Monday, March 27, 2006

Alan Rock's Trivia Questions

Q: On this date in 1920, swashbuckling hero Douglas Fairbanks joined America's sweetheart in Hollywood's most famous marriage. What was her name?
A: Mary Pickford. Fairbanks admitted he owed everything to Mary, especially his swashbuckling. It was Mary who kept unbuckling his swash.

Q: The physicist Wilhelm Roentgen was born March 27, 1845. What did he discover?
A: The x-ray. It was a major breakthrough in medicine. Before the x-ray, the only way doctors could see inside a patient's body was to hold him up to the light.

Q: In 1952 the film "Singing in the Rain" premiered at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Other than Gene Kelly, can you name the stars?
A: Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor and Jean Hagen.

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