Celebrity Centenarians (Mini #81)

Feeling old? Well, you’re probably not as old as these Celebrity Centenarians. We’re looking at people that made it to 100 and beyond.

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Feeling old? Well, you're probably not as old
as the celebrity centenarians. We're looking at people that
made it to 100 and beyond. I'm your host, Brian Rollins.
Let the trivia begin. Number one.
What comedian starred in 54 movies and hosted the Academy

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Awards 19 times? Bob Hope, he lived to be 100 #2
What writer and producer gave usall in the family?

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Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons.
Norman Lear, who lived to be 101#3.

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She played Maureen Robinson on the original Lost in Space.
June Lockhart. She was 100 years old when she
passed away in 2025 #4 having passed away in 2024.

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Who played Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins.
Glennis Johns at 100 years old #5 What comedian outlived his

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only wife, Gracie Allen, by 32 years?
George Burns, who passed away atage 100, Number six.

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What star of Gone With the Wind and To Each His Own, was the
oldest living Academy Award winner at the time of her death
in 2020? Olivia de Havilland.

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She was 104 #7 What actor playedthe title role in the epic
Spartacus? Kirk Douglas, who lived to be

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103 #8 What star of How the WestWas Won got an Academy Award for
On the Waterfront. Ava Marie St.

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She is 101 and still alive as ofme recording this #9.
What actress who got her start in the 1930s really hit it big
in 1997 as Rose in Titanic? Gloria Stewart.

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She was 100 years old #10 what ventriloquist made 48
appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show?

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Senor Wences, he was 103 and we are done.
How did you do? Let me know on social media what
your favorite old school actor or actress is.
I'll see you back here on Wednesday before our regular 30
question episode. This has been the Dorky Geeky

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Nerdy Trivia podcast. You can learn more about the
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Rowlands. If you're into audiobooks or
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Brian Rowlands. All rights reserved.
Thanks for listening. Long before the Summer of Love,

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Pride parades down Market Streetand the fight for marriage
equality, San Francisco in 1953 was all about the Red Scare, FBI
investigations, yellow journalism run amok and the
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Private detective Nick Williams is called in to see his lawyer

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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 thePolice Department work things
behind the scenes for the star of the upcoming blockbuster.
It was raining then. Meanwhile, a late night phone

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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

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whole new way of doing business.The Unexpected Heiress by Frank
W Butterfield is book one in theNick and Carter series and is
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