Questions:
1) What was Stephen Spielberg's first directing job?
2) The ancient Chinese used what may have been the first insecticide. Name the compound and the insect it was intended to kill.
3) Born in Cleveland, this composer has been inextricably linked with the bop era. Writing for artists ranging from Count Basie to Dizzy Gillespie, this composer worked with Miles Davis in 1949 before sliding into drug worries and, ultimately, prison on 1959. Who was this man, composer of "If You Could See Me Now" and "On A Misty Night"?
Answers:
1) The TV pilot for Night Gallery in 1969. He directed the segment starring Joan Crawford.
2) They used powdered chrysanthemum as flea powder.
3) Tadd Dameron, who was born in Ohio in 1917, had a genius for jazz arrangements. He worked with some of the greatest jazz minds of all time, including: Miles Davis, Artie Shaw, Clifford Brown, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and Billy Eckstine. Though his life was curtailed at an early age by cancer in 1965, he is well remembered for his work with Miles Davis at the Paris Jazz Festival in 1949.
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