Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
This iconic national highway was decommissioned in June 1985 but is immortalized in songs like Nat King Cole’s “Get Your Kicks on _____ _____.”
What is Route 66?
This 1960 Hitchcock film features Anthony Perkins as a motel manager.
What is Psycho?
If the groundhog sees his shadow on February 2, this happens.
What is we get six more weeks of winter?
Shortages of this began in 1973 when OPEC raised its prices, leading to long waits for American motorists.
What is gasoline?
($200) In 1979, Hitchcock was awarded the Life Achievement Award by the AFI, or the American _____ Institute.
What is Film?
This author created the character Tiny Tim and was born on February 7, 1812.
Who is Charles Dickens?
This iconic train is the setting for an Agatha Christie mystery.
What is the Orient Express?
Hitchcock was knighted in 1980 by this monarch of England.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
First sold on February 6, 1935, the object of this board game is for players to buy properties and collect rent.
What is Monopoly?
This 1970 Ford embarrassment sold for less than $2,000 and was named for a horse.
What is the Pinto? The gas tank was easily punctured and was a fire risk.
Two of Hitchcock’s films, Topaz and Torn Curtain, are based on this real-world conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
This holiday is observed on the third Monday of February in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Saskatchewan.
What is Family Day
The film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is the story of an air race across this body of water.
What is the English Channel?
This 1959 film stars Cary Grant as an advertising executive who gets mistaken for a spy.
What is North by Northwest?
On February 1, 1920, the Canadian RCMP was established. RCMP stands for this.
What is Royal Canadian Mounted Police? .