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3, 2, 1...Blast Off! Trivia Quiz

Numbers and movies, TV shows and numbers! Titles in each truly count and numbers are often a general rule in them. This quiz will be titles that contain digits, starting at 10. Tick, tick...

A multiple-choice quiz by Gatsby722. Estimated time: 11 mins.

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Gatsby722

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Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. Ten...
The astronauts have taken their seats. No, not 10 of them! Just 3 this trip. The captain, Jean Luc Kirk-Janeway, readied the crew and checks the monitors. All seems ready to go. He gets to thinking about the movie his son was watching last night. It was a film even Jean Luc enjoyed as a teen - simply called "10" that came out in 1979. Yes, he remembered the delicious Bo Derek in that one and thought, at the time, Ms. Derek was closer to a '15', at least. As the crew straps in Kirk-Janeway was trying to remember that classical song that was such a hit from the movie. Romantic stuff it was. What fine tune did "10" reintroduce to a generation of frisky boys? The captain has a hot flash. Must be the engines heating up... Hint

"She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" by The Beatles

"La Boheme" by Giacomo Puccini

"Bolero" by Maurice Ravel

"The 1812 Overture" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

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Question 2 of 10

2. Nine...
First Lieutenant Vivien Butler Ricardo is now strapped into her seat. She's a smart and hearty one but is still a little peeved that this get-up she is forced to wear in these outer space adventures really yields the most irksome examples of flop sweat and 'helmet hair'. The tower has counted down to Nine, the vessel is now sealed. Suddenly she thinks of that "Star Trek - Voyager" Borg character 'Seven Of Nine' on TV. Which of these is right about that quizzical alien cutie? Hint

She wasn't really an alien. Seven Of Nine was born a human until those rascal Borgs got a hold of her and complicated everything.

In infancy, Seven Of Nine's parents sacrificed her to The Borgs to save their own Vulcan/human necks.

The character was played by the former runway model (in real life) Irene Ryan.

The character was originally a male of her species but was mechanically altered so as to bear little Borgs.

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Question 3 of 10

3. Eight...
Astronaut Tony "Gene" Southfork is on board indulging in his very first space flight. Naturally, he is excited but nervous. Funny how the most fearful aspect, for him, being up among the stars is the lack of gravity and all that pesky floating around. He was telling his wife and daughters over breakfast this very morning how he used to get carsick as a child and was sure he'd throw up once he lost his footing in space (Tony skipped on the bacon and eggs). His daughters giggled and giggled. He'd miss his girls and he missed that cancelled TV show "Eight Simple Rules...For Dating My Teenaged Daughter", too. Funny show, that one. What was NOT one of the father's eight non-negotiable rules the title of that series referred to? Hint

If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure as heck not picking anything up.

If you join our family for dinner there are several things it is perfectly all right to 'pick'. You may pick the topic of conversation as long as it is tasteful and of the same variety one might hear on "The Brady Bunch". Noses and ears are off limits.

I'm sure you've been told in today's world, sex without using a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate: when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I WILL kill you.

You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you don't peer at anything below her neck. If you can not keep your eyes or hands off my daughter, I will remove them.

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Question 4 of 10

4. Seven...
The crew hears the countdown hit this lucky number as they sit and wait, immobilized and generally anxious. It is strangely quiet in the aircraft - were they outside of it the noise would be deafening. As is required, science is on their minds but the occasional 'civilian' thought creeps in here and there. Capt. Kirk-Janeway is thinking about writing a bestseller about this (sounds like greed to me) and his mate Sgt. Southfork is mighty hungry (a little gluttony, perhaps?). Just seconds away from launch and the Seven Deadly Sins still manage to find their way into the human condition. There was a movie about those sins called, appropriately, "Se7en" which starred Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt as detectives on an especially gruesome case. The film is widely known about but can you remember the names of those two detectives in the film? Hint

William Somerset and David Mills

Hercule Poirot and Joe Friday

William Mills and David Somerset

David Williams and Somerset "Sonny" Mills

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Question 5 of 10

5. Six...
Lt. Ricardo sits stock still as the ship begins to vibrate ubderneath her. This was it! They were really going to take off and were halfway there. She remembered something she had been taught while training for this mission: when possible devise a mental picture that will divert you from the stress at hand. This was a good idea indeed just about then. She'd been named partly after Vivien Leigh's character in "Gone With The Wind" so she thought about Scarlet O'Hara's hoop skirts and ribboned bonnets. Those lovely hats. Then she remembered a girl in a TV show nicknamed 'Six' who liked her flippety floppety hats, too. She had seen the pilot of that show "Blossom" and even remembered how Miss 'Six' got that nickname. Do you recall how she ended up called that? (Note: on the show it was only mentioned briefly and only in the very first episode. That's the answer we need here...) Hint

'Six' LeMeure was nicknamed after the number of beers consumed by her parents on the night she was conceived.

Poor 'Six' had six webbed toes on each foot (which is why she was never shown barefoot). They almost called her "Quacky".

She was born on June 6th at 6PM and weighed in at exactly 6 pounds - after 6 hours of hard labor allegedly.

She was the sixth child (and only daughter) of the LeMeures. The name just stuck.

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Question 6 of 10

6. Five...
The speakers scream the numbers through the headgear of Sgt. Southfork. "All right, aleady," he's thinking, "let's get this bucket of bolts up in the air!" He's not thinking much about the small fact that in just moments he'll be part of aeronautic history. No, not that at all. Gene Southfork is still hungry. He should have had at least a little toast this morning. He smiled to himself remembering a 1970 film that Jack Nicholson was in playing a middle-class drifter who had a classic scene where he was trying to order toast at a little diner. The problem was that toast wasn't on the menu but Jack, as Jack always does, wanted some anyway and Jack, as Jack does, found a clever way of ordering some. In which film was Nicholson trying to get a simple piece of toast? Hint

Five Card Stud

Five Easy Pieces

Five Days One Summer

Five Things You Always Wanted To Know About A Lunatic* ( *But Were Afraid To Ask)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Four...
Engines at full throttle now and by this time the ship's support structure should be falling away to free the vehicle for ascension. Capt. Kirk-Janeway was filled with the awe of this exploration soon to happen. He thought space exploration was a thrill unmatched, a fantastic way to live out one's dreams. He can't figure out why movies and TV keep running through his head. Anyway, he was now daydreaming about the 2002 film "The Fantastic Four", especially the super hero who turned himself into this invincible rock-like thing called, coincidentally, 'Thing'. In the movie his humanoid name was Ben Grimm when he wasn't fossilized or whatever and the actor who played him is associated with one of these television shows. Which one, I ask, while hoping that Commander Kirk-Janeway gets back to paying attention to what he's doing? Hint

Century City

The Shield

Dark Angel

Opposite Sex

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Question 8 of 10

8. Three...
It looks like there is no turning back for our space travellers now. They all decide that they should do one last head count before taking off. Why? There's only three of them and none are likely to have wandered off anywhere. For heaven's sake, where would they go? Just to make it fun they had decided to assign pet names to one another for just this occasion. Number One was Jane, Number Two was Eve Black and Number Three was Eve White. These nicknames came from the movie "The Three Faces Of Eve" (1957) starring Joanne Woodward as a befuddled young woman with three distinct personalities, each living somewhat independently of the other. The story was loosely based on fact and, according to the film, what traumatic event caused poor Eve, Eve and Jane to split into thirds like that? Hint

When just six she watched her father shoot her beloved horse and only 'friend' to death after it injured itself critically.

Her aunt had made her attend a Jerry Lewis film festival which, as you might expect, had dire repercussions.

She was kidnapped at her 12th birthday party and brutally tortured and brainwashed for nearly an entire month until she was found.

As a child she was forced to kiss her Grandmother's corpse which frightened the little girl senseless - literally!

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Question 9 of 10

9. Two...
Needless to say, Kirk-Janeway, Ricardo and Southfork are now holding on tight resisting the temptation to close their eyes (hard to watch guages and do that at the same time, after all). The ship is moving a little. Ground Control assures them that everything is functioning smoothly and that launch should go without a hitch. A collective sigh of relief to that! Ricardo says a short audible prayer to 'The Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The guys didn't need to hear that but not for the reasons you might think. For some reason it reminded them both of a 90s situation comedy called "My Two Dads". It was about a teenager whose mother dies and she is left in the care of her father. Well, two fathers actually since Mom had a fling with both men at about the same time the baby would have been created. It was a pretty decent premise for a show but we're wondering whether we, the audience who watched them all get used to each other, ever found out which Dad was the official Dad. Did the writers ever spill the beans about that little detail?

Yes

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Question 10 of 10

10. One...
For crying out loud! This is a smooth take-off? So, too, must be a ride through a garbage disposal. There had been warnings that it would be a rough ride to start, though, and once they hit the right altitude it would be like a slide through jello. Let's hope so, but, for now, a song comes to mind to the three vulnerable Earthlings as they rise. Something like this:
'Listen, children, to a story
That was written long ago
'Bout a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley-folk below.
On the mountain was a treasure
Buried deep beneath the stone
And the valley people swore
They'd have it for their very own...'

Our astronauts were feeling like that - climbing that mysterious mountain, aspiring to that treasure up there somewhere. Anyway, what movie song do those lyrics come from? Hint

'One More Commercial And I'll Scream' from "The Truman Show"

'Marooned Without You One More Time' from "Joe Versus The Volcano"

'One Tin Soldier' from "Billy Jack"

'One More Hour' from "Ragtime"

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Ten... The astronauts have taken their seats. No, not 10 of them! Just 3 this trip. The captain, Jean Luc Kirk-Janeway, readied the crew and checks the monitors. All seems ready to go. He gets to thinking about the movie his son was watching last night. It was a film even Jean Luc enjoyed as a teen - simply called "10" that came out in 1979. Yes, he remembered the delicious Bo Derek in that one and thought, at the time, Ms. Derek was closer to a '15', at least. As the crew straps in Kirk-Janeway was trying to remember that classical song that was such a hit from the movie. Romantic stuff it was. What fine tune did "10" reintroduce to a generation of frisky boys? The captain has a hot flash. Must be the engines heating up...

Answer: "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel

Jenny Miles (AKA Bo Derek) did just about everything else but come in through the bathroom window - she certainly found her way into songwriter George Webber's middle-aged head in this funny film. Dudley Moore did a fine turn as George, smitten from a distance by the alluring Jenny.

He was so taken, he follows her to Mexico (these days he would be called your basic stalker) and chaos certainly ensues. "Bolero" was heard everywhere at the time the movie became a hit as it was the resounding, sensual theme that followed this peculiar 'romantic' endeavor.

It was such a phenomenon that a movie named "Bolero" was later released, hoping to capitalize on the popularity of the music and especially Derek. It bombed and Bo's acting skills, shall we say, didn't measure up to her measurements.

2. Nine... First Lieutenant Vivien Butler Ricardo is now strapped into her seat. She's a smart and hearty one but is still a little peeved that this get-up she is forced to wear in these outer space adventures really yields the most irksome examples of flop sweat and 'helmet hair'. The tower has counted down to Nine, the vessel is now sealed. Suddenly she thinks of that "Star Trek - Voyager" Borg character 'Seven Of Nine' on TV. Which of these is right about that quizzical alien cutie?

Answer: She wasn't really an alien. Seven Of Nine was born a human until those rascal Borgs got a hold of her and complicated everything.

Actress Jeri Ryan would never be confused with that other actress Irene Ryan (who played a very dissimiliar creature as Granny in "The Beverly Hillbillies"). That said, Seven Of Nine was born Annika Hansen to two very regular humans who, by pure crappy luck, were abducted by The Borgs who "assimilated" the whole family. Eventually Annika was mostly restored to humanness after a procedure that removed 82% of Borg hardware from her personage, thus freeing her from the Borg collective mind.

This done through the neutralization of the upper-spinal column neurotransceiver, which I'm sure happens all the time, or maybe not! She retained a few metallic parts which were deemed necessary to keep her alive which is why she had that distracting eye.

3. Eight... Astronaut Tony "Gene" Southfork is on board indulging in his very first space flight. Naturally, he is excited but nervous. Funny how the most fearful aspect, for him, being up among the stars is the lack of gravity and all that pesky floating around. He was telling his wife and daughters over breakfast this very morning how he used to get carsick as a child and was sure he'd throw up once he lost his footing in space (Tony skipped on the bacon and eggs). His daughters giggled and giggled. He'd miss his girls and he missed that cancelled TV show "Eight Simple Rules...For Dating My Teenaged Daughter", too. Funny show, that one. What was NOT one of the father's eight non-negotiable rules the title of that series referred to?

Answer: If you join our family for dinner there are several things it is perfectly all right to 'pick'. You may pick the topic of conversation as long as it is tasteful and of the same variety one might hear on "The Brady Bunch". Noses and ears are off limits.

The sudden death of John Ritter put the brakes on this very enjoyable show when he died from an "aortic dissection" in 2003 at the age of just 54. They tried to keep it going, working the family's loss into plot lines, but it mostly stopped being funny and soon went off the air.

There really were 8 official rules (all of which are listed in the Trivia section of the show's page on imdb.com) and they were hysterical to read, in an 8-simple-rules-I'd-never-actually-say-but-you-know-I-mean-them-anyway style. Two noteworthy others dealt with showing up for a date in ridiculously baggy pants and/or taking the daughter to places lacking parents, policemen or nuns. Nose picking, however, never made the list.

4. Seven... The crew hears the countdown hit this lucky number as they sit and wait, immobilized and generally anxious. It is strangely quiet in the aircraft - were they outside of it the noise would be deafening. As is required, science is on their minds but the occasional 'civilian' thought creeps in here and there. Capt. Kirk-Janeway is thinking about writing a bestseller about this (sounds like greed to me) and his mate Sgt. Southfork is mighty hungry (a little gluttony, perhaps?). Just seconds away from launch and the Seven Deadly Sins still manage to find their way into the human condition. There was a movie about those sins called, appropriately, "Se7en" which starred Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt as detectives on an especially gruesome case. The film is widely known about but can you remember the names of those two detectives in the film?

Answer: William Somerset and David Mills

Somerset was just inches away from retirement when along comes this stomach churning case and a go-getting young upstart with whom he was partnered to solve it. 1995's "Se7en" was all about a serial killer who killed his victims in a systematically themed way, one each for every deadly sin - he made one fellow eat himself to death for the sake of 'gluttony' and so forth.

It was a hellish tale, beautifully photographed and acted, but very unsettling nonetheless. The performance by Freeman as Somerset was awesome.

He did his best acting without saying much since it was all clear on his face and mannerisms. The 30 years of human depravity had taken a strong toll and this final crime spree had to be one of the worst of them. Gwyneth Paltrow played the unfortunate young Mrs. Mills and Kevin Spacey played the villain...which begs the question: does Spacey ever play anyone remotely normal?

5. Six... Lt. Ricardo sits stock still as the ship begins to vibrate ubderneath her. This was it! They were really going to take off and were halfway there. She remembered something she had been taught while training for this mission: when possible devise a mental picture that will divert you from the stress at hand. This was a good idea indeed just about then. She'd been named partly after Vivien Leigh's character in "Gone With The Wind" so she thought about Scarlet O'Hara's hoop skirts and ribboned bonnets. Those lovely hats. Then she remembered a girl in a TV show nicknamed 'Six' who liked her flippety floppety hats, too. She had seen the pilot of that show "Blossom" and even remembered how Miss 'Six' got that nickname. Do you recall how she ended up called that? (Note: on the show it was only mentioned briefly and only in the very first episode. That's the answer we need here...)

Answer: 'Six' LeMeure was nicknamed after the number of beers consumed by her parents on the night she was conceived.

Such trickery. "Blossom" was the one who really liked the hats, but her best buddy Six followed suit and had one on quite often. Also, later on, the show made it seem that her name did, in fact, indicate her birth order (although the gender of her siblings was never revealed). Truth is, it being a family show and all, they thought it best not to glorify the notion that young Six was the result of a good beer buzz so it never was mentioned after that initial airing.

The show ran only from 1991 - 1995 (it seemed longer, didn't it?) and Jenna Von Oy played Six with Mayim Bialik doing the honors as "Blossom".

6. Five... The speakers scream the numbers through the headgear of Sgt. Southfork. "All right, aleady," he's thinking, "let's get this bucket of bolts up in the air!" He's not thinking much about the small fact that in just moments he'll be part of aeronautic history. No, not that at all. Gene Southfork is still hungry. He should have had at least a little toast this morning. He smiled to himself remembering a 1970 film that Jack Nicholson was in playing a middle-class drifter who had a classic scene where he was trying to order toast at a little diner. The problem was that toast wasn't on the menu but Jack, as Jack always does, wanted some anyway and Jack, as Jack does, found a clever way of ordering some. In which film was Nicholson trying to get a simple piece of toast?

Answer: Five Easy Pieces

Robert Dupea was a strange bird, more or less, in "Five Easy Pieces". The character was born into culture and money and had great promise as a concert pianist but decided to skip all that, roam aimlessly, work in oil fields and impregnate live-in waitress girlfriends. Was this part tailor made for someone like Jack Nicholson or what? As we follow Dupea he receives a phone call from his sister informing him that their father is dangerously ill and he ventures home to see him.

This does not work out well by any stretch of the imagination and the family dynamics explode in a hurry. Just to make it worse Robert takes up with his brother's fiancee! No, folks, this was not a comedy.

In fact it was a deadly serious character study. The "toast" scene was a hoot, though.

The server just would not bring him toast but suggested a chicken salad sandwich (on toast) instead. While not verbatim he told her to give him one of those. Skip the chicken, scrape off the mayonnaise, pitch the lettuce, charge him for the whole sandwich and bring him the darned toast. Clearly not aware of who she was dealing with the lady asked "So you want me to hold the chicken?".

He responded in the affirmative and, of course, proceeded to tell her exactly where she could hold the chicken. Don't worry, he could have been much ruder about it. It's actually a very very good movie, if I do say so myself.

7. Four... Engines at full throttle now and by this time the ship's support structure should be falling away to free the vehicle for ascension. Capt. Kirk-Janeway was filled with the awe of this exploration soon to happen. He thought space exploration was a thrill unmatched, a fantastic way to live out one's dreams. He can't figure out why movies and TV keep running through his head. Anyway, he was now daydreaming about the 2002 film "The Fantastic Four", especially the super hero who turned himself into this invincible rock-like thing called, coincidentally, 'Thing'. In the movie his humanoid name was Ben Grimm when he wasn't fossilized or whatever and the actor who played him is associated with one of these television shows. Which one, I ask, while hoping that Commander Kirk-Janeway gets back to paying attention to what he's doing?

Answer: The Shield

All of these shows had actors in them who finally became one of the members of the erstwhile "Fantastic Four". Ioan Gruffudd was in "Century City" but we know him now as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic much better. Jessica Alba from "Dark Angel" is currently near and dear to our hearts as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman. "Opposite Sex" introduced us to Chris Evans or the ever heroic Johnny Storm/Human Torch these days. Michael Chiklis, who plays the unorthodox cop Vic Mackey on "The Shield", is the thespian who has the alter ego of a large pebble in "The Fantastic Four". You might recall Chiklis from the show "The Commish" or the film "Wired" wherein he portrayed John Belushi as well. Stay tuned! "The Fantastic Four 2" is on its way to a theater near you...good, bad or indifferent as that may seem.

8. Three... It looks like there is no turning back for our space travellers now. They all decide that they should do one last head count before taking off. Why? There's only three of them and none are likely to have wandered off anywhere. For heaven's sake, where would they go? Just to make it fun they had decided to assign pet names to one another for just this occasion. Number One was Jane, Number Two was Eve Black and Number Three was Eve White. These nicknames came from the movie "The Three Faces Of Eve" (1957) starring Joanne Woodward as a befuddled young woman with three distinct personalities, each living somewhat independently of the other. The story was loosely based on fact and, according to the film, what traumatic event caused poor Eve, Eve and Jane to split into thirds like that?

Answer: As a child she was forced to kiss her Grandmother's corpse which frightened the little girl senseless - literally!

Gosh, granted kissing a corpse is unpleasant for even an adult but that kid must have been a fragile little thing for sure to lapse into psychosis because of having to do it just that once. But that's what happened. Woodward was named Best Actress for her work in this movie which was rather daring for its time. Mental illness was not a common vessel for entertainment, especially when done in such a complex way. What a role, though, for an actress to grab. Being a saint, a floosie and perfectly regular all at once in the same body? Jane, the regular persona, emerged dominant in the end of things as one would expect.

This viewer was kind of rooting for Jane Black to win but that would certainly not have been a very nice ending. Also, all due apologies to Jerry Lewis 'grin'.

9. Two... Needless to say, Kirk-Janeway, Ricardo and Southfork are now holding on tight resisting the temptation to close their eyes (hard to watch guages and do that at the same time, after all). The ship is moving a little. Ground Control assures them that everything is functioning smoothly and that launch should go without a hitch. A collective sigh of relief to that! Ricardo says a short audible prayer to 'The Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The guys didn't need to hear that but not for the reasons you might think. For some reason it reminded them both of a 90s situation comedy called "My Two Dads". It was about a teenager whose mother dies and she is left in the care of her father. Well, two fathers actually since Mom had a fling with both men at about the same time the baby would have been created. It was a pretty decent premise for a show but we're wondering whether we, the audience who watched them all get used to each other, ever found out which Dad was the official Dad. Did the writers ever spill the beans about that little detail?

Answer: No

Needless to say, DNA testing was never a feature of this show. Had it been there would have been very little to do! We are left to forever wonder whether it was stressed out and stuffy businessman Michael (played nicely by Paul Reiser) or laid back and free thinking rock musician Joey (also played nicely by Greg Evigan) who sired young Nicole Bradford.

As it went the daughter got the best angles of two very opposite parenting techniques and we simply assumed she was a better person for that as time went. "My Two Dads" ran from 1987 - 1990 and never got moralistic about the fact that a woman can have unprotected sex with two men during the same time frame.

The story had more goodness and light in it than a fireworks display at Disneyland does.

Despite all that, it was pretty fun to watch. Another time when the teenager had a whole heap of better sense than most of the adults combined.

10. One... For crying out loud! This is a smooth take-off? So, too, must be a ride through a garbage disposal. There had been warnings that it would be a rough ride to start, though, and once they hit the right altitude it would be like a slide through jello. Let's hope so, but, for now, a song comes to mind to the three vulnerable Earthlings as they rise. Something like this: 'Listen, children, to a story That was written long ago 'Bout a kingdom on a mountain And the valley-folk below. On the mountain was a treasure Buried deep beneath the stone And the valley people swore They'd have it for their very own...' Our astronauts were feeling like that - climbing that mysterious mountain, aspiring to that treasure up there somewhere. Anyway, what movie song do those lyrics come from?

Answer: 'One Tin Soldier' from "Billy Jack"

Billy Jack, dressed in black while he 'walked tall carrying a big stick', emerged as a bit of a hero in the 1970s. You had to love the fellow, his being part Superman and part Supervigilante and all. Billy made his debut in "The Born Loser" in 1967 and was played by Tom Laughlin (in that movie he was up against marauding bikers and the film was relegated to drive-in theaters). "Billy Jack" (1971) toned it down allowing our hero to save a hippie-ish school from racism. The song, originally sung by the Canadian band Caste went nowhere in 1969. It was an enormous hit in 1972 for the combo Coven in '72, thanks to its inclusion in the film. It had to be that since Coven was never heard from again! Let's hope our imaginary astronauts don't suffer the same fate?

Blast off! We speed off into the wild blue yonder and are currently high up in that inviting sky. Let's enjoy the ride, shall we? I hope you enjoyed this Earthbound little quiz.

Source: Author Gatsby722

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