Extreme Trivia #35
October 18, 2006 at 1:02 pm
First, the answer to last week’s question. In 1977, CBS aired a short-lived summer variety series taped in Washington that featured piano satirist Mark Russell and up-and-coming comedian David Letterman. What was the name of the show?
AlexC of the great blog threesources.com and legendary Extreme Trivia winner Peter Roff correctly said The Starland Vocal Band Variety show.
Now, the next Extreme Trivia question. Mark Warner’s decision not to run for president in 2008 likely deprives us the opportunity to have two candidates from the same state, Virginia/George Allen.
More impressive, though, is when there are two presidential candidates from the same hometown. Name the presidential campaign cycle, the candidates involved, and the hometown when this last happened.
Peter Roff said,
October 18, 2006 @ 2:03 pm
1996
Bob Dole and Arlen Specter
Russell, Kansas
AlexC said,
October 18, 2006 @ 2:19 pm
Whew… that’s a tough one, but Peter’s right. I read the question as “which Dem vs with R”….. but Specter was 1996 candidate for a few weeks or so….
Jonathan Mark said,
October 18, 2006 @ 5:28 pm
Starland Vocal Band had an extremely beautiful singer of Asian-Pacific extraction. You can see her front and center in that poster.
There are too few of these gorgeous creatures in show business even today. There was also a middle-aged white couple that were the leaders of the band, but the beautiful Asian woman made up for the other band members.