Can you identify these actors, singers, and sports figures who shared their talents with us before passing away in 2024? The answers appear below.
1. What legendary basketball center, known as The Big Redhead, was a two-time NCAA champion with UCLA before winning two NBA championships?
2. What stand-up comedian known for his deadpan manner starred as a Vermont innkeeper on his own tv series?
3. What female sex therapist revolutionized the way Americans spoke about previously taboo subjects?
4. What country singer released his chart-topping debut single, “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” in 1993?
5. Who was the wife of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who bore him 11 children during their 18-year marriage?
6. What Canadian writer won the Novel Prize for Literature, named a “master of the short story” for stories like “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”?
7. What Hall of Fame Heisman Trophy winner was acquitted of stabbing his wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman?
8. What Emmy-winning talk show host married Marlo Thomas and hosted his own audience-participation talk show from 1967-1996?
9. What “Say Hey Kid” made an over-the-shoulder catch in Game 1 of the World Series that is one of the most famous baseball plays of all time?
10. What country music singer/actor won a Golden Globe Award for his performance in A Star is Born in 1976?
11. What often parodied American fitness enthusiast hosted his own exercise show and promoted various weight-loss programs?
12. Whose breakout role as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 propelled her to stardom?
13. What American record producer and composer produced the famous Thriller album for Michael Jackson as well as the collaboration “We Are the World”?
ANSWERS:
1. Bill Walton
2. Bob Newhart
3. Dr. Ruth Westheimer
4. Toby Keith
5. Ethel Kennedy
6. Alice Munro
7. O.J. Simpson
8. Phil Donahue
9. Willie Mays
10. Kris Kristofferson
11. Richard Simmons
12. Shannen Doherty
13. Quincy Jones
