Jury Duty
This Animal won the race in "The Tortoise and the Hare."
What is the tortoise
On September 1, 1983, Korean Airline Flight 007 entered the airspace of this country and was shot down.
What is the Soviet Union (or USSR)?
The aircraft veered off course and flew over top-secret military installations. An American spy plane was flying near the commercial airliner, and it is possible that the Soviets mistook KAL 007 for the spy plane.
This tune sung by Bobby Goldsboro starts with:
“See the tree, how big it’s grown
But friend, it hasn’t been too long, it wasn’t big
I laughed at her, and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig.”
What is “Honey”
The bill that created the U.S. interstate highway system was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in this year.
What is 1956?
This character leads the crew of the A-Team on their many benevolent adventures.
Who is Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith?
A prospective juror can be charged with this offense for lying to the court.
What is Perjury
There are four aspects of committing perjury: the declarant took an oath to testify truthfully, they willfully made a false statement contrary to that oath, the declarant believed the statement to be untrue, and the statement related to a material fact
On December 3, 1984, a Union Carbide chemical plant experienced a leak that killed 3,000 people in the Bhopal region of this country.
What is India?
Thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries have been attributed to the leak.
In this tune by the Young Rascals, they were doing this “on a Sunday afternoon” and “really couldn’t get away too soon.”
What is “Groovin’”?
This New Year’s Day 1954 extravaganza was the first nationwide, color-television transmission in the United States.
What is the Tournament of Roses Parade?
There was never a question that he was in complete control of the New York Yankees during his 37-year tenure as owner of the franchise.
Who is George Steinbrenner?
This is the term for a proceeding brought before a military tribunal.
What is court martial?
The laws governing court martials are the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
On May 1, 1982, the World’s Fair opened in this city.
What is Knoxville, Tennessee?
The World’s Fair was built in an old railway yard. The theme of the fair was “Energy Turns the World.”
The hit tune “Dominique” is written and was performed by this religious woman, who is portrayed in the 1966 film by the same name.
Who is the Singing Nun/Jeannine Deckers?
In 1987, the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement, began phasing out this three-letter type of refrigerant determined to be causing the ozone layer of the atmosphere to erode.
What is CFC?
CFC stands for chlorofluorocarbon. Newer compounds have replaced it.
When President Reagan was shot, his secretary of state went on TV and claimed to be in charge, stunning the nation since he was not next in the line of succession
Who is Alexander Haig?
In federal criminal cases, the jury must return this type of decision.
What is unanimous?
On April 1, 1970, Richard Nixon signed the bill that killed advertising of these carcinogenic products on radio and TV.
What are cigarettes?
The law took effect on January 2, 1971, and the last ad ran on The Tonight Show on January 1.
In her 1964 hit tune, Petula Clark sings, “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely,” you can always go here.
What is downtown?
This music player uses bouncing laser light to read the music.
What is a CD?
He plays the head-slapping special agent team leader Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS.
Who is Mark Harmon?
Jurors are routinely selected from one of these two lists
What is voter registration or the DMV (driver’s license)?
In honor of the bicentennial in 1976, Operation Sail brought hundreds of ships, including 16 tall ships, to this major city’s harbor
What is New York City?
The parade consisted of 225 sailing ships from 30 nations.
Tommy Roe suffered from vertigo that left his “head spinning like a whirlpool, it never ends” in his 1969 tune.
What is “Dizzy”?
In 1957, the Soviets launched this first artificial Earth satellite.
What is Sputnik 1?
He battled the other claimants to Facebook’s creation in a series of lawsuits, ultimately securing control of the company.
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?