Manny Ramirez, Moe Howard, or Jack Kevorkian Quiz

Answer: Moe

Moe Howard was born Moses Horwitz on June 19, 1897 in the small Jewish community of Bensonhurst, New York. Jack Kevorkian was born in Pontiac, Michigan on May 26, 1928. Manny Ramirez was born May 30, 1972 in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Answer: Manny

Manny's parents left the Dominican Republic in 1983 and moved to New York, hoping to build a better life in America. Manny's father got a job as a cab driver, while his mother found work in a sewing factory. After two years with their grandparents, Manny and his sisters joined their parents in 1985. Kevorkian's father was an auto worker. Moe Howard's father was a clothing cutter, while his mother was a real estate entrepreneur.

Answer: Moe

Though he made very high marks in his younger years, Moe's interest in acting, and his truancy to attend the theater, caused his school work to suffer. After dropping out of high school, Moe's parents urged him to learn a trade rather than pursue a career in entertainment. Moe tried to follow their wishes, but quit the trade school in New York after a few months.

Answer: Manny

Manny was, not surprisingly, a star on his baseball team at George Washington High School in New York. Manny could hit for power and rarely struck out, but it was his great speed that made him a base stealing threat as well.

Answer: Jack

Kevorkian, born to Armenian immigrants, grew up in Pontiac, Michigan during The Great Depression. With little money, young Jack found comfort and enjoyment listening to baseball games on the radio. He dreamed of being the one broadcasting those games, but a medical career sparked his interest by the time he began attending the University of Michigan.

Answer: Moe

On June 7th, 1925, Moe Howard married Harry Houdini's cousin, Helen Schonberger. When she became pregnant, Helen urged Moe to leave show business and find more stable work. Moe briefly worked in real estate and tried opening his own retail store, but he found it difficult to make a living with an ordinary job. Almost two years after leaving show business, Howard returned to performing.

Answer: Manny

Joe Delucca was a scout for the Cleveland Indians. Joe helped sign Manny to a $250,000 bonus contract with Cleveland in 1991, assigning him to the Indians Burlington farm team in the Appalachian League.

Answer: Manny

Manny's sister Clara said this about her baseball playing brother. Manny once described himself as "very timid", and once said, "I don't know how to express myself enough." Growing up speaking Spanish, the language barrier may have been one of the reasons Ramirez was reluctant to speak to reporters.

After signing with the Boston Red Sox in 2001, Ramirez was noticeably more relaxed when talking to the media.

Answer: Manny

In Santo Domingo during the early and mid seventies, milk in the poor neighborhoods was often harmful or nonexistent. Growing up in poverty, Manny's family compensated by doing several things out of the ordinary, such as breast feeding the children to a much older age.

Answer: Moe

Moe Howard was very different than the leader of the Three Stooges he played on screen. Moe was very introverted and found it difficult to express his feeling to others. He would often give gifts as a way of showing his feelings for someone, and took great joy in helping the needy.

A life long member and three time president of the Spastic Children's Guild, Moe would play Santa for the children and commit himself, as well as the other Stooges, to hundreds of benefit performances each year.

Answer: Jack

Many of Kevorkian's paintings centered around death and violence. For a painting he called "Genocide", Kevorkian stained the frame with his own blood.

Answer: Moe

Moe and his wife Helen were blessed with Joan in 1926. Paul was born in 1934, the same year The Three Stooges signed with Colombia Studios to make their classic short films.

Answer: Jack

Janet Adkins, a 54 year old in the early stages of Alzheimer's, was Jack Kevorkian's first assisted suicide. Two days after video taping a session in which he asked Adkins several questions to determine her mental state, Kevokian set up the machine he called the Mercitron in the back of his Volkswagen van where the suicide took place.

Answer: Jack

Jack was the son of Armenian refugees and grew up hearing stories of the mass killing of Armenians by Turks during World War 1. Some have pointed to quotes like this one as an example of Kevorkian's obsession with death.

Answer: Jack

The Mercitron is the machine Kevorkian used to assist people in committing suicide. After inserting a needle into a vein in the arm, the person committing suicide would hit a switch, injecting sodium pentothal which made them fall asleep within seconds. After about a minute, a lethal dose of potassium chloride entered the body, obviously causing death.