Rest in Peace: 2018 Trivia Game | Death Becomes Them

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1. 26 April 2018: This playwright was born in New York City in 1927. During his long career, he wrote more than 30 plays including "The Odd Couple," "Biloxi Blues," and "The Goodbye Girl."

Answer: Neil Simon

Neil Simon is well known for the number of Oscars and Tonys he won. Many of the Oscars were for screenplays based on his plays that had already won a Tony! Simon Peter was one of the 12 apostles in the New Testament. Simon Templar is the fictional character known as The Saint. Arthur Miller is the Nobel Prize winning author of "Death of a Salesman" and many other plays.

2. 6 June 2018: This famous redhead was an all-star second baseman, coach, and manager who spent most of his career with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Answer: Red Schoendiest

Red Schoendiest broke into major league baseball in 1945 and played for nineteen seasons (fifteen with the Cardinals). He was a named to ten All Star teams and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989. Red Skelton was a comedian whose variety show was one of the top rated in television during the 1950's and 1960's. Walter Alston was a manager of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers. Stan Musial was an All Star first baseman for the Cardinals and was one of Red Schoendienst's best friends.

3. 27 January 2018: Born in Sweden in 1926, this entrepreneur made his fortune as the founder of IKEA.

Answer: Ingvar Kamprad

IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, a 17-year-old carpenter. By 2015, he was listed by "Forbes" as one of the ten richest men in the world. The remaining choices are also famous Swedes: Stieg Larsson wrote the "Millennium" series featuring Lisbeth Salander; Ingemar Johansson was the world heavyweight boxing champion in 1959-60; and Lars Magnus Ericsson was an inventor and founder of the telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson.

4. 10 March 2018: This French couturier was responsible for designing many of the outfits in the personal and professional wardrobes of personalities such as Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn.

Answer: Hubert de Givenchy

The House of Givenchy, one of the most successful of all times, was founded in 1952. Karl Lagerfeld died in 2019 at the age of 85. Coco Chanel, the French fashion designer and businesswoman, died in 1971 at the age of 87. L.L.Bean is a retail company founded by L(eon) L(eonwood) Bean who died in 1967 at the age of 94.

5. 21 February 2018: This Southern Baptist evangelist was known as the religious advisor to the president, having met with all the men holding that office from Harry Truman to Barack Obama.

Answer: Billy Graham

Billy Graham's evangelical crusades were heard by billions of people during his lifetime. Dwight Moody (1837-1899), Billy Sunday (1862-1935), and Oral Roberts (1918-2009) were also leading evangelists of their times.

6. 17 April 2018: This author of "Millie's Book" also happened to be a First Lady of the United States.

Answer: Barbara Bush

Millie was the pet springer spaniel belonging to First Lady Barbara Bush and President George H. W. Bush. All the others were also First Ladies. Mrs. Eisenhower died in 1979, Mrs. Nixon in 1993, and Mrs. Ford in 2011.

7. 27 January 2018: This Kansas-born cartoonist created the strips "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois."

Answer: Mort Walker

Mort Walker's characters Beetle Bailey and Lois (Bailey) Flagston are cartoon brother and sister. Dagwood Bumstead is the husband in the "Blondie" strip. Al Capp is the cartoonist who created "L'il Abner," and Thomas Nast is a political cartoonist of the 19th century.

8. 5 August 2018: Her real last name was Lubotsky, but she used her first and middle names as her professional name. She is best known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life."

Answer: Charlotte Rae

Charlotte Rae received an Emmy nomination in 1982 for the role of Edna Garrett; she had earlier been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Emmy for "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom." Rose Marie, who passed away in 2017, began her career in 1929 as Baby Rose Marie; she is best known to television viewers as Rob Petrie's writing partner Sally Rogers on "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Mary Kay is a cosmetics corporation widely known for its pink Cadillacs.

It was founded by Mary Kay Ash, who died in 2001. Alice Faye was a popular actress of the Thirties and Forties who was married to Phil Harris.

9. 4 September 2018: A regular panelist on many game shows later in his career, this actor is best known as the "best friend" and "next door neighbor" in sitcoms such as "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Bob Newhart Show."

Answer: Bill Daily

Younger TV viewers might be more familiar with Bill Daily from seeing him on reruns of "Match Game." Larry Hagman is best known for playing J. R. on Dallas. McClean Stevenson starred as Col. Henry Blake on "M*A*S*H." Larry Sanders is a fictional late-night talk show personality played by Gary Shandling.

10. 21 May 2018: One of the tallest actors (6'6") in early television, he starred as Cheyenne Bodie in the western series "Cheyenne" beginning in 1955.

Answer: Clint Walker

Clint Walker almost died many years earlier in 1971 when he fell from a ski lift and was pierced through the heart by a ski pole. All the other choices are characters from other westerns: Nick Barkley from "Big Valley"; Lucas McCain from "The Rifleman"; and Adam Cartwright from "Bonanza."

Source: Author imahogg

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Rest in Peace: 2018 Trivia Quiz

The answer to each of the following questions will be a well-known person who died in 2018. You will be given the date of death and information about the person. Each person lived to be at least ninety years of age.

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