WHERE WERE
THEY BORN?
THEY BORN?
Bob Hope and Elizabeth Taylor
England
Known as “Scarface,” he was involved in gun running, bootlegging and murder, but was finally jailed for tax evasion.
Al Capone
What is the longer official name of the flowers most commonly known as “mums”?
Chrysanthemums
… the Apollo 11 mission landed humans on the moon in 1969?
Richard Nixon
The first time a world disaster was captured on film was in 1937 in Lakehurst, NJ. “Oh the humanity."
The Hindenburg Disaster
Henry Kissinger and Bruce Willis
Germany
Dubbed “The Milwaukee Monster,” this serial murderer kept photographs of the dismembered body parts of his victims. He later confessed to eating the body parts of some victims, and would dispose of their heads and genitals in a tub of acid.
Jeffrey Dahmer. After two years in federal prison, Dahmer was bludgeoned to death in 1994 by a fellow inmate. He was 34 years old.
This flower produces small dark seeds used in baking. It also produces the powerful narcotic opium.
Poppy
… the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred in 1941?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In AD 79, Mt. Vesuvius erupted near the Bay of Naples and buried two towns that were not uncovered for nearly 2,000 years. Can you name one of those two towns?
Pompeii and Herculaneum
Ann-Margret and Alfred Nobel
Sweden
In 2003, Mark Felt was revealed as Woodward and Bernstein’s secret Watergate informant. By what nickname was he better known?
Deep Throat
In a 1970 hit song, singer Lynn Anderson was realistic about life when she sang, “I beg your pardon. I never promised you …” What?
“ … a rose garden”
… the Berlin Wall fell in 1989?
George H. W. Bush
What was the name of the book (and movie) that chronicled the last voyage of the Andrea Gail the Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing vessel that was lost at sea in 1991, taking the lives of her six-man crew.
The Perfect Storm
Peter Jennings and Jim Carrey
Canada
After 16 years on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, this Boston gangster was captured in 2011, living with his girlfriend in Santa Monica, California. Seven years later, at age 89, he was beaten beyond recognition by a group of fellow inmates in a Florida federal penitentiary.
James “Whitey” Bulger
Perhaps second only to the Netherlands, the Chilliwack area in British Columbia, Canada holds major spring festivals featuring this flower.
The tulip
… women gained the right to vote nationwide in 1920?
Woodrow Wilson
In politics, this is great news for a candidate. On the side of a mountain, it’s usually a disaster.
Landslide
Pablo Picasso and Rafael Nadal
Spain
This American gangster was dubbed Public Enemy #1 by the FBI until federal agents shot him dead outside of Chicago’s Biograph Theater in 1934.
John Dillinger. Dillinger died roughly two months after Bonnie and Clyde famously met their deaths in a barrage of bullets in Louisiana. Dillinger was 31 years old when he died. Bonnie Parker died at age 23, and Clyde Barrow at 25.
Although his date was a no-show, singer Ray Coniff was all dressed up for the prom, wearing a “white sport coat and …” this flower.
“… a pink carnation”
… the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday in late 1929?
Herbert Hoover
Still called the worst industrial accident in history, a poisonous gas leak in this Indian city in 1984 killed thousands of people and sickened hundreds of thousands.
Bhopal