📺 Category 1: Classic TV & Movies
Desi's real-life spouse, she held down the 5:00 PM slot at the Ricky Ricardo household with endless schemes to enter showbiz.
Who is Lucille Ball?
Old Ben Franklin’s penny rule equates strict frugality directly with this type of income.
What is earned? ("A penny saved is a penny earned")
Bart Howard wrote it as "In Other Words," but Frank Sinatra made it a space-age classic about orbiting Earth’s satellite.
What is "Fly Me to the Moon"?
Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi titled this colossal copper gift "Liberty Enlightening the World."
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Penicillin in a bowl: this warm poultry broth dish with egg noodles is universally prescribed for winter ailments.
What is chicken noodle soup?
A cyclone, three companions, and two ruby slippers led to a famous three-word observation about domestic preference.
What is "There's no place like home"?
Before the shells crack, poultry math is strictly forbidden according to this classic piece of advice.
What is hatching?
Originally recorded by Hank Ballard, this 1960 dance craze hit #1 on the Billboard charts twice for Chubby Checker.
What is "The Twist"?
Mile-deep erosion in northern Arizona left behind this massive chasm named for its sheer scale and color.
What is the Grand Canyon?
The patriotic idiom comparing something to this lattice-topped fruit dessert originated during WWII troop morale campaigns.
What is apple pie?
This lawman carried no gun in his holster, relying instead on his deputy's single bullet kept strictly in a shirt pocket.
Who is Andy Griffith?
Daily crisp pomaceous fruit intake is famously said to keep this medical professional off your doorstep.
What is the doctor?
Willie Nelson wrote this iconic 1961 ballad, but Patsy Cline immortalized its bittersweet title about her own state of mind.
What is "Crazy"?
First inhabited by John Adams in 1800, this presidential residence was originally known simply as the "Executive Mansion."
What is the White House?
A mid-century Sunday staple, this savory loaf of minced beef and breadcrumbs is baked in a pan and glazed red.
What is meatloaf?
Silver was his mount and Tonto was his scout, but this masked rider got his name from being the sole survivor of a Texas Ranger ambush.
Who is The Lone Ranger?
If citrus sourness is tossed your way by fate, this sweet pitcher drink is the prescribed countermeasure.
What is lemonade?
Ed Sullivan introduced this British quartet to 73 million Americans on February 9, 1964, cementing their record-breaking "Mania."
Who are The Beatles?
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum spent 14 years carving four presidential visages into the Black Hills of South Dakota.
What is Mount Rushmore?
Derived from the Dutch word for "wafer," this iron-pressed batter cake is famous for its grid of syrup pockets.
What is a waffle?
A former US Army sergeant and Memphis truck driver, he traded his swivel-hipped stage act for a 31-picture Hollywood contract.
Who is Elvis Presley?
The early-rising avian visitor reaps the subterranean reward, while the sluggish one goes hungry.
What is the worm?
He wore black to honor the poor and downtrodden, and sang about a train whistle from behind the walls of a California penitentiary.
Who is Johnny Cash?
This city's iconic orange-vermilion suspension bridge spans the golden strait where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific.
What is San Francisco?
Sourced from the cured seed pods of an orchid, this tropical bean gives America its default white ice cream scoop.
What is vanilla?