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100

These two states were the last admitted into the Union, both in 1959.

What are Hawaii & Alaska?

100

This TV western followed the Cartwright family on the Ponderosa Ranch.

What is Bonanza?

100

This crooner sang “Strangers in the Night” and led the Rat Pack in the 1960s?

Who was Frank Sinatra? 

100

This famous prison island is located in San Francisco Bay.

What is Alcatraz?

100

This color has the longest wavelength in the visible light spectrum.

What is red?

200

This car model introduced by Ford in 1964 became an instant American classic.

What is the Mustang?

200

This sitcom about witchcraft starred Elizabeth Montgomery as a suburban wife who twitched her nose.

What is Bewitched?

200

This is the type of phone used before push‑button phones became common.

What is a rotary phone?

200

This is the year the stock market crashed, beginning the Great Depression.

When was 1929?

200

This color is associated with royalty because the dye was historically so expensive.

What is purple?

300

People in Germany famously tore down this wall in 1989.

What is the Berlin Wall?

300

This TV show sent Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock “where no man has gone before”.

What is Star Trek?

300

This country is called “the Land Down Under”.

What is Australia?

300

In King Kong, the title creature was this type of animal.

What is a giant ape?

300

This is what you call a color scheme that uses different shades of just one color.

What is monochromatic?

400

This ship famously sank in 1912 on it's maiden voyage across the Atlantic. 

What is the Titanic?

400

This Christmas movie features George Bailey and the town of Bedford Falls.

What is It's a Wonderful Life?

400

This is the chemical formula for water.

What is H2O?

400

This country was the first to develop and test a nuclear bomb.

What was the United States?

400

This is the color do you get when you mix equal parts of blue and yellow paint.

What is green?

500

Humans first landed on the moon in this year. 

What is 1969?

500

This movie musical starred Julie Andrews as a governess for the von Trapp family.

What is The Sound of Music?

500

This amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote.

What is the 19th Amendment?

500

Known as the Big Bopper, this famous musician died in a plane crash 1959.

Who was Buddy Holly?

500

This is the color of a hippo's sweat.

What is pink?