Vann Family Trivia, Installment #1

Vann family trivia:

1. Which "hardened" individual is now a district manager for a pharmaceutical company but had careers as a US Army officer and a Director of Admissions? Bonus: Is that a "Dead Kennedies" or "Sex Pistols/Johnnie Rotten" t-shirt. Perhaps it was the "Punks Not Dead" t-shirt he drew with a box sharpies. (Nice glove, Michael....)

2. Which individual sporting a "bowl" cut now plants churches in the North East? Hint: his shins are well-protected. Bonus: which one of his brothers knocked 2-3 of his teeth out when he missed with the padded part of a boxing glove and uppercut him with the flat, unpadded part of his palm?

3. Which cherub-faced kid could set up the VCR (which is just out of view is this picture) as a 2 year old? Hint: he had more nicknames as a child than he has melanocytes (and the ability to get a tan).

4. Which individual wearing white sweat pants is 6 months away from completing 9 years of medical training? (Bonus question: any hope of white sweat pants ever making a come back?)

5. Which innocent looking 8 year old would later pen a caustic look at her older brother's selfish ways and describe his saxaphone playing as "squeaking notes from a second hand saxaphone?" Bonus: Whose house was she living in at the time? Double bonus: why was it so hard to see that the Starbucks cup she was repeatedly claiming as her own had his birth year on it?

6. Which individual (wearing long-striped socks) once drove a worn-out Isuzu Rodeo painted like the Chic-Filet cow which had a sign on it that said, "Honk if you like chicken." Bonus: How many times as a high school junior did he admire his side-burns in the mirror?

Answers can be submitted to elliottvann@hotmail.com. The winner will receive an autographed copy of Richard Thomas Vann's discertation on Jonathan Maxie, the first president of USC. The runner-up will receive the Dallas Cowboys g-string I received for Christmas. Third place will receive the CD "Fabio after Dark."

Check back next month for the answers.