In a message dated 6/15/00 12:59:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
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>  On 15 Jun 2000, 10:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  
>  > Thanks to all those who helped.  The correct answer turned out to be
>  > Doris Day, which is the answer that you all of you seemed to think was
>  > right.
>  
>  Great!  What did we win? :-)
>  
>  Alan
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  
>  

LOL!  Seriously, this question was from one of those sites that gives you 
points for visiting web sites, taking surveys, buying products, etc.  One way 
that you can earn points is answering a daily multiple-choice trivia 
question.  Normally, I try to find the answer myself by using search engines 
or encyclopedias.  For a question like this, the first place I would turn is 
the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), which may just be the best site 
for movie trivia.  However, I didn't find the answer there, and I felt that 
trying to find the answer with search engines would just lead me on a wild 
goose chase.  I probably should have tried search engines anyway, but I was 
feeling lazy yesterday, so I e-mailed this list to see if anone else knew the 
answer.  I figured that many of you would know more about 1960's cinema than 
I do, since I wasn't even alive in 1960.

By the way, this isn't the first time I sought the answer to a trivia 
question online.  A couple of months ago, I asked about a Norman mailer 
quotation, because search engines were leading me nowhere.  Someone else 
found a web site with the correct answer by using more key words than I had 
used.  Thanks to the person, I am now more specific when I use search engines.

Andrew

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