This Day in History
1904
At 2:35, New York City Mayor George McClellan takes the controls on the inaugural run of this city’s innovative new rapid transit system
What is the SUBWAY?
Emerald
Ruby
Kansas
What is the Wizard of Oz?
Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film
What is the Mummy?
The first sequel to this film was subtitled "Freddy's Revenge"
What is Nightmare on Elmstreet?
To talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities
What is boast?
1858
Born on this day, and consistently ranked as one of the best American presidents, he served in office from 1901 to 1909, having assumed the presidency after the assassination of William McKinley.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Freddy
Shaggy
Velma
What is SCOOBY DOO?
It's said these 2 colors trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harves
What are orange and black?
Start spreading the news; in "Friday the 13th Part VIII" this hockey-masked slasher "Takes Manhattan"
Who is Jason?
Take your foot off the gas and let the car roll (and get a double meaning if you do it alonga scenic drive along this in California!)
What is coast?
2004
This baseball team wins the World Series for the first time since 1918, finally vanquishing the so-called “Curse of the Bambino” that had plagued them for 86 years
Who are the Boston Red Sox?
Rings
Medals
Torch
What is the OLYMPICS?
The first time the White House was decorated for Halloween was in 1958, when she, Ike's better half, hung owls & goblins
Who is Mamie Eisenhower?
Film in which Jack Nicholson uttered the immortal line, "Heeeeeere's Johnny"
What is The Shining?
A dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan fried.
What is French Toast?
1940
This future head of the Gambino crime family and a man later nicknamed “the Dapper Don” due to his polished appearance and expensive suits, is born in the Bronx, New York.
Who is John Gotti?
Surgeon
Attorney
Five Star
What are GENERALS?
Halloween goes back to Samhain, a word from this Irish language; in a Celtic festival, people wore masks so ghosts wouldn't recognize them
What is Gaelic?
Max von Sydow played Father Merrin, the title character of this devilish 1973 scarefest. It was the top-grossing R-rated horror film for almost half a century.
What is the Exorcist?
In 1969, the Allman Brothers sang that sometimes they feel, sometimes they feel, like they've been tied to this.
What is the whipping post?
1994
The U.S. Justice Department announces that this group has topped one million for the first time in American history.
What is the the U.S. prison population?
Angles
Burns
Temperatures
What are things measured in DEGREES?
"I got a rock" was Charlie Brown's lament in the 1966 TV special about this "Great" imaginary being
What is the Great Pumpkin?
This 1999 movie says it's the footage shot by 3 film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods
What is the Blair Witch Project?
The policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985
What is glasnost?