The recent rash of celebrity expirations made us realize that life is a fleeting, fragile gift, never to be taken for granted. Naturally, this led us to ponder the question that has baffled mankind since time immemorial: “hey - is Bruno Gerussi still alive?”*

Of course, this made us think that there are a ton of celebrities out there whose continued existence we are unable to definitively verify. Maybe these people are still with us, or maybe they passed away during the five minutes a day that we are not on the internet, forever damning them to some sort of background purgatory inside our own minds.

Presented below are thirteen individuals whose probability of being we would put at 50%. See if you can identify those that still walk among us. No cheating via the Internet, now. You’re on your honour:

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(a) Bob Uecker

(b) Mona from Who’s the Boss?

(c) Ross Perot

(d) R. Lee Ermey

(e) Garrett Morris

(f) The Fatman from Jake and the Fatman

(g) Phyllis Diller

(h) George Peppard

(i) Lee Majors

(j) Sidney Poitier

(k) Bob Barker

(l) “King” Kong Bundy

(m) Michael Jackson

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Answers: 

(a)- alive
(b) - alive
(c) - alive
(d) - alive
(e) - alive
(f) - dead
(g) - alive
(h) - dead
(i) - alive
(j) - alive
(k) - alive
(l) - alive
(m) - half-alive, half-dead (i.e. Zombie-status)

How’d you do?