1930s/1940s
The city where Jeanne was born
Los Angeles
Where Frank and Jeanne got married
Los Angeles
Teenager who was the most annoying in the 1970s
Linda
Grandkid that was the most difficult as a baby, as per Jeanne and Frank’s recollection
Sarah
Number of years that Books From Yesterday was open in Rockport
6
How Jeanne got to school every morning
Her parents took her
The subject that Jeanne studied in undergrad
Political science
The year that Frank started the Nurses' Health Study
1976
Publication (from this time period) that Frank held up for a year, due to wanting to verify the mortality estimates
Six Cities Study paper ("An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities")
According to Jeanne’s current profile on Martindale.com, only one of the following is NOT an area of practice of her legal work: small business law, family law, estate planning, real estate (bonus: number of stars, out of 5, in her peer review rating)
Small business law (5 stars!)
Frank’s favorite subject when he was in elementary school
Mathematics
Percentage of the American population that lived in cities in 1950
52%, 64%, 71%, or 85%
64%
Name one of the top 3 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1985
1 - "Careless Whisper" - Wham!
2 - "Like a Virgin" - Madonna
3 - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" - Wham!
Year that Frank and Jeanne bought the condo in Rockport
1992
Frank Speizer is the _____ Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. (i.e., the person after whom Frank’s Distinguished Professor position is named)
Edward H. Kass
The dam that President Roosevelt dedicated in 1935
The Hoover Dam
The name of the neighborhood that the family lived in in England, in their first year there
Golders Green
The first year that Jeanne and Frank bought a Shelley (bonus: the type of piece that it was)
1989 (a creamer)
Jeanne's age when she got her ears pierced
59
Generation of iPhone that was released in 2010
4
The name of the street that Frank lived on in San Francisco growing up
24th Avenue
The knighted physician/epidemiologist, known especially for his work linking smoking and lung cancer, who Frank primarily worked with in England
Sir Richard Doll
Jeanne wrote a review essay in 1981 titled, “Role Models, Mentors, and Sponsors: The ____ Concepts”
Elusive
The minimum wage in 1995 (not inflation adjusted) (hint: round to the nearest quarter)
$4.25
As of May 20th, 2025, the number of citations that Frank has, according to ResearchGate (round to the nearest 10,000)
150,000!! (actually 148,569)