1. This is the owner of a choice and coveted homesite and cabin on a highly picturesque upstate New York lake.
Answer: 87.5% correctly answered Dave Boggs.
2. He wore a band uniform and played the tuba in the New York State National Guard Infantry Co. G marching band.
Answer: Yes, it was my grampa, Lothar Fieg Sr., as identified by 37.5% of respondents.
3. This person's father is a nationally recognized pop musician on a large, Pacific Rim archepelago where he has been compared to Carlos Santana.
Answer: Quite a musical family we have! The correct answer, as 37.5% of you know, is Alan Dangca.
4. For 15 years this family member was director of communications for the jewel of the Ivy League, Cornell University.
Answer: I didn't know this but 62.5% of you did -- Bob Morgan held this position.
5. This man has appeared as a starting defensive back in an official game of the semi-pro Empire Football League.
Answer: Ed Fieg Sr. is the man -- but the majority of you thought it was his son, Max!6. This family member, serving as an auxillary officer, worked security during Jacksonville Jaguars NFL home games.
Answer: It was a tie between Joe Kestner and Jack Wolcott, but the correct answer is Jack.
7. This family member was stopped at gunpoint by the Mexican Navy and ordered to vacate the beach along the Gulf of Mexico.
Answer: Yep, it was Greg, as 50% of you deduced.
8. While flying from England to N. Africa aboard a C-47 troop carrier, this member of the U.S. military talked the pilot, who had become lost, out of abandoning his plane and forcing his crew to parachute out from 10,000 feet, persuading him to ditch the craft off the coast of Gibralter instead.
Answer: Joe Kestner really was a plane captain in the Navy (they were called "brown shoes") but no one voted for him. Philip Fieg really was a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps but he never left the Americas, though 50% of you voted for him. There was a tie between Bud Fieg and Roger Silliman and the correct answer is (drum roll please) Roger Silliman!
9. He was a professional cameraman who shot a motion picture which was released in theaters across the nation.
Answer: Winning by a landslide, the correct answer is John Roman.
10. These two family members worked on offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and crossed paths at various times but did not become acquainted at the time.
Answer: Again, by a landslide, Greg Fieg and Joe Kestner never became acquainted while working as worms' helpers (sorry, boys :-D).
Keep an eye open for the next survey!
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