OSCAR WINNERS AND HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS
This actor said “Here’s looking at you, kid” in the 1942 classic Casablanca.
Who is Humphrey Bogart?
This president declared, “I am not a crook.”
Who is Richard Nixon?
This author wrote Slaughterhouse-Five, based on his experiences in World War II.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
In 1969, this “Miracle” baseball team won the World Series.
Who are the New York Mets?
This board game, created in Canada in 1979, tests general knowledge with six categories.
What is Trivial Pursuit?
She won the Best Actress Oscar for Funny Girl in 1968.
Who is Barbra Streisand?
This U.S. president signed Medicare into law in 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird won this prize in 1961.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
Billie Jean King defeated this male player in the 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match.
Who is Bobby Riggs?
This Alfred Hitchcock film ends with a shocking twist at the Bates Motel.
What is Psycho?
This 1976 film, about a Philadelphia boxer, won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Rocky?
In 1976, this former governor of Georgia was elected president of the United States.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This author created a spy known simply as “007.”
Who is Ian Fleming?
This boxer was stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967 for refusing to be drafted.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This country won the FIFA World Cup in 1970 with star player Pelé.
What is Brazil?
In 1967, Sidney Poitier made history as the first Black man to win Best Actor for this film.
What is Lilies of the Field?
This 1980 candidate asked Americans, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
Who is Ronald Reagan?
In 1976, Alex Haley published this sweeping family saga tracing African-American ancestry.
What is Roots?
In 1980, the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviets in what was called this “miracle.”
What is the “Miracle on Ice”?
This 1960s toy craze involved a plastic hoop spun around the waist.
What is the Hula Hoop?
This actress, nicknamed “The Divine Miss M,” starred in The Rose (1979) and later in Beaches.
Who is Bette Midler?
This 1972 presidential candidate chose Thomas Eagleton as his running mate before replacing him.
Who is George McGovern?
This Beat Generation author wrote On the Road.
Who is Jack Kerouac?
This golfer won “The Masters” six times between 1958 and 1986.
Who is Jack Nicklaus?
This cult TV show from the late 1960s starred Patrick McGoohan as a secret agent known only as “Number Six"
What is The Prisoner?