100 Places to Go After You Die

Tuesday Trivia DCCCI Answers

1. In May 2005, comic book character James Buchanan Barnes returned from the dead after sixty years, now with what new identity?
   That's "Bucky" Barnes, Captain America's trusty sidekick. Sixty years after World War II, he re-emerged as the Winter Soldier.
2. What Midtown Manhattan neighborhood, named for its gritty tenement past, did real estate agents try to rebrand as "Clinton" beginning in 1959?
   Hell's Kitchen is a new kind of gentrified hell nowadays.
3. What composer's famous second symphony ends with a chorus singing, "Rise again, yes, rise again, will you, my dust, after a brief rest"?
   That's the last movement of the "Resurrection" symphony, Gustav Mahler's second.
4. What movie star's last role was, appropriately enough, as a guide to the afterlife in Steven Spielberg's Always?
   Audrey Hepburn hadn't appeared in a movie in almost a decade, but wanted to work with Spielberg. Even if the movie was an ill-advised remake of 1989's A Guy Called Joe.
5. What object, discovered in June 1978, is pronounced by its astronomer discoverer not with an initial /k/ sound but with a /sh/ sound, in honor of his wife?
   Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, shares its name with the ferryman of the dead in Greek mythology. But that was a happy coincidence! Its discoverer, James W. Christy, had already been calling the moon "Char" in honor of his wife Charlene.
6. Exactly seven years after his death, what literary character says, "My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me"?
   Jacob Marley is paying the price for being such an evil capitalist. Be warned!
7. What unusual distinction is shared by all these famous people? Mark Antony, Henry Ward Beecher, Cher, John Cleese, Kevin Costner, Ossie Davis, Ted Kennedy, "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, Lee Strasberg, Justin Trudeau.
   Each gave a celebrated eulogy at the funeral or memorial of another luminary. Respectively, they eulogized: Julius Caesar, Ulysses S. Grant, Sonny Bono, Graham Chapman, Whitney Houston, Malcolm X, Jackie Onassis (and JFK Jr.), George Washington, Marilyn Monroe, and Pierre Trudeau.