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But For Me, It Was Tuesday Trivia Quiz

Tuesday Weld

Tuesday Weld is a retired actress, perhaps best remembered as the girl Dobbie Gills' was in love with on "The Many Loves of Dobbie Gills". How much do you know about Tuesday Weld?

A multiple-choice quiz by Ilona_Ritter. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
Ilona_Ritter
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
414,345
Updated
Apr 04 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
144
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Question 1 of 10
1. What is Tuesday Weld's real first name? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Tuesday's first credited acting role on IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) was as Dori in a 1956 musical that is not well known. What was it called? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. For what did Tuesday Weld win a Golden Globe Award in 1960? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. When Tuesday Weld guest-starred on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", whose girlfriend did she play?


Question 5 of 10
5. What happened when Weld was only three years old? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. In which movie did she appear with Dick Clark? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. How did Susan Weld get the name Tuesday Weld? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Tuesday Weld played the woman that Dobie Gillis was in love with for 17 episodes of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". What was her character's name? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Why did Tuesday Weld have trouble selling their beach home, where she and her third husband (now ex-husband) Pinchas Zukerman had lived in Montauk, New York? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Tuesday Weld retired from acting in 2001. What was her last acting role? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What is Tuesday Weld's real first name?

Answer: Susan

Susan Ker Weld was born on August 27, 1943, in Manhattan, New York City, United States. She started acting in 1955 and continued working until she retired in 2001.
2. Tuesday's first credited acting role on IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) was as Dori in a 1956 musical that is not well known. What was it called?

Answer: Rock Rock Rock!

Dori (Tuesday Weld) wanted to buy a strapless gown for her prom. It was exciting because the dance will have rock and roll music, but her father cut off her allowance because Dori had no concept of finances and he wanted her to learn to value money. She had to figure out a way to get the money, and the dress, and not lose her boyfriend Tommy (Teddy Randazzo), to the new rich girl Gloria (Jacqueline Kerr).

Connie Francis dubbed Tuesday's singing.
3. For what did Tuesday Weld win a Golden Globe Award in 1960?

Answer: Most Promising Female Newcomer

Tuesday Weld won Most Promising Female Newcomer for her role as Dorothy Nichols in "Pennies from Heaven". The movie also starred Danny Kaye. The other nominees were Angie Dickinson, Janet Munro, and Stella Stevens.
4. When Tuesday Weld guest-starred on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", whose girlfriend did she play?

Answer: Ricky's

She guest-starred four times on the show as three different characters. They are listed in season six, (an uncredited girlfriend of Ricky's), twice in season seven as Connie (also Ricky's girlfriend), and then in season eight as Cathy (also Ricky's girlfriend).
5. What happened when Weld was only three years old?

Answer: Her father died.

Tuesday's father was Lathrop Motley Weld. He was part of the Weld family that has a lineage, back in Boston, Massachusetts, that extends to the 1300s in London England, where there was a Weld who was once a High Sheriff of London. Lathap Motley Weld was a Harvard graduate and served in World War I. He was married four times and had five children, Tuesday, being the most famous.
6. In which movie did she appear with Dick Clark?

Answer: Because They're Young

"Because They're Young" was about a high school teacher, Neil Hendry (Dick Clark), who tried to help troubled students. He also fell in love with the principal's secretary, (Victoria Shaw). Neil also had a troubled past of his own, he was the guardian of his nephew Eric (Stephen Talbot) whose parents were killed in the car that Neil was driving. One of his students was Griff Rimer (Michael Callan), he was a troubled student and seemed to know something about Anne Gregor (Tuesday Weld) that he was not sharing.
7. How did Susan Weld get the name Tuesday Weld?

Answer: Her childhood nickname was Tu-Tu.

Susan Weld's young cousin Mary Ker (on her mother's side) could not say Susan when they were younger, so she said Tu-Tu. That stuck as her nickname growing up. Eventually, it got extended to become Tuesday. She legally took the name Tuesday in 1959.
8. Tuesday Weld played the woman that Dobie Gillis was in love with for 17 episodes of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis". What was her character's name?

Answer: Thalia Menninger

Thalia Menninger was a beautiful blonde who was rich and extremely greedy. She refused to marry Dobie (Dwayne Hickman) because he did not make enough money. Dobie's father (Frank Faylen) was the owner of a grocery store. Dobie helped out in the store.
9. Why did Tuesday Weld have trouble selling their beach home, where she and her third husband (now ex-husband) Pinchas Zukerman had lived in Montauk, New York?

Answer: murder-suicide connection

Zukerman and Weld owned a house that previously belonged to Norman Kean. Kean was the producer of the off-Broadway musical, "Oh! Calcutta!". He killed himself after murdering his wife, actress Gwyda Donhowe in the apartment in 1988, in Manhattan, NY.

Even though it was not connected to Montauk, NY, the fact that Kean was connected to the house, made people not want to buy it. It took three years for the house to sell, and then it was sold at a very reduced price.
10. Tuesday Weld retired from acting in 2001. What was her last acting role?

Answer: Sasha on "Intimate Affairs"

Tuesday Weld played Sasha, the wife of Nick Nolte who played Faldo. They were costars in the film which starred a younger group such as Neve Campbell (as Alice) Dermot Mulroney (as Edgar), and Alan Cummings (as Oscar) in a story about a group who try to scientifically study sex. However the study did not go as well as expected and it was concluded by all, except Edgar, that sex could not be studied like that, but must be learned about by being experienced.
Source: Author Ilona_Ritter

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