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Calendar Boys Trivia Quiz

I was born August 31st, as were all of the following Calendar Boys. This is my first quiz, so please be gentle and hopefully have fun too.

A multiple-choice quiz by zippolover. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
zippolover

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
353,279

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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498

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which handsome leading man, who fell for a "Pretty Woman", is a Buddhist? Hint

Richard Gere

Tom Cruise

Tom Hanks

Richard Harris

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which lover of brown eyed girls is from Northern Ireland? Hint

Vin Deisel

Van Morrison

Bob Geldof

Paul David Hewson

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which athlete won the gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles at both the 1976 and 1984 Olympics? Hint

Carl Lewis

Johnathan Edwards

Daley Thompson

Ed Moses

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which "Music Man" and comedian was an emergency replacement for Lou Costello in 1954 and played the sidekick to a "Love Bug"? Hint

Harry Secombe

Bob Hope

Buddy Hackett

Harry Belafonte

5. Which lyricist is most known for creating some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film, most often in collaboration with Frederick Loewe? Hint

Bing Crosby

Elton John

Alan Jay Lerner

Ira Gershwin

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which reformed serial rapist and racist became an an early leader of a political party as well as a published author? Hint

Eldridge Cleaver

Bill Cotton

Bill Clinton

Louis Armstrong

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which Israeli-born violinist is regarded as one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th and 21st centuries? Hint

Mel Brooks

Itzhak Perlman

Albert Einstein

Yehudi Menuhin

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who is the aristocratic, New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry? Hint

Isaac Newton

Dmitri Mendeleev

Michael Faraday

Ernest Rutherford

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which member of "The Magnificent Seven" was born in Laurel, Nebraska and went on to play Henry J. Waternoose III in "Monsters Inc."? Hint

Yul Brynner

Eli Wallach

Robert Vaughn

James Coburn

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which African American actor and comedian is best known for playing the role of Detective James Carter in the "Rush Hour" film series? Hint

Chris Tucker

Denzel Washington

Eddie Murphy

Harry Belafonte

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which handsome leading man, who fell for a "Pretty Woman", is a Buddhist?

Answer: Richard Gere

Richard Tiffany Gere was born in 1949 in Philadelphia and has been working since the early 1970s. Who can forget the much anticipated scene in "American Gigolo", where he is shown full frontal, gazing dreamily out of a window?

2. Which lover of brown eyed girls is from Northern Ireland?

Answer: Van Morrison

George Ivan (Van) Morrison was born in 1945. After being given a guitar when he was 11 by his father, he started his first group just a year later and the rest, as they say, is history.

3. Which athlete won the gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles at both the 1976 and 1984 Olympics?

Answer: Ed Moses

Edwin (Ed) Corley Moses was born in 1955. During his career between 1977 and 1987, he set the world record four times.

4. Which "Music Man" and comedian was an emergency replacement for Lou Costello in 1954 and played the sidekick to a "Love Bug"?

Answer: Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett, birth name Leonard Hacker, was born in 1924 and died in 2003. He married in 1955 and had a son, Sandy. Buddy and his wife established the Singita Animal Sanctuary in San Fernando Valley, California.

Answer: Alan Jay Lerner

Born in 1918, Alan Jay Lerner won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards.
"Brigadoon", "Love Life", "Paint Your Wagon", "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot" are just a few of his hits.

6. Which reformed serial rapist and racist became an an early leader of a political party as well as a published author?

Answer: Eldridge Cleaver

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) was inspired by Malcolm X. "Soul on Ice" started out as a series of essays written while he was still in prison.

7. Which Israeli-born violinist is regarded as one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th and 21st centuries?

Answer: Itzhak Perlman

Perlman, who was born in 1945, appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" twice in 1958. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963 and went on to win the Leventritt Competition for classical musicians in 1964 and soon after that he began to tour widely. He continues to make guest appearances on American television shows such as "The Tonight Show" and "Sesame Street", and often performs at the White House.

8. Who is the aristocratic, New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

Answer: Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, 1871-1937, discovered the concept of radioactive half-life and is widely credited with first "splitting the atom" in 1917.

9. Which member of "The Magnificent Seven" was born in Laurel, Nebraska and went on to play Henry J. Waternoose III in "Monsters Inc."?

Answer: James Coburn

James Harrison Coburn III (1928-2002) made his film d�but in 1959, and went on to appear in more than sixty films. He was Britt, the laid-back knife thrower in "The Magnificent Seven", one of the four who did not survive.

10. Which African American actor and comedian is best known for playing the role of Detective James Carter in the "Rush Hour" film series?

Answer: Chris Tucker

As well as the Rush Hour films, Christopher "Chris" Tucker, who was born in 1971, also appeared in "House Party 3", "Friday", "Money Talks" and "The Fifth Element", among others. He is now a born-again Christian.

Source: Author zippolover

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