Ask a question about someone famous & see if anybody knows the answer without using Google - Part 2

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1) What country does R. Crumb live in? (answered)

2) What famous punk rock singer's real name is Eric Reed Boucher?

3) What was the first feature length film Mickey Rourke was in? (answered)

4) Why was Harlan Ellison expelled from Ohio State?

5) Where did Clint Eastwood live during his teenage years?

6) What U.S. senator did Kamala Harris intern for?

7) What was John C. Reilly's first film?

8) Approximately how much did Richard Simmons once weigh?

9) What was the first major league team that Satchel Paige played for? (answered)

10) What was John Candy's final film? (answered)

11) What college did Lindsay Buckingham attend?

12) What was Gram Parsons' father's nick-name?

13) What was Gram Parsons' birth name?

14) What was the name of the band Roy Orbison & friends formed in high school?

15) What musician released an album with a title that was the name of a real person, whose name was misspelled?

16) What was Lindsay Lohan's first movie?

17) What was the name of the band Alan Freed started while still in high school?

18) What was the cause of Robert Mitchum's death?

19) What was Steve McQueen's final film?

20) Name one of the bands Bob Dylan formed in high school? (answered)

21) How many kids did Woody Guthrie have?

22) In what city did Tom Hanks attend high school?

23) What rock musician who has been performing for more than 25 years is a vegan?

24) What was the first film Carl Reiner directed?

25) What was Etta James' first big hit song?

26) What country was Carroll O'Connor living in when Norman Lear asked him to play the lead in what would become "All in the Family"?

27) In which magazine does Jay Leno have a regular column in? (answered)

28) What was Bobby Darin's birth name?

29) What was the name of the first band Jimi Hendrix formed?

30) A) Which character on "3rd Rock" is John Lithgow's son?
B) Which character on "3rd Rock" is Dom DeLuise's son?

31) What was Billy Bob Thornton's first film appearance?

32) What famous musician did Mark David Chapman "accost" the day before he murdered John Lennon?

33) Who was the first announcer for "The Tonight Show"?

34) What movie did Tom Hanks make his film debut in?

35) Why did Jerry Garcia's mother take him out of Balboa High School in San Francisco and move 90 miles north to Cazadero, CA?

36) What actor was extremely disappointed because he didn't get to play Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction?

37) What was the last film Robert Altman directed?




More questions from Part 1
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[cayugafalls]

1. I only know 2.

1. R. Crumb lives in France. At least he did last I knew, he may have moved.

3. A very young Mickey had a small part in 1941 if I remember correctly.

[red dog 1]

4. Ding! Ding!

You got 'em both

[First Speaker]

2. First, the serious answers; second, the smart-ass answers...

...seriously? #9, Cleveland Indians. God bless Bill Veeck. #10, I'm almost sure, is Wagons East, one of the dumbest movies ever made. And I think #19 is The Enemy of the People, Ibsen, no less...rather strange material for Steve McQueen. OK--the smart-ass answers. #4? Knowing Mr Ellison, I rather hope it was related to sex/drugs/booze/the fact that he was a space alien. Yes, that covers a lot of territory...but if it was *all four*... Anyway. #28? Bobby Darin's birth name, of course, was Lee Harvey Oswald. (Darin was never quite the same singer after the unfortunate events of 1963.) And Tom Hanks made his film debut playing Judy Garland's kid brother in *Meet Me in St Louis*. (He's older than he looks.)

[red dog 1]

7. Well, you got # 9 right

# 10 & # 19 are incorrect.....(Hint to # 19, it was made the year following Wagon's East)

As far as # 4, the reason Harlan Ellison was expelled from Ohio State had nothing to do with sex,drugs or booze.


btw, when you say "Knowing Mr. Ellison"...did you actually know him, or was that a rhetorical statement?

[First Speaker]

10. Rhetorical, I'm afraid...

...or maybe not so afraid, since I'm not sure I was up for such a bracing experience...:-/...

[red dog 1]

12. I was merely curious as to whether or not you actually "knew" Harlan Ellison, that's all.

Your "Knowing Mr. Ellison" could be taken two ways:
1) You did actually "know" him, or
2) You "know his work" or have read many of his stories etc.

Bracing experience"?

[First Speaker]

13. I just knew him from his work...

...and by "bracing experience", I just met that actually meeting him might have had that effect. He lived--and wrote--at a higher level than is given to us mere mortals...

[red dog 1]

15. I agree, he was a truly exceptional writer

Wikipedia has a lengthy article about him, including listing all the awards he won,
(Eight Hugo Awards)

My favorite short story of his is "Driving in the Spikes".
...but I also love "The 3 Most Important Things in Life" and "Gopher in the Gilly"

Also, if you haven't already read it, I strongly suggest that you Google:
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" by Gay Talese in the April 1966 issue of Esquire, which became "one of the most famous pieces of magazine journalism ever written."
You can read the entire story, which includes Sinatra's clash with Harlan Ellison.

[First Speaker]

16. My favorites were "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" and "Jeffty is Five"...

...but he was almost endlessly inventive. Oh--and of course, "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes".

[red dog 1]

17. I updated my reply

Check out "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" by Gay Talese (Esquire, April 1966)

[red dog 1]

3. What actress is Neil Young married to?

[Mendocino]

22. Daryl Hannah

[red dog 1]

25. Ding!

(I always liked her)

[musette_sf]

5. 15.

[red dog 1]

9. Nope

(Not Leonard Skinner, who was one of the band member's teachers)

[red dog 1]

32. Here's a clue:

The musician who put out the album title misspelling a real person's name is an extremely prolific songwriter.

[musette_sf]

33. Steve Allen?

Just kidding. I have no idea.

[red dog 1]

36. Not Steve Allen; but Steve Allen had the person on his show.

[musette_sf]

6. 1.

[red dog 1]

8. Which part of France does R. Crumb live in?

(just curious)

[Orrex]

11. 19. The Hunter?

34. Does Mazes & Monsters count?

37. I cheated and Googled to see if my guess was correct, but I was wrong anyway.

[red dog 1]

14. What was Walter Matthau's first movie?

[red dog 1]

18. What was Burt Reynolds' first film?

[red dog 1]

19. Approximately how much is Dan Aykroyd worth?

(Guesses are welcome)

[red dog 1]

20. Who was known as "the Fastest Guitarist in the Wast"?

[red dog 1]

21. In what film did Robin Williams have his first starring role?

[Mendocino]

23. #20

The Golden Chords

[red dog 1]

24. Ding!

[Angleae]

26. #10 Wagons East

[red dog 1]

29. Ding!

[jmowreader]

27. 27 is Popular Mechanics

[red dog 1]

30. Ding!

[jmowreader]

28. Arlo Guthrie once claimed he took down the Nixon Administration. How?

[red dog 1]

31. What did Harlan Ellison have mounted all over the outside of his home?

[jmowreader]

34. Rusty Torres played in two famous baseball games in the 1970s. Name them.

[jayfish]

35. 34 and 36.

Bachelor Party?
Tom Cruise?

[red dog 1]

37. Ding!

You got # 34 right

[jayfish]

38. Damn.

I know the answer to 36. I just can't recall what it is.