TEN!, Week One, Wednesday

[Pastor Fireball]

People get ready for a people-oriented round. But not just any people.

ICONS & LEGENDS

Cream of the crop, A-listers, household names, immortal figures. You know... the big ones. Deadline is Friday at 4 PM.

1. If these four entertainment legends were still alive today, who would be at least 100 years old?
A. Shelley Winters
B. Ernie Kovacs
C. Rita Hayworth
D. Jackie Gleason

2. Who was shot and killed at the corner of West 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City?
A. The Notorious B.I.G.
B. Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.
C. John Lennon
D. Malcolm X

3. Who was Forbes Magazine's highest-earning dead celebrity of 2016?
A. Arnold Palmer
B. Michael Jackson
C. Bob Marley
D. Charles Schulz

4. What legendary wit said, "I don't drink water. Fish f**k in it."?
A. Mark Twain
B. Ogden Nash
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Erma Bombeck

5. Which iconic actor's 1972 autobiography was called The Moon's a Balloon?
A. Laurence Olivier
B. Peter Sellers
C. David Niven
D. Peter O'Toole

6. Who is one of the patron saints of Spain?
A. St. Elizabeth
B. St. Peter
C. St. Agnes
D. St. James

7. Of these four iconic composers, who didn't live to see his 35th birthday?
A. Franz Schubert
B. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C. Stephen Collins Foster
D. Frederic Chopin

8. Apollo C. Vermouth was an alter ego of what music icon?
A. Paul McCartney
B. Jimi Hendrix
C. Jim Morrison
D. Eric Clapton

9. What was the title of George Carlin's fourteenth and final HBO stand-up special, which aired three months before the legendary comic died?
A. "You Are All Diseased"
B. "It's Bad for Ya"
C. "I Ain't Dead Yet"
D. "Brain Droppings"

BONUS: Modern suspense icon James Patterson will soon be back with a new novel. This time, he's getting some literary help from another American icon--President Bill Clinton. What is the recently announced title of this Patterson-Clinton collaboration, which will hit the bookshelves next June?

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Spoiler

1. If these four entertainment legends were still alive today, who would be at least 100 years old?
D. Jackie Gleason

2. Who was shot and killed at the corner of West 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City?
C. John Lennon

3. Who was Forbes Magazine's highest-earning dead celebrity of 2016?
B. Michael Jackson

4. What legendary wit said, "I don't drink water. Fish f**k in it."?
A. Mark Twain
(Although I always heard that attributed to W.C. Fields.)


5. Which iconic actor's 1972 autobiography was called The Moon's a Balloon?
C. David Niven

6. Who is one of the patron saints of Spain?
D. St. James

7. Of these four iconic composers, who didn't live to see his 35th birthday?
A. Franz Schubert

8. Apollo C. Vermouth was an alter ego of what music icon?
C. Jim Morrison

9. What was the title of George Carlin's fourteenth and final HBO stand-up special, which aired three months before the legendary comic died?
C. "I Ain't Dead Yet"

BONUS: Modern suspense icon James Patterson will soon be back with a new novel. This time, he's getting some literary help from another American icon--President Bill Clinton. What is the recently announced title of this Patterson-Clinton collaboration, which will hit the bookshelves next June?
WHAT COLOR IS THIS DRESS?

[Pastor Fireball]

1. If these four entertainment legends were still alive today, who would be at least 100 years old?
A. Shelley Winters
B. Ernie Kovacs
C. Rita Hayworth
D. Jackie Gleason

He was born on February 26, 1916. Hayworth was the next oldest, as she would have turned 100 next year. Kovacs was born in 1919 and Winters was born in 1920.

2. Who was shot and killed at the corner of West 72nd Street and Central Park West in New York City?
A. The Notorious B.I.G.
B. Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.
C. John Lennon
D. Malcolm X

If you knew that the Dakota apartment complex is located at this intersection, this was an easy question.

3. Who was Forbes Magazine's highest-earning dead celebrity of 2016?
A. Arnold Palmer
B. Michael Jackson
C. Bob Marley
D. Charles Schulz

His estate made $825 million last year. That'd certainly pay off some of the debts that the King of Pop left behind.

And if you thought that Bob Marley was the wrong answer of the week... well, you're right! The answer of Bob Marley was indeed sponsored by Marley's Postcards.

4. What legendary wit said, "I don't drink water. Fish f**k in it."?
A. Mark Twain
B. Ogden Nash
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Erma Bombeck

It kinda had to be Oscar Wilde.

5. Which iconic actor's 1972 autobiography was called The Moon's a Balloon?
A. Laurence Olivier
B. Peter Sellers
C. David Niven
D. Peter O'Toole

He wrote a second autobiography three years later--Bring on the Empty Horses.

6. Who is one of the patron saints of Spain?
A. St. Elizabeth
B. St. Peter
C. St. Agnes
D. St. James

7. Of these four iconic composers, who didn't live to see his 35th birthday?
A. Franz Schubert
B. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C. Stephen Collins Foster
D. Frederic Chopin

Schubert was only 31 when he died. Mozart made it to 35, but died a few months afterward. Foster died a poor man at 37. Chopin was the old man of this group, as he didn't start decomposing until after he turned 39.

8. Apollo C. Vermouth was an alter ego of what music icon?
A. Paul McCartney
B. Jimi Hendrix
C. Jim Morrison
D. Eric Clapton

9. What was the title of George Carlin's fourteenth and final HBO stand-up special, which aired three months before the legendary comic died?
A. "You Are All Diseased"
B. "It's Bad for Ya"
C. "I Ain't Dead Yet"
D. "Brain Droppings"

"You Are All Diseased" was Carlin's 1999 special. "Brain Droppings" was Carlin's 1997 book. "I Ain't Dead Yet" has nothing to do with Carlin because that was a documentary about Richard Pryor.

BONUS: Modern suspense icon James Patterson will soon be back with a new novel. This time, he's getting some literary help from another American icon--President Bill Clinton. What is the recently announced title of this Patterson-Clinton collaboration, which will hit the bookshelves next June?

The President Is Missing

A lot better than the working title: The President Is Hiding in a Russian Hotel. Nobody wants to read a suspense novel that gives away the ending right there in the title.