I Can Act. No Wait. I Can Sing! Quiz

Answer: Annette Funicello

It was Annette Funicello who was the performer that managed to take time out from "The Mickey Mouse Club" to have rock and roll success in the late 1950s with "Tall Paul", a 1958 hit which reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1958 and "O Dio Mio" which reached number ten in 1960.

She also had other notable tunes such as "Pineapple Princess" and "First Name Initial" which both charted as top 20 hits. Later, in the 1960s, she was one of the featured actresses in a series of beach party movies.

Answer: Shelley Fabares

Shelley Fabares made her acting debut at age ten and soon thereafter got the role of "Mary Stone" on the success sitcom called "The Donna Reed" show, which ran on U.S. television for five years (1958-1963). She also received a recording contract during that time and had a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1962 with "Johnny Angel". Fabares continued to act in the 1970s and 80s and was then cast as the female lead on the series "Coach" which ran from 1989 to 1997.

Answer: Rick Nelson

Rick or "Ricky" Nelson was the son of band leader Ozzie Nelson and his wife Harriet, and he debuted on the 1949 radio version of the show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", which became a television sitcom in the 1950s. Nelson debuted as a singer on the TV version of the show in 1957, and went on to a recording career in which he landed a total of 53 tunes on the Billboard charts.

Some of his most popular tunes included "Poor Little Fool" (His first number one tune)"Travelin' Man", "Hello Mary Lou", and 1972's "Garden Party". Nelson also appeared in a number of feature films such as "Rio Bravo" (1959) and "The Wackiest Ship in the Army" (1960).

Answer: Ringo

Canadian native Lorne Greene starred for 14 years as Ben Cartwright on "Bonanza", one of the most successful television shows of all time. In 1964, he took time out from his schedule to record "Ringo", the story of a legendary gunfighter Johnny Ringo.

It is said that the lyrics did not match the facts and some poetic license was taken, but the song still reached the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts that year. Greene continued his acting career well into the 1980s.

Answer: Bobby Sherman

Bobby Sherman was a house singer on the popular mid 1960s music show called "Shindig". He had been trying to break into the recording industry for a number of years, but his break came after the success of the television show called "Here Come the Brides" which debuted on American television in 1968.

Sherman became one of the most popular actors on the show and was given a recording contract. His first hit called "Little Woman" peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. he followed up with other Top 20 hits such as "Julie (Do Ya Love Me)", "Easy Come, Easy Go", and "La La La".

Sherman eventually got his own show, as well as making guest appearances on a number of episodes of Jack Webb's "Emergency". Sherman eventually left show business and started a career in law enforcement.

Answer: Mike Douglas

No, not Springer! It was Mike Douglas whose singing career actually started in the late 1940s with the Kay Kaiser Band. In the early 1960s he started doing a talk show, first from Cleveland, and then from Philadelphia in syndication, called "The Mike Douglas Show".

In 1966 he recorded a song called "The Men in My Little Girl's Life" which recounted the men in a daughter's life as she grows up, from father, to boyfriend and then husband. The song became a Top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100 charts that year.

The music career didn't continue, but the TV show ran until 1982.

Answer: Let Her In

"Let Her In" was a number ten charting tune for Travolta in 1976, the year after the debut of "Welcome Back Kotter", the very funny and successful sitcom which launched Travolta into a superstar career. His motion picture debut was in "Carrie" (1976). Travolta went on to a superstar career in motion pictures and charted a number one tune along with Olivia Newton-John called "You're The One That I Want" from the motion picture soundtrack of "Grease" (1978).

Answer: King Tut

Comedian Steve Martin first came to our attention as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late 1960s. He also became a frequent guest on a number of late night variety shows, notably "The Tonight Show" (Johnny Carson). He made some appearances on "The Gong Show" and became a multiple time host on "Saturday Night Live".

In 1978 Martin teamed up with some members of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to record "King Tut" which peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and sold over one million copies.

His singing career didn't exactly take off but Martin's career as a comedian/actor continued and he has made frequent television and motion picture appearances over a career that spans 40+ years.

Answer: Rick Springfield

It was Rick Springfield who had a song called "Speak to the Sky" in 1972 which actually cracked the Billboard Top 20. Springfield's subsequent tunes were not as successful and during the mid 1970s he concentrated on an acting career. In 1978 he played a role in a TV pilot called "Saga of a Star World" which eventually became "Battlestar Galactica" and in 1981 he landed the role of Dr. Noah Drake on the soap opera called "General Hospital".

The album "Working Class Dog", which he recorded before getting the soap opera role, took off and "Jessie's Girl" hit the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1981. Subsequently, he had Top 10 hits such as "Don't Talk to Strangers", "Affair of the Heart" and "Love Somebody". Springfield acted on the soap opera from 1981 through 1983 and then returned to reprise his role from 2005 through 2008.

Answer: False

His character was Frisco Jones, but his name was Jack Wagner. Wagner played the part on "General Hospital" for almost twelve years from 1983 through 1995 with a few short breaks in between. In 1984 he recorded an album called "All I Need", and the title song from that album became a number two Billboard Hot 100 hit. Wagner had four other singles on the Billboard Hot 100 charts between 1984 and 1987.

He also spent five years on the prime time soap called "Melrose Place" from 1994 through 1999.