Monday, May 03, 2010

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) Today is Bing Crosby's birthday. He sang four Academy Award winning songs: "Sweet Leilani" (1937), "White Christmas" (1942), "Swinging on a Star" (1944), and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (1951). He also won the Academy Award for Best Actor in what 1944 film?

2) Can you name the three sisters who recorded more than 100 songs, selling more than 90 million records, with a strong series of appearances to troops in WWII?

3) Who was the only athlete to win gold in both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the Olympics? For bragging rights, name the year he set this record.

Answers:

1) Going My Way.

2) They were LaVerne, Maxene, and Patty -- The Andrews Sisters.

3) Jim Thorpe, in 1912.

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