Don't Quote Me, Again Trivia Quiz

Answer: Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jnr was born in May 1930 in San Francisco, California. He is a film star, producer, director and composer. The first film he acted in was "Revenge of the Creature" (1955), in which he had a bit part. Following other small film roles, he was then cast in the CBS western TV series "Rawhide" as the character Rowdy Yates in 1958, which ran until 1966. He then progressed to the "Spaghetti Westerns", the first "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), followed by "For a Few Dollars More" (1965) and then "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966). He then went on to star in films such as "Hang 'Em High" (1968), "Coogan's Bluff" (1968), "Where Eagles Dare" (1968), and the musical "Paint Your Wagon" (1969). He went on to star in many more films including the "Dirty Harry" series of films. He starred in and directed his first western, the "High Plains Drifter". His movies continued on into the 80s, 90s and 2000s.

He has been nominated for an Academy Award at least 10 times, and has won four, two for "Unforgiven", two for "Million Dollar Baby" as well as the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award in 1994. He has also won many other awards.His hand- and footprints have been recorded. He has starred in over 50 films, and during his long career as an actor he has notched up at least 66 credits, and as a produced at least 38, as well as at least 37 directing credits.

Answer: W C Fields

William Claude Dukenfield (W C Fields) was born in Pennsylvania in 1880. He was an actor, writer and comedian. He was said to be somewhat misanthropic and had a hatred of "dogs, children, and women". He learned to juggle and began his career in vaudeville, and made his Broadway debut in a musical comedy "The Ham Tree" in 1906.

He starred on Broadway in Florenz Ziegfeld's "Ziegfeld Follies" reviews from 1916 to 1922. He appeared in silent films such as "Sally of the Sawdust" (1925), and "It's the Old Army Game" (1926), before progressing to "talkies" and by the early 30s he was a major star. He is well known for his performance as Mr Wilkins Micawber in the film "David Copperfield" (1935) based on the book of the same name by Charles Dickens.

His on-screen characters usually liked to drink, but he himself did not drink in his earlier career as a juggler. However, he began drinking when he started touring in plays and making movies. Fields died in a sanatorium in Pasadena, California on Christmas Day in 1946 from an alcohol-related stomach haemorrhage.

Answer: Joan Rivers

Joan Alexandra Molinsky (Joan Rivers), was born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. She is a comedian, writer, actress and television personality. One of her first roles in a play during the 1950s, was opposite the then unknown Barbra Streisand. Rivers appeared at several comedy clubs in the early 60s and made her first guest appearance on Jack Parr "The Tonight Show". She wrote for and participated in "Candid Camera" in 1965 and appeared on the Johnny Carson "The Tonight Show", which Carson had taken over from Parr. During the 60s she hosted several TV talk shows.

Her career continued into the 70s and she made appearances on "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Hollywood Squares" and wrote the TV movie "A Girl Most Likely To". She also worked in Las Vegas as the opening act for artists such as Robert Goulet and Helen Reddy. During the 80s and 90s she hosted TV shows such as "Saturday Night Live" and published a very successful book, worked in the theatre and was nominated for a Tony Award. From 2000 she broadcast from Red Carpet events and Award shows and guest-starred in episodes of "Nip/Tuck". Her and her daughter, Melissa, starred in a reality show together. She continues to work as a TV presenter and talk-show host.

Answer: Bob Hope

Leslie Townes Hope (Bob Hope) KBE, KCSG, KSS, was born in London, England in 1903. When hope was five years old, his family immigrated to the US, where they settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Hope began busking when he was about 12 years old. He sang, danced and did little comedy sketches. He worked at several jobs before deciding to enter show business and worked the vaudeville circuit for a few years and appeared on stage in Broadway. In 1934 he progressed to radio and later to television, and on to Hollywood movies. The song "Thanks for the Memory" which was to become Hope's signature tune, was introduced into one of his early films "The Big Broadcast of 1938".

He starred in seven "Road" movies with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour and he and Crosby often appeared on stage, TV and radio together until Crosby's death in 1977. Between 1939 and 1977, Hope hosted the Academy Awards 14 times. Although never winning an Oscar himself, he was presented with four honorary awards. He was well known for entertaining troops during World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and also entertained troops in Lebanon, Iraq and the Persian Gulf. He has won about 2,000 awards and honours, and President John F Kennedy presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal for service to his country. In 1980 he was the only civilian to be awarded the United States Air Force Order of the Sword, which recognised his contribution to the enlisted corps. Two months after his 100th birthday in 2003, he died at his home in Los Angeles.

Answer: Woody Allen

Allan Stewart Koningsberg (Woody Allen), was born in 1935 in New York City. His career as a writer, director, producer and movie star has covered more than 50 years. He began comedy writing in the early 50s for TV and he published several short humour pieces. He progressed to stand-up in the 60s and wrote successful Broadway plays. He went on to writing and directing and often starring in his movies. Some of his best known movies are "Annie Hall" (1977), "Manhattan" (1979), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), "Midnight in Paris" (2011) and "Blue Jasmine" (2013).

He was won Academy Awards for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directed for the Screen for "Hannah and Her Sisters"; Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and a second Oscar for Best Director for "Annie Hall". He has been nominated more than 20 times for an Oscar. He has been nominated for and won Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Awards, as well as many other awards and honours. He has been ranked at number four on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics by "Comedy Central". He has his own Jazz Band in which he play the clarinet.

Answer: Zsa Zsa Gabor

Gabor Sari (Zsa Zsa Gabor) was born in Budapest in February 1917. She had two sisters, Magda who was older, and Eva who was younger. Gabor attended a Swiss boarding school, and was discovered by the famous US tenor Richard Tauber in 1936 when she was in Vienna, and she then made her first stage appearance. She won the "Miss Hungary" title in 1936.

In 1941 Gabor emigrated to the US, where she began her career in motion pictures, her first role being as a supporting actress in "Lovely to Look At". She appeared in several films and also appeared on television. She was married nine times (twice to the same man), two of her husbands being hotelier Conrad Hilton, and actor George Sanders. In June 1986 she had her famous run-in with a Beverly Hills police officer, who had stopped her car for a traffic violation, when she slapped his face. She was in a car that crashed in 2002, resulting in her being partially paralysed and having to use a wheelchair. Because of an infection, her right leg was amputated above the knee in 2011.

Answer: Buddy Hackett

Leonard Hackett (Budd Hackett) was born in Brooklyn, New York, in August 1924. Whilst he was still in high school, he began his career by performing comedy routines in nightclubs under the name "Butch Hacker". When the US entered World War II, he enlisted in the Army and served in an anti-aircraft battery.

After the war, he changed his name to "Buddy Hackett" and performed in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He was in a play on Broadway when he was signed to do a couple of TV specials. His first film appearance was in 1950 and it was a 10 minute "World of Sports" short. His first motion picture was "Walking My Baby Back Home" in 1953 with Donald O'Connor and Janet Leigh. He was frequently seen on TV in the 50s and 60s on talk and tonight shows, and it is said that he appeared on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" more than anybody else in that show's history. He starred in the sit-com "Stanley", which was filmed live before a studio audience. He continued working in TV and movies, and his final film was "Paulie" in 1998. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died at his home in Malibu, California in June 2003 at age 78.

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Oscar Wilde) was born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1854. He was an outstanding scholar and attended Oxford University. He was fluent in German and French and read Greats (a detailed study of Greek and Roman History and Philosophy). He worked in London as a journalist, published a book of poems and gave lectures in Canada and the US on "the New English Renaissance in Art". He wrote only one novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in 1890 and then turned his hand to playwriting and became one of the best known English-language playwrights at that time. He was imprisoned for two years with hard labour for "gross indecency with other men". He found prison very hard as he had been accustomed to luxury. His health declined, and illness and hunger caused him to collapse when he ruptured an ear drum. He was released from prison in 1897 and he left England and lived in exile in Europe.

Some of his well-known plays are "Lady Windermere's Fan", "An Ideal Husband", and "The Importance of Being Earnest". He died on 30 November 1900 in Paris, France, the cause of death being cerebral meningitis.

Answer: Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), was born in November 1835, in Missouri, US. When he was twelve, he began working as an apprentice to a printer as a typesetter. His elder brother, Orion, owned a newspaper, to which the young Samuel contributed articles. He worked in the printing trade in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cincinnati and New York by day, and gained his education in public libraries at night.

He worked as a river boat pilot on the Mississippi River. Because pilots needed a great deal of knowledge of the river, he studied over 2,000 miles of the Mississippi River and received his pilot's licence after about two years. He took his pen name, "Mark Twain", from the call for a measure of the depth of two fathoms "mark twain". He briefly enlisted as a Confederate at the beginning of the American Civil War, but then went to Nevada to work for his brother. He later mined for silver (unsuccessfully) and then went to work for a newspaper and later moved to San Francisco.

During his life he wrote many famous novels, some of them being "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "The Prince and the Pauper, and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" . He is quoted as saying "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Haley's Comet ... ". He did just that: on 21 April 1910, the day after the comet's closest approach to Earth, he died of a heart attack. His book "Huckleberry Finn" is often called "the Greatest American Novel".

Answer: Billy Connolly

William "Billy" Connolly, CBE, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 24 November 1942. He is known in Scotland as "The Big Yin". He worked as a welder in a Glasgow shipyard and then became a folk singer and then went on to become a comedian. In 1975 he appeared on "The Michael Parkinson Show". He holds the record for 15 appearances on that show and he and Parkinson became good friends. He continued working in the 70s and 80s and gaining popularity.

He began his film career in the late 70s, and appeared in Monty Python "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball". This film introduced him to audiences in the US. He filmed his travels around Scotland, Australia and the US, which resulted in TV documentaries. He made guest appearances in numerous UK TV shows. Some of his movies are "Mrs Brown" with Dame Judi Dench (1997), "The Man Who Sued God" (2001), "The Last Samurai" (2003), "Gulliver's Travels" (2010) and "The Hobbit" (2014).