Broadway Musicals
The 1940s
Potpourri
Organizations
Numbers
Oh, “MM”y
100

Mary Martin played Maria in this 1959 Broadway musical; Julie Andrews plays the role in the 1965 film.

What is The Sound of Music?

100

This landmark sculpture depicting four presidents was completed in 1941

What is Mount Rushmore?

100

In the 1950s, drive-in restaurant servers came to your car using this mode of transportation

What are roller skates?

100

This BBB protects the public from unfair business practices.

What is the Better Business Bureau?

100

To “86” something is to do this.

What is to kill or end it?

100

The dog days occur during this season.

What is summer?

200

A high-spirited, “unsinkable” young woman is the protagonist in this 1960 musical.

What is The Unsinkable Molly Brown?

200

This prestigious global film festival was launched in 1946

What is the Cannes Film Festival?

200

These winter veggies resemble fat, white carrots.

What are parsnips?

200

This group was founded by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

What is the League of Women Voters

200

This number is associated with bad luck.

What is 13?

200

Someone who shares a living space with another person in a college dorm is called this.

What is roommate?

400

This 1960 musical is named for the first three notes on the musical scale.

What is Do Re Mi?

400

This pen replaced the fountain pen in 1945.

What is the ballpoint pen?

400

This classic novel by J. D. Salinger tells the story of Holden Caulfield’s life after he is expelled from prep school.

What is The Catcher in the Rye?

400

The organization FDR founded in 1938 to fight infantile paralysis now goes by this name.

What is the March of Dimes?

400

This is the biblical number for wholeness or perfection.

What is three?

400

Wear this detachable waistband with a tuxedo.

What is cummerbund?

600

The 1963 Broadway musical Here’s Love was based on this film about Santa Claus, released in 1947

What is Miracle on 34th Street?

600

This president won a fourth term in 1944.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

600

America’s most fundamental criminal law concept, dating to ancient Rome, presumes this until proven otherwise.

What is innocence?

600

This organization partners with individuals in need of a home who can afford to repay small mortgages.

What is Habitat for Humanity?

600

This was 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit for a long time, but newer research indicates the number is falling.

What is humans’ average temperature

600

This is the name for the rules that govern all aspects of written and oral communication, such as correct subject-verb agreement.

What is grammar?

800

This 1971 Andrew Lloyd Webber production was a rock musical concept album before it was a hit Broadway musical. 

What is Jesus Christ Superstar?

800

Forrest Mars Sr. partnered with Bruce Murrie in 1941 to create these candies for the military.

What are M&M’s?

800

This is the northern hemisphere’s largest island.

What is Greenland?

800

This faith-based international relief organization, currently led by Franklin Graham, is often the first on the ground after a natural disaster.

What is Samaritan’s Purse?

800

This number symbolizes infinity or infinite wisdom.

What is eight?

800

This bird holds the distinction of being the only bird that can fly backward

What is hummingbird

1000

This 1975 jazz musical, based on reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins’ 1926 play, is named for the city in which it is set.

What is Chicago?

1000

Iva Toguri d’Aquino went by this wartime pseudonym.

What is Tokyo Rose?

1000

You can use this uncooked food to light a candle if you can’t reach the wick.

What is spaghetti?

1000

This international organization’s scientists protect marine life and ecosystems and more than 125 million acres of land.

What is the Nature Conservancy?

1000

This biblical number is associated with trials or challenges.

What is 40?

1000

Mixing this smelly cleaning fluid with bleach is dangerous

What is ammonia?

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