ROUND 2: Entertainment - 15 minutes of fame
You may be familiar with Andy Warhol's famous statement "In the future everyone
will be famous for fifteen minutes." This round is dedicated to some ordinary
people who achieved fame (Some will argue infamy -Ed.)
1. On Sept. 11, 2002, Jean Chretien attended a nationally televised
memorial ceremony in this community. Its townspeople welcomed thousands
of airline crew and passengers diverted there one year earlier.
A. Gander, Nfld.
2. David Letterman invited 494 people from which upstate New York
town to be his audience on the November 18, 2002 edition of The Late Show?
A. Schoharie (pronounced "sko-HAR-ee")
3. Jeanine Deckers was a real-life nun known by the stage names
"Soeur Sourire" and "the Singing Nun". Name her biggest hit,
which spent five weeks at #1 on the US charts in 1963.
A. Dominique
4. Los del Rio, an unheralded Spanish duo, recorded the original
1993 version of this song. It became an international hit three years later,
when the Bayside Boys re-mix with English lyrics was released.
A. Macarena
5. This first million-dollar winner on TVs Survivor shares his
name with the actor who played Apollo on Battlestar Galactica.
A. Richard Hatch (Jr.)
6. She married Rick Rockwell on TVs Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? and
faced former Olympian Olga Korbut in Celebrity Boxing 2.
A. Darva Conger
7. This real-life double amputee World War II veteran won two Oscars for
his performance as Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives.
A. Harold Russell
8. This Cambodian doctor received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the
role of Dith Pran in The Killing Fields. He was the first non-professional
since Harold Russell to win an Academy Award for acting.
A. Dr. Haing S. Ngor (pronounced NOR approximately)
9. Nonagenarian Marie Rudisill, formerly best known as a baker, cookbook author,
and aunt of Truman Capote, has lately been featured as a guest on The Tonight Show.
Jay Leno refers to her by which nickname?
A. The Fruitcake Lady
10. Octogenarian Clara Peller uttered this phrase in a popular
series of TV commercials. Walter Mondale even asked the same question
in his 1984 presidential run against rival Gary Hart.
A. "Where's the beef?"