Children of the 80s
The Grand Canyon State
1960
Arts & Crafts
Media that Rocks
100

This 1986 film is a coming of age story about three childhood friends, and is based on the Stephen King novella The Body.

What is Stand By Me?

100

Arizona's prominent pro sports teams include the Diamondbacks, the Cardinals, the Suns, and this ice hockey team named for a bird.

What are the Roadrunners?

100

In 1960, the Ivory Coast, or Cote D'Ivoire, gained its independence from this European empire.

What is France?

100

Thrown pottery relies on this tool in order to be made.

What is a wheel?

100

Rockie Alden's favorite novel, the Color of Water, is by this author.

Who is James McBride?

200

El, Mike, Max, Dustin and Lucas are all child-characters on this Duffer Brothers series ABOUT the 80s.

What is Stranger Things?

200

Several Hollywood films have been shot in Arizona, including this Coen Brothers picture--after all, it's in the name!

What is Raising Arizona?

200

One of the most famous photos in the world, Guerillero Heroica, was taken in 1960, and is a portrait of this man.

Who is Che Guevara?

200

As an art form, scrapbooking became popular during the reign of this 19th-century English queen.

Who was Victoria?

200

Tartt's Pulitzer Prize winning novel takes its name from a prominently-featured painting by Fabritius, a painter from this European nation.

What are the Netherlands?

300

This 1986 novel by Stephen King features child-characters like Bill, Ben, Bev and Richie Trashmouth, who don't really have time to clown around. 

What is It?

300

The 3 most commonly spoken languages in Arizona are English, Spanish, and this Indigenous American language. 

What is Navajo?

300

In 1960, the Best Picture winner was The Apartment, the last black and white movie to win that award until THIS movie by Spielberg in 1994.

What is Schindler's List?

300

Unlike oil paints, these fast-drying synthetic paints contain trace plastic.

What are acrylics?

300

Rockie's name has come up more than once throughout the 20th century in terms of popular media--from the song by the Police, to the classic sports film, to this campy horror comedy that was adapted from a stage play.

What is the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

400

Ke Huy Quan (from Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Sean Astin (from Lord of the Rings) were child actors in this 1985 movie about pirate treasure.

What is The Goonies?

400

The first contact between Arizona's Indigenous population and Europe was mediated by a missionary belonging to what brown-robed Catholic monastic order of friars?

Who are the Franciscans?

400

1960 is the year that construction on the Aswan Dam began in this country.

What is Egypt?

400

In the 60s and 70s, as Walton's became Wal-mart and began to shut down small businesses, a failing Dallas five and dime became this popular craft store chain--still open today!

What is Michaels?

400

Rockie's TV boyfriend, Uhtred son of Uhtred, is a fictionalized version of a warlord initially serving this historical English king.

Who is King Alfred the Great?

500

He's friends with an extraterrestrial--who really needs to get ahold of somebody back home on the phone.

Who is Elliot?

500

The capitol of Arizona is quite an old word! Phoenix is a word older even than Ancient Greek, and likely first referred not to a firebird, but to this other mythical, partially-feathered creature.

What is a griffon?

500

In March, this Soviet Premiere met with Charles de Gaulle in Paris.

Who is Nikita Khruschev?

500

Origami is a Japanese craft that only requires a piece of paper, but the art of kirigami adds in this one additional tool.

What are scissors?

500

Rockie grew up with a dog named Scooby, after the cartoon character, who is in turn named after a lyric written by this man who crooned like her second dad.

Who is Frank Sinatra?

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