Trivia

[livecam]

Ah back up to Clancy's question...we need a recount...there was a reason I asked that question. 

W2XBS was one of ten stations that was issued a commerical television license by the FCC on May 2, 1941. On July 1, 1941, it became the first TV station to begin commercial broadcasting under the new call letters WNBT. Everything before this date was considered experimental television.

That station is now WNBC-TV channel 4 in New York.

[okarol]

kidney4traci - you're right about the popcorn.
Can you hold off until livecam gets an answer about his answer please?
Not sure what else to do.

[Clancy1600]

Oh my.....
I've managed to create a bit of a mess.  So sorry everyone!  Can we have a do-over, starting with livecam's "Portlandia" answer?

In my newbie enthusiasm, I took two turns in a row, asking the question.  When livecam gave the Portlandia answer, my response should have been "That's correct, now it's your turn".  Instead, I jumped in and asked a second question.  I am so sorry, livecam.  You gave the correct answer on Portlandia, and you should be the next person up.

My sincere apologies to everyone for all the mix-up I've created.  Livecam, next question, please?  OK, everyone?

[Wattle]

   But who got the T.V question right? Okarol or Livecam??

[okarol]

Oh my.....
I've managed to create a bit of a mess.  So sorry everyone!  Can we have a do-over, starting with livecam's "Portlandia" answer?

In my newbie enthusiasm, I took two turns in a row, asking the question.  When livecam gave the Portlandia answer, my response should have been "That's correct, now it's your turn".  Instead, I jumped in and asked a second question.  I am so sorry, livecam.  You gave the correct answer on Portlandia, and you should be the next person up.

My sincere apologies to everyone for all the mix-up I've created.  Livecam, next question, please?  OK, everyone?

That's a good solution Clancy.
Traci - sorry about the mix-up!

[livecam]

It's only trivia Clancy, no big deal!  Ok children here we go again.  Who was the first person to perform on radio and in what year?  What was unique about that broadcast?

[Clancy1600]

Was this person Eugenia H. Farrar?  Eugenia H. Farrar was the first singer to perform live on radio, in a broadcast by Lee De Forest from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the occasion of the departure of Admiral Robley Dunglison Evans ("Fighting Bob Evans") on a cruise with the fleet.  This broadcast took place on December 16, 1907.

[livecam]

I knew I had to make these a little more difficult.  You are incorrect but a clue here is that you are very close in terms of the time frame.

[Joe Paul]

The first extended broadcast of the human voice was transmitted through the air on December 24, 1906 from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. A Canadian engineer, Reginald Fessenden, had worked for Thomas Edison in his New Jersey Laboratory, and later became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

[livecam]

Joe Paul...you got it!  Your turn!

[Joe Paul]

Thanks Livecam. OK here goes.... What was the last line Marilyn Monroe spoke on the silver screen?

[boxman55]

Was it the movie "missfits" the line was "oh Charlie"....Boxman

[Joe Paul]

The movie is right, but thats not the line. Try again

[livecam]

We may have another recall situation brewing here.  Marilyn Monroe's last words on screen were actually uttered in "Something's Got to Give" her last film from which she was fired during production.  The film was never completed and thus not released but a compilation of the scenes she did shoot was.  So as a technicality you might have to base it on "Something's Got to Give".

[Joe Paul]

We may have another recall situation brewing here.  Marilyn Monroe's last words on screen were actually uttered in "Something's Got to Give" her last film from which she was fired during production.  The film was never completed and thus not released but a compilation of the scenes she did shoot was.  So as a technicality you might have to base it on "Something's Got to Give".

Sorry, but according to the trivia page I am using, those are not her last words.

[okarol]

The last line ever spoken by Marilyn Monroe on the silver screen was "How do you find your way back in the dark?" The line is from the 1961 film The Misfits with Clark Gable.

[Joe Paul]

Thats it Karol, your up 

[okarol]

The TV mini-series "Lonesome Dove" starred Robert Urich, Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall.
Writer Larry McMurtry had originally envisioned it as a movie starring what 3 actors?

[boxman55]

Mo Larry and Curly ?? ........Boxman

[Clancy1600]

John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and James Stewart

[okarol]

Mo Larry and Curly ?? ........Boxman

nope, but you're close Boxman!

John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and James Stewart

That's right Clancy, you're up!

[Clancy1600]

Thanks okarol.

In the spirit of fairness, I'm wondering if I could forgo my question in this round so that kidney4traci could pose a question?  She did give the correct answer to okarol's James Brown question, but didn't get a turn due to my mix-up.  Would this be ok for this round?

[okarol]

That's a nice idea. Will you PM her and let her know?

[Clancy1600]

Thanks.  I've sent the PM to kidney4traci.

[kidney4traci]

Ok, Sorry it has been a busy week end and not on the computer but playing outside!!  OK, thanks for the turn. HHUUMM...  Give me a sec...