Flashback Friday (a day late)

I'm in the mood for a quiz.  How about you?  (No Googling!)

1) Who is this man? 
Hint: He was my idol when I was a teenager, mainly because I admired his lyric tenor voice. A tenor myself, I sang just about every hit song of his in my high school pop group.

2) This illustration appeared where? 
Hints: Down East, ill-fated older neighbor, shovel

3) What was this movie character's name?
Hints: rhymes with "More, please!"; world's worst mommie, next to Joan Crawford

4) Name this TV character and the show.
Hint: Aloha!

5) Which late-70s movie had a theme song featuring these lyrics?
Hint: Nancy Kerrigan, eat your heart out.

I can see what's mine now,
Finding out what's true,
Since I found you...

6) What's the punch line to this dirty Muppets joke?

Kermit and Ms Piggy were frolicking in bed one day.
The phone rang, and Kermit answered.
He said to the person on the line,
"I'm sorry, but Ms Piggy can't talk on the phone right now.
She ___________________."

7) In which J. D. Salinger story does the protagonist serve his guests a pitcher of Tom Collins, although he himself prefers to drink Scotch?

8) Which author of Southern fiction coined my favorite phrase that offers an excuse for having a drink in the afternoon: "Early? Why it's already dark under the house."

9) Which national U.S. restaurant chain, before it went bankrupt, infamously featured murals like this on its interior walls?
Hint: The restaurant name was initially a portmanteau word, but later achieved a controversial association with a story with racist subtones.

10) Which domestic activity did the American footballer, Rosey Grier, notoriously promote during the mid-70s, bursting stereotypes all over the country?

a) baking
b) needlepoint
c) macrame
d) housecleaning

Comments

[sandy]

Thanks to the few who played along!

For the answers, go here.

Sandy

[TJ]

1 ?, 2 Pet Semetary, 3 ?, 4 Det. Chin Ho, 5 Ice Castles, 6 She has frog in her throat, 7 ?, 8 Tennessee Williams?, 9 Sambos, 10 needlepoint

[patrick]

I know that #2 is the book cover from Pet Cemetary.
#4 is Hawaii 5-o
She has a frog in her throat
#8 is

[mykel]

you've stumped me on this one. i think hawaii 5o and pet cemetary for the lovely pussy but even then i can't be certain....what can i say, i'm crap at trivia :) oh and i think miss piggy couldn't answer the phone because she was having a hissy fit over her broken bedazzler..;)ha ha xxx