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Mark Brader wrote:
> * Game 9, Round 4 - Entertainment - SNL 5-Timers' Club
> 1. She remains the youngest person to host SNL, at age 7 back
> in 1982. She hosted for the 5th time in May 2001 -- maybe to
> promote her latest release "Freddy Got Fingered", co-starring
> her then husband, Tom Green. Who was she?
Drew Barrymore
> 2. A top box-office draw in the early 1970s (when he was Mr. Barbra
> Streisand), he hosted for the 5th time in February 1980.
> A later generation probably remembers him for playing Monica
> Geller's dad on "Friends". Who was he?
Elliot Gould
> 3. The idea of the 5-timers' club was introduced when this movie
> star hosted on 1990-12-08, just 2 weeks before the release of
> the movie "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and 2 years before his
> two consecutive best actor Oscar wins. Who was it?
Tom Hanks
> 5. He first appeared on SNL in his boy band 'N Sync. He was host
> and musical guest many times thereafter, the 5th time in 2013.
> His appearances on SNL have garnered him 5 Emmy awards --
> including one for his work on the SNL video "Dick in a Box".
> Name him.
Justin Timberlake
> 6. This musician joined the club in February 2023 for his
> appearances as musical guest. He first performed on SNL in
> 2002 in his rock duo with then-wife Meg on drums. Who is he?
Jack White
> 7. He hosted only 4 times, but he made 13 appearances as a musical
> guest. He entered the 5-timers' club in May 1986, appearing
> with musical guests Ladysmith Black Mambazo - three months before
> the release of his LP "Graceland". Who is this musical great?
Paul Simon
> 8. He became a 5-timer in December 1994 and has hosted SNL more
> than anyone else. His future hosting stints may suffer a little
> now that he is facing involuntary-manslaughter charges from an
> accidental shooting on a movie set. What is his name?
Alec Baldwin
> 9. In the early days, hosts weren't always major celebrities and
> would return frequently. This creator of "Get Smart" and writer
> of "The Graduate" hosted 10 times in the show's first 4 years.
> Who was he?
Buck Henry
> * Game 9, Round 5 - Audio - The Big Band Era
> 1. This artist led a band from 1923 until his death in 1974,
> composed or collaborated on over 1000 songs, and is credited
> with bringing jazz into the mainstream. His longtime writing
> partner, Billy Strayhorn, was responsible for this signature
> tune. Name the bandleader, also known for his eloquence,
> charisma, and style.
Count Basie
> 3. A clarinetist, this bandleader, the son of Russian Jewish
> immigrants, broke through largely due to late-night radio
> shows, and eventually earned the nickname "The King of Swing".
> Name the bandleader, playing clarinet here.
Benny Goodman
> 6. His big band was the best-selling band from 1939 through 1942.
> Hits included "String of Pearls", "Tuxedo Junction", "Kalamazoo",
> "In the Mood", and this 1941 song, the first gold record
> ever made. Name this bandleader who perished in the war.
Glenn Miller
> * Game 9, Round 6 - Arts - Alas, Too Young
> 1. He started out in the 1980s as a New York subway graffiti
> artist. His playful, cartoonish images often conveyed serious
> social messages about such topics as safe sex, AIDS awareness,
> and LGBTQ empowerment. He died in 1990 at the age of 31 of
> AIDS-related complications.
Haring
> 2. One of the titans of Italian Renaissance art, most celebrated
> for his paintings for the Papal Court, he died in 1520 at the
> age of 37. His contemporary Vasari dubbed him "the Prince
> of Painters", while attributing his death to "an excess of
> amorous pursuits."
Michelangelo
> 3. A literary pilgrimage might take one from the house in Hampstead,
> London, where this Romantic poet created his lasting works, to
> the rented apartments at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome,
> where he died of tuberculosis in 1821 at the tender age of 25.
Keats
> 4. This great Russian poet and novelist, author of "Eugene Onegin",
> died in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37.
Gogol
> 6. When this pianist and composer died in 1849 at the age of 39,
> his funeral ceremonies resembled those of a head of state.
> The Archbishop of Paris gave a special dispensation to allow
> female singers to perform the Requiem during the service.
> While most of him is buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery, his
> heart was removed from his body and rests in Poland.
Chopin
> 7. In 1924, at the age of 40, before his death from tuberculosis in
> a sanatorium near Vienna, this author ordered his friend Max
> Brod to destroy all of his unpublished writings. Happily for
> posterity, Brod disobeyed the author's wishes. Who was the
> author?
Kafka
> 8. Alas, the Bront?s. Charlotte died at 38, Emily at 30, and
> brother Bramwell at 31. And the third Bront? sister, author of
> "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", passed away in 1849 at the age
> of 29. What was her first name?
Anne
> 9. Chronic depression, aggravated by her husband's abandonment and
> publishers' rejections of her autobiographical novel "The Bell
> Jar", led this poet and author to end her life in 1963 at the
> age of 30.
Plath
> 10. This Italian-born painter, the prototype of the wild bohemian
> artist, is best known for his angular nudes. He died in Paris
> in 1920, at the age of 35, of tuberculosis.
Giacometti
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