Who Am I????? (greatest, military, years, battle)

[Cali BassMan]

you got it Squre Peg Muhammad Ali was born in Kentucky, dodged the draft, etc

[jtur88]

Muhammed Ali it is. Square Peg is our next challenger.

The record he broke to get into the Gunness book of records was the largest total lifetime money earnings from professional sport. Anybody want to take a shot on who held the record before Ali? A movie star who had won an olympic gold medal, whose earnings counted as pro sports earnings because the sport was performed in the movies.

[square peg]

Johnny Weissmuller. (did he really earn that much money?) Everything else seems to fit about him though. At first I was thinking Esther Williams.

Either way I don't have one planned so I'll leave the floor open.

[jtur88]

Nope, not Weissmuller, and not Williams.

She was paid $400,000 to make her first film in 1936---equivalent to about 8-million today. She died one of the ten richest women in the world.

[jtur88]

The floor is open for a new question, from Square Peg. Currently, there is only the dangling loose-end of the Ali question.

[jtur88]

This one has apparently stumped you. It's Sonja Henie. Your turn.

[jtur88]

Here's another one to keep you alive through the weekend:


I was a reprobate and a playboy, but my father's wealth and fame kept me in better schools. I finally wound up in Harvard, where "I studied poker", and was expelled for chasing a cabdriver through the streets with a shotgun. Doing the drug and showgirl social circle in New York, I met up with a rival of some fame, whom I murdered premeditatedly at point-blank range while attending a show at a rooftop theater. My victim was played by Ray Milland in a movie. Found not guilty as insane, I spent some time in captivity, escaped, recaptured, was found sane, released, and I retired to a small town, and lived an inconspicuous life as a volunteer fireman.

[delusianne]

"I am Harry K. Thaw, of Pittsburgh!"

[jtur88]

Excellent work. You have the floor.

[delusianne]

Must pass, alas.