Questions:
1) Which countries were involved in the Falklands War?
2) On this date in 1982, Willie Nelson's cover of "Always On My Mind" entered the Pop chart at #88, topped at #5 and won a Grammy that year for best Country song. The song originally was recorded 10 years earlier by who?
3) It is the largest artery in the human body.
4) The television series In the Heat of the Night was based on the movie of the same name. It debuted on this date in 1988, with Carroll O'Connor as the Chief and Howard Rollins as Detective Tibbs ("They call me Mister Tibbs!"). Who played those roles in the movie?
Answers:
1) The brief conflict between Argentina and Great Britain was never officially declared a war. The conflict was started when Argentine forces occupied the Falkland islands.
2) Gwen McRae was first to record the song (as "You Were Always On My Mind") in 1972. That same year Brenda Lee recorded it and so did Elvis Presley. The song has been covered over 300 times, including the hit version by the Pet Shop Boys in 1987.
3) The aorta
4) Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier
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