TV and....Radio?
This famous 1938 radio broadcast caused panic because people thought it was a real alien invasion.
What was War of the Worlds?
Bonus! 10 points. What name is synonymous with this story? Please answer in the form of a question.
When someone learns a lesson the hard way.
What is the School of Hard Knocks?
Used for centuries to treat cuts due to its strong antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antiseptic properties, helps prevent infection.
What is Balsam of myrrh!
This person is typically in charge of a single classroom and teaches one group of students.
Who is a teacher?
This term was commonly used for the woman who stayed home to manage the household and care for the kids.
What is a housewife?
Before Google, some people relied on these reference books to check spelling, pronunciation, or word definitions.
What is a dictionary?
The term used for those popcorn kernels that refuse to pop.
What are old maids?
Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet here.
What is the Four Corners?
This TV host famously started his career in radio before moving to late-night television.
Who was Johnny Carson?
A dance craze created by Chubby Checker.
What is the Twist?
Back in our day....You had to walk to this to turn it on.
What was a television?
This four-letter word can strike fear into students when the teacher says, “Clear your desks.”
What is a test?
A unique handmade quirky roadside attraction, in SC, built by Jody Pendarvis, tragically destroyed by a fire on May 9, 2024.
What is the UFO Welcome Center.
In school some of us used this to find books on a topic in a library.
What is a Library index card?
An 1850s Navy attire that became a huge fashion hit in the 60s.
What were bell bottoms.
Another word for melody or song.
What is a tune?
TV or radio dramas with long, complex, melodramatic storylines focusing on relationships, conflicts, and emotional struggles.
What are soap operas?
BONUS for 10 points! Why were they called soap operas?
They would get up at 4:30 a.m. and ride a bicycle around the local area before heading off to school.
Who is a newspaper delivery boy...or girl?
Back in our day ....A common problem with a cassette tape could be solved using this.
What is a pencil?
This branch of mathematics deals with shapes, angles, and proofs.
What is geometry?
Long before personal computers were widespread, this state was home to the Oak Ridge facility, a top-secret World War II project to develop nuclear technology.
What is Tennessee?
This magazine, first published in 1888, is famous for its yellow border and stunning photography of nature, cultures, and science.
What is National Geographic?
The color of the black box on an airplane.
What is bright orange?
This protein rich food is coagulated from an extract of soybeans.
What is tofu?
On "The Carol Burnett Show" Carol tugged on this for her grandmother?
What is her left ear?
A document that grows longer as you gain more work experience.
What is a resume?
He played Rhett Butler in “Gone with the Wind”.
Who was Clark Gable?
This scientific method step involves a proposed, testable explanation or an educated guess for a specific phenomenon, acting as a starting point for scientific investigation or research.
What is a hypothesis?
Its what we share about 60% of our DNA with these.
(Multiple choice question) A. Bananas and fruit flies B. Polar Bears and Koala Bears C. Lions and Fruit Flies D. Rhesus monkeys and Polar Bears
What is Bananas and fruit flies?
This university campus is where Google was originally started as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996.
What is Stanford University?
During his captivity in Babylon, the prophet Daniel was given this Babylonian name.
What is Belteshazzar
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael
Who are the The Four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
He starred on a TV show from 1978 to 1982 as an eccentric extraterrestrial from the planet Ork.
Who was Robin Williams?
In 1955 this Bill Haley & His Comets hit became the rock & roll anthem.
What is Rock Around the Clock?
This was a four word sentence from parents to end an argument with kids.
What is "Because I said So."
During the 1940s, many U.S. high schools required this now-uncommon subject, which focused on formal speaking, memorization, and structured debate.
What is public speaking?
Nomophobia
What is the anxiety or fear of being without a mobile phone, experiencing no signal, a dead battery, or losing connectivity. ("NO MObile PHone PhoBIA")
This iconic weekly magazine, first published in 1953, helped viewers know when and on what channel their favorite shows would air.
What is TV Guide?
Found on almost all items you use today, this was was created in 1952 and originally used to identify railroad cars.
What is a bar code?
It's German for dog.
What is Hund?
He signed off his nightly news broadcasts with his iconic phrase, "And that's the way it is," followed by the date.
Who was Walter Cronkite?
The decade of Buddy Holly, Barbie, and Play-Doh.
What is the 1950s?
The decade when Hamburger Helper arrived?
What is the 1970s?
DAILY DOUBLE!! What year was it introduced?
This U.S. law, passed in 2001, aimed to increase accountability in public schools through standardized testing.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
The official national animal of Scotland.
What is a Unicorn?
This word existed long before the internet. It originally comes from Jonathan Swift’s 1726 book Gulliver’s Travels, where a _________ was a crude, uncivilized human-like creature.
What is a Yahoo.
SSA top five names for U.S. girls in the 1980s, Jennifer, Amanda, Ashley, and Sarah at numbers 2-5. This name topped the list, and was shared by stars of "7th Heaven” and "Dark Angel”?
What is Jessica?
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, powerful symbolic personifications in the Book of Revelation and Western art.
What are Conquest, War, Famine, and Death
He played the role of Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show.
Who was Don Knots?
This popular television show often showed two neighbors talking over a fence.
What is Home Improvement?
In 1977, U.S. scientists identified an unknown bacterium that caused this mysterious respiratory disease outbreak at a convention in Philadelphia.
What was Legionnaires' disease?
America's first public school was established in this New England city.
What is Boston? (1635)
The dot on top of lowercase i and j is called this.
What is a tittle?
This computer and printer giant was founded in 1939 in Palo Alto, CA? It is sometimes better known by the two-letter acronym based on its founders' names.
What is Hewlett-Packard
In Nature, it has a Central Vein called a Midrib.
What is a leaf?
In the Navy, its a or Boatswain's Call, a traditional, high-pitched whistle used by Boatswain's Mates to issue commands and signals over the noise of the sea.
What is a pipe?