Q: (CNN) -- Another musical titan whose soaring voice ruled the charts for decades has fallen.

Whitney Houston joins an august list of the departed since Michael Jackson's death nearly three years ago.

"First there was MJ, then there was Heavy D and now Whitney," said Shaun Jones, 47, of Titusville, Florida, adding that he jumped out of bed in disbelief when he heard news of Houston's death.

Rapper Heavy D died last year, as did Nick Ashford, who was one half of the Motown duo Ashford and Simpson.

And in late 2010, singer Mary Christine Brockert, better known by her stage name Teena Marie, died in her sleep.

"It's shocking ... all these people are legends. A lot of them are dying too young. It's crazy."

Pop icons such as Houston enjoyed staggering success through the 1980s and into the 1990s, and served as role models to a generation of singers today.

Announcements about their deaths are always almost followed by tributes from younger pop stars acknowledging how much influence they've had on their careers.

"Icons from that era stood out," Jones said. "They had distinct voices -- I can always tell when a song is by Whitney -- they made music back then."

Houston was a "hero for Gen X black girls," said CNN iReporter Tessa Jackson of New Orleans. She said when she was "a black teenager going to a predominantly white high school in California, Whitney was my style icon and hero ... She made me and other girls like me feel like we didn't have to be blonde and blue-eyed to be beautiful and admired. I wish she knew how much she did for my and my friends' self-esteem."

1. Mary Christine Brockert (Teena Marie)
2. 2010
3. unknown
4. nearly three years
5. Heavy D
6. Nick Ashford
7. Ashford and Simpson
8. tributes from younger pop stars
9. Gen X black girls
10. Tessa Jackson
11. a reporter
12. CNN
13. California
14. no
15. blonde and blue-eyed
16. Yes
17. 1980s and 90s
18. Shaun Jones
19. 47
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Who died in her sleep?
2. In what year?
3. Who died in August?
4. How many years seperate Houston and Jackson's death?
5. Which rapper died last year?
6. Which Motown singer died the same year?
7. What duo did he participate in?
8. What always follows icons' death announcements?
9. Who was Huston a role model for?
10. Who described her as a "style icon and hero"?
11. What is her profession?
12. For which company?
13. Where did she go to school?
14. Did she fit in?
15. What was the perceived beauty norm at her school?
16. Did Whitney Houston help build her self esteem?
17. In what decades did Houston have the highest success?
18. Who described the fallen icons as legends?
19. How old is he?
20. Was he shocked to hear the news surrounding Houston's death?

Q: (CNN) -- A former campaign staffer for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner became the second woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment, saying Tuesday that the then-congressman patted her "posterior" while at a fundraising event.

Laura Fink, who now runs a political consulting firm, told KPBS-TV that it happened in 2005 when she was working as Filner's deputy campaign manager.

Fink said she didn't go public with the incident at the time because she was trying to build her political career. But she said she now feels emboldened to tell her story after Filner's former spokeswoman, Irene McCormack Jackson, sued him for sexual harassment Monday.

Jackson said Filner subjected her and other women to "crude and disgusting" comments and inappropriate touching. She said she resigned as Filner's communications director in June after deciding the mayor would not change his behavior.

"I had to work and do my job in an atmosphere where women were viewed by Mayor Filner as sexual objects or stupid idiots," Jackson said. She said Filner asked her to work without underwear and made repeated sexual advances toward her.

"He is not fit to be mayor of our great city. He is not fit to hold any public office. A man who lacks character makes a mockery of his ideas," she said.

Fink told KPBS on Tuesday that the incident happened as she was escorting Filner from table to table at a fundraising dinner. At one point, she said, someone at the event told Filner that Fink had "worked her ass off" for him.

1. Laura Fink.
2. Bob Filner

Numbered questions:
1. Who was harassed?
2. by whom?

Q: Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making it Connecticut's third-largest city after the coastal cities of Bridgeport and New Haven. Census Bureau estimates since then have indicated Hartford's fall to fourth place statewide, as a result of sustained population growth in the coastal city of Stamford.

Hartford is nicknamed the "Insurance Capital of the World", as it hosts many insurance company headquarters and insurance is the region's major industry. The city was founded in 1635 and is among the oldest cities in the United States. It is home to the nation's oldest public art museum (Wadsworth Atheneum), the oldest publicly funded park (Bushnell Park), the oldest continuously published newspaper ("The Hartford Courant"), and the second-oldest secondary school (Hartford Public High School). It also is home to Trinity College, a private liberal arts college, and the Mark Twain House where the author wrote his most famous works and raised his family, among other historically significant attractions. Twain wrote in 1868, "Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief."

1. no
2. third
3. Connecticut
4. Bridgeport and New Haven
5. Insurance Capital of the World
6. because insurance is the region's major industry
7. 1635
8. no
9. 124,775
10. 2010
11. according to the 2010 Census
12. no
13. Stamford
14. Wadsworth Atheneum
15. yes
16. The Hartford Courant
17. Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief.
18. in 1868
19. yes
20. Hartford Public High School

Numbered questions:
1. Is Hartford the largest city in Connecticut?
2. what rank is it?
3. what state is it the capital of?
4. what cities are larger?
5. what is it nicknamed?
6. why is it nicknamed that?
7. when was Hartford founded?
8. is it one of the newest cities in the U.S.?
9. what is its population?
10. as of what year?
11. according to what?
12. do they still think it is it still in 3rd place in the state by population?
13. which city is estimated to have over taken it?
14. what is the nations oldest public art museum?
15. Does Hartford have the oldest continuously published newspaper?
16. what is it called?
17. what did Twain say about the city?
18. when did he say that?
19. did he live there?
20. what is the name of the second-oldest secondary school?