1. Proceeds from a 1997 CD featuring an all-star jazz band will go to a foundation that
aids people who suffer from dyslexia, a condition suffered by the namesake of the
organization. The head of the foundation contributed an original tune to the album to
honor his son who died from gunshot wounds alongside a Los Angeles highway. FTP,
name this now famous son, the inspiration for the fictional character, Theo Huxtable.
A: Ennis COSBY
2. Billed as the worlds oldest rapper with the release of her album The March of Time,
she once remarked that she had only one wrinkle and she was sitting on it. She took
advantage of her popularity because, as she told a reporter, "I waited 120 years to become
famous and I intend to take advantage of that as long as possible." FTP, name the
woman who died in Arles, France at the age of 122, the oldest documented case of
longevity.
A: Jeanne CALMENT
3. He died on June 31, 1997 in Paris, long-forgotten by his native country. He came to
the throne in 1926 and ruled under French and Japanese protection until 1945 when he
was forced to abdicate. France reinstalled him as leader in 1949 to rival the Communist
Ho Chi Minh government, but he was eventually deposed once again in 1955 by Ngo
Dinh Diem. FTP, name the last emperor of the Nguyen dynasty of Vietnam
A: BAO DAI
4. He was found dead in his South Pasadena, Florida home December 30, 1996, the day
after a fight outside a doughnut shop. Known for playing characters as bizarre as his
personality, he collaborated with Dennis Hopper in films such as Colors and The Hot
Spot, as well as acting in forgettable films as such as Johnny Dangerously and The
Blob. His most famous characters were fish lover Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and Henry
Spencer, a role that impressed then student-filmmaker David Lynch that he cast the actor
in nearly all his subsequent movies. FTP, name the star of Lynch's movie Eraserhead.
A: Jack (or John) NANCE
5. He attempted suicide in 1953, but failed to asphyxiate himself, if he had killed himself
during the riots of May 68 in which he participated in the occupation of the Sorbonne, he
might have become a martyr, but by waiting until 1994, no one noticed. He played a
major role in the formation of the Lettrists, but was expelled after disrupting a press
conference by Charlie Chaplin. FTP, name this founding Situationalist and author of
Society of the Spectacle.
A: Guy DEBORD
6. In an attempt to cure the bone-marrow cancer that ultimately killed him in 1990, this
industrialist had faith healers recreate Aztec healing ceremonies. A long way from his
early days when in an attempt to make money he bought Faberge eggs from the Russia to
sell in the US, a venture that a 1996 biography Dossier , claimed was little more than a
front for the Soviet government. FTP, name the man who built the Occidental Petroleum
into an empire and whose name may remind you of baking soda.
A: Armand HAMMER (do not accept Arm & Hammer )
7. Follow That Bird, The Clown Murders, The Rescuers Down Under, Splash, Heavy
Metal, Summer Rental, JFK, Spaceballs, Home Alone, and Uncle Buck are all movies on
the resume of this actor. FTP, name the actor whose last, and perhaps most forgettable,
role was in Canadian Bacon.
A: John CANDY
8. Born in Lübeck, Germany on December 18, 1913 as Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, when
the Nazis came to power he changed his name and fled to Norway and then neutral
Sweden for the remainder of the war. From 1964 to 1987 he served as the chairman of the
German Social Democratic Party, despite being forced to step down a Chancellor after
aide, Günther Guillaume was unmasked as an East German spy. FTP, name this exmayor of West Berlin known for his Ostpolitik .
A: Willy BRANDT
9. Born on February 27, 1917, in Floresville, Texas, he died June 15, 1993 in Houston,
not earlier in Dallas like most would have thought. There he was originally sitting in the
back seat, but moved to the front which resulted in the bullet hitting his back, chest, wrist,
and thigh. FQTP, name the three-term governor also shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
A: John Bowden CONNALLY , Jr.
10. As an architect he was always connected with fire even before he died of lung cancer.
An inmate of his Lindemann Mental Health Center once immolated himself on the alter
of the building's chapel. Recently some of this designer's ashes were released by a
performance artist into the ventilation system of his most infamous building. FTP, name
the architect of the Art and Architecture Building at Yale which was torched by the
students enaged at its Brutalist design on Bastille day 1969.
A: Paul RUDOLPH
11. He grew up in Long Beach, California where at the age of 13 he started his first band,
Hogan's Heroes. In 1990, he dropped out of college at Cal State Long Beach one month
before graduation to devote the rest of his life to his band and heroin addiction. His death
in May 1996 from a drug overdose, two months before the release of his band's
first major album, makes him one of the few rock stars to achieve stardom after death.
FTP, name the former lead singer of Sublime.
A: Brad NOWELL
12. Born in San Francisco, he worked as an encyclopedia salesman and a school teacher
before his first acting roll in a performance in American Buffalo. His major break came
in a Broadway production of Glengarry, Glen Ross. Never a leading man, his
Hollywood career mostly consisted of subtle-psycho villains, and he was featured in
such movies as A Few Good Men, The Grifters, Sling Blade, and Good Morning
Vietnam. FTP, name this actor who died in February 1998 who kidnapped Kurt Russell's
wife in his last released movie, Breakdown.
A: J.T. WALSH (only WALSH is necessary)
13. Accounts differ as to where he was born, some say Breda Netherlands and
claim he illegally immigrated to the U.S. while he himself said he was born
in Huntington, West Virginia. His first foray into show business consisted
of placing live chickens on hot plates covered with sawdust where they
“danced” to music. Name this man FTP who made a King out of a Memphis
Truck Driver.
A: Colonel Tom PARKER
14. Having been born and raised in the Nez Perce Indian reservation in
Lapwai, Idaho, where her father was a federal marshall and blacksmith,
might attribute for Lillian Bounds independent spirit, unusual for a woman
of her day. She moved to Los Angeles in 1923 andgot work at a fledgling
studio and soon married the owner. FTP, name this woman who
convinced her husband to change his creation’s name from “Mortimer’ to ‘Mickey. ‘
A: Lilian DISNEY
4) Janet Adkins, Sherry Miller, Marjorie Wantz, Susan Williams, Lois
Hayes, Marguerite Tate, Marcella Lawrence, Jack Miller, Stanley Bell, Mary
Biernat, Elaine Goldbaum, Hugh Gale, Jonathan Grenz, Martha Ruwart, and
Ron Mansur were the first fifteen patients treated with the Mercitron
device invented FTP by what doctor of terminally ill patients.
A: Dr. Jack KEVORKIAN
Bonus Questions:
1 (30) For 10 points a piece, identify the leaders who were assassinated since 1989.
1. On May 21, 1991, a bomb at an election rally in Madras killed this former Prime
Minister of India.
A: RAJIV GANDHI
2. On June 29, 1992, a gunman in Annaba shot this President of Algeria.
A: Mohammed BOUDIAF
3. This Lebanese president was killed on November 22, 1989 when a bomb exploded
near his motorcade.
A: Rene MOAWAD
2 (30) For 10 points each, given a birthname of a celebrity who died since 1989, identify
his or her stage name. If you need additional information, you will receive only 5 points.
1. (10) Rudolf Wanderone
(5). This pool hustler was the prototype for Jackie Gleason's character in The
Hustler.
A: MINNESOTA FATS
2. (10) Sarah Cannon
(5) At the Grand Ole Opry, she was known for her wisecracking, hayseed routine.
A: Minnie PEARL
3. (10) Christopher Wallace
(5) His ironically-titled albums Ready to Die and Life After Death sold exceptionally
well after he was shot March 9, 1997in Los Angeles.
A: NOTORIUS B.I.G.
3. (30) Answer the following about dead musicians for the stated points.
1. 5 pts. - one clue only, "Minnie the Moocher"
A: Cab CALLOWAY
2. 10 pts. - a student of Schoenberg and proponant of indeterminism in music, this avant
garde composer of Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds died August 12, 1992.
A: John CAGE
15 pts. - this folk singer's body was found down river of Memphis, TN after he had gone
missing while swimming in the Mississippi two weeks earlier.
A: Jeff BUCKLEY
4. (30) Name these Beat writers who kicked the bucket lately for 5-10-15
1. 5 - the doyen of Beat poets, NPR was not allowed to broadcast a reading of his Howl
on the occasion of its 30th anniversary because the FCC deemed it obscene.
A: Allen GINSBERG
2. 10 - the grandson of the inventor of the adding machine, he became addicted to heroin
while in the army during WW II, an addiction that played no small part in the shooting
death of his wife. Name the author of The Yage Letters with Allen Ginsberg, The Soft
Machine, and The Ticket that Exploded.
A: William Seward BURROUGHS
3. 15 - this writer actually gave the Beats their name, but he spent most of the 1950s in
prison as a junkie, thief, and prostitute. Name this author Evening Sun Turned Crimson
and the autobiography, Guilty of Everything.
A: Herbert HUNCKE
5. (30) For the stated number of points, name the following musicians
1. (10) Known as one of the greatest jazz musicians in Springfield, he did not receive
citywide appreciation until after his 1995 death when Lisa Simpson got the local jazz
station to play his album Sax On the Beach.
A: BLEEDING GUMS Murphy
2. (20) This blues musician is best known for collaborating with Muddy Waters and
Buddy Guy. Proficient with the harp and harmonica, he achieved recognition with his
album Hoodoo Man Blues. He died in January 1998 and is now featured in Blues
Brothers 2000 and the new Rolling Stones tribute album.
A: Junior WELLS (also accepted: Amos BLAKEMORE)
6. (30) 30-20-10 Name the recently deceased director based upon his movie titles
30 - Variety Lights, The White Shiek
20 - Orchestra Rehearsal, The Clowns
10 - La Strada, Intermezzo
A: Federico FELLINI
7. Dead celebrity chain bonus time! For the stated number of points, name the two
recently deceased well known individuals who share a common name. For instance, if I
said An alcoholic Welsh poet and the author of Tess of the D’ubervilles, the answer
would be Dylan Thomas Hardy. Keep in mind all the following have died within the past
few years.
1. 5 points - 1) Country singer/actor and The Dukes of Hazzard cast member.
A: JOHN DENVER PYLE
2. 10 points - 2) Infamous limo driver and 1992 Democratic presidential candidate.
A: HENRI PAUL TSONGAS
3. 15 points - 3) Voice of the Yankees and a Beat poet
A: MEL ALLEN GINSBURG
8. Mae Questal passed away January 4th 1998. To most people that would not
make a difference, but to fans of early cartoons, it meant that another
legend of early film had gone to that great theater in the sky. Let’s see
how much you know about her career.
1. 5 points - 1) Name the cartoon character she did the voice of for 127 cartoons or films.
A: BETTY BOOP
2. 10 points - 2) Name the early movie star that Betty Boop’s body was modeled after.
A: MAE WEST
3. 15 points - 3) Name the last movie in which she did the voice of Betty Boop.
A: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?