Before or After
Popular Candy
It Won Best Picture
Ancient Egypt
Who's That Actor?
Name that film score
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Apollo 11 landing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon. Before or after 1970?
What is Before?
It was July 20th, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
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What out-of-this-world chocolate bar features a combination of milk chocolate and a smooth, creamy center.
What is a Milky Way?
In Europe, the Milky Way bar is smaller and contains only nougat filling, making it more like a 3 Musketeers bar. Head to Australia, and you’ll find Milky Way in flavors like bananas and berries & cream.
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This movie won best picture in 1939 and stars Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
What is Gone with the Wind?
At nearly four hours long, this has the longest running time of all motion pictures to win the prestigious Academy Award for Best Picture. However, he original screenplay was over six hours long. Many writers contributed to the script, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the Great Gatsby.
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This is the name of the river that was of vital importance to ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The annual flooding of the Nile river provided the farmland of ancient Egypt with valuable moisture and nutrients for the soil.
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This actor starred in such films as Roman Holiday and To Kill a Mockingbird
Who is Gregory Peck?
Peck's character from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Atticus Finch, was voted the greatest screen hero of all time by the American Film Institute in May 2003, only two weeks before his death (beating out Indiana Jones, who was placed second, and James Bond who came third).
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Name that Film Score #1
What is Jaws?
The first time Williams played the famous “dun-dun” theme to Spielberg, the director actually thought it was a joke. Spielberg grew to love it though, and says Williams is responsible for 50% of the success of the film and calls the score “his greatest contribution to any of my films.”
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Princess Elizabeth of York ascending the throne to become Queen Elizabeth II. Before or after 1950?
What is After?
Queen Elizabeth became the Queen on February 6th, 1952. At 70 years as Queen, she was the longest-reigning monarch in British history, surpassing Queen Victoria in 2015.
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This iconic question is repeatedly asked in the classic Tootsie Pop commercials from the 1970s.
What is "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop"?
Engineering students at Purdue University built a "licking machine" modeled after the human tongue to find out. They reported that it took the machine an average of 364 licks. When they repeated the test with human volunteers, the average was 252 licks to reach the center.
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This film, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, won best picture in 1965.
A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
What is The Sound of Music?
Christopher Plummer intensely disliked working on this movie. He was known to refer to it as "The Sound of Mucus" and likened working with Dame Julie Andrews to "being hit over the head with a big Valentine's Day card, every day." Nonetheless, he and Andrews remained close friends until his death. Andrews claimed that Plummer's cynicism probably helped his performance and the movie, keeping it from being too sentimental.
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In ancient Egypt, they used these large, four sided structures as royal tombs.
What are the Pyramids?
The first of the Egyptian pyramids were built around 2780 BC.
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This actor is known for his work on films such as The Godfather, A Streetcar Named Desire and On The Waterfront
Who is Marlon Brando?
Two years before Brando declined his Oscar for Best Actor in The Godfather (1972), he had applied to the Academy to replace the one he had won for On the Waterfront (1954), which had been stolen. Prior to its theft, Brando had been using the Oscar as a doorstop.
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Name that film score #2
What is Star Wars?
The iconic "Star Wars" main theme actually reached the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 10, making it one of the few movie scores to achieve such mainstream popularity.
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The end of World War 1. Before or after 1920?
What is Before?
World War 1 ended on November 11, 1918. Or more specifically, Germany signed the armistice agreement at 11am on 11/11/1918. However, the formal peace treaty, the Treaty of Versailles, was signed on June 28, 1919, which technically marked the war's legal conclusion.
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This candy bar, introduced in the 1920s, is known for its combination of peanuts, caramel, and nougat, and is often associated with a famous baseball player.
What is Baby Ruth?
Although the name of the candy bar sounds like the name of the famous baseball player Babe Ruth, the Curtiss Candy Company claimed that it was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter, Ruth Cleveland.
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This film won best picture in 1961 and stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn and Rita Moreno.
In this musical, two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
What is West Side Story?
The actors in the rival gangs were instructed to play pranks on each other off the set to keep tensions high.
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This is the name of the pictographic writing system commonly used in ancient Egypt.
What are Hieroglyphics?
The ancient Egyptian people believed the gods invented their writing system.
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This actor starred in films like Lilies of the Field, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night
Who is Sidney Poitier?
When he came to New York from the Caribbean to become an actor, he was so impoverished at first that he slept in the bus station. To get his first major role in No Way Out (1950), he lied to the director and told him he was 27, when actually only 22 years old.
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Name that film score #3
What is James Bond?
The official ‘James Bond Theme’ has been featured in every Bond film since Dr. No in 1962.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall. Before or after 1990.
What is Before?
The Berlin Wall fell on November 9th, 1989.
The Berlin Wall was erected over 15 years into the Cold War due to the escalating number of skilled East German professionals fleeing to the West. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev finally allowed the construction after defections reached 1,000 people per day in the summer of 1961.
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Which controversial candy with a chalky texture was often sold in packs with branding similar to actual tobacco products.
What are Candy Cigarettes?
Over the years, candy cigarettes were rebranded as candy sticks to reduce their controversial nature.
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This film won best picture in 1972, and stars Marlon Brando, Diane Keaton, Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall. It's sequel also won best picture in 1974.
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his criminal empire to his reluctant son.
What is The Godfather?
Director Francis Ford Coppola held improvisational rehearsal sessions that simply consisted of the main cast sitting down in character for a family meal. The actors and actresses couldn't break character, which Coppola saw as a way for the cast to organically establish the family roles seen in the final film.
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This was the process used to embalm the dead in ancient Egypt.
What is Mummification?
The practice took 70 days and was completed by special priests.
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This actor starred in films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All The Presidents Men and The Sting
Who is Robert Redford?
He is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, which he named after his character from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He was also a pitcher on the University of Colorado baseball team, before losing his scholarship due to drinking.
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Name that film score #4
The Godfather?
The theme song uses a variety of instruments, including the accordion, mandolin, guitar, cello, and cornet. The song's instrumentation is meant to evoke the sound of an Italian café.
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The polio vaccine is created. Before or after 1950?
After.
The polio vaccine was invented in 1955 by Jonas Salk. It was an inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), which meant that it contained a killed form of the virus. This vaccine was announced to the public on April 12, 1955
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This candy, known as the oldest branded candy in the United States, features a licorice center coated in pink-and-white candy shells.
What is Good & Plenty?
Good & Plenty rose in popularity thanks to its mascot, Choo-Choo Charlie, a fictional train engineer who powered his engine with the candies.
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This film won best picture in 1962 and stars Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, and Anthony Quinn
The story of an English military officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
What is Lawrence of Arabia?
King Hussein of Jordan lent an entire brigade of his Arab Legion as extras for the movie, so most of the film's "soldiers" are played by real soldiers. Hussein frequently visited the sets and became enamored of a young British secretary, Antoinette Gardiner, and the two ended up getting married. Their eldest son, Abdullah II King Of Jordan, ascended to the throne in 1999.
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This book in the Bible details Moses leading the enslaved Israelite people out of ancient Egypt.
What is Exodus?
The book of Exodus includes details about Moses's upbringing and calling as a prophet.
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This actor starred in such films as Cool Hand Luke, The sting, and won an Oscar for his role in The Color of Money
Who is Paul Newman?
A passionate race car driver since the early 1970s (despite being color-blind), he was co-founder of Newman-Haas racing in 1982, and also founded "Newman's Own", a successful line of food products that has earned in excess of $100 million, every penny of which Newman donated to charity.
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Name that film score #5
What is Ghostbusters?
Two months after the release of the film, "Ghostbusters" reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Aug. 11, 1984. It stayed at the top of the chart for three weeks.
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The stock market crash, also known as Black Tuesday, which ushered in the beginning of the great depression. Before or after 1930?
What is Before?
The stock market crash primarily happened between October 24th and October 29th, 1929. The crash led to widespread bank failures, massive unemployment, and a significant decline in consumer spending, triggering the Great Depression.
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This iconic candy bar, introduced in 1900 and famous for its simple milk-chocolate taste, is sometimes referred to as "The Great American Chocolate Bar".
What is Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar?
Milton Hershey ran a successful caramel company before experimenting with milk and chocolate, which shifted his focus.
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This film won best picture in 1975, and stars Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and William Redford.
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
During filming, a crew member running cables left a second story window open at the Oregon State Mental Hospital and an actual patient climbed through the bars and fell to the ground, injuring himself. The next day The Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon reported the incident with the headline on the front page "One flew OUT of the cuckoo's nest".
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Although associated with Egypt, Cleopatra is actually of this ethnicity.
What is Greek?
Although she was born in Alexandria, she descended from a line of Greek Macedonians. She is a relative of Alexander the Great.
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This actor is known for his roles in prominent 1940s films such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon
Who Humphrey Bogart?
Bogart's friends referred to themselves as 'The Holmby Hills Rat Pack', since Bogart lived in the Holmby Hills section of Hollywood. The Rat Pack name had originated one morning, after a night of heavy boozing, when Bogart's wife Lauren Bacall came upon the sodden group and flatly stated, 'You look like a God-damned rat pack.' Bogart enjoyed the term, and a legend was born.
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Name that film score #6
What is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly?
The main theme is designed to sound like a coyote howl, with composer Ennio Morricone achieving this effect by layering vocalizations and creating a distinctive two-note melody that represents all three main characters in the film.