Entertainment Firsts (Mini 84)

It’s time for some firsts. Entertainment firsts. Various milestones in the entertainment world from technology to awards. 

Ten quick questions to get your brains moving on a Monday. Got it? Good. Let’s go. 

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It's time for some firsts, Entertainment firsts.
Various milestones in the entertainment world, from
technology to awards. 10 quick questions to get your brains
moving on a Monday. Got it.
Good. Let's go number one.
What was the first movie with sound?

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The Jazz Singer in 1927 #2 What was the first movie to win the
best Picture Oscar? Wings, It was also released in

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1927 #3 Who was the first African American to win an
Academy Award? Hattie McDaniel Foregone with
the wind. McDaniel could not attend the

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premiere in Atlanta due to Jim Crow laws #4 who was the first
black man to receive an Academy Award.

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While Sidney Poitier was the first to win a competitive
Oscar, Gym Basket received an Academy Special Award for his
role as Uncle Remus in Song of the South in 1947 #5 In 1971,

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what sitcom was the first to feature a gay character All in
the Family? It was Archie's drinking buddy
Steve number six. What series had the first kiss

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between a white man and a black woman on US television?
Star Trek. Kirk and Uhura locked lips in
one episode #7 What 1936 event was the first live televised

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sporting event? The Berlin Olympics #8 What
sitcom had the first pregnancy and birth storyline?

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I Love Lucy Lucille Ball's pregnancy was written into the
show. Little Ricky made his on screen
debut when he was just 12 hours old #9 The first televised
presidential debate was between what, 2 candidates?

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John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon#10 Long before The Simpsons,
what was the first animated series made for prime time?

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The Flintstones and we are done.How did you do?
Were you inspired to watch something old Good?
Enjoy it. I'll see you back here on
Wednesday. This has been the Dorky Geeky
Nerdy Trivia podcast. You can learn more about the

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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
ladies who play mahjong over teain the unexpected eras.
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 worked 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
available now on Audible and iTunes.