Quiz 12

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Here we are, the start of a new Trivia Quiz, and your opportunity to pick up $5 for guessing the correct answer. :)

A quick reminder of the rules- Only 1 guess per day. :D



Quiz 12

Clue 1

My acting career began and ended with me having a role in just one Movie.

WHO am I?

Geoff

[betrdanevr]

Less than .05% of the waiters in the city of Hollywood?;)

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That could well be true, Terri, but not on this occasion. :D


Geoff

[Laughing Dog]

James Dean

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Sorry, LD.


Geoff

[linkz]

Howard Stern :)

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No, not Howard Stern. ;)

Geoff

[betrdanevr]

I vote for multiple choice! :confused: :D

[Kiss]

Dumbo??? hahaha :cool:

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Not Dumbo, Kiss. :smt017


Geoff

[Laughing Dog]

I think I know it now, so can I try again after midnight?

LD

[betrdanevr]

Dumbo??? hahaha :cool:
Oh, that was PRICELESS!!!!!!! I spit my coffee all over my keyboard at that one!

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At one minute past midnight if you wish, LD.

But, don`t forget I`ll be posting clue No. 2 tomorrow. Is it better to wait? Up to you. :smt100

Geoff

[Laughing Dog]

What time tomorrow? I'm busy on weekdays.

LD

[Kiss]

Oh, that was PRICELESS!!!!!!! I spit my coffee all over my keyboard at that one!
;) . . . and ya know . . . I was sure I had the right answer!!! . . . oh well . . . back to the drawing board!!! lol thi#

[Laughing Dog]

I have the answer. It was King Kong.


LD

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I like that one, LD, but, alas, no. qui#


Geoff

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I did say they`d be getting tougher. (Now where`s Jaukki gone?) :D

Quiz 12
Clue 2

Being unable to find work I moved in with my sick mother in 1990, until her death in 1992. We had both lived off her Social Security payment of $450 per month.

WHO am I?

Geoff

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Wow, I`m amazed. Not one more guess so far today. :eek:

Maybe the 3rd clue will be of some greater help tomorrow.:D

Geoff

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Quiz 12
Clue 3

I am a male, who was arrested for shoplifting twice. The second time was for a pair of sneakers worth $12. In 1983 I received a 12 month prison sentence.

WHO am I?

Geoff

[international_buyer]

Who is / was Frank Wills....

Played himself in a movie about the Watergate Scandle

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Brilliant, international_buyer, the answer is Frank Wills, the security guard who was described by one of the Washington Times reporters as making the most important phone call in American history. He died from a brain tumor in hospital in the year 2000, penniless!

I thought I might get another day out of this Quiz, but you got it spot on, well done.:smt023 app# Please PM me with your Egold No. and I`ll get your $5 sent to you.

Lokk out for Quiz No 13 which starts on Sunday. ;)


Frank Wills: Watergate Security Guard

On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, an $80-a-week security guard for the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C., stumbled upon what was later called a "third-rate burglary" taking place in an office leased to the Democratic National Committee. His life, as well as that of his nation, would never be the same.

Frank Wills, a native of Savannah, Georgia, visited Washington D.C. in 1971 and decided to stay. Later that year, a security services firm called GSS hired him to man the midnight-to-7 a.m. shift at the Watergate office complex.

About an hour into his shift in the early morning of June 17, 1972, he noticed a piece of adhesive tape covering part of the lock mechanism on a door between the basement stairwell and the parking garage. At first, Wills suspected the cleaning crew - which had left by this time - had taped over the door latch to prevent it from locking. He removed the tape and went on with his duties.

James McCord, the leader of the buglers and a former security officer at the CIA, noticed the tape was missing but rather than calling off the escapade, he simply retaped the door. Had he not, it is possible, perhaps even likely, that Richard Nixon would have served out his second term with all of the abuses of power of his administration simply speculated upon rather than prosecuted.

At around 1:55 a.m., Wills again made his rounds and discovered the lock had once again been taped over. He called the D.C. police and they arrested five men wearing surgical gloves and carrying bugging equipment in the sixth-floor offices of the Democratic National Committee. During their arraignment the following day, it would be discovered that some of the burglars were former CIA personnel.

Frank Wills: Movie Star

As the importance of the burglary became apparent, Wills began receiving recognition for his efforts. He received an award from the Democratic Party and the Martin Luther King Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - its highest honor. He even played himself in the movie "All the President's Men" starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman and written by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

For a brief time after the break-in, he was "in demand" amongst the Washington press corps. He hired lawyer Dorsey Evans as his agent and charged reporters as much as $300 for interviews. Some reporters paid the fee, but his plans to work the lecture circuit met with apathy and were soon abandoned.

Forgotten and Bitter Man

With all the awards, press attention, and the appearance in the movie, he began to believe far more rewards awaited him. But it was not to be.

In 1973 - before the Watergate saga had played itself out - he left GSS due to their unwillingness to provide paid vacations. He had trouble finding full-time employment after that and told the Washington Post: "I don't know if they are being told not to hire me or if they are just afraid to hire me." By the late 1970s, he was living with his ailing mother.

Frank Wills hit a low in 1983 when he was sentenced to a year in prison for shoplifting a pair of sneakers.

Wills was largely forgotten at the time of the 25th anniversary of the break-in in 1997. Nevertheless, a number of interviews at the time revealed an embittered man. In a Boston Globe interview, he said: "I put my life on the line. If it wasn't for me, Woodward and Bernstein would not have known anything about Watergate. This wasn't finding a dollar under a couch somewhere."

"He's the only one in Watergate who did his job perfectly," said Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward to The Post. "...Calling the police was one of the most important phone calls in American history, and it was so simple and so basic.



Here`s another URL about Frank Wills and the Watergate Affair.

http://www.21c-online.com/FrankWills.htm



Geoff

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I received this from international_buyer, which I will be very pleased to do. app#


would like to donate my winnings to:

http://www.greenworld.org/Donate/online.php


Geoff

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IB Congratulations on Winning Geoff's Quiz Number 12 - It was a hard one this week doh# :D

Yes that's Great if you want to donate it to a charity, as long as they accept e-gold, which Green World does dan# Geoff holds the funds for the quiz, so I am sure that he will make the donation soon
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I salute your generosity International_Buyer app# app# app# app# app#

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Congratulations International_Buyer Iwas positive it was Forest Gump that stumbled on the watergate affair LOL:D

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I have always been fascinated by Watergate, and enjoyed the film, All The President`s Men, although until I researched it I`d forgotten the name of the `unsung hero.` By the way, did they ever discover the true identity of `Deep Throat`? thi#

Anyway, our winner`s $5 has been sent to the charity of his choice, as requested.

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Geoff

[memorex]

I thought that deep throat was played by Linda Lovelace :));)

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Somehow I don`t quite that`s the same film you`ve been watching memorex. :D :D

Geoff

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I thought that deep throat was played by Linda Lovelace :));)Well it seems that now the real Deep Throat has been revealed. Fascinating!

June 1, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Former Washington Post executive editor Benjamin Bradlee said yesterday that he can't believe Deep Throat's identity stayed hidden for more than 30 years.

"The thing that stuns me is that the goddamn secret has lasted this long," said Bradlee, who edited the paper during Watergate. Bradlee and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former No. 2 official at the FBI, was Deep Throat.

Woodward decided to break his long-standing vow that Deep Throat's identity would not be revealed until after he died despite skepticism about whether Felt, 91, was competent to decide to change the ground rules of their secret relationship.

Woodward said he is writing an article for tomorrow's newspaper that will provide a personal account of his and Bernstein's experience in covering Watergate.

Bradlee, in an interview published last night in The Washington Post, said that knowing that Deep Throat was a high-ranking FBI official helped him feel confident about the information. "The No. 2 guy at the FBI, that was a pretty good source," Bradlee said.

Although he knew the source's identity, Bradlee said, "I've never met Felt. I wouldn't know him if I fell on him."

Woodward said Felt helped the Post at a time of tense relations between the White House and much of the FBI hierarchy.

He noted the Watergate break-in came shortly after the death of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and that Felt and other bureau officials wanted to see an FBI veteran succeed him. Felt himself had hopes that he would be the next FBI boss, but President Nixon instead tapped an administration insider.

Geoff

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And the story continues.....

The family of W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official who helped unravel the Watergate scandal, has sold the movie and book rights to his life story for a sum reportedly close to $1 million.

The deals come just two weeks after Mr. Felt revealed that he was "Deep Throat," the secret source who fed details about the scandal in President Richard Nixon's White House to the Washington Post.

Public Affairs Books plans to publish a book that blends Mr. Felt's recollections with material from lawyer John O'Connor, who wrote the magazine article that said the now 91-year-old Mr. Felt had been Deep Throat.

Universal Pictures and the production company of actor Tom Hanks plan to develop a film based on the book.

The Watergate scandal led President Nixon to resign in August 1974. Geoff