Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) What was Count Basie's theme song?

2) Archie Bleyer was musical director for what television show?

3) What instrument did Eubie Blake play?

4) Frank Bettancourt was a notable player of this instrument.

Answers:

1) "One O'Clock Jump

2) Arthur Godfrey

3) Eubie Blake played the piano, even celebrating his 100th birthday performing live on television. He was also on a stamp in the USPS Jazz Legends series.

4) Bettancourt played the trombone.

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) Merv Griffin, Ted Knight, Soupy Sales, Adam West and Ernest Borgnine all started their careers in what job?

2) On this date in 1948, NBC became the first network to broadcast what would become a daily program. What was it?

3) Who was the first female to star in a television crime dram series?

Answers:

1) They all started out as children's television show hosts.

2) NBC began broadcasting a daily news program.

3) Anne Francis was the star of Honey West. It lasted a year, debuting in 1965.

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) Louis Armstrong came to New Orleans in 1922 to play with what band?

2) This president gave his State of the Union Address in the usual fashion of delivering a live speech. His last two were in written form.

3) This president was the first to be photographed while in office.

4) This Creole musician proclaimed himself to have invented jazz.

Answers:

1) King Oliver

2) Woodrow Wilson. The last two were written due to his having suffered a debilitating stroke.

3) James Polk was the first to have had his photograph taken - on this date in 1849 - while in office.

4) Jelly Roll Morton. Though he was one of the first musicians to play jazz and was very influential, it is doubtful that he was its "inventor."

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) On this date in 1795 this university became the first state university in the country.

2) Whose portrait appears on the two-dollar bill?

3) This was the first novel to have been written entirely on a typewriter.

Answers:

1) The University of North Carolina.

2) Thomas Jefferson

3) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) On this date in 1897, this publication began including the slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print."

2) On this date in 1942, the record industry awarded the first gold record for this song.

Answers:

1) The New York Times

2) The Glenn Miller Orchestra received the first gold record for the song "Chattanooga Choo-Choo."

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) This president was born on this date in 1773 and served the shortest term of any president before or since.

2) This baseball player was the first African-American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. The year was 1962.

3) On this date in 1960, the Hollywood Walk of Fame was instituted. Who was the first to receive a star?

4) Alexander H. Stephens served as a vice-president - for what?

Answers:

1) William Henry Harrison

2) Jackie Robinson

3) Joanne Woodward

4) He was VP to Jefferson Davis in the Confederacy

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) On this date in 1968 Planet of the Apes opened. Who were its three main stars?

2) Gary Coleman starred in this big screen flop from 1977.

3) Which president was the first to install a radio in the White House?

4) According to the Rochester Institute of Technology, your risk of being in an accident increases by 34% if you have this item in your car.

Answers:

1) Charlton Heston, Roddy MacDowell and Kim Hunter

2) Lear's remake of The Little Rascals tanked badly at the box office.

3) Warren G. Harding

4) a mobile phone