The first 911 call in U.S. history was made in Haleyville, Alabama, on Feb. 16, 1968. Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite called Rep. Tom Bevill to test the system, and that rotary-dialed call (from a red phone, no less) set in motion a nationwide emergency calling system that now handles some 240 million calls a year.
In one of filmdom’s famous phone scenes, who speaks this line: “I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills — skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”?
A) Humphrey Bogart in “The Maltese Falcon”
B) Harrison Ford in “Patriot Games”
C) Mel Gibson in “Ransom”
D) Liam Neeson in “Taken”
Previous answer: In April 1953, the infant Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, better known as Desi Arnaz Jr., son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, became the first person to appear on the cover of TV Guide.
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