Who the Heck "RR" You?- Both names start with "R" Quiz

Answer: The Price is Right

"The Price is Right" began its 41st season on September 24, 2012. Bob Barker was the host on the show's premiere, September 4, 1972, and for another 35 years until stepping down in 2007. Rod Roddy, known for his flamboyant pastel and sequined suits, died on October 27, 2003. It was just a week after the last show he announced aired. "The Price is Right" was awarded the title of the "greatest game show" in a 2007 TV Guide article.

Interesting fact: On Rod Roddy's grave marker at Greenwood Memorial Park in Fort Worth, TX, is the epitaph "Come on Down".

Answer: Everyday with Rachael Ray

In all, Ms. Ray has written over a dozen cookbooks. "Rachael Ray" is broadcast into more than two dozen countries. In addition to cooking tips and demonstrations, Ms. Ray has many interesting guests show up as well. The diverse group of folks she has interviewed includes Dr. Phil, Laura Bush, Julie Andrews, Bill Clinton and Hulk Hogan.

Interesting fact: Rachael Ray was named the 79th Most Powerful Celebrity in the World by "Forbes Magazine" (2009).

Answer: South Pacific

At the end of 2010, only eight musicals had won a Pulitzer for Drama. "South Pacific" (1949) featured a great medley of tunes including, "Some Enchanted Evening", "Bali Hai", "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy", and "Younger than Springtime". A couple of the songs he wrote with Hart were "(I'll Take) Manhattan", "Blue Moon" and "The Lady is a Tramp". With Hammerstein he collaborated on "The Sound of Music", "Getting to Know You", and "If I Loved You". Rodgers music won 35 Tony's, 15 Academy Awards, Two Emmy's, two Pulitzers and two Grammy Awards.

Interesting fact: He was the first person to win an Emmy, Oscar, Pulitzer, Grammy and Tony award, and at the end of the year 2012 he was one of only two. (Marvin Hamlish was the other).

Answer: She was once a man.

Renee Richards was born Richard Raskin. In 1975, she underwent sexual reassignment surgery and took the name Renee Richards. She didn't even have to change the monogram on her bath towels.
Richard Raskin had served in the military as a Lt. Commander in the Navy.
Renee Richards was inducted into the United States Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000.

Interesting fact: The Supreme Court upheld her appeal, and she was allowed to join the rest of the gals on the U.S.T.A. circuit. In 1977 she won the Over 35 Women's Singles Title.

Answer: Jelly beans

The creation of jelly beans has been credited to Boston candy maker William Schraft in 1861. He urged people to send them to the Union troops during the Civil War. The beans come in a variety of colors and flavors and the main ingredient in all of them is sugar. While Reagan was president (1981-1989) there was always a bowl of jelly beans in the Oval Office.

Interesting fact: Ronald Reagan turned to jelly beans as a way to help him stop smoking in the 1960's.

Answer: The Brady Bunch

Robert Reed also appeared in 22 episodes of "Mannix" (1968-1975) and in the miniseries "Poor Man, Rich Man" (1972) and "Roots" (1977). A couple of his Hollywood films include "Hurry Sundown" (1967), with Michael Caine and Jane Fonda, and "Star" (1968), with Julie Andrews. In his iconic TV role of Mike Brady, he was a widower with three sons who met a widow named Carol who had three daughters. They fell in love and got hitched, and that's the way they became "The Brady Bunch".

Interesting fact: Robert Reed wanted to be a Shakespearean actor and studied at London's Academy of Performing Arts as well as the University of London.

Answer: Robin Roberts

Robin Roberts won 80% of his decisions in 1952 when he went 28-7, while his fourth place team won just 56% of its games . He finished his career with 286 wins and 245 losses while hurling for mostly mediocre (at best) teams. The three other pitchers listed above won a total of 633 games. Reed won 146, Reuschel earned 214 and Ruffing led them all with 273.

Interesting note: Robin Roberts was inducted into to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.

Answer: Penny Marshall

Penny Marshall was a co-star (along with Cindy Williams) on "Laverne and Shirley" (1976-1983). Rob Reiner was born in NY, March 6, 1947, and 20 something years later graduated from UCLA. As a director, a few of his better known films are "This is Spinal Tap (1984) in which he also acted, "When Harry Met Sally" (1989), "Misery" (1990), and "A Few Good Men" (1992). As an actor he appeared in more than a dozen flicks including "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993), "The First Wives Club" (1996) and Woody Allen's comic caper "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994). Rob Reiner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's located at 6413 Hollywood Boulevard, right next to his father Carl's.

Interesting fact: Back in 1974 Rob Reiner co-wrote the first episode of "Happy Days".

Answer: Major League

In "Major League", Ms. Russo played Lynn Wells, and the film starred Tom Beringer and Charlie Sheen. She has made over 20 movies and starred opposite many of Hollywood's most popular leading men. She co-starred with Clint Eastwood in "In the Line of Fire" (1993), with Kevin Costner in "Tin Cup" and Mel Gibson in "Ransom" (both in 1996), and along-side Pierce Brosnan in "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1999).

Interesting fact: Rene Russo dropped out of school in her sophomore year at Burroughs H.S., but while she was there she was a classmate of actor-director Ron Howard.

Answer: Ingrid Bergman

Roberto Rossellini was married to the beautiful Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman from 1950-1957. She had earlier starred in one of Hollywood's all-time famous films, "Casablanca" (1942). They teamed up to work on a total of six pictures together. In 1957 Rossellini travelled to India at the behest of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who wanted him to make a documentary about his country.

While there he became involved in a dalliance with Sonali Das Gupta, an Indian screenwriter and aspiring actress.

Ingrid Bergman quicky filed for divorce and shortly thereafter Rossellini wed Ms. Gupta to whom he would be married until 1977. Later that year Rossellini died of a heart attack, in the city of his birth.