Feeling old? Well, you’re probably not as old as these Celebrity Centenarians. We’re looking at people that made it to one-hundred and beyond. Test your trivia skills and see how you fare.
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Episode Transcript/Quiz
Episode Introduction
Feeling old? Well, you’re probably not as old as these Celebrity Centenarians. We’re looking at people that made it to one-hundred and beyond.
I’m your host Brian Rollins, let the trivia begin.
Celebrity Centenarians Trivia Questions
- What comedian starred in 54 movies and hosted the Academy Awards 19 times?
a. Bob Hope. He lived to be 100. - What writer and producer gave us All in the Family, Sandford and Son, and The Jeffersons?
a. Norman Lear who lived to be 101. - She played Maureen Robinson on the original Lost in Space.
a. June Lockhart. She was 100 years old when she passed away in 2025. - Having passed away in 2024, who played Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins?
a. Glynis Johns. 100. - What comedian outlived his only wife, Gracie Allen by 32 years?
a. George Burns. 100. - 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?
a. Olivia de Havilland. 104. - What actor played the title role in the epic, Spartacus?
a. Kirk Douglas. 103. - What star of How the West was Won got an Academy Award for On the Waterfront?
a. Eva Marie Saint. She is 101 and still alive (as of me recording this). - What actress, who got her start in the 1930s, really hit it big in 1997 as Rose in Titanic?
a. Gloria Stuart. She was 100 years old. - What ventriloquist made 48 appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show?
a. Señor Wences. 103.
Episode Conclusion
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 right back here on Wednesday for our regular 30-question episode.
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