For the Planet Trivia Quiz

Answer: Who is Ken Jennings?

Since it was about "Jeopardy", I put the answers in the form of a question!
All the choices given are big "Jeopardy" winners, e.g., Brad Rutter never lost a game of "Jeopardy" (to a human); Fred Spangenberg was the first to break the $100,000 winnings mark; Julia Collins won 20 straight games.
But the answer is 'Who is Ken Jennings?", whose remarkable run ended in 2004, after winning $3,270,700!

Answer: Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was a Welsh poet whose other works include "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" in 1940, and "Under Milk Wood", a 1954 radio drama which was later adapted for the stage and made into a 1972 movie. "Under Milk Wood" is a story about a day in the life of a small Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" (read it backwards). If you've never seen the movie, save yourself the time and trouble!
Thomas Beddoes was a 19th century poet who wrote "The Bride's Tragedy" (1822).
e.e. cummings wrote "anyone lived in a pretty how town".
T.S. Eliot penned "The Waste Land".

Answer: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) wrote under the pen name of Lewis Carroll. He created "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in 1865 and "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "Through the Looking Glass", all in 1871. His characters are nothing if not memorable: who could forget the White Rabbit and the smile of the Cheshire Cat (even after the rest of him had disappeared).
The authors of the other choices: "The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum,
"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett and "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens.

Answer: Cindy Williams

"Laverne and Shirley" aired from 1976 to 1983. Laverne DeFazio was played by Penny Marshall who went on to bigger things, like directing "Big" in 1988 and "A League of Their Own" in 1992. Cindy Williams played the more demure Shirley Feeny and had previously been in the George Lucas movie "American Graffiti" in 1973. She was also on the TV series "Normal Life" in 1990.

Answer: The Trouble with Harry

All of the choices listed are films directed by "the master of suspense", Alfred Hitchcock. "The Trouble with Harry" is about a corpse found on a local hillside in a small town, and no one is sure how it got there or what happened or what to do with the body.

Some of the town's residents fear they may have been responsible for Harry's death, e.g., Jennifer Rogers, a single mother (played by Shirley MacLaine) who knew Harry and seems glad he is dead, and Captain Albert Wiles (Edmund Gwenn) who may have been hunting rabbits at the time.

The film could be classified as a 'screwball comedy' which seems quite different from the usual Hitchcock fare.

Answer: Joel Coen

Joel Coen is a writer, producer and director of such movies as "Fargo", "The Big Lebowski" and "Barton Fink". He partners with his brother Ethan under the name The Coen Brothers. They have received over ten Academy Award nominations, including the 2007 movie "No Country for Old Men" which won a Best Picture Oscar.

Answer: Doug Ross

"ER" was about the lives and loves of the doctors and nurses at Chicago's County General Hospital. It appeared on television from 1994-2009. Michael Crichton ("Jurassic Park") was the writer of this show which featured George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross and Julianna Margulies as Nurse Carol Hathaway.

Answer: On Top of Old Smoky

It was "all covered with snow". Old Smoky is a mountain, but no one is sure as to its location. It could be in the Ozarks or the Appalachian Mountains or the song could go back as far as Elizabethan times. Pete Seeger wrote a new arrangement with new words; this was the version the Weavers used in their 1951 hit.

It reached number two on the Billboard chart and sold over one million copies. It also became a signature song for Burl Ives the same year, reaching number ten on the Billboard chart.

In 1962 a parody was written called "On Top of Spaghetti".

Answer: Norah Jones

Norah Jones is an American singer who has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. She won Grammy Awards for Best New Artist (2003), Record of the Year for "Don't Know Why" (2003) and "Here We Go Again" (2005), Best Female Pop Vocal for "Don't Know Why" and "Sunrise" (2005) and more! Billboard named her the top jazz artist for the decade of 2000-2009.

She comes by her talent naturally with the good genes of her father, sitar player Ravi Shankar.

Answer: We Are the World

In 1985, 40 artists got together calling themselves 'U.S.A. for Africa' and created the song heard 'round the world' - "We Are the World"!
The clues all involved the names of the singers on the hit record:
1) Waylon JENNINGS had a fit when it was suggested they include a line in Swahili. 2) Bob DYLAN does not like when critics say he can't sing. 3) Stevie WONDER was one of the first to be asked to sing by Richie and Rogers. 4) CINDI Lauper appears to be one of the most passionate singers. 5) HARRY Belafonte was the leading force. 6) Billy JOEL seemed afraid to mess up. 7) Diana ROSS was inspired. 8) SMOKEY Robinson was a miracle. 9) Quincy JONES wrote it.