awards, Culture Club won for Best New Artist. George Clooney got major TV exposure on the hit shows "The Facts of Life" "Roseanne", and "ER". He played Danny Ocean in three films in the "Ocean's" movie series.

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Answer: Aquaman of La Mancha

Aquaman was created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger and was first published by D.C. Comics in 1941. "Man of La Mancha" is a 1964 musical that won five Tony Awards. It was also made into a movie in 1972 starring Peter O'Toole.

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Answer: Katy Perry Como

In 2009, Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" won the People's Choice Award for 'Favorite Pop Song'. Perry Como was an Italian-American crooner popular in the '50s and early '60s. He received five Emmy Awards from 1955 to 1959. He made a small comeback in the mid-'70s when he recorded the song "And I Love You So" by Don McLean.

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Answer: Roy Clark Gable

Roy Clark and Buck Owens hosted the TV show "Hee Haw" that premiered on CBS in 1969. It was a country formatted skit comedy show that featured popular country singers as guests. Clark Gable starred as Rhett Butler in the classic Civil War time epic "Gone With The Wind'. The film won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.

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Answer: James Taylor Swift

The song "Fire and Rain" was written by James Taylor and released in 1970. The song reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Taylor Swift's 2012 song "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was her first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States.

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Answer: Night of the Living Deadpool

The 1968 movie "Night of the Living Dead" had a production budget of only $114,000 but became a cult classic grossing an estimated $12 million domestically and $18 million internationally. "Deadpool" is a 2016 superhero comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a local ex-soldier of fortune who gets cancer and goes through extreme procedures for a cure. Instead, the procedures turn him into an ugly superhero with an attitude and a need to enact revenge against the doctor who made him that way.

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Answer: Billy Crystal Gayle

Billy Crystal started his career on the ABC sitcom "Soap" where he played Jodie Dallas, one of the first gay characters on an American TV show. Crystal Gayle's 1977 hit song "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" reached number one on U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs. She is also the sister of country singer Loretta Lynn.

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Answer: Matt Damon Wayans

In the 1992 movie "School Ties", Matt plays bigoted student Charlie Dillon who cheats on an exam and then tries to claim that another student was the actual cheater after the teacher finds a student's crib notes on the classroom floor. In the 1995 comedy film "Major Payne", U.S. Marine Corps Major Benson Winifred Payne (Damon Wayans) is discharged from the Marines and is unable to readjust to civilian life and is offered a job prep school. At first the students hate him but he manages to earn their trust and he leads them a first place win in the Virginia Military Games.

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Answer: Lauren Holly Hunter

Lauren Holly starred as female officer onboard a diesel powered submarine with an all male crew in the 1996 comedy movie "Down Periscope". The movie pitted a diesel powered sub going up against another nuclear powered sub in war games. The 1987 crime comedy "Raising Arizona" starring Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage is about an ex cop and ex con who get married and because Ed (Holly Hunter) is unable to have children, her new husband decides to steal one child of a set of famous quintuplets and together go on a wacky road trip.

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Answer: Flash Gordon Lightfoot

"Flash Gordon" is a comic strip hero that was first published on January 7, 1934. Buster Crabbe played Flash on film in the '30s and early '40s. In 1980, actor Sam Jones played Flash on the big screen with background music supplied by the rock bad "Queen". Gordon Lightfoot's song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song commemorating the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in a storm on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.

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Answer: Stefanie Powers Boothe

The TV show "Hart to Hart" ran from 1979 to 1984 and starred Stefanie Powers and Robert Wagner as wealthy married jetsetters Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, who work as private detectives without pay. In the 1984 movie "Red Dawn", Boothe plays a jet pilot who gets shot down and joins a team of high school resistance fighters when America gets invaded by the Russians.

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Answer: Carol Channing Tatum

Carol Channing won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Dolly Levi. Carol was also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Muzzy in the 1967 Musical film "Thoroughly Modern Millie". Channing Tatum is best known for his leading role in the 2012 movie "Magic Mike" where he plays a male stripper in a Strip Club in Tampa, Florida.

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Answer: Elton John Goodman

Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" was introduced in 1972 and the lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin. It only reached as high as number 41 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. John Goodman starred as Dan Conner on the hit comedy TV show "Roseanne". The show was number one in the Nielsen ratings from 1989 to 1990.

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Answer: Men in Black Widow

"Men in Black" is a 1997 movie starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. It is about a secret agency that polices aliens living on planet Earth. Agent "K" (Tommy Lee Jones), is actually training agent "J" (Will Smith) to be his replacement. Black Widow is a character created by Stan Lee, scripter Don Rico, and artist Don Heck in 1964. She was introduced as a Russian spy and one of Iron Man's enemies. Later she was recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. and became an "Avenger".

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Answer: David Keith Richards

In the 1982 movie "An Officer and a Gentleman", David plays Naval Officer Candidate Sid Worley who ends up dropping out of the program when he gets one of the local girls of the town pregnant. He later finds out that the girl lied about her pregnancy in order to trap him. When he drops of the program, the girl refuses to marry him and tells Sid that she is not really pregnant. Keith Richards is a guitarist and one of the founding members of the rock band The Rolling Stones. He is known for creating some of the greatest guitar riffs in rock songs.

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Answer: Gene Kelly LeBrock

Besides "Sing in the Rain", Gene Kelly played and danced in classic films such as "Anchors Aweigh" in 1945 and "On the Town" in 1949, and. He also directed the movie "Hello Dolly" in 1969. Kelly Lebrock starred as Lisa, the sexy computer generated fantasy girl in the 1985 comedy "Weird Science". She was married to action star Steven Seagal from 1987 to 1996.

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Answer: Jason Lee Marvin

"Alvin and the Chipmunks" is a 2007 live action/computer animated musical comedy film about a down and out song writer named David Seville (Jason Lee) who accidentally brings home three mischievous talking chipmunks after the tree they were living in gets cut down. The 1967 film "The Dirty Dozen" is a war film about Army officer Major John Reisman (Lee Marvin) who has to train twelve military convicts to go on a special secret mission behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany.

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Answer: Batman On The Moon

Batman was introduced by D.C. Comics in 1939. He also goes by the names "Caped Crusader", "The Dark Knight", and "The World's Greatest Detective". The 1999 movie "Man On The Moon" was the story of comedian Andy Kaufman's life from the time he started stand-up comedy, until his untimely death from lung cancer at age 35 in 1984.

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Answer: Steve Harvey Keitel

Steve Harvey is best known for being the host of the TV game show "Family Feud". From 1996 to 2002, Steve Harvey produced and starred in his own comedy sitcom "The Steve Harvey Show" where he played music teacher/vice principal Steve Hightower in a Chicago high school. Harvey Keitel is known primarily for playing a 'bad guy' in many of the movies he appears in. As the 'Wolf" in the movie "Pulp Fiction", he plays a man who specializes in getting rid of dead bodies and eliminating any clues of the actual killing.

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Answer: Ron Howard Stern

Ron Howard played Opie Taylor on the TV show "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1960 to 1968. Howard also starred in the 1973 coming of age comedy film "American Graffiti". Howard Stern started his radio DJ career in 1986. He jumped around from station to station and his show took off at WWDC in Washington, D.C. where he became one of the first Shock Jocks on radio.

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Answer: Ray Charles Bronson

The song "Georgia on My Mind" was written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and was made famous by Ray Charles and was adopted as the state song of Georgia in in 1979. Charles Bronson starred as vigilante Paul Kersey in five "Death Wish" movies. In 2018, Bruce Willis took on the role of Paul in a remake of first movie of the series.

From Quiz Super Hero Before & After

Answer: Casualties of War Machine

In the 1989 movie "Casualties of War", Private First Class Max Eriksson (Michael J. Fox) decides to inform his superiors about the kidnap and rape of the Vietnamese girl, which leads to the court martial of some of the soldiers in his unit. "War Machine" was first introduced in the "Iron Man" comic book in in 1979. He has been Iron Man's sidekick and friend in "Iron Man 2", "Iron Man 3", "Avengers: Age of Ultron", and "Captain America: Civil War".

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Answer: James Cameron Diaz

The 1997 movie "Titanic", directed by Cameron, won eleven Academy Awards. He is also the first person to make a solo trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a submersible. Cameron Diaz's break out role was playing Jim Carrey's love interest in the 1994 comedy movie "The Mask".

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Answer: Robert Blake Shelton

As a child, Robert Blake played Mickey Gubitosi in the "Our Gang" comedy shorts from 1939-1944. From 1975 to 1978, Robert Blake played plainclothes police detective Tony Baretta on the TV show "Baretta". Blake Shelton's song "Austin" reached Number one on Billboard's US Hot Country Songs in 2001. After his divorce from female country star Miranda Lambert in 2015, Blake began dating Gwen Stefani, his colleague from the TV show "The Voice".

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Answer: Tommy James Garner

Tommy James was the lead singer of the 60s rock band Tommy James and the Shondells. In 1966 "Hanky Panky" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. James Garner starred in the 1969 comedy Western "Support Your Local Sheriff". Garner played a 'fast gun' on his way to Australia who gets recruited by a small town to be the sheriff and bring law and order.

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Answer: Soylent Green Hornet

The 1973 movie "Soylent Green" takes place in the year 2022. The world is polluted, overpopulated, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, one of which is called Soylent Green. At the end of the movie it is discovered that Soylent Green is actually recycled and processed dead humans. The "Green Hornet" started out as a radio show in the 1930s. Green Hornet is the alter ego of Britt Reid, a successful newspaper publisher who, by night, fights crime in the city with his sidekick Kato. In the 1960s TV show, Kato was played by Bruce Lee.

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Answer: Bernie Mac Davis

Bernie Mac started his career as a stand-up comic from the south side of Chicago. He starred with Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D. L. Hughley in the film "The Original Kings of Comedy". In the movie "Mr. 3000". Mac plays a retired baseball player who discovers that because of some mistakes in calculating his career numbers, he actually fell three hits short of 3000 hits. He then gets to come out of retirement to try to get three hits to correct the error. Mac Davis was a Pop Music star turned actor. Two of his hit songs were "Stop and Smell the Roses" in 1974 and "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" in 1972. He also had his own television variety show that ran from 1974 to 1976. In the 1979 movie "North Dallas Forty", Davis plays aged quarterback Seth Maxwell who is worried about losing his starting position to a young upstart.

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Answer: Jimmy Dean Martin

Jimmy Dean's 1961 hit "Big Bad John" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. After his singing career, Jimmy founded the successful Jimmy Dean Sausage Company in 1969 that was eventually bought by Sarah Lee in 1984. Dean Martin teamed up with comedian Jerry Lewis for a number of radio and early TV shows in the 40s and 50s. Their first feature film was the comedy "At War with the Army" in 1950. Dean went on to star in his own TV variety show called "The Dean Martin Show" that ran from 1965 to 1974.

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Answer: John Wayne Newton

For three decades John Wayne was one of the top box office draws for his roles in Western movies. In 1969 he won his only Oscar for playing Rooster Cogburn in the movie "True Grit". Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen" reached no. 13 on the Billboard Magazine Hot 100 chart in 1963 and was used in the parade scene in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in 1986.

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