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15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after the appearance of 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:

1. The career of rock star Jerry Lee Lewis was seriously damaged when he did this in 1957:__________________.
[Choices: Beat up his wife, Wed a 13-year-old cousin, Overdosed on drugs, Disrobed on stage, Attacked a fan ]

2. What character has a girlfriend named Zena and a weird friend named Mortimer?___________________
[Choices: Charlie the Tuna, Bazooka Joe, Dobie Gillis, Reddy Kilowatt, Krazy Kat ]

3. Rita Moreno won an Emmy Award for her role I this 1970's TV drama:____________________.
[Choices: Columbo, Cannon, McMillan & Wife, Mannix, The Rockford Files ]

4. Thanom Kittikachorn was the Prime Minister of _______________ in the 1960's and 1970's.
[Choices: The Philippines, Thailand, India, Turkey, Japan ]

5. What British rock trio held a 1968 Farewell Concert at Albert Hall?_________________
[Choices: Herman's Hermits, Cream, Rare Earth, The Rascals, The Troggs ]

6. Legend has it that he tossed his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River in 1960:___________________.
[Choices: Bob Mathias, Cassius Clay, Jesse Owens, Jim Thorpe, Wilt Chamberlain ]

7. In 1977, this toy company hit it big with action figures from the film "Star Wars":_________________.
[Choices: SONY, Milton-Bradley, Fisher-Price, Mattel, Kenner ]

8. In the early 1960's, Timothy Leary founded a program at Harvard to research:____________________.
[Choices: TV soap operas, Psychedelic drugs, Free love, Embryonic stem cells, Oriental arts ]

9. The syncopated "hambone" beat was characteristic of what guitarist in the 1950's and 1960's?___________________
[Choices: Mel Tillis, Jimmy Page, Bo Diddley, Chet Atkins, B.B. King ]

10. In 1974, his "Woman V" painting drew the highest price ever for a living artist:_________________.
[Choices: Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning ]

11. Who played the popular character of Schneider on the 1975-84 TV series "One Day at a Time"?___________________
[Choices: Redd Foxx, Bill Macy, Norman Fell, Pat Harrington Jr., Tony Randall ]

12. Which U.S. Secretary of Defense had to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War?___________________
[Choices: James Schlesinger, Thomas Gates, George Marshall, Robert McNamara, Caspar Weinberger ]

13. "Be Good Johnny" by _________________ was one of the most played videos in 1983.
[Choices: The Clash, Duran Duran, Men at Work, Dire Straits, Huey Lewis and the News ]

14. After 16 years under construction, this famed Sydney, Australia, landmark opened in 1973:___________________.
[Choices: Convention Hall, Art Museum, Sports Arena, Opera House, Parliament Building ]

15. Who directed the 1971 film "Dirty Harry"?______________________
[Choices: David Mamet, Terrence Malick, Sidney Lumet, Don Siegel, Oliver Stone ]





Answers:

1. Wed a 13-year-old cousin [see the section "Family and personal life" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis and https://allthatsinteresting.com/myra-ga ... -lee-lewis . As for his first marriage, to Dorothy Barton from Feb. 1952 to Oct. 1953, the Wikipedia article says "Barton was 13 at the time of their marriage and Lewis's first cousin"; this may be conflated with his third marriage, to Myra Gale Brown. Jerry Lee, born on Sept. 29, 1935 was 16 at the time of his first marriage, which he claimed was to an older woman, but then he lied about Myra Gale being 15, not 13. I have not been able to find a reliable age for Dorothy Barton when she wed Jerry Lee; perhaps a reader can hunt this down. OTOH, in those days, moral/traditional people got married before having sex; how many kids in their early teens have sex nowadays, copying what they see on TV (e.g. "Friends", "Inside Amy Schumer"), on Internet porn sites, and what Paul McCartney sang about in 1968 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Don't ... n_the_Road? Just sayin'...]

2. Bazooka Joe [After a delay, Chris (CEEZED, KAYZED) at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka_Joe . The early versions did not feature Zena. But see https://www.bubblegum-comics.com/Bazook ... part1.html . Andrew C (GRYFON) had his tablet conk out, and he may have switched to Sue (SWIFT)'s tablet after Sue and Richard left after the SHOWDOWN Game.]

3. Rockford Files [Chris got almost 1000 Points on both his tablets; the rest of us not so much. See https://thiswastv.com/2013/06/05/women- ... ord-files/ re Rita Morena, one of only 11 people to win the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) Awards. We had fun remembering all the cast members on The Rockford Files.]

4. Thailand [We correctly guessed this from the sound of the name; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanom_Kittikachorn ]

5. Cream [I(REACH) pre-called this from "1968 trio"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream's_Farewell_Concert ]

6. Cassius Clay [Chris got most of the Points on this one; I called this too late to get more than 500-850 Points for the rest of us. See the section "Early life and amateur career" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali , where the incident is questioned as to its veracity.]

7. Kenner [Chris pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenner_St ... on_figures ]

8. Psychedelic drugs [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary ]

9. Bo Diddley [There was a delay deciding between Bo Diddley and B.B. King (who was later); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley_beat ]

10. Willem de Kooning [I pre-called this one; after reading the blurb at http://www.willem-de-kooning.org/woman-v.jsp and seeing the painting, what is your honest opinion of this school of modern art?]

11. Pat Harrington Jr. [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Harrington_Jr. ]

12. Robert McNamara [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara ]

13. Men at Work [Chris got most of the Points on this one; my tablet screen froze, and I had to Log Out and log back in, losing 1000 Points. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Good_Johnny and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpu8k8ht_jw ]

14. Opera House [Patrick (MRRED) pre-called this first; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House ]

15. Don Siegel [Chris or Dave (YELDOR, TULADI) called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry ]