30 Years +. . . Time marches On
Quiz
#8
1. He has a cousin
named Mickey Gilley, and another named Jerry Falwell, a Baptist minister.
He is:
a. Jerry Reed
b. Jerry Vale
c. Gerry Gresnahan
d. Jerry Lee Lewis
e. Jerry Van Dyke
2. Jimmy Davis was a
country-western singer, songwriter and politician (two terms as as Governor
of Louisiana). When finished with politics, he retired, and said if he lived
to be 100 years old, he wanted to stand up on a stage in the sough on his
100th birthday and sing the song he made world-famous. What was that song?
a. “You always hurt the one you love”
b. “You are my sunshine”
c) “You’re so vain”
d) “You made me love you”
e) none of the above
if “e” – then what was it?
3. What singer was known
as “The Chairman of the Board”?
a) Louis Armstrong
b) Elvis Presley
c) Bing Crosby
d) Chuck Berry
e) none of the above
if “e” – then who was it?
4. What do singer Johnny
Cash, former president Harry S. Truman and former major league catcher JW
Porter (from the 50s) all have in common?
a) All were born in the same state
b) All were originally singers in Memphis
c) All served in various capacities in Washington DC
d) All have only initials for their middle name
e) All of the above
5. In what this writer calls the greatest pure baseball game every played, Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game, as the LA Dodgers shut out the Cubs 1-0 on September 9, 1965 (five days later, a rematch at Wrigley Field came out different). The Cubs pitcher was nearly as good, allowing only one hit. Who was the Cubs pitcher that night, and who had the only hit in the game (it didn’t even figure in the one run that scored)? Hint: before the Cubs, the pitcher played for the Milwaukee Braves and SF Giants; the man who got the hit for the Dodgers later played for the Cubs, and had a piece of his ear missing.
6. “Que Sera Sera”
was a hit song from a Doris Day movie in the middle 50s. In which of her movies
did she sing the song?
a) “The man who knew too much”
b) “Pillow talk”
c) “Please don’t eat the daisies”
d) “Calamity Jane”
e) None of the above
if “e” – then what was the name of the movie?
Match these singers with
their teenage tragedy songs
7. Mark Dinning
8. J Frank Wilson
9. Ray Peterson
10. Dickie Lee
11. Everly Brothers
12. Thomas Wayne / Fleetwoods
13. Sue Thompson
a. “Sad Movies
Make Me Cry”
b. “Tell Laura I Love Her”
c. “Teen Angel”
d. “Last Kiss”
e. “Tragedy”
f. “Ebony Eyes”
g. “Patches”
