Australia and Oceania
First Lyrics
The Roaring Twenties
State Capitals
Movies in the Theater Last Week
100

This city, Australia's largest, is home to a distinctive white sail-shaped performing arts center beside a famous harbor bridge.

What is Sydney?

100

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie...

What is That's Amore? 

100

Because the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited, Americans who wanted a drink often sought out these illegal establishments, whose name became synonymous with the era.

What are speakeasies? 

100

This state's capital is the only U.S. state capital located on an island.

What is Hawaii - Honolulu? 

100

Steven Spielberg revisited this musical tragedy, moving its story of rival street gangs and forbidden love into a changing Manhattan neighborhood of the late 1950s.

What is West Side Story? 

200

This enormous coral reef system stretches for more than 1,400 miles along Australia's northeastern coast.

What is the Great Barrier Reef?

200

I get no kick from champagne...

What is I Get a Kick Out Of You?

200

This New York City neighborhood became the center of an extraordinary flowering of Black literature, music, art and intellectual life during the 1920s.

What is Harlem?

200

Its capital, Montpelier, is the smallest state capital by population in the United States.

What is Vermont? 

200

In Thursday's film, Aging Broadway star Margo Channing finds herself threatened by a seemingly devoted young admirer whose ambitions extend far beyond the dressing room.

What is All About Eve? 

300

This island nation consists of two large main islands and numerous smaller ones, and its Māori name is Aotearoa.

What is New Zealand?

300

Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear...

What is Mack the Knife? 

300

This 1922 discovery in Egypt captured the world's imagination when Howard Carter uncovered the largely intact tomb of a young pharaoh.

Who is Tutankhamun? 

300

This is the name of Missouri's state capital, which sits on the Missouri River and is named for the country's third president.

What is Jefferson City? 

300

This film was shown yesterday evening, and stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ Adrian Cronauer 

What is Good Morning, Vietnam? 

400

This flightless Australian bird is the world's second-largest living bird, after the ostrich.

What is the emu?

400

Love is a burning thing, And it makes a fiery ring...

What is Ring of Fire?

400

This 1920s trial became a national spectacle after two Chicago teenagers were convicted of murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks, with Clarence Darrow defending them.

What is the Leopold and Loeb case? 

400

This state capital sits at more than 5,000 feet above sea level, making it the highest state capital in the United States.

What is Santa Fe? 

400

In last Saturday's film, which starred Rock Hudson and Doris Day, a shared telephone line becomes a battlefield between a successful interior decorator and the songwriter who deliberately keeps her from having a private line.

What is Pillow Talk? 

500

This island nation northeast of Australia is home to Mount Wilhelm, its highest peak, and is one of the world's most culturally and linguistically diverse countries.

What is Papua New Guinea? 

500

I know you want to leave me, but I refuse to let you go...

What is Ain't Too Proud To Beg? 

500

This 1925 event saw a group of Tennessee teachers challenge a state law prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in public schools.

What is the Scopes trial? 

500

This state's capital, Cheyenne, takes its name from a Native American people of the Great Plains.

What is Wyoming? 

500

Last Wednesday we showed a film in which a dysfunctional New Mexico family piles into a yellow Volkswagen bus to get their young daughter to a children's beauty pageant in California. 

What is Little Miss Sunshine? 

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