Monday, August 20, 2012

Weekend Trivia: 08/20/2012

What was the last cigarette advertised on American TV?
  • Virginia Slims, on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, on January 1, 1971, at 11:59 p.m.—one minute before a federal ban on cigarette advertising on radio and TV took effect.
 
Who was the first film character to be a finalist for Time magazine’s Man of the Year?
  • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, in 1982. He lost out to “the computer,” which was named Machine of the Year.

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