Arizona: The Celebrities 1912-2012 Quiz

Answer: Ted Danson

Ted Danson, the star of TV's "CSI", "Becker" and "Cheers" (where he played bar keep Sam Malone), was born in San Diego but moved to Flagstaff as a child when his father became the director of the Museum of Northern Arizona. The museum used to be located well outside of the Flagstaff city limits, so Danson spent much of his early years roaming the grounds of the museum.

Although most of his work had been on TV, Danson also appeared in films, such as "Three Men and a Baby" and "Saving Private Ryan".

He continued to be involved with museum, appearing in a fundraiser show in Flagstaff with his actress wife, Mary Steenburgen, in 2011.

Answer: Jim Morrison

It wasn't as notorious as his arrests for indecent exposure, but the Doors singer was arrested at Phoenix's airport for drunk and disorderly conduct on a flight. Morrison and his friend had travelled to Phoenix to watch a Rolling Stones concert and were accused of throwing items, smoking cigars and using vulgar language on the flight.

Other celebrity arrests in Arizona related to drinking include Diana Ross, who was arrested in Tucson for driving while intoxicated (at more than twice the legal limit) and Glen Campbell, whose infamous mug shot was taken after a drunk driving arrest in Phoenix near his home.

Answer: Bob Crane

The 49-year-old star of the comedy "Hogan's Heroes" was in Scottsdale to appear in a dinner theatre production of "Beginner's Luck", when he was found bludgeoned to death in the Winfield Place Apartments. The murder investigation revealed a dark side to the publicly wholesome Crane involving pornography, including home movies of sexual conquests. John Henry Carpenter, a friend of Crane's who made some of the films, was the main suspect in the murder, but charges weren't filed until over ten years later due to insufficient evidence. Carpenter was found not guilty in a 1994 trial, and he died a few years later.

Answer: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard

Gable and Lombard drove to Kingman during a break in Gable's filming of "Gone with the Wind". At the time, California required blood tests for herpes before issuing marriage licenses, so couples wanting to avoid the wait would visit Arizona to get married (Arizona enacted a similar law in the 1950s). Most went to Yuma on the border between southern California and Arizona, but Gable and Lombard chose Kingman in northwestern Arizona on Route 66. Lombard died three years later in a plane crash in Nevada.

Other celebrity couples who married in Arizona include Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood (1957 in Scottsdale) and Eric Clapton and Pattie Boyd Harrison "Layla" (1979 in Tucson).

Answer: Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (birth name: Vincent Furnier) moved to Phoenix as a teenager and graduated from Cortez High School in north Phoenix. He formed a band with fellow members from the Cortez cross-country team, and they hit it big in the early 1970s with songs such as "School's Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy".

He legally changed his name to "Alice Cooper" in the mid 1970s before embarking on a solo career. Cooper and his wife Sheryl became fixtures on the charity circuit in Arizona, and despite his onstage persona, he was apparently quite the normal guy - even coached his son's little league team.

Answer: Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg's family moved to Phoenix when he was ten years old and he lived here until his senior year in high school. He started making movies at a young age, including one called "Fighter Squad" that interspersed WWII footage with filming of his friends in WWII aircraft at a Phoenix airport. Spielberg made his first full movie "Firelight" in Arizona, and the film had its premier at the Phoenix Little Theatre in 1964.

The Science Fiction film cost $600 to make, and Spielberg made a profit on it by selling seats for 75 cents. Spielberg's later films brought in more money and accolades, including his first Academy Award for directing 1993's "Schindler's List".

Answer: Linda McCartney

Linda Eastman was a photographer when she met Beatle Paul McCartney. After their marriage, she performed with Paul in his band, Wings. The McCartneys were vegetarians and in later years, Linda wrote vegetarian cookbooks and produced a line of frozen vegetarian meals.

She had a love for the desert surrounding Tucson; she had attended the University of Arizona at Tucson, and after her marriage to Paul, they bought a ranch there. When she was succumbing to breast cancer, she returned to Tucson, where she died on April 17, 1998, surrounded by her family.

Answer: Stevie Nicks

Stephanie Nicks was born in Phoenix in 1948, where her parents had met while attending Arizona State University. During her childhood, the family moved around to New Mexico, Texas and Utah before settling in California, where Nicks and her classmate Lindsey Buckingham formed a duo called Buckingham-Nicks.

In 1975, Nicks and Buckingham joined the band Fleetwood Mac, and the band became one of the best-selling acts on the 1970s. Nicks also embarked on a successful solo career in the 1980s. Nicks continued to have connections in Arizona, maintaining property there until 2007.

Answer: Lee Marvin

WWII veteran Lee Marvin played a variety of roles over his career including the musical "Paint Your Wagon" with Clint Eastwood and his 1965 Oscar-winning performance in the western comedy "Cat Ballou". He is mainly remembered for his "tough-guy" roles, including "The Dirty Dozen", "Point Blank" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", among others.

In the 1970s, Marvin was sued for compensation by his live-in girlfriend Michelle Triola; she wanted half the community property earned by Marvin during the time they lived together, even though they weren't married.

The court awarded her $100k but denied her claim for the nearly $2 million she had been seeking for "palimony". The award was later overturned. Marvin had made several movies around Tucson during his career and had a fondness for the area.

In 1975, he moved to a ranch in the Tucson area where he resided until his death from a heart attack in 1987.

Answer: Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt's family lived in Tucson for several generations, and she was born there in 1946. She left Arizona in the 1960s for the California music scene where she became the lead singer of the folk rock trio, The Stone Poneys, who had hit song in 1967 with the Mike Nesmith (of Monkees fame) song "Different Drum".

As a solo singer, she became one of the most successful singers of the 1970s with a variety of cross-genre songs including "Blue Bayou", "You're No Good" and "When Will I Be Loved".

In the 1980s, she explored other genres including opera and Latin music, releasing an album dedicated to her Mexican heritage. Despite being associated with the California music scene, Ronstadt continued to own property in Tucson and remained active in the Arizona political scene.