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Quiz about Another One Bites the Dust 17
Quiz about Another One Bites the Dust 17

Another One Bites the Dust: 17 Quiz


All these people died in the year 1982. Who were they?

A multiple-choice quiz by Spontini. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Spontini
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
367,351
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
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Question 1 of 10
1. This American actress made her first film in 1951. It was nothing much, but the following year she landed the role of Amy Kane in "High Noon", for which Gary Cooper won an Oscar, playing her husband. In 1954, she made her first film for Alfred Hitchcock, "Dial M for Murder" and became a star and followed that up with another Hitchcock film, "Rear Window" also in 1954. That year was very special for her because she also produced an Oscar winning performance in "The Country Girl" (1954). She made another Hitchcock film in 1955 and a musical comedy in 1956 which proved to be her final film. Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. This actress has won three Oscars and been nominated for an Oscar on four other occasions. Her Oscar winning films were "Gaslight" (1944), "Anastasia" (1957) and "Murder on the Orient Express" (1975). Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. This American actor came to fame when he joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" in 1975. In 1978 he had a minor role in National Lampoon's "Animal House" but the public loved his "Bluto" character and the film was a smash hit. His love of blues and soul music resulted in him and Dan Ackroyd appearing together as "The Blues Brothers" which proved successful. They made an album together and then a film of the same name. Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. This actor is best remembered for "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "12 Angry Men" (1957) and an Oscar winning performance in a film released in 1981 when he was 76 years old. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. This British actor had a string of hit films in the 1950s. They included "Genevieve" (1953), "Reach for the Sky" (1956) and "A Night to Remember" (1957). Later in his career he made several TV series such as "The Forsyte Saga" where he starred as Jolyon Forsyte and "Father Brown" where he played the title character. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. This Hugo award winning writer has had many of his works turned into films including "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" which became "Bladerunner" (1982) and "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" which became "Total Recall" (1990). He also wrote "Minority Report" (2002). Although now long dead, his work is still being made into films. Recently, in 2011, his story "Adjustment Team" was filmed as "The Adjustment Bureau". Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. This British actor is best known for playing Alfred Doolittle, father of Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" (1964), "Brief Encounter" (1945) and "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951). Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This British actor was an early star of the British soap "Coronation Street". He will always be remembered however for the role of Captain Mainwaring in the British comedy series "Dad's Army" which was about a largely elderly group of gents who formed the local Home Guard (or local voluntary defence force) to defend their neighbourhood in the event of a German invasion during the Second World War. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. This country singer was one of the most successful of all time. At the age of 17 he joined the navy, serving as a coxswain in the Solomon Islands. While there he learned to play the guitar and fell in love with Hawaiian music. After his discharge in 1947 he got his own TV show in Phoenix. His 1957 song "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" sold over 1 million copies and won him a gold disc. His signature song was "El Paso". The Academy of Country Music named him as Artist of the Decade (1960-69). Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. This French clown-comedian was descended from Russian nobility. He made his screen debut in a series of shorts notably "Oscar, champion de tennis" (1932) and "Soigne ton gauche" ("Watch your left") in 1936 which was a very funny boxing film. His most famous film is "Les Vacances de M. Hulot" (1953) (Mister Hulot's Holiday). Hint



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1. This American actress made her first film in 1951. It was nothing much, but the following year she landed the role of Amy Kane in "High Noon", for which Gary Cooper won an Oscar, playing her husband. In 1954, she made her first film for Alfred Hitchcock, "Dial M for Murder" and became a star and followed that up with another Hitchcock film, "Rear Window" also in 1954. That year was very special for her because she also produced an Oscar winning performance in "The Country Girl" (1954). She made another Hitchcock film in 1955 and a musical comedy in 1956 which proved to be her final film.

Answer: Grace Kelly

Grace married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956 and became a real princess, giving up her acting career. Her father and brother were both Olympic Gold Medal winning scullers. Her last Hitchcock film was "To Catch a Thief" and her very last film was "High Society". She was killed in a car accident in Monaco on 14 September 1982.
2. This actress has won three Oscars and been nominated for an Oscar on four other occasions. Her Oscar winning films were "Gaslight" (1944), "Anastasia" (1957) and "Murder on the Orient Express" (1975).

Answer: Ingrid Bergman

She was quite a tall lady at 5' 10" which meant that some of her male co-stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains had to wear lifts in their shoes to avoid looking too small. She died on 29 August 1982 and three weeks later she won a posthumous Emmy for "A Woman Called Golda".
3. This American actor came to fame when he joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" in 1975. In 1978 he had a minor role in National Lampoon's "Animal House" but the public loved his "Bluto" character and the film was a smash hit. His love of blues and soul music resulted in him and Dan Ackroyd appearing together as "The Blues Brothers" which proved successful. They made an album together and then a film of the same name.

Answer: John Belushi

In 1975, he starred in a Saturday Night Live sketch titled "Don't Look Back in Anger", in which he played himself as an old man visiting the graves of the other original SNL cast members. He was supposed to be the last survivor. Ironically, he was the first of the cast to die on 5 March 1982 from a drugs overdose.
4. This actor is best remembered for "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "12 Angry Men" (1957) and an Oscar winning performance in a film released in 1981 when he was 76 years old.

Answer: Henry Fonda

In 1982 he won the Best Actor Oscar for "On Golden Pond" (1981), which to my mind completed a rather odd double, as only the previous year he had received an Honorary Oscar "in recognition of his brilliant accomplishments and enduring contributions to the art of motion pictures". I suspect it wasn't expected at that time that he would ever be nominated again as he was already in his late seventies but he proved them wrong.

He died on 12 August 1982.
5. This British actor had a string of hit films in the 1950s. They included "Genevieve" (1953), "Reach for the Sky" (1956) and "A Night to Remember" (1957). Later in his career he made several TV series such as "The Forsyte Saga" where he starred as Jolyon Forsyte and "Father Brown" where he played the title character.

Answer: Kenneth More

During filming of "The Admirable Crichton" (1957), many of the shots of him in his dinner jacket on the tropical island are from the waist up to hide the fact he was wearing shorts due to the heat. He was sued for defamation by Roger Moore's real wife in 1969 when he referred to Luisa Mattioli as Roger's wife when introducing guests at the BAFTA awards.

The case was thrown out of court and he was best man at Roger and Luisa's wedding later that year. He died on 12 July 1982.
6. This Hugo award winning writer has had many of his works turned into films including "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" which became "Bladerunner" (1982) and "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" which became "Total Recall" (1990). He also wrote "Minority Report" (2002). Although now long dead, his work is still being made into films. Recently, in 2011, his story "Adjustment Team" was filmed as "The Adjustment Bureau".

Answer: Philip K. Dick

Many of Dick's stories involve alternate realities or worlds where reality is very different to what the population believes. He did see about 20 minutes of the unfinished "Bladerunner" special effects before his death on 2 March 1982. He had previously had misgivings about the project but was very happy with what he saw.
7. This British actor is best known for playing Alfred Doolittle, father of Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" (1964), "Brief Encounter" (1945) and "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951).

Answer: Stanley Holloway

In My Fair Lady (1964), he was the only member of the main cast to do his own singing. Rex Harrison and Wilfrid Hyde-White talked their way through their songs, while Audrey Hepburn and Jeremy Brett were dubbed. He died on 30 January 1982.
8. This British actor was an early star of the British soap "Coronation Street". He will always be remembered however for the role of Captain Mainwaring in the British comedy series "Dad's Army" which was about a largely elderly group of gents who formed the local Home Guard (or local voluntary defence force) to defend their neighbourhood in the event of a German invasion during the Second World War.

Answer: Arthur Lowe

He was interviewed on a BBC lunchtime magazine programme just hours before his death from a stroke on 15 April 1982.
9. This country singer was one of the most successful of all time. At the age of 17 he joined the navy, serving as a coxswain in the Solomon Islands. While there he learned to play the guitar and fell in love with Hawaiian music. After his discharge in 1947 he got his own TV show in Phoenix. His 1957 song "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" sold over 1 million copies and won him a gold disc. His signature song was "El Paso". The Academy of Country Music named him as Artist of the Decade (1960-69).

Answer: Marty Robbins

Marty loved to race cars and competed in 35 NASCAR races with six top ten finishes. He played himself in the film "Hell on Wheels" in 1967. He died on 8 December 1982. Only the month before, NASCAR honoured him by naming the annual race at Nashville the "Marty Robbins 420".
10. This French clown-comedian was descended from Russian nobility. He made his screen debut in a series of shorts notably "Oscar, champion de tennis" (1932) and "Soigne ton gauche" ("Watch your left") in 1936 which was a very funny boxing film. His most famous film is "Les Vacances de M. Hulot" (1953) (Mister Hulot's Holiday).

Answer: Jacques Tati

He changed his name to Tati from Tatischeff to accommodate theatre bills. He was co-presenter of the Scientific and Technical Awards at the 1958 Oscars with Barbara Rush. He died on 4 November 1982.
Source: Author Spontini

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