Sunday, May 03, 2015

Alan Rock's TriviaToday is the birthday of Big Crosby. He sang four Academy Award-winning songs – "Sweet Leilani" (1937), "White Christmas" (1942), "Swinging on a Star" (1944), "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (1951) – and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in what 1944 film ? A:Going My Way. 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 World War II? A: It was the Andrews Sisters: LaVerne, Maxene and Patty. What movie actress served on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations from 1967 to 1970?A: Actress Shirley Temple Black has been an ambassadorial figure for several decades. 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. A: Jim Thorpe won gold in both the Olympic pentathlon and the decathlon in 1912.


Q: Today is the birthday of Big Crosby. He sang four Academy Award-winning songs – "Sweet Leilani" (1937), "White Christmas" (1942), "Swinging on a Star" (1944), "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (1951) – and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in what 1944 film ?  
A:Going My Way.

Q: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 World War II?  
A: It was the Andrews Sisters: LaVerne, Maxene and Patty.

Q:What movie actress served on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations from 1967 to 1970? 
A: Actress Shirley Temple Black has been an ambassadorial figure for several decades.

Q: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.  
A: Jim Thorpe won gold in both the Olympic pentathlon and the decathlon in 1912.

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