Stately People Trivia Quiz

Answer: landscapes, rocks, shells, bones, leaves

Although perhaps Georgia O'Keeffe's most well known works are of flowers, such as her famous "Black Iris" and "Oriental Poppies," painting of flowers accounted for only about 200 of her over 2000 paintings. The remainder of her paintings mostly depict landscapes, leaves, rocks, shells, and bones.

When Georgia's eyesight diminished to the point of near blindness, she retired in 1971 from painting.

Answer: Virginia Madsen

Virginia Madsen was hypnotized and given a trigger phrase for her scenes with Candyman, who was played by actor Tony Todd. It was director Bernard Rose's intent to make her look more like she was under the Candyman's spell, and indeed she did appear very glassy-eyed in those scenes according to viewers. However, the actress became uncomfortable with this directorial tactic after a while and so she pulled the plug on it.

Answer: Notre Dame

Before winning four Super Bowls with the San Francisco 49ers, Montana led the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to a national championship in 1977. Ironically he was actually the #3 quarterback on the roster at the beginning of that season, but after a loss at home in Week 2, and falling behind to Purdue in the Week 3 game, the head coach Dan Devine turned to Montana who led his team in a comeback to win 31-24.

They won every game for the rest of the season, culminating in a 38-10 lopsided victory in the Cotton Bowl over Heisman winner Earl Campbell's top ranked Texas.

Answer: Washington Irving

Washington Irving lived to be over 76 years-old, while Martha Washington, the next oldest lived to be 70. Her husband George lived to be 67, and Booker T. Washington lived to the age of 59.

Washington Irving died of a heart attack in his home on November 28, 1859 in Sunnyside, New York, not far from Sleepy Hollow, the setting of perhaps his most famous story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." He is also the author of "Rip Van Winkle."

Answer: His real name was Thomas Lanier Williams III

Thomas Lanier Williams III was born in Columbus, Mississippi. He began his writing career writing under his given name, but around 1938 he started calling himself Tennessee. There are conflicting explanations as to why. According to an essay he wrote, one is that it was an homage to his ancestors who had "fought the Indians for Tennessee." But in another interview he told the interviewer that he was given the nickname while a student at the University of Iowa.

He said his classmates could only remember that he was from a Southern state with a long name.

They were correct of course, but instead of remembering Mississippi, they always came up with Tennessee instead. "That was all right with me," said Tennessee, "so when it stuck, I changed it permanently."

Answer: Dallas Cowboys

After some finagling, the Dallas Cowboys maneuvered into picking first in the draft, and they chose Russell Maryland, who continued playing defensive tackle for five seasons with the Cowboys. He helped them win three Super Bowls in the 90s. In 1993 he was voted onto the All Star Pro Bowl team.

Mr. Maryland did play for the Raiders, signing with them in 1996, but they were the Oakland Raiders then, not the Los Angeles Raiders. It would have been fitting for Russell Maryland to have been drafted by the Baltimore Colts of Maryland, but by 1991, the Colts had already moved to Indianapolis anyway. Russell finished his professional career by playing one year with the Green Bay Packers.

Answer: New York Fats

Rudolf Wanderone was an actual pool hustler known by his professional entertainer name "New York Fats". Author Tevis denied his "Minnesota Fats" character was inspired at all by "New York Fats", but ... New York Fats realized that he could ride the coattails of success of Minnesota Fats when the movie proved to be a big hit, so that was it -- he was Minnesota Fats from then on.

In fact, in 1971, ten years after "The Hustler," Rudolf/Minnesota Fats played himself as the character Minnesota Fats in a movie called "The Player" (not to be confused with Robert Altman's film of the same name).

Answer: Crazy in Alabama

Dakota Johnson was only ten when she and her half-sister Stella Banderas played the daughters of their real life mother Melanie Griffith in the film "Crazy in Alabama" (1999) After acting in that film, her family didn't let her act in any more films until after she graduated from high school. And so her next role was 11 years years later in the 2010 film "The Social Network" in which she played a one-night stand that Justin Timberlake's character had.

Answer: Everybody Loves Raymond

She is perhaps best remembered and beloved for her role as Georgette, wife to Ted Baxter on the iconic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". For her efforts on that show she was nominated twice for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (1976 and 1977). She lost to Betty White in the 1976 contest (for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show") and she lost to Mary Kay Place in 1977 ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman").

But hold the phone! The correct answer to this trivia question is actually "Everybody Loves Raymond" for which Georgia Engel played Pat and received three Emmy nominations, all for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in three consecutive years, 2003, 2004, and 2005. She also lost each of those, however, respectively to Christina Applegate ("Friends"), Laura Linney ("Frasier"), and Kathryn Joosten ("Desperate Housewives).

Answer: loaded her coat with stones and walked into a river

The author of "Orlando" and "To The Lighthouse" was plagued with unhappiness and depression nearly all her life. As children she and her sister were sexually abused by two of their stepbrothers, and when Virginia's mother died, Virginia was 13-years-old.

Then her sister died two years later. The combination triggered a mental breakdown in Virginia. Seven years later (1904) her father died, leading to a complete breakdown for which Virginia was institutionalized. Breakdowns and depression would plague her for the rest of her life.

After her final novel "Between the Acts" was published in 1941 she became very depressed to the point of no longer reading or writing. She felt she would not recover and in a note to her husband she expressed that she couldn't put him through her illness any longer.

She then filled her coat with heavy stones and walked into the waters of the River Ouse (in East Sussex) and drowned at age 59.