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The Wall Street stock market crashed in this year starting the Great Depression.
What is 1929? The market crashed on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929.
By 1932, stocks were worth 20 percent of their pre-crash value, 30 percent of the workforce was unemployed, and half the banks had failed.
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It's an operator-assisted call in which charges are paid by the receiving party
What is a collect call?
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1953:
Wendy, John, & Michael Darling
(plus the Lost Boys, Captain Hook, and a fairy!)
What is Peter Pan?
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Of the U.S. coins currently being minted, it's the smallest in size
What is a dime?
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St Paul's Cathedral and the Tower Bridge are two top attractions in this capital.
What is London?
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The unsinkable RMS Titanic sank before or after World War 1.
What is before? It sank on April 15, 1912.
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This hyphenated adjective refers to a phone call requiring an additional fee beyond the basic service charge.
What is a toll-call?
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1961:
Cruella de Vil as the eccentric, and cruel boss who is obsessed with making a spotted fur coat!
What is 101 Dalmatians?
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Before the euro, the peseta in this country equaled 100 centimos.
What is Spain?
400
Three capitals, Belgrade, Budapest, and Vienna lie along this river. It isn't really blue.
What is the Danube?
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This car was introduced in 1908 and cost just $850.
What is the Ford Model T?
FYI - $850 is about $25K when adjusted for inflation.
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Often used in business, it's a multi-person call involving 3 or more phone lines
What is a conference call?
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1937:
Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey!
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
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The cost of a "shave and a haircut" (a long time ago).
What is two bits?
800
The oldest European capital, it includes the Theatre of Dionysus among many other ruins.
What is Athens?
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Elvis helped usher in Rock and Roll in this decade.
What is the 1950s?
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Reflecting the company's activities at its founding in 1885, it was the second "T" in AT&T
What is 'telegraph'?
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1940:
The Blue Fairy
Geppetto
Jiminy Cricket
What is Pinocchio?
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A former British coin and monetary unit equal to one twentieth of a pound or twelve pence.
What is a Shilling?
1200
Helsinki is the capital of which Nordic country?
What is Finland?
1600
The Cuban missile crises was during President Kennedy's presidency in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
1600
This inventor didn't come up with the telephone but is credited with getting us to say "hello".
Who is Thomas Edison?
1600
1967:
Baloo (the bear),
Bagheera (the tiger),
Mowgli (the human)
What is The Jungle Book?
1600
Which president lived in this building, Monticello, shown on the back of a nickel?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
1600
This northernmost capital in Europe (and the world). Its spelling includes the letters: J, V, Y, and two K's.
What is Reykjavík?
Reykjavík roughly translates to steamy or smoky cove, from old Icelandic.
The correct pronunciation of Reykjavík in Icelandic can be phonetically written as Rayk-yah-veek.
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This was the year Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was attacked.
What is 1941?
2000
On December 23rd, 1992, at the age of 22, engineer Neil Papworth sent the first "SMS" text message. What seasonally appropriate message did he send?
What is "Merry Christmas"?
2000
1959:
Based on a fairy tale from 1697, the film follows Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday.
Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are the true heroines.
What is Sleeping Beauty?
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The first real person to appear on a circulating American coin, which happened in 1909. He was a former president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
2000
Brussels is the capital of which "low country"? It has regions of Flanders and Wallonia.
What is Belgium?
What else is Brussels the capital of?