Broadway Musicals
The 1940s
Potpourri
Organizations
Numerology
100

Mary Martin played Maria in this 1959 Broadway musical; Julie Andrews plays the role in the 1965 film.

What is The Sound of Music?

100

This landmark sculpture depicting four presidents was completed in 1941.

What is Mount Rushmore?

100

In the 1950s, drive-in restaurant servers came to your car using this mode of transportation.

What are roller skates?

100

This BBB protects the public from unfair business practices.

What is the Better Business Bureau?

100

To “86” something is to do this.

What is to kill or end it?

200

A high-spirited, “unsinkable” young woman is the protagonist in this 1960 musical.

What is The Unsinkable Molly Brown?

200

This prestigious global film festival was launched in 1946.

What is the Cannes Film Festival?

200

These winter veggies resemble fat, white carrots.

What are parsnips?

200

This group was founded by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

What is the League of Women Voters?

200

This number is associated with bad luck.

What is 13?

300

This 1960 musical is named for the first three notes on the musical scale, or solfege.

What is Do Re Mi?

300

This pen replaced the fountain pen in 1945.

What is the ballpoint pen?

300

This classic novel by J. D. Salinger tells the story of Holden Caulfield’s life after he is expelled from prep school.

What is The Catcher in the Rye?

300

The organization FDR founded in 1938 to fight infantile paralysis now goes by this “numisamatic” name.

What is the March of Dimes?

300

This is the biblical number for wholeness or perfection.

What is three?

400

The 1963 Broadway musical Here’s Love was based on this film about Santa Claus, released in 1947.

What is Miracle on 34th Street?

400

This president won an unprecedented fourth term in 1944.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

400

America’s most fundamental criminal law concept, dating to ancient Rome, presumes this until proven otherwise.

What is innocence?

400

This organization partners with individuals in need of a home who can afford to repay small mortgages.

What is Habitat for Humanity?

400

This was 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit for a long time, but newer research indicates the number is falling.

What is humans’ average temperature?

500

This 1971 Andrew Lloyd Webber production was a rock musical concept album before it was a hit Broadway musical.

What is Jesus Christ Superstar?

500

Forrest Mars Sr. partnered with Bruce Murrie in 1941 to create these candies for the military.

What are M&M’s?

500

This is the northern hemisphere’s largest island.

What is Greenland?

500

This faith-based international relief organization, currently led by Franklin Graham, is often the first on the ground after a natural disaster.

What is Samaritan’s Purse?

500

This number symbolizes infinity or infinite wisdom.

What is eight?