Brain Games
Guess Who? Celebrity Edition
Sing a Tune of June!
Famous June Birthdays!
It's June, and That's a FACT!
200
Charles's mom had three children. The first was named June, the second was July. What was the name of the third child?
Who is Charles?
200
I was born in New Jersey, USA in 1943. I am short, at 5'4". One of my most memorable roles was as fast talking lawyer Vincent Gambini in "My Cousin Vinny" (1992).
Who is Joe Pesci?
200
In Franks Sinatra's "That's Life", where did he proclaim he would be in the month of June?
What is "back on top"?
200
Born as Norma Jean Mortensen, this Hollywood bombshell's birthday is June 1.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
200
June was most likely named for this goddess patroness of marriage and childbirth?
Who is Juno?
400
What is black when you buy it from the market, red when you use it, and grey when you throw it away?
What is charcoal?
400
I was born in New York in 1955. In 1991 I won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. One of my first movies was "The Color Purple" (1985).
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
400
Even though Simon and Garfunkel's song was named "April Come She Will", what did they mention about June?
What is “June, she’ll change her tune"?
400
If you are born in June, you share a birthday with this person who ruled England for 60 years from 1760 to 1820 and was the British King against whom the American Revolution was directed.
Who is King George III?
400
On June 19, 1985, Union General Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation aloud in this city and state, effectively liberating enslaved people in the state, which had thus far been beyond control of the Union Army.
What is Galveston, Texas?
600
What is green with envy?
600
When I was twelve I was a regular cast member on "You Can't Do That On Television". I became a superstar when my album became the biggest selling record of 1995. The only way I could top that was to play God in the movie "Dogma". I think you oughta know who I am by now. Do you?
Who is Alanis Morissette?
600
Finish this line from this song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical Carousel:
June is (blank)
All over the meadow and the hill
Buds're bustin' outa bushes
And the rompin' river pushes
Ev'ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill
What is "bustin' out all over"?
600
This historic french person was born in June and was a military leader, governor-general, and author, whose acts of extreme cruelty and violence resulted in the term sadism being created from his name to describe gratification in inflicting pain.
Who is Marquis de Sade?
600
This holiday on June 21st is meant to remind Canadians of the contributions of the many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples.
What is National Indigenous Peoples Day?
800
What is Metaphor?
800
Wanted: 6' 1" brown-haired actor, left-handed, a quarter Puerto Rican, a quarter Hungarian, and half Italian. Married to Sarah Michelle Gellar. Known for playing the hero in teen romantic comedies.
Who is Freddie Prinze, Jr.?
800
During Vanessa Williams “Save the best for last”…she sings that "sometimes the what comes down in JUNE"?
What is snow?
800
The American Writer who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel containing vivid descriptions of the sufferings and oppression of African Americans, was born in the month of June.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
800
On June 24, 2010 - this Labor Party deputy became Australia's first female Prime Minister.
Who is Julia Gillard?
1000
What is safety in numbers?
1000
My variety comedy series ran for nine years in the 60s and 70s. By that point I had a string of memorable songs including the number one record "Everybody Loves Somebody". However, I might be best remembered as one half of a very popular film duo of the 1950s. I know that was long ago but do you remember me?
What is Dean Martin?
1000
In the song “The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine”, this duo sang these lyrics:
On a mountain in Virginia
Stands a lonesome pine
Just below is the cabin home of a little girl of mine
Her name is June and very very soon
She'll belong to me
For I know she's waiting there for me 'neath that lone pine tree
Who are Laurel and Hardy.?
1000
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This month of June born French philosopher, dubbed the "father of existentialism," in 1964, rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature when it was awarded to him.
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
1000
On June 7, 1965 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law banning (blank). In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court guaranteed the right to privacy, including freedom from government intrusion into matters of birth control.
What is contraception?