Questions:
1) After naming his son after himself, this famous individual later paid the son a weekly allowance to use another name.
2) What is a paraprosdokian?
3) What was the first name of the fictional "Scrooge"?
4) Bass player Ray Brown was once married to this vocalist.
Answers:
1) Thomas Alva Edison. The grown-up son was a drunk and involved in shady business deals. They went to court and Junior demanded and got a weekly payment of $50 to stop using his father's name.
2) A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which a sentence or phrase ends in an unexpected manner, to the point where the reader or listener has to reinterpret the first part. Example: "Two guys walked into a bar - the third one ducked."
3) Ebenezer
4) Ella Fitzgerald
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