Gimme Five (a fun, stress-free thread I hope)

Top 5 Jeopardy Categories I Suck At:

1. Opera
2. English Monarchs/really all Monarchs
3. Art
4. Ballet
5. Physics/The Bible

 

My top 5 guilty pleasure songs

1) Careless Whisper - George Michael
2) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
3) Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
4) Poker Face - Lady Gaga
5) The Way - Fastball

 

Top five (plus five) Coronavirus sings

 

Top five "alone/lonely" tracks:

1) "Alone" - Heart
2) "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" - James Taylor
3) "Lonesome Loser" - Little River Band
4) "When You're Alone" - Bruce Springsteen
5) "We're All Alone" - Boz Scaggs

... and five more, Genesis family edition

1) "Afterglow" - Genesis
2) "Alone Tonight" - Genesis
3) "Silent Running" - Mike + The Mechanics
4) "Smallcreep Alone" - Mike Rutherford
5) "Please Don't Ask" - Genesis

 

Five New York-based tracks:

1) "New York State of Mind" - Billy Joel
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2) "Back In N.Y.C." - Genesis
3) "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" - Genesis
4) "The Only Living Boy in New York" - Simon & Garfunkel
5) "New York, New York" - Frank Sinatra

 

The five most famous people you have had a conversation with:

Garth Brooks
George W Bush
Kobe Bryant
Britney Spears
OJ Simpson

 

Lance Armstrong
Roger Clemens
Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Jose Altuve

Damn - four of the five are notorious cheaters.

 

Raquel Welch
Magic Johnson
Wayne Gretzky
Sonny Bono
Rudy Ruettiger

 

Dave Dravecky
Tyson Chandler
Bob Lurie
Bill Walsh
Jerry Tarkanian

 

This probably deserves its own thread, especially on a board for current and former journalists.
Terry Bradshaw
Bill Cowher
Mario Lemieux
Mike Piazza
Bruce Campbell

(Okay, I've talked to a few more athletes more famous than Campbell, but I wanted some variety in my list.)

 

Five people I've seen in my newsroom and had no idea they were there until they walked by:

Alice Cooper
John McCain
Gallagher
Lynda Carter
Superstar Billy Graham

 

Ken Stabler
Adam LaRoche
Jewel
Karl Mecklenburg
Paul Wight (a/k/a The Big Show)