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1. Just months after marrying a woman sixty years his junior, what American "playboy" celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday on April 9, 2013?
2. This beloved American actress began yet another phase of her career in 2010 when, at the age of eighty-eight, she accepted the role of Elka on the TV Land series "Hot in Cleveland". Which "golden girl" once described herself as "the luckiest old broad on two feet"?
3. Family scandal, personal tragedies and a stressful life in the political spotlight didn't affect the longevity of this well-known matriarch. Who was this Irish Catholic American who died in 1995 at the age of 104?
4. Prior to beginning his entertainment career, this comedian held jobs as a carnival barker, bingo caller and a US Marine Corps pilot and flight instructor. Despite numerous health problems, he outlived many of his contemporaries, including his most famous costar. Which late night icon died in 2009 at the age of eighty-six?
5. What was the name of the fortieth US President, a former actor, who died just a few months after his ninety-third birthday?
6. This civil rights activist died in 2005 and became the first woman to lie in state in the US Capitol building. Who was this Alabama native?
7. Despite his reputation as a womanizer and "man about town", this entertainer was one of the few Hollywood icons to live until the age of one hundred. Who was the London born actor who considered his award as an honorary US veteran to be the greatest he'd ever received?
8. Preceded in death by many of her hard-living Rat Pack friends, which actress lived more than twenty years after receiving her fourth Oscar at the age of seventy-five?
9. What Golden Age actor and patriarch of one of Hollywood's leading families celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday on December 9, 2012?
10. Which celebrity, known for cigar smoking and lighthearted quips about old age, joked just before his one hundredth birthday that an ideal gift would be "a night with Sharon Stone"?
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