July 8, 2026
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon's birthday: Hollywood connections, six degrees of separation, and ensemble casts.
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Caalaruga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme
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is Kevin Bacon's Birthday, Hollywood Connections, six Degrees of Separation
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and ensemble casts. Question one, Kevin Bacon celebrates his birthday
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on July eighth in what US city was he born
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in nineteen fifty eight, a place where his father, Edmund
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was a prominent urban planner. Question two. The parlor game
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six Degrees of Kevin Bacon took off on a Pennsylvania
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campus in nineteen ninety four, which small liberal arts college
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in Reading is credited as its birthplace. Question three, long
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before movie buffs were counting Bacon numbers, which Hungarian writer
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introduced the idea of six degrees of separation in his
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nineteen twenty nine short story often translated as Chains. Question four,
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Kevin Bacon joined a star studded mission as astronaut Jack
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Swygert in which nineteen ninety five ensemble space drama directed
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by Ron Howard. Question five named the nineteen eighty two
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ensemble comedy drama set in nineteen fifty nine Baltimore, directed
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by Barry Levinson, where Kevin Bacon plays the prank loving
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Fenwick among a tight knit group of friends. We'll be
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right back with these answers after this break, Welcome back.
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Question one, In which city was Kevin Bacon born? Answer? Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Bacon was born in Philadelphia on July eighth, nineteen fifty eight.
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His father, Edmund N. Bacon, was a famed city planner
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known for shaping Center City and authoring the influential book
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Design of Cities. Question two? Which college birthed the sixth
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Degree of Kevin Bacon game? Answer? Albright College. The game
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was created by Albright College students Brian Turtle, Craig Fass,
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and Mike Janelli in nineteen ninety four. Their idea connected
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Bacon to nearly any actor through film roles in six
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steps or fewer? Question three? Who introduced the six degrees
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of separation idea? In nineteen twenty nine? Answer Fridgie's Corinthi.
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Corinthi's short story proposed that any two people are connected
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by a short chain of acquaintances. The concept later inspired
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social network research and pop culture games like the Bacon Number.
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Question four, in which film does Bacon play? Jack Swigert?
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Answer Apollo thirteen. Apollo thirteen features a large ensemble including
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Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Ed Harris. Bacon portrays Jack Swigert,
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the Command module pilot on NASA's ill fated nineteen seventy
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lunar Mission Question five, which nineteen eighty two ensemble film
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features Bacon as Fenwick Answer Diner. Diner helped launch several
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careers and is celebrated for its nature realistic dialogue in
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group chemistry. Bacon's character Fenwick is a mischievous member of
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the Baltimore Friend group that concludes today's five daily trivia questions.
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I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the
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help of AI technology. See you Tomorrow.
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