TRIVIA DIALOGUE
- …WHICH CLASSMATE RODE HIS HORSE FIVE MILES A DAY TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND CAMPAIGNED IN IOWA IN 2015 AS A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT?…….. ….JOHN COGSWELL
2… ….WHO WON A GOLD MEDAL IN CREW AT THE OLYMPICS IN 1964?…. …BOYCE BUDD
3… …WHO WAS A CHIEF ECONOMIST AT THE WORLD BANK, BUT BEFORE THAT HE TAUGHT ECONOMICS AT BROWN TO JANET YELLEN, AND AT HIS TESTIMONIAL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH, JANET YELLEN REFERRED TO HIM AS HER INSPIRATION?… …JIM HANSON
- …WHICH CLASSMATE RAN AS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF NEW HAVEN IN 1969 AND 1971?….. …PAUL CAPRA
5.. …WHICH CLASSMATE WON A NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS?…. …PETER DIAMOND
6.. …WHICH CLASSMATE TAUGHT HIGH SCHOOL MATH TO BILL GATES AND PAUL ALLEN?… …FRED WRIGHT
7.. …WHICH CLASSMATE OBTAINED A PILOT’S LICENSE BEFORE HIS DRIVER’S LICENSE, KIDNAPPED THE BETA PLEDGE MASTER AND FLEW HIM TO A REMOTE ISLAND IN LAKE ERIE WITH A SUITCASE OF WEIGHTS AND TEN CENTS, AND LEFT HIM THERE?… …BOB JONES
8… …WHICH CLASSMATE WENT THROUGH ROTC AT YALE, BUT BEFORE ATTENDING LAW SCHOOL AT HARVARD, HE FOUND HIMSELF FIGHTING GUERILLAS IN CENTRAL AMERICA?… ….JEFF O’SULLIVAN
9.. …WHO DID ROSEMARY CLOONEY SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ON HIS 50TH BIRTHDAY; HE HAS ALSO RAISED $20,OOO TO FIGHT CANCER IN THE ANNUAL YALE CANCER. CENTER BIKEATHON?.. …JIM CASEY
10.. …WHICH CLASSMATE HAD A CAREER AS A CHILD ACTOR ON TELEVISION AND STAGE, PLAYING A YOUNG BOY OF 9 OR 10 FOR SEVERAL YEARS, BUT HIS CAREER CAME TO AN ABRUPT HALT WHEN HIS VOICE CHANGED?… …ED CANTOR
11… …WHO WAS THROWN IN JAIL IN THE CONGO FOR FIVE DAYS, SUSPECTED OF BEING A MERCENARY? LATER IN LIFE, WHILE IN MALI, BUT BEING OBSESSED WITH VISITING TIMBUKTU, HE CHARTERD HIS OWN CARAVAN TO GET THERE… …NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
12… …WHO FLEW MEDICAL EVACUATION HELICOPTERS IN HOT ZONES DURING THE VIET NAM WAR?… …GARY SIMONS
13… …WHO HAD A SUMMER JOB IN HIS JUNIOR YEAR TESTING HIGH EXPLOSIVES AND BLOWING THINGS UP?…. …DANE MANCHESTER
14… …WHAT CLASSMATE WAS ELECTED AS THE CAPTAIN OF THE CHICAGO BEARS?…. …MIKE PYLE
15… …WHO, ON SEPARATE VACATIONS, RAN WITH THE BULLS AT PAMPLONA, WAS THROWN IN JAIL IN MAJORCA AND WHILE STANDING WITH HIS WIFE IN FRONT OF THE BLUE MOSQUE IN ISTANBUL, REFUSED AN OFFER TO SELL HIS WIFE TO A CAMEL TRADER FOR FOUR CAMELS, MAINTAINING THAT SHE WAS WORTH AT LEAST FOURTEEN CAMELS?… …..FROSTY SMITH
16… …AFTER THE SCREAM BY EDVARD MUNCH WAS STOLEN FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY IN OSLO AND HELD FOR RANSOM, WHO HELPED THE NORWEGIANS AND SCOTLAND YARD SET UP A STING OPERATION TO GET IT BACK? HE SUCESSFULLY COACHED AN UNDERCOVER COP HOW TO BE A CURATOR AT AN AMERICAN MUSEUM THAT WAS PREPARED TO BUY THE PAINTING FROM THE THIEVES—AND IT WORKED!!… …JOHN WALSH
17… …WHICH CLASSMATE BROKE HIS COLLARBONE WHEN HE FELL OFF HIS HORSE TRYING TO TEACH A BUNCH OF MONGOLIANS HOW TO PLAY POLO? FOR THE LAST THIRTY YEARS HE HAS LIVED ON A HOUSEBOAT IN SAUSALITO… …WILFORD WELCH
18.. …WHO SERVED AS THE AMBASSADOR TO SIERRA LEONE AND COLLECTED OVER A MILLION MATCHBOOK COVERS?… …MIKE SAMUELS
19.. …WHICH CLASSMATE WROTE TWO MUSICALS THAT WERE FEATURED AT A REDWOOD GROVE ON THE RUSSIAN RIVER, THE FIRST ABOUT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE SECOND ABOUT DR. JOSEPH WARREN, A. REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO FROM MASSACHUSETTS?.. .. …PAUL DOWNEY
20… …WHICH CLASSMATE HAS 9 CHILDREN AND 24 GRANDCHILDREN?… …DENNY BATES
- …WHO SERVED IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE IN GHANA, BURUNDI, JERUSALEM, LONDON, PARIS AND WASHINGTON?… …KIM PENDLETON
22… …WHICH CLASSMATE WORKED WITH THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES TO BUILD A DOCK FOR REFUGEE FARMERS ON THE LOCATION THAT HAS NOW BECOME THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT?…. …PHIL PERIMAN
23…. …WHO SPENT A WEEK IN JAIL IN SELMA, ALABAMA DUE TO HIS ACTIVITY WITH DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND HIS FREEDOM MOVEMENT?…. ….GORDON GIBSON
24… …WHO CREATED A WEBSITE TO PRESRVE AND STREAM DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT AMERICAN FOLK LIFE?… …TOM DAVENPORT
25…..WHAT CLASSMATE PERFORMED WITH THE WORLD FAMOUS TRIO, THE LETTERMEN, AT THE MOHEGAN SUN CASINO, SINGING “I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO”?… …LOU ALLYN
- …WHICH CLASSMATE’S WORK AND TRAVEL TOOK HIM TO 140 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES?…. ….TOM MANSBACH
27… …WHICH TEDDY BEAR OF A CLASSMATE HAS BEEN MISTAKEN MANY TIMES FOR TIP O’NEILL … …DAVE RYAN
28… …WHO SPENT AN ENTIRE SEASON WITH THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS BASEBALL TEAM RECORDING ALL STATISTICS FOR EACH PLAY IN EVERY GAME AND THEN WROTE A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE ROYALS BASED ON THE STATISTICAL DATA WHICH COMPLETELY CHANGED THE ROYALS SCOUTING APPROACH AND THE WAY THEY APPROACHED THEIR FUTURE; NOW, HE NEVER ATTENDS MORE THAN ONE GAME A SEASON… …ED ROBERTSON
29… …WHO OWNED THE LARGEST CHICKEN FARM IN IRAN, BOUGHT ASTON MMARTIN OUT OF BANKRUPTCY AND RAN FOR CONGRESS AGAINST ED KOCH?… …PETER SPRAGUE
30… …WHO WAS THE FIRST CLASSMATE TO HOLD A MINI-REUNION AND WHERE WAS IT HELD?.. …SAM WEBB IN SHELBURNE, VT
31… WHO WAS A GREAT STORYTELLER WITH A BOOMING LAUGH, WHO TAUGHT AT BARUCH COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AND PRINCETON, WAS A SOCIAL WORKER AND MISSILE TECHNICIAN IN KOREA, BUT RECEIVED HIS GREATEST INSPIRATION WHEN HE MET EMMETT TILL?… …ISAIAH BAKER
32.. …WHICH CLASSMATE DRIVES A HYDROGEN CELL FUEL CAR?… …JIM LOOFBURROW
33… …WHO WAS THE SECOND CLASSMATE TO HOLD A MINI REUNION AND WHERE WAS IT HELD?… …DICK STRUB IN NEW ORLEANS.
34… AS A PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE SPECIALIST IN 1963, HE BRIEFED GENERALS WESTMORELAND AND ABRAMS BEFORE THEY WENT TO VIET NAM . LATER, HE RAN BUSINESSES FOR THE OWNER OF THE BUFFALO BILLS WHEN HE RETURNED TO DETROIT. WHO WAS THAT WHIFFENPOOF?… …SANDY MCMILLAN
35… …WHO RECEIVED A PHD IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS FROM HARVARD
AND WENT ON TO SUPPORT THE FIRST LANDING ON MARS?.. …STEVE MCREYNOLDS
36… WHICH CLASSMATE WAS BORN IN TORRINGTON, CT., HIS FATHER WAS A
BAKER, HE WAS THE FIRST IN HIS FAMILY TO GO TO COLLEGE, AND HE
BECAME A PROLIFIC FUNDRAISER FOR THE CLASS OF 1961?… VINCE TETI
37… …WHO ARE THE FOUR CLASSMATES WHO LIVE AT THE LANDINGS, SOUTH OF
SAVANNAH?…..BILL BAYFIELD, GEORGE LONGSTRETH, WALTER HOUGH AND
AL TOWNSEND
38… WHO WAS HIT BY A CAR WHILE SLIDING IN NEW HAVEN DURING A
MONSTROUS SNOWSTORM?… …NICK NOBBE
39…..WHICH CASSMATE PRODUCED ‘GREAT PERFORMANCES’ ‘LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER’ AND WON A TONY AWARD FOR HIS PRODUCTION OF PORGY AND BESS?… …SHERWIN GOLDMAN
40…..WHO, AFTER AN INITIAL CAREER WITH PAN AM, STARTED ONE OF THE FIRST
HIGH END, HIGHLY ACCLAIMED, ADVENTURE TRAVEL COMPANIES. …GEORGE DOUBLEDAY
41…..HE WENT TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN A ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE AND AFTER YALE, CLIMBED THE SUMMIT OF MATTERHORN, SPENT 23 DAYS CIRCUMVENTING ANNPURNA THROUGH NEPAL AND CLIMBED 19,000 FEET ON THE TIBETAN ROUTE ON MOUNT EVEREST?… JAMIE MCLANE
42…..WHICH CLASSMATE IS KNOWN AS ‘THE HISTORIAN OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER’? HE HAS REPRESENTED THE ESTATES OF COLE PORTER,IRA GERSHWIN AND IRVING BERLIN AND HAS WRITTEN BIOGRAPHIES OF COLE PORTER, THE GERSHWINS AND EUBIE BLAKE,,, …BOB KIMBALL
- ….WHICH CLASS MATE SPENT 50 YEARS IN NATIONAL SECURITY FOR THE ARMY.
SERVED IN VIET NAM AT THE SAME TIME AS TWO BROTHERS AND BECAME THE
CONFIDANTE TO SEVERAL GENERALS?…. …SANDY COCHRAN
44….WHO STARTED A FREE SURGICAL CLINIC IN KHAMMAN, INDIA?… …GEORGE LONGSTRETH
45…..A CLASSMATE SUFFERED A SUBDURAL HEMATOMA. WHEN HIS NEUROSURGEON TOLD HIM THAT HE WOULD NEED TO DRLL TWO HOLES INTO HIS SKULL TO RELIEVE PRESSURE ON THE BRAIN, OUR CLASSMATE SUGGESTED “DRILLING A THIRD HOLE SO HIS HEAD COULD BE USED AS A BOWLING BALL” WHO WAS THAT CLASSMATE?…. …FRANK BERNSTEIN
- …WHO IS OUR ONLY CLASSMATE TO RECEIVE THE YALE MEDAL?… …JOHN WALSH
47…. …WHAT CLASSMATE WAS EMPLOYED AS THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE AND, AS A STAMP COLLECTOR, SPECIALIZED IN STAMPS FROM TONGA?… …DAVIS ROBINSON
- …WHO WAS A COLD WAR COUNTERSPY FOR THE CIA, BASED IN VERONA AND VENICE, AND EVENTUALLY MADE A VERY GOOD LIVING IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY?… …BRIAN KELLY
49… …WHO WAS NAMED TO THE PENNSYLVANIA ALL STATE FOOTBALL TEAM, , ALL IVY AND ALL AMERICAN MENTION AT YALE AND BECAME CEO AND CHAIRMAN OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE CHOCOLATE COMPANY?… …KEN WOLFE
50… …WHO TAUGHT ENGLISH TO AFRICAN KIDS IN GHANA?….LYNN JOHNSON
- ..WHICH CLASSMATES MARRIED SISTERS OF OTHER CLASSMATES?.. …FRED STRATTON MARRIED THE SISTER OF BILL YOUNGCLAUS, JIM TRIPP MARRIED THE SISTER OF PETER MOORE AND JOHN MAYPOLE MARRIED THE SISTER OF STEVE WHITE
52WHICH CLASSMATE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING IN 2017, RECOGNIZED FOR HIS WORK IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING ON THE SAFETY OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS?… …BOB BUDNITZ
- …IN 1966, HE FOUNDED THE BATON ROUGE CHAPTER OF THE ACLU. WHO WAS THAT CLASSMATE?… …HERB ROTHCHILD
- …WHICH CLASSMATES HAD AT LEAST SIX CHILDREN?.. …BARNES ELLIS, DENNY BATES, JOHN DOWD, BOB BROWNING AND JOHN HOCKING
55…HE WAS A GREAT JAZZ FAN, FREQUENTING EDDIE CONGDON’S AND TRYING TO PLAY HIS TROMBONE LIKE JACK TEAGARTEN. WHEN HE SETTLED DOWN, HE WAS THE PRINCIPAL OF A HIGH SCHOOL IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY WHERE HE RECEIVED AN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE FROM RONALD REAGAN AND FOUNDED THE PRINCIPALS’ CENTER IN NEW YORK AND MAINE. WHO WAS THAT CLASSMATE?.. …TOM EDWARDS
- ..WHAT CLASSMATE LIVED IN TRUMBULL COLLEGE AND WAS FOLLOWED BY HIS DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER, ALL LIVING IN THE SAME COLLEGE?.. …FROST WALKER
57,.. …WHICH CLASSSMATE THOUGHT HE WAS LATE FOR AN AIRPLANE FLIGHT, SO HE DROVE TO THE FRONT OF THE AIRLINE TERMINAL AND SIMPLY ABANDONED HIS CAR?.. …JOHN DENEUFVILLE
58…WHO WAS HIRED BY WINDSTAR CRUISES TO TELL SEA STORIES ABOARD SHIPS AND ON ONE OF THE CRUISES, HE MET JAMES MICHENER?… …JOE NOVITSKI
59…WHO TAUGHT KIDS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND ENDED UP AS THE MARKETING VICE PRESIDENT FOR LEVI STRAUSS, WHERE HE CONCEPTUALIZED, BRANDED AND MARKETED THE ‘DOCKERS’ BRAND OF JEANS?… …STEVE GOLDSTEIN
- . …WHICH CLASSMATE ATTENDED MEDICAL SCHOOL AFTER YALE AND FOUNDED AND, FOR THE REMAINDER OF HIS WORKING CAREER, LED A NON-PROFIT DEDICATED TO DELIVERING MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES TO THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES?….. …RON O’CONNOR
61… WHICH CLASSMATE HIRED COLLEGE STUDENTS DURING EACH SUMMER WHILE AT YALE AND RAN A TREE REMOVAL SERVICE THAT PAID FOR HIS YALE AND HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL EDUCATION? HE ALSO DEFEATED A FUTURE OLYMPIAN IN THE POLE VAULT AT A YALE TRACK MEET?… …CHARLIE DILL
62… WHICH CLASSMATE TAUGHT KHADAFFI AND THEN SERVED AS THE AMBASSADOR TO THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, SOMALIA AND ZAIRE AND ENDED UP WRITING EDITORIALS FOR THE PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE?.. …DAN SIMPSON
63….WHICH CLASSMATES FATHER LETTERED IN FOOTBALL, HOCKEY AND BASEBALL AT YALE AND THEN BECAME THE YALE HOCKEY COACH?… …DAVID NOBLE
64… …DURING OUR SENIOR YEAR, WHAT TEAM WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND WHO WAS ITS CAPTAIN?… THE SQUASH TEAM AND THE CAPTAIN WAS TAT STARR
65… WHO WAS DESIGNATED AS THE BEST JUDGE IN CONNECTICUT BY THE CONNECTICUT TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION?… …TOM CORRADINO
66…..WHICH CLASSMATE WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA TO TEACH MATH AT A GIRLS’ MIDDLE SCHOOL IN THE NINETIES AND STARTED A GIRLS’ SOCCER TEAM USING OLD YALE SOCCER JERSEYS AS UNIFORMS?… …ANDY BLOCK
- ..WHO SERVED AS AMBASSADOR TO MOROCCO UNDER RONALD REAGAN, AS CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AT THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER GEORGE H.W. BUSH AND IN VARIOUS UNDER SECRETARY POSITIONS AT THE UNITED NATIONS?… …JOE REED
68…..WHO CREATED THE ORAL HISTORY OF IRAN PROJECT, FROM THE 1920’S TO THE 1970’S AT HARVARD?….HABIB LADJEVARDI
- …WHAT CLASSMATE STILL HOLDS THE YALE RECORD IN TRACK AND FIELD?.. …JIM STACK IN THE 880
70…AFTER A CAREER IN AEROSPACE, HE THEN SPENT MANY YEARS AS A POPULAR PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY TEACHER AT A TOP PRIVATE SCHOOL IN PHILADELPHIA AND ALSO SERVED FOR MANY YEARS AS PRESIDENT OF THE PHILADELPHIA YALE CLUB. WHO WAS HE?… …PAUL TIERNEY
71,.. …WHICH CLASSMATES EARNED THE MOST VARSITY LETTERS AT YALE?… …MIKE PYLE AND DAVE SIMMONS
72… …WHICH CLASSMATE STARTED THE JEFFERSON AWARDS IN 1971 AFTER A CONVERSATION WITH JACQUELINE KENNEDY. THE AWARDS GO TO OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVANTS AND WERE ORIGINALLY GIVEN TO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. TODAY, THEY ARE NATIONALLY COVETED AND AWARDED TO ABOUT 1,000 PUBLIC SERVANTS ANNUALLY. THIS CLASSMATE ALSO PIONEERED PROGRAMS FOR OPENING UP LOANS TO MINORITY BUSINESSES AND HAS DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO PUBLIC SERVICE. WHO IS HE?… …SAM BEARD
- .. ….WHO SPENT SEVERAL YEARS TEACHING COLLEGE LEVEL HISTORY TO INMATES AT A MAINE STATE PENITENTIARY THROUGH A PROGRAM SPONSORED BY WARREN BUFFET’S SISTER?…. …PAT MUNDY
74… WHICH CLASSMATE MODELED FOR VOGUE MAGAZINE AT YALE, BECAME A WORLD CLASS PHOTOGRAPHER AND MARRIED TWIGGY… …PETER BEARD
75… WHO LABELLED OUR CLASS AND OUR GENERATION AS THE “BLAND LEADING THE BLAND”?… …PROFESSOR JOHN BLUM AT OUR 35TH REUNION
76… …WHO BIKED 1730 MILES IN 22 DAYS FROM MINOT, ND TO CLEVELAND, OHIO, OBSERVING THAT HE SAW LOTS OF CORN ALONG THE WAY?.. …RON ST. JOHN
77… WHO SERVED AS THE DEAN OF A NORTHEAST LAW SCHOOL AND WROTE MANY BEST SELLING BOOKS DESCRIBING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN U.S. PRESIDENTS AND THEIR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES?.. …JIM SIMON
78… WHO NUMBERS, AMONG HIS FRIENDS, THE GREAT PHILANTHROPIST GEORGE SOROS AND THE GREAT FINANCIER JAMES WOLFENSOHN… …JACK ALLEN
79… HOW MUCH DID A LARGE CHEESE PIZZA COST AT SALLY’S DURING OUR SENIOR YEAR?…..$1.60
- …. WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE HOCKEY TEAM, BECAME A NOTED HAND SURGEON AND THEN DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO SUCH CAUSES AS LEGALIZING CANNABIS AND ASSISTED SUICIDE?.. …CHARLIE HAMLIN…
- …IN AN OBVIOUS EDITORIAL BLUNDER, WHICH MAGAZINE DESCRIBED OUR FRESHMAN CLASS AS “THE BRIGHTEST EVER?”… …THE NEW YORKER