Let’s Dance
This is Donna Summer’s disco hit with lyrics that claim it is her “last chance for romance tonight.”
What is “Last Dance”? The chorus continues, “So let’s dance the last dance/Let’s dance the last dance/Let’s dance this last dance tonight.”
This company owns Rice Krispies, Special K, Raisin Bran, Froot Loops, and Frosted Flakes.
What is Kellogg’s? In 1894, W.K. Kellogg created the first corn flakes. Six years later, he and his brother, Dr. John H. Kellogg, founded the Sanitas Food Company when the cereal had proved popular among his brother’s patients at Dr. Kellogg’s Battle Creek Sanitarium.
The expensive, fictitious prediction for the year 2000 was that this computer bug, known by two letters and a number, would cause everything powered by computers to malfunction.
What is Y2K? Nothing of consequence happened, and life went on without interruption after billions of dollars were spent worldwide on the Y2K bug. The high estimate of the cost of Y2K preparation was $858 billion for an industry with $1 trillion in revenue at the time.
This one-word Spielberg film title stars Roy Schneider and Richard Dreyfuss. It’s a story about shark attacks on Amity Island.
What is Jaws? Decades after the film was released, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, went into a restaurant and noticed an Alex Kintner sandwich on the menu. She mentioned that she played his mother in Jaws. The restaurant’s owner ran out to see her, and the owner was Jeffrey Voorhees, who played her son Alex in the film.
This Cheers’ spinoff with an eponymous title is about a therapist-turned-radio personality.
What is Frasier? Dr. Frasier Crane moves from Boston to Seattle and takes up residence with his father and his father’s dog. He upends everything by giving up his therapy practice to practice over the radio airwaves.
This 1977 hit film about dance competition hopefuls Tony Monero (John Travolta) and Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney) featured songs by the Bee Gees.
What is Saturday Night Fever? Filming had finished when the Bee Gees were commissioned to write songs for the film. They also repurposed some songs they had already written.
Ironically, the Marlboro Man died from this form of cancer.
What is lung? Three men who appeared in Marlboro commercials died from lung cancer.
It is estimated that by 2040, 95 percent of shopping will be handled this way.
What is online? Eighty percent of companies already offer a combination of online and brick-and-mortar shopping
This top British modeling sensation of the late 1960s was known for her especially slender frame.
Who is Twiggy? She has since worked on TV and film as well as on stage.
This sitcom is the show about nothing.
What is Seinfeld? The show is all about the characters and their character, not the plot.
“Turn the Beat [missing word]” was recorded by Vicki Sue Robinson and covered by Laura Branigan and Gloria Estefan. Lyrics include “Turn it upside down/Love to hear the percussion/Love to hear it/Love to hear it.”
What is Around? Robinson is also an actress who appeared in Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar.
You’ll be surprised to learn this royal owns a McDonald’s in England.
Who is Queen Elizabeth? The owner of record is the Crown Estate, and the royals don’t pop in for lunch.
One inventor incorrectly predicted that these would never render the landline obsolete.
What is cell or mobile phone? In 1981, inventor and pioneer in the wireless communications industry Marty Cooper said, “Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.”
Michael Jackson’s hit song from this album by the same name was inspired by Jackson’s interest in the horror genre.
What is Thriller? The spoken parts and ominous, deep laughs you hear come from Vincent Price.
This long-running 1990 TV police drama has had several spin-offs. It stars characters such as Detective Lennie Briscoe, Lieutenant Anita Van Buren, and Executive Assistant District Attorneys Ben Stone and Jack McCoy.
What is Law and Order? The next-longest-running show in the franchise is Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, which began its run in 1999.
One of Martha and the Vandellas’ greatest hits is “Dancing in the [missing word].”
What is Street? It was on the Billboard charts for more than a year
This company was founded in 1994 and originally named Cadabra until Jeff Bezos realized it looked too similar to cadaver.
What is Amazon? The name Amazon was chosen because it sells products from A to Z
Steve Balmer, former CEO of Microsoft, once said, “There’s no chance that this Apple product is going to get any significant market share.”
What is the iPhone? In December 2020, Apple’s iPhone market share reached 64 percent
“Who ya gonna call?” is the tagline of this film starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramos, Ernie Hudson, and Sigourney Weaver.
What is Ghostbusters? Three university professors lose their jobs for performing unethical paranormal experiments on their students, so they set up business ridding New York City of ghosts and other paranormal phenomena.
This 1999 TV drama stars Martin Sheen and gives us a glimpse of the inner workings of the White House.
What is West Wing? Stockard Channing has a recurring role as first lady.
This is Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony’s hit disco song. The title is the name of a dance move, and the lyrics are repetitive and include only four words.
What is “The Hustle”? The only words in the song are “do it” and “do the hustle.”
This is a popular jeans manufacturer, but the founder never wore his company’s jeans.
What is Levi’s? Levi Strauss felt he was from the upper class and that the jeans were meant for the working class.
T.A.M. Craven, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner in 1961, once said, “There is practically no chance [these devices] will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States.”
What are (communications) space satellites? Satellite communications play a vital role in modern life, with over 2,000 artificial satellites in use today.
The lead song from Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book album is a word that is sometimes used to refer to a faith in magic or luck.
What is “Superstition”? The music for the hit single was improvised.
A group of aliens disguised as an earthling family visits Earth to learn about its people and their way of life. The sitcom is [missing word] Rock from the Sun.
What is Third? Because the aliens only pretended to be human, they have no grasp on how humans handle various situations or interactions.