Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Alan Rock's Trivia Questions

Q: This actor was born on May 17, 1936. His many movies include Hoosiers, Blue Velvet, and Super Mario Brothers. He is...?
A: Dennis Hopper.

Q: On May 17, 1939, WXBS-TV in New York, using only one camera, became the first station to televise a sporting event. What was it?
A: A baseball game between Columbia and Princeton, with the camera set up near the third-base line. Bill Stern was the announcer. There were only 400 television sets in America.

Q: On May 17, 1975, the first record album to sell a million copies the day it was released was what?
A: Elton John's "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy."

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