Game 3, Round 6 (Entertainment) -- Meanwhile in Real Life

These questions are about actors and actresses and other occupations or
positions they have held in real life.  Except as noted, name the person
being described.

1. This economist and law professor has also been a comedian and, from
   1997 to 2002, a game show host.

	Ben Stein

2. This obstetrician won an Oscar for his first professional acting job,
   in a 1984 drama of oppression.

	Haing S. Ngor

3. Baroness Haden-Guest is better known as who?

	Jamie Lee Curtis
	(by marriage to Christopher Guest)

4. He was still serving as a US senator when he joined the cast of
   a long-running weekly TV drama in 2002 -- playing an elected official
   on the show.  Name him.

	Fred Dalton Thompson
	(plays the D.A., Arthur Branch, on Law & Order)

5. Many athletes try switching to acting, but this actress went the
   other way.  In her chosen sport she finished 29th of 300 in the
   U.S. national championships, but did not make the cut in the
   Olympic trials.

	Geena Davis
	(archery, 2000)

6. All too many actors become involved with drugs, but this man went
   the other way.  Convicted of dealing cocaine in 1978, he then became
   an actor.  He has starred in a long-running 1990s TV sitcom as well
   as a number of successful movies.

	Tim Allen

7. Omar Sharif was a world-class player of what?

	bridge

8. Hedy Lamarr and her co-worker George Antheil received a patent
   in 1942 in what field?

	telecommunications
	(accept electronics, but not radar)

9. During World War II he turned from acting to flying bombers, eventually
   rising to brigadier general in the US Air Force.

	James Stewart

10. Another actor-pilot was a cabinetmaker before becoming a movie star,
   and has been known to fly search and rescue missions in his helicopter.

	Harrison Ford