Trivial Waste of Time

TRIVIAL Waste of Time

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What was Walt Disney's first cartoon character?
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Who starred opposite Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffanys?
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What was the Milton Berle Effect?
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What author wrote The Client and The Firm, both of which became highly successdul films?
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Name the actor who portrayed Clyde in the movie Bonnie and Clyde?
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What commentator do viewers spend a few of their Sixty Minutes with?
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What is the longest running play in recent history?
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What game show was hosted by Groucho Marx?
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This police detective television series starring Jack Lord made very effective use of it's pacific island setting.
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What play was the musical West Side Story based upon?
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What 70's disaster film starred Paul Newman and Steve McQueen?
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What comic actor started out as Charlie Chaplin's understudy?
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What pop vocalist was lead singer for The Faces before starting a solo career?
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What cartoon character was a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer?
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What is the name of the female character played by male commedian Flip Wilson?
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Which of the Three Stooges was played by Jerome Horwitz?
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How many members were there in the Brady Bunch household (excluding pets)?
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What silent film star was known as The Great Stone Face?
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This male actor had to pose as a woman to get a job on a soap opera as the title character in the film Tootsie.
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She wrote the lyrics to all of the songs in The Wizard of OZ, as well as Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?
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What actor had the lead role in the first talking motion picture?
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What was Marlon Brando's first show on Broadway?
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What was Walt Disney's first feature film?
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Who played the straight man to Mel Brooks' comic character The 2,000 Year-Old Man?

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Where was musician Jackson Browne born?
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What was the first music video broadcast on MTV when it premiered in 1981?
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How much did Life Magazine cost when first published?
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Who produced the first movie based on Mary Shelly's Frankenstein?
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What was Dustin Hoffman's graduation gift in the movie The Graduate?
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The controversy surrounding these two women's figure skaters led to astronomical television ratings for the 1994 Winter Olympics.
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Who acted the part of Sherrif Buford T. Justice in Smokey and the Bandit?
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Who wrote the theme song to blazing saddles?
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Who was originally cast for the role of Dorothy in the movie The Wizard of Oz?
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What was Katherine Hepburn's first movie?
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What actress played a suburban witch on the television series Bewitched?
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What was Maxwell Smart's secret agent number?
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What is Mr. Rogers first name?
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In what Mel Brooks film would you find Frau Blucher?
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What does Charlie Chaplin eat in the movie Gold Rush?
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In what Orson Wells radio drama did martians land in Grover's Mill, NJ
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Who used the name William Goodrich as an alias to protect his privacy?
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Who narrated the original dubbed version of the japanese monster movie Godzilla?
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When was the first broadcast of the I Love Lucy show?
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Who did Jackie Gleason portray in The Hustler?
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Who played the monster in the movie Young Frankenstein?
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What french detective played by Peter Sellers is in the Pink Panther movies?
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In what year did the original Star Trek TV series premire?
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What part did Larry Hagman play in the TV series I Dream of Jeannie?
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What Mel Brooks movie features a play called Springtime for Hitler?
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Name James Bond's older brother.
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What play, written by Peter Shaffer, which was made into a movie, is about the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri?
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Who played Cole Porter in the movie Night and Day?
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Who was Stanley Kowalski's wife in Tennesee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire?
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Who played Kato on the TV series Green Hornet?
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What children's adventure story by Scottish author James Matthew Barrie became a Walt Disney animated movie?
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What historic event was re-created in the movie Little Big Man starring Dustin Hoffman?
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Who was Fred Flinstone's boss?
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What John Travolta movie was set at Gilley's nightclub in Texas?
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What two actors portrayed the Mash character Trapper John in television series?
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What award is given annually by Harvard's Lampoon to the year's worst actress?
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What actress played Aunt Bea on the Andy Griffith Show?
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What club did Lucy Riccardo and Ethyl Mertz belong to?
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Name the two original DJ's on radio station WKRP.
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Who was originally cast to play the role of Rick Blaine in Casasblanca?
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What movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn was based on a novel by C.S. Forester?
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In what movie does Humphrey Bogart tell Ingrid Bergman "Here's Looking at You, Kid"?
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What ragtime composer's music was featured in the movie The Sting?
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Who appeared on the first cover of Rolling Stone magazine?
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In what state was the town of Mayberry located on the Andy Griffith Show?
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What was Citizen Kane's last word in Orson Wells' movie of the same name?
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Who is the only person to win Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Song?
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This British actor portrayed Sherlock Holmes in 14 films between 1939 and 1946.
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What was the name of Jack Benny's butler?
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Who played Jesus Christ in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar?
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What television role was Jay Silverheels best known for?
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Who played opposite Jimmy Cagney in Public Enemy?
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Who played George 'Gipper' Gip, in Knute Rockne, All American?
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Who was Captain Kangaroo's sidekick?
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Who played Detective Fish on Barney Miller?
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What was the Green Hornet's theme song?
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Who played The Lone Ranger on television?
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What was Mickey Mouse's original name?
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Who succeeded Chevy Chase at the Weekend Update anchor desk?
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Who starred with Bill Cosby in the television series I Spy?
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In the song and film titled Three Coins in the Fountain, what fountain was it?
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Who hosts The Muppet Show?
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What was the last musical co-written by Rogers and Hammerstein?
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What movie featured the Bates Motel ?
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This 1936 masterpiece by Charlie Chaplin satirized the horros of the industrial age?
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Who came to visit Spencer Tracy and Kathering Hepburn's daughter in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
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In what movie would you see Audrey Hepburn playing Holly Golightly?
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Who hosted The $64,000 Question?
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What are the only film and sequal to both win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
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What actor played the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz?
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In what movie could you see Humphrey Bogart playing Charlie Allnut along side Katherine Hepburn playing Rosey Sayer?
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What is Peter Parker's other job, besides being a newspaper photographer?
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Where did secret agent Maxwell Smart keep his telephone?
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What was the name of P.T. Barnum's giant elephant?
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Who played the part of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movie series?
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What does RCA stand for?
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What couple was married on the Tonight Show, on December 17th, 1969?
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Who is the Barber of Seville?
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Who played Bret Maverick in the television series of the same name?
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What 1935 movie made Errol Flynn famous?
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What superhero was in the first edition of Action Comics?
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Who played Maria in the film version of West Side Story?
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What is the last name of Peanuts characters Lucy and Linus?
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Who played the part of Eliza Doolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady?
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Who writes the cartoon stip Calvin and Hobbes?
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Whose life was the movie Citizen Kane based on?
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Who played the part of Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway version of My Fair Lady?
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What was the first movie (and only silent film) to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
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Who played detective J.J. Gittes in the movie Chinatown?
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Who was Ed Norton's Wife on the The Honeymooners?
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Who won the oscar for Best Actor in 1941 for Sargeant York?
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