Another One Bites the Dust Trivia Quiz

Answer: Walter Matthau

The Neil Simon play, "The Odd Couple" was a huge hit for Walter and his screen partner Jack Lemmon. Walter and Jack appeared together in 9 films together between 1968 and 1997. They also both appeared in "JFK" in 1971 but did not appear on screen together. He died on 1st July 2000.

Answer: Alec Guinness

He won the 1957 Oscar for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and was of course Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars: Episode VI - return of the Jedi". In "Kind Hearts and Coronets" he played eight different roles, looking different in each of them. He died on 5th August 2000.

Answer: Hedy Lamarr

In 1942 she, together with George Antheil, was the co-inventor of the earliest known form of the telecommunications method known as "frequency hopping". It was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or to jam. Frequency hopping is now widely used in cellular phones and other modern technology but as the patents were allowed to expire before the communications boom, she didn't make any money from it.

She died on 19th January 2000.

Answer: David Tomlinson

David's first wife Mary, killed herself and her two children from a previous marriage by jumping out of a New York hotel window in 1943. He died on 24th June 2000.

Answer: Douglas Fairbanks Jr

He held the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit from the U.S. government for his combat service in PT boats and gunboats and was awarded the British Distinguished Service Cross, the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre for his services during World War II. He died on 7th May 2000.

Answer: Anthony Quinn

He turned his back on Hollywood at one stage and returned to great success on Broadway in "A Streetcar Named Desire", a role made famous by Marlon Brando. This was critical to his future career. He was cast opposite Brando in "Viva Zapata!" because of the potential rivalry between the two as a result of playing that role and of course it resulted in his first Oscar.

He died on 3rd June 2001.

Answer: Jack Lemmon

He was an accomplished pianist and wrote the theme for the movie "Tribute" (1980). He was a great friend of the director Billie Wilder, who directed him in 7 movies. Jack was born in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, in Massachusetts in 1925. He died on 27th June 2001.

Answer: George Harrison

The Quarrymen went on to become The Beatles. George shares an Oscar with the other members of the Beatles for the score of "Let It Be", a film about the Beatles' attempts to get back together by making a new album but unfortunately it drove them further apart. George died on 29th November 2001.

Answer: Nigel Hawthorne

The Oscar nominated film was "The Madness of King George". He will forever be linked to his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby in the TV series "Yes Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister". He died on 26th December 2001.

Answer: Troy Donahue

He became a star following the success of the 1959 film "A Summer Place", with his good looks and blue eyes often appearing on the covers of magazines. His biggest success was "Parrish" (1961). His real name was Merle Johnson, which he used as his character name in a small part in "The Godfather: Part II". He died on 2nd September 2001.