I Heard He's Not Even a Real Doctor Quiz

Answer: Basketball

Julius Winfield Erving II was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time team, as well as being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993. He is considered a key figure in introducing a new style of play to the game--that of leaping and playing above the rim of the hoop. Before Dr. J, "dunking" was considered a show-off move used by larger players to flaunt their size.

The "slam dunk" became his signature move. During his career, the style of basketball play changed to the more athletic mode we see today.

Answer: Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel is the author of 46 children's books. In response to a 1954 "Life" magazine article that blamed illiteracy in school children on the fact that their primers were boring, William Ellsworth Spaulding, the director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin publishing company, challenged Geisel to use 250 basic words to "bring back a book children can't put down." (Menand, Louis [2002-12-23]. "Cat People: What Dr. Seuss Really Taught Us") The result of this challenge was "The Cat in the Hat." A perfectionist in his work, Geisel would sometimes spend up to a year producing a book. "Green Eggs and Ham," the fourth-best selling English-language children's hardcover book of all time, was written as a result of a bet between Geisel and his publisher Bennett Cerf that Seuss could not write an entire book using only fifty words. Geisel succeeded famously!

"Dr. Seuss" passed away in 1991. An inspirational quote attributed to him is, "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

Answer: Rolling Stone

"The Cover of the Rolling Stone" was written by Shel Silverstein, multi-talented author, cartoonist, poet, songwriter and playwright who notably penned "The Giving Tree," "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "A Boy Named Sue." Ray Sawyer, who lost an eye in an auto accident and has worn an eyepatch ever since, sang lead on the song for the band.

The band never got their photograph on "Rolling Stone", but did get a caricature on the cover on March 29, 1973, with text reading, "What's Their Names Make The Cover." "Rolling Stone" was only five years old at the time, and the song was great publicity for them.

Answer: Pajamas

Dr. Dentons are footie pajamas--a one-piece garment made of a heavy fabric with long sleeves, legs and booties to cover the wearer's feet--usually worn by infants and young children. Whitney Denton, an employee of the company who created the original design, was not actually a doctor.

The term "doctor" was used as a marketing ploy to suggest that the product was designed and endorsed by a physician.

Answer: Doc Bundy

Doc Bundy competed in the International Motor Sports Association. He won the GTO Category at the 24 Hours of LeMans, after which he drove for Jaguar, Ford, Chevrolet (Corvette) and Porsche. As of 2013, Doc is a key member of Regogo Racing. Paul Rego is the owner and founder, while Doc is the head of the race team.

Answer: Dentist

John Henry Holliday earned his DDS in Pennsylvania and set up practice in Atlanta, Georgia. After developing tuberculosis, he moved to the American Southwest in hopes that the climate would improve his condition. There, he took up gambling as a profession and became close friends with Wyatt Earp.

He is best known for that relationship, and for his participation in the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Although Doc did have a temper, there is little actual hard evidence to support him having killed more than a couple of men--if that many.

It is thought that he allowed rumors of his menace as a deadly gunslinger and knife-fighter to persist without correction because a gambling man needed to be respected and feared. According to Wyatt Earp, "Doc was a dentist, not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean, ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew." ("Doc Holliday," John Myers [1973]) Doc Holliday died of tuberculosis in 1887, at age 36.

Answer: Disc Jockey

Barret Eugene "Barry" Hansen picked up his nickname when a coworker referred to his program as "demented." For over forty years, beginning in the 70s, his show ran on various radio stations and in syndication, focusing on novelty songs, strange recordings from the early days of records to the present, and comedy.

He introduced listeners to such idiosyncratic artists as Tom Lehrer and "Weird Al" Yankovic. Other songs gaining exposure on his show include "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" (Elmo and Patsy), "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV, "Monster Mash" (Bobby "Boris" Pickett) and "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp)" by Allan Sherman. Frank Zappa appeared several times as a guest on Dr. Demento's show.

He also had visits from Mel Brooks and the satire/parody/improv hard rock trio Spinal Tap--in full costume and in character for three hours! Possessor of a Master's Degree in folklore and ethnomusicology, Barry Henson contributed many articles under his own name to such magazines as "Rolling Stone" and "Hit Parader." "The Dr. Demento Show" runs in streaming format, which allows for more flexibility in length.

Answer: Yes

The son of German immigrants who settled in Indianapolis, Indiana, William Mathias Scholl used his grandfather's tools to repair shoes in order to earn extra cash. After moving to Chicago to work for a shoe retailer, he noticed that many customers suffered from similar problems with their feet.

He began taking night classes, and in 1904 graduated from the Illinois Medical School as a podiatrist. His first patent was for a mechanical arch support. After starting his own business, he patented such helpful items as cushion insoles, anticorn pads, orthopedic shoes and exercise sandals.

Answer: Johnny Carson

Carl Hilding Severinsen was nicknamed "Little Doc," after his father, who was a dentist. He learned to play the trumpet when he was seven, and was gifted enough to be asked to join the high school band only a week after beginning to play. He joined "The Tonight Show Band" in 1962, became the bandleader in 1967, and led the NBC Orchestra until Johnny Carson's 1992 retirement. During his time on the show, he was known for his musical skill, for his witty interactions with Carson, and for his flashy attire.

Answer: He was a serial killer

Dr. Shipman, known as "Doctor Death," is the only physician in Britain known to have murdered his patients. While he was found guilty of 15 murders, he is suspected of having killed up to 250 people. His pattern seemed to consist of overdosing his patients with the painkiller diamorphine, signing their death certificates, then falsifying their medical records to document a history of poor health.

Although stolen jewelry and at least one forged will have been mentioned, Shipman's motives were never clear.

He committed suicide in prison by hanging himself.