1. Which of the following people did not attempt or seriously consider suicide?

Martin Luther King
Louise Brooks
Bela Lugosi
Goethe
Gene Tierney
Buckminster Fuller
Arthur Rubenstein

2. Match the following musical groups with their original names:

1.    Led Zeppelin
2.    Righteous Brothers
3.    Beatles
4.    Talking Heads
5.    Black Sabbath
6.    Beach Boys
7.    Velvet Underground
8.    Champagne Music Makers (Lawrence Welk)
9.    Supremes
10. Byrds
11. Blondie

a. New Yardbirds
b. Earth
c. Beefeaters
d. Honolulu Fruit Gum Band
e. Johnny and the Mood Dogs
f. Tom and Jerry
g. Angel and the Snakes
h. Primettes
i. Carl and the Passions
j. Artistics
k. Falling Spikes

3. What do the following men have in common?

1. Charles Lindbergh
2. Bing Crosby
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Charles Bukowski
5. Walt Disney

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Answers to the last Listress:

1. Match the following people with the places they made love:

1. Clark Gable
2. John F. Kennedy
3. La Belle Otero
4. Benito Mussolini
5. Jack London

a. in a cupboard
b. on a staircase
c. in a duckblind (& a telephone booth)
d. on a train
e. in a hot air balloon

Answers: 1.C 2.A 3.E 4.B 5.D

2. Which of the following people did not acknowledge having a homosexual experience?

1. Richard Burton
2. Winston Churchill
3. Joan Baez
4. Voltaire
5. Jean Harlow
6. Loe Tolstoi

Answer: 5. Jean Harlow

3. Match the following books with their original titles:

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. War and Peace
3. The Postman Always Rings Twice
4. Gone With the Wind
5. The Great Gatsby
6. Peyton Place
7. The Sun Also Rises

a. The Lost Generation
b. Ba! Ba! Blacksheep
c. First Impressions
d. Bar B-Q
e. The High-bounding Lover
f. The Tree and the Blossom
g. All's Well That Ends Well

Answers: 1.C 2.G 3.D 4.B 5.E 6.F 7.A

Amy Wallace is the co-author of many books, including "The People's Almanac," and the author of "The Prodigy," a biography, and "Desire," a novel. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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