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REAL AND FICTIONAL
REAL AND FICTIONAL
Ted Knight played this unforgettable fictional news anchorman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Ted Baxter
In the marble sculpture by Michelangelo known as La Pietá, what is the Virgin Mary holding?
Jesus. The Pieta depicts the moment when Jesus was taken down from the cross and given to his mother.
This Canadian singer recorded her signature song in 1997 – “My Heart Will Go On,” which was the theme song for the blockbuster movie Titanic.
Celine Dion
This funny lady’s TV theme song included the lyrics, “I’m so glad we had this time together, just to have a laugh and sing a song.”
Carol Burnett
What do the words pianissimo and fortissimo mean in musical notation?
Pianissimo means very soft, and fortissimo means very loud.
This former long-time NBC anchorman wrote a large coffee table book in 1998 on The Greatest Generation, those who came of age during WWII.
Tom Brokaw
In the famous photograph called “V-J Day in Times Square,” taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1945, what is the young sailor holding in his arms?
A nurse, whom he is kissing
Bob Marley, a pioneering reggae singer, was from this Caribbean island.
Jamaica
In her early standup routine, she called herself a “domestic goddess.”
Roseanne (Barr)
The music of this “King of Ragtime” resurged in popularity thanks to the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Scott Joplin
In 2012, writer Aaron Sorkin created anchorman Will McAvoy for HBO’s series The Newsroom. Before that, he created the fictional American President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, in this political drama series.
The West Wing
In the painting by Grant Wood called “American Gothic,” what is the man (a farmer) holding?
A pitchfork
With songs such as “Dancing Queen” and “Mamma Mia,” Abba is not only the most successful pop group to come out of this country, but one of the most successful musical groups in the world.
Sweden
One of this singer’s favorites lines was: “I was the first woman to burn my bra — it took the fire department four days to put it out.”
Dolly Parton
Flamenco dancers clack this small percussive instrument with their fingers while dancing.
Castanets
According to the website Ranker, this news anchor, who passed away in 2009, is still considered the most influential news anchor of all time.
Walter Cronkite
New York Harbor’s famous landmark “Liberty Enlightening the World,”designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, shows Lady Liberty raising her welcoming lamp with her right hand. What is she holding in her left hand?
She is holding a tablet (or book). The tablet is inscribed with July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals, the date of the US Declaration of Independence.
Desi Arnaz, Gloria Estefan, and Arturo Sandoval all fled this country for the United States, where they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Cuba
Starting in the mid-1960s, she made suburban home life funny in her newspaper columns and her best-selling books, including The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank.
Erma Bombeck
After 35 years and nearly 14,000 performances on Broadway (January 1988 through April 2023), this Andrew Lloyd Webber production holds the record for the longestrunning musical of all time.
The Phantom of the Opera
In 2004, this anchorman wrote Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television with co-author Kyle Gibson.
Ted Koppel
In “Freedom from Want” by Norman Rockwell, an iconic representation of a Thanksgiving feast, what is the matriarch of the family holding?
A large roast turkey
Van Morrison’s career began in the late 1960s in this, his native country, with the hit single “Brown-Eyed Girl.” Seven decades and dozens of hits later, his music appropriately formed much of the soundtrack to Kenneth Branagh’s film Belfast.
Northern Ireland
This founding member of the literary Algonquin Round Table was famous for quips such as, “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue,” and “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
Dorothy Parker
This “B” word is the male singing voice between tenor and bass.
Baritone