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POP’S CULTURE - EVENTS FROM 1949
100

This medical tool is used to listen to internal sounds of the body, like the heart.

What is stethoscope?

100
The amount of balls and strikes in a full count

What is 3-2

100

This musical group wrote the song 'The Weight'.

Who is The Band?

100

This is the name of the zoo in New Orleans

What is the Audubon Zoo?

100

This well known novel was published in 1949 and later inspired the launch campaign of Macintosh. Be careful Big Brother is watching!

What is 1984?

200


A nephrologist is a doctor who specializes in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases affecting this organ.

What are Kidneys

200

This Hall of Famer was the last player to have a batting average over .400. His career was interrupted twice for military service during World War II and the Korean War.

Who is Ted Williams

200

This band has the record of most Top 40 charting albums of all time on the Billboard 200 (59) despite having only one song ever reach the Top 10 on Billboard Charts. Their original name was the Warlocks.

Who is The Grateful Dead

200

This is the Capitol of Louisiana.

What is Baton Rouge?

200

This person was President in 1949

Who is Harry Truman

300

Hyperhidrosis is the medical term for excessive what?

What is sweating?

300

This person was the 2015 World Series MVP.

Who is Salvador Perez

300

Name two of the five Traveling Wilbury’s. Double points if you can name all five.

Who are Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne

300

In New Orleanese, the street CLIO is pronounced like this.

What is CL TEN?

300

This team won the MLB World Series in 1949.

Who is the New York Yankees

400

This psychoactive street drug was developed by Merck in 1912, and was used as an enhancement for psychotherapy as late as the 1970s.

What is MDMA?

400

This famous two time World Series Champion Pittsburgh Pirate tragically died in a plane crash while taking part in a mission to deliver relief goods to Nicaragua after an earthquake.

Who is Roberto Clemente

400

This band originally recorded the song ‘Gloria’. 

Who is Them?

400

In New Orleanese, how do you say, “how’s it going”

What is "Where Y'at?"

400

This movie based on a Shakespearean play won Best Picture at the Oscars.

What is Hamlet?

500

This anti-malarial drug is extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree. 

What is Quinine?

500

This player has the most World Series appearances and wins in MLB history.

Who is Yogi Berra

500

This is the name of Van Morisson’s top selling (non best of) album.

What is Moondance?

500

This is the definition of ‘Making Groceries’. 

What is going to the grocery store? 

500

This Foreign car made its debut in America in 1949, make and model.

Volkswagen Beetle

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