Re: Pub Quiz [2003/11/25]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> In rec.puzzles gerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > 11. Looks like a polar explorer or mountain climber.  Roald Amundsen?
> >>
> >> Chose the wrong way.  Not a polar explorer, but a mountain climber.
> >> -- 
> 
> > So, -- it's just about the most famous mountaineer ever,
> > Edmund Hillary
> 
> Lots of professions have only one or two famous, the rest anonymous. 
> At Thanksgiving yesterday we were discussing the old "What's My Line" and 
> someone mentioned Bennett Cerf, the famous publisher. No one could recall
> what Wally Cox was famous for.

What's My Line:  John Daly was the moderator.  Dorothy Kilgallen was a 
perennial contestant, as was Bennett Cerf. Steve Allen and Jayne 
Meadows (his wife) made regular appearances.

Wally Cox was "Mr. Peepers".

earle
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