Quiz: This Week in Celebrity History: New Year’s Edition

Out with the old, the couple was married on Dec 31, 1997, happy 20th anniversary!

They were married on Jan 1st, 2003. Happy 15th anniversary!

The group had recorded a 2-song demo in 1961, and as they anxiously opened up the box of records, they discovered their name had been changed to The Beach Boys by a record executive, to make them more marketable to teens.

A crushed pelvis. This was the longest jump Knievel would ever attempt in his career, and he came up short by inches. He suffered a crushed pelvis and femur, fractures to his hip, wrist, and both ankles, and a concussion that kept him in the hospital for 29 days.

He was born before the ball dropped, on Dec 31st in Wales. Happy birthday Sir Anthony Hopkins!

Anthony Hopkins! Hopkins was knighted in 1993, while Kingsley was knighted in 2002 - however, Kingsley won his Oscar first in 1983 for his role as Gandhi, and Hopkins later won his Oscar in 1992 for his role as Hannibal Lecter.

Nicholas Sparks! You may have read or seen a few of his movies like, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Safe Haven or The Best of Me to name a few, and you may or may not have cried, a lot. Happy Birthday Nicholas!

29! Hank Williams was only 29 when he passed away. The official cause of death was listed as a heart attack, but there is still some mystery and debate about what caused the attack. Williams career started in his early teens,

Ended the year on a bad note on the 31st! Working with a skeleton crew, jailers didn’t notice that Ted Bundy had escaped through an air vent, changed into street clothes, and literally walked out the front door. By the time they noticed him missing, he was already on a plane to Florida.

Frankenstein! Or more accurately, Frankenstein’s Monster. Although the giant lumbering green neck bolted monster is often labeled Frankenstein, the Frankenstein in the book is Dr. Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the undead creature.