Leap Day Trivia (Mini #35)

We have an extra day this year, so why not some extra trivia? It's February 29th and that means we can have some leap day trivia for a bonus episode. I have 10 questions about people that were born or died on this day, plus some events that happened on this Day in History, plus a question about the day itself. Good luck number one. Born on this day in 19 O four. What bandleader and jazz clarinetist recorded hits with I'm Glad There Is You and It's the Dreamer in Me. Jimmy Dorsey, number two born on Leap Day in 1968. What cartoonist ended his twenty year run of Schlock Mercenary in 2020? Howard Taylor #3? What Italian composer, born on February 29th, 1792, would become famous with American audiences when his composition was used as the theme music to The Lone Ranger? Giacchino Rossini. The music is the Overture from his final opera, Guillaume Tel #4, passing away on February 29th, 2012. What member of The Monkees earned a Tony nomination for his performance of the Artful Dodger in Oliver Davy Jones #5 dying of a gunshot wound on February 29th, 1908? What lawmen is credited with bringing down Billy the Kid? Pat Garrett, number six, Signed four years ago today. The Doaa Accord was signed between what two parties engaged in Afghanistan, the United States and the Taliban. The then government of Afghanistan was not included in the negotiations #7. On this day in 1980, what hockey player with the Hartford Whalers scored a record setting eight hundredth goal? Gordy Howe. He retired with 801 goals to his credit #8 coming into force on February 29th, 1796, the Jay Treaty led to 10 years of peace between the United States and what other nation, Great Britain. The treaty was negotiated by John Jay, who would become the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court #9, getting her statue on Leap Day in 1940, who was the first African American to win an Academy Award. Hattie McDaniel. She won for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind #10. When will the next skipped leap year be? The year 2100? The year skipped on years divisible by 100 but not divisible by 1000. How'd you do? I hope you make the most of this year's Bonus Day. I'll see you back here next Wednesday when we officially kick off season six. This has been the dorky, geeky, nerdy trivia podcast. You can learn more about the podcast at dorkygeekynerdy.com. You can support the show and get ad free episodes at patreon.com/dorky Geeky Nerdy. This show was written, produced, and hosted by me. Brian Rollins. Come find me at the Voices inmyhead.com. Thanks for listening. Long before the Summer of Love Pride parades down Market Street and the fight for marriage equality. San Francisco in 1953 was all about the Red Scare, FBI investigations, yellow journalism run amok, and the ladies who play mahjong over tea in the unexpected heiress. Private detective Nick Williams is called in to see his lawyer and friend Jeffrey Klein, whose mystery client, under contract to Metro was just arrested at the Kit Kat Club on Polk Street but somehow got off with a bench warrant. Jeffrey wants to know who in the Police Department worked things behind the scenes for the star of the upcoming blockbuster. It was raining then. Meanwhile, a late night phone call from his estranged father sends Nick into a tailspin and a family secret, along with a lot of other things better kept. Hush, hush are all splashed on the front pages of the Daily News. It ain't pretty in the end. For Nick and his lover, a strapping firefighter named Carter Jones, it's actually the beginning of a whole new way of doing business. The Unexpected Heiress by Frank W Butterfield is book one in the Nick and Carter series and is available now on Audible and iTunes.