THE WEB WIZARD'S TRIVIA

A Page Of Useless Facts For Most; Challenges For A Few

Send your answers, guesses, etc to The Web Wizard via email johnmac@mhv.net - a sent of the correct answers will be sent to you. This page will change periodically so keep coming back. This group of questions were posted on April 10, 1996.

• The Lone Ranger's nephew's name was ____________; the nephew's horse was ______; the nephew's son was _______________________
  
• The six main players for Jimmy Valvano's NC State NCAA winners were _______________________________________
  
• The first Chester Reilly on television was __________________
  
• One of the great coicidences in sports history -- when Bob Gibson and Nolan Ryan crossed the milestone of 3,000 strikeouts (years apart), they each struck out the same batter for the 3,000th. He was ______________________
  
• The first leader of "Mission Impossible" was ________________
  
• ___________________________ was the first electonic spreadsheet; it was developed by ___________________________
  
• The duo that had its first hit under the name "Tom & Jerry" was later known as ___________________
  
• James Arness was Matt Dillon on television; on the radio, the role was played by _______________; Arness' brother, _____________, starred in what TV show? ________________________
  
• Kurt Vonnegut's one-time son-in-law was _______________________
  
• The first black pitcher in modern major league baseball was _________________
  
• Robert Zimmerman was better know as __________________________
  
• While there were actually 6 members of the 3 Stooges" along the way, the 4 best knowm were Shemp, Larry, Curley, and Moe; between the 4 of them, there were only 2 last names and they were ______________________________
  
• The only person to play for the Boston Braves, Boston Celtics, and Boston Red Sox was ___________________ (to athletically compete; not the organist)
  
• The stars of "The Show of Shows" were ______________________________; one of the writers was ___________________
  
• The Seattle Kings of the NBA were previously the __________________ and before that the ______________________ and before that ____________________________
  
• When David Jansen starred as "Richard Diamond, Private Eye", all that was ever seen of his secretary, "Sam" was her legs. Those legs belonged to ______________
  
• The voice of the ABA St. Louis Spirits (the team of Marvin Barnes, Moses Malone and Maurice Lucas) was ___________________
  
• "The weed of crime ___________________" was the closing statement of _________________. His thought-to-be real identity was _______________ while his real, real identity was ______________________
  
• ___________________ coined the term "hypertext"
  
• Harry Truman's running mate was ________________; Tom Dewey's was _______________
  
• George Metasky was better known as the ___________________________
  
• Joe DiMaggio's two brothers also played in the big leagues. Their names are _____________________
  
• Steve Rogers is the alter ego of ____________________
  
• Since Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941, the closest that anyone has come to the major .400 number was when ___________________________ hit .388
  
• Barry Goldwater's running mate was ____________________; Lyndon Johnson's was ________________________________
  
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's high school diploma was signed by _____________________