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The Wall Street stock market crashed in this year during 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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To avoid streaks, it's best to do this cleaning chore on a cloudy day.
What is wash windows?
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1953:
Wendy, John, & Michael Darling
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?
200
St Paul's Cathedral and the Tower Bridge are two top attractions in this capital.
What is London?
400
The unsinkable RMS Titanic sank before or after World War 1.
What is before? It sank on April 15, 1912.
400
Swap out your usual dust rag for these items from your laundry room.
What are dryer sheets? The nature of the anti-static cloths helps pull the dust off of surfaces as well.
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1961:
Pongo,
Patch,
Cruella de Vil
What is 101 Dalmatians?
400
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.
What is the Danube?
800
This car was introduced in 1908.
What is the Ford Model T?
800
Run these peels through your garbage disposal.
What is lemon, lime, or any citrus? The peels freshen the disposal and eliminate odors.
800
1937:
Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey!
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
800
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?
1200
Elvis helped usher in Rock and Roll in this decade.
What is the 1950s?
1200
You are used to doing this to rugs, but you can do it to your mattress as part of your spring-cleaning ritual.
What is vacuum? You’ll avoid bed bugs and remove dust mites and dead skin cells by vacuuming the surface of your mattress.
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1940:
The Blue Fairy
Geppetto
Jiminy Cricket
What is Pinocchio?
1200
A former British coin and monetary unit equal to one twentieth of a pound or twelve pence.
What is a Shilling?
1200
The canal system running through this capital city stretches more than 100 kilometers.
What is Amsterdam?
1600
The Cuban missile crises was during President Kennedy's presidency in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
1600
This sports ball removes scuff marks from the floor.
What is tennis? It lifts the marks without damaging the floor.
1600
1959:
Princess Aurora (aka Briar Rose)
Maleficent
Flora, Fauna and Merryweather
What is Sleeping Beauty?
1600
The building on the back of the nickel:
What is Monticello?
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.
2000
This was the year Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was attacked.
What is 1941?
2000
This trick for cleaning your glass doors helps you determine whether a streak is on the inside or outside of the door.
What is clean one side in vertical motions and the other side with horizontal motions? This saves time in tracking down which side of the door has the streak.
2000
1967:
Baloo,
Bagheera,
King Louie,
Mowgli
What is The Jungle Book?
2000
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
The Prado is a famous museum in this capital.
What is Madrid?