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Who is Jackie Robinson?One of Robinson's teammates on UCLA's football team was also a good player and eventually became an actor.
Who is Woody Strode?Woody Harrelson starred in this Oliver Stone film.
What is "Natural Born Killers"?A 1979 murder case on an army base resulted in intense notoriety for this accused man, and a book and television film called FATAL VISION.
Who is Captain Jeffrey MacDonald?This U.S. Army base in North Carolina is the largest in the world by population at over 50,000 active duty personnel.
What is Ft. Bragg?This controversial 1970 book, written by a pitcher, received notoriety when Bowie Kuhn tried to have it discredited.
Who is Penny Oleksiak?This British golfer scored the first hole in one on the golf course at Rio 2016.
Who is Justin Rose?In 1896, this city became the site of the first modern Olympic Games.
What is Athens, Greece?In 2020, the Summer Olympics returns to this city/country which last hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964.
What is Tokyo, Japan?This Japanese fish delicacy is usually prepared by highly trained chefs & if wrongly prepared is very poisonous.
What is fugu or pufferfish?In 1972, the Winter Olympics were held in this city. An excellent beer is also made there.
What is Munich?Another news story happened that year at that city during the Olympics.
The summer Olympics were held in Munich, but not the Winter Olympics which were held in Sapporo, Japan.What is the massacre of the Israeli athletes?
This petite blonde gymnast delighted audiences with her back-flip from the uneven parallel bars in 1972.
Who is Olga Korbut?This English runner won four Olympic medals, including the 1500 metres gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984.
Who is Seb Coe?This cycle race involves riders following a motorised bike around the track. The sprint home begins once the pace setting motorised bike has left the track.
What is the 2000m Keirin race?This southern state on the Gulf of Mexico is currently undergoing extensive flooding.
Who is Harry Bosch?This woman was selected to carry U.S. flag at the Olympics Closing Ceremony.
Who is Simone Biles?Please excuse me if I have asked this. Although I did check out my history. My mind is swiss cheese.
Why would the FBI's fake but realistic training town of Hogan's Alley contain the Biograph Theater with Manhattan Melodrama on it's Marquee?
What film was showing at the Biograph on the day John Dillinger was killed?This team is known as the Crimson Tide.
What is the University of Alabama football team?In the movie, Crimson Tide, who played Lt. Cmdr Ron Hunter?
Who is Denzel Washington?This 1986 film about a small town basketball team in Indiana earned an Oscar nomination for Dennis Hopper.
What is Hossiers?This actor, best known for playing Willy Wonka, died yesterday.
Who is Gene Wilder?Wilder also starred in this film in which the song, "Springtime for Hitler," turned out to be an unexpected hit.
What is The Producers?This disgraced US swimmer has been announced as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars.
Who is Ryan Lochte?This famous swimmer wanted to compete in the 1940 Olympics, which were cancelled. As a result, she turned to films where she became known as the "Million Dollar Mermaid."
Who is Esther WIlliams?He starred in and directed Gran Torino (great movie!)
Who is Clint Eastwood?Eastwood co-starred in this excellent television western with Eric Fleming.
What is Rawhide?These two comedic actors/singers sung the theme to Rawhide in this hilarious comedy.
Who are the Blues Brothers? (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd)This film is famous for "Klaatu barada nikto".
What is "The Day The Earth Stood Still"?This Canadian band's famous single was, "Calling Occupants .... Of Interplanetary Quite Extraordinary Craft"
What is Klaatu?This tropical storm has crossed Florida and is currently heading up the East Coast.
What is Hurricane Hermine?He played the original Willy Wonka and starred in Blazing Saddles.
Who is Gene Wilder?This book and movie about the Cold War starred Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey as mother and son.
What is the Manchurian Candidate?Why does the President always have an aide with a football near by?
What is the briefcase used to prove identity and contains nuclear codes, and which is known as the 'football'?This movie, starring Henry Fonda, is known for the horrifying decision the President has to make to annihilate NYC when an American pilot destroys Moscow.
What is Fail Safe? (I remember watching that movie as a child. Could never watch it again)In what movie did Slim Pickens ride the bomb?
What is Dr. Strangelove?In this movie, Slim Pickens leads a group of marauders of the town of Red Rock.
Is it possible that the town was Rock Ridge from Blazing Saddles?
What is Blazing Saddles.The star of that movie, Gene Wilder's wife appeared with the female lead of BS in several sketches on what show? gad talk about awkward snytax but I'm grilling out.
What is 'Saturday Night Live'?This man was the announcer for SNL from 1975-2014.
Betsy wrote: "Is it possible that the town was Rock Ridge from Blazing Saddles?"Yes, you are right - I got it wrong!
Who is Don Pardo?This soccer player will return to play for his former team, the LA Galaxy, for six games even though he retired from soccer.
Who is David Beckham?This writer published his first book under the pen name of Boz.
(The soccer player is Landon Donovan.)Who is Charles Dickens?
This is the real name of the author George Eliot.
Betsy wrote: "(The soccer player is Landon Donovan.)I stand Corrected,thank you.Who is Charles Dickens?
This is the real name of the author George Eliot."
Who is Mary Ann EvansIn this novel you will find a Tiger and a boy lost at sea.
What is "Life of Pi"?This famous author of such books as "Rebecca" and "Jamaica Inn" also had a famous husband who was in charge of the fight which became known as "A Bridge Too Far."
Who is Daphne Du Maurier?These two sisters had a bitter sibling rivalry.One starred in', Robin Hood', and the other was featured in 'Jane Eyre.'
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This man was a starting halfback and UCLA and became intrumental in the integration of Major League Baseball.