Between the Wars
Which U.S. president signed the Social Security Act into law?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Who originally recorded “White Christmas” before Bing Crosby made it famous?
Who is Bing Crosby? (Trick: he did record it first.)
What actress starred in Bringing Up Baby opposite Cary Grant?
Who is Katharine Hepburn?
What material replaced tin in WWII food containers?
What is paperboard?
What network aired The Lone Ranger radio program?
What is ABC?
What international organization was formed after World War I and later failed to prevent World War II?
What is the League of Nations?
Which Andrews Sisters song mentions a soldier named “Private”?
What is Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy?
Which director was nicknamed “The Master of Suspense”?
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
What was Victory Bread made without due to rationing?
What is sugar and fats?
What was the first regularly scheduled U.S. television network?
What is NBC?
What 1929 event triggered the Great Depression?
What is the Stock Market Crash?
Who composed “Rhapsody in Blue”?
Who is George Gershwin?
Which film won Best Picture in 1943 despite being released in 1942?
What is Casablanca?
What household job was most commonly paid by the piece rather than hourly?
What is laundry or ironing?
Which journalist became famous for his WWII radio broadcasts from London?
Who is Edward R. Murrow?
What New Deal program specifically employed artists, writers, and musicians?
What is the Federal Arts Project (WPA)?
Which singer was nicknamed “The Voice” before Sinatra popularized the phrase?
Who is Al Jolson?
What actor played both the hero and villain in The Prisoner of Zenda?
Who is Ronald Colman?
What brand introduced the first frozen TV dinner?
What is Swanson?
What television show was cancelled after Lucille Ball became pregnant on screen?
What is I Love Lucy?
What European agreement of 1938 is now synonymous with appeasement?
What is the Munich Agreement?
What 1934 song by Cole Porter includes the lyric “You’re the top”?
What is Anything Goes?
What 1950 film noir starred Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond?
What is Sunset Boulevard?
What was the purpose of a “ration stamp letter”?
What is to categorize goods by scarcity?
What year did color television first become commercially available in the U.S.?
What is 1954?