Name that big band song
The name of this big band song
a) Swang
b) Tuxedo Junction
c) Chattanooga Choo Choo
What is Chattanooga Choo Choo?
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match
a) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
b) Camelot
c) Fiddler on the Roof
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara have a love-hate relationship during the Civil War while the city of Atlanta burns.
a) Grapes of Wrath
b) Gone with the Wind
c) Patton
What is Gone with the Wind?
Considered the #1 sitcom of them all time. Ricky Ricardo was a bandleader at the Tropicana Club. His redhead wife yearned to get into show business, or get rich, or both. She and her friend Ethel got into many ridiculous situations!
a) Golden Girls
b) Lavern & Shirley
c) I Love Lucy
What is I Love Lucy?
Set in the 1860’s, chronicles the adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe, as they defend their Ponderosa Ranch near Virginia City, Nevada, during and after the Civil War. The show dealt with a discovery of rich silver ore under the town, and many moral dilemmas of the day.
a) Big Valley
b) The Virginian
c) Bonanza
What is Bonanza?
The name of this bag band song
a) Stompin’ at the Savoy
b) Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
c) Puttin’ on the Ritz
What is Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy?
I Could Have Danced All Night
a) The King and I
b) My Fair Lady
c) Cinderella
What is My Fair Lady?
Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck, is a lawyer in small town Alabama in 1932. Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman.
a) 12 Angry Men
b) The Verdict
c) To Kill a Mockingbird
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Set in a surgical hospital just behind the front lines in the middle of the Korean war, the show deals with the horrors of war and the sometimes hysterical ways the cast tried to maintain their sanity. The cast included Capt. “Hawkeye” Pierce, Corporal “Radar” O’Reilly and Nurse “Hot Lips” Houlihan.
a) Hogan’s Heroes
b) M*A*S*H
c) The Army Game
What is M*A*S*H?
Matt Dillon is Marshal of Dodge City, where people often have no respect for the law. With his deputy Festus Haggen, Doc and Miss Kitty, he deals with the problems of frontier life, cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, and land fraud.
a) Gunsmoke
b) Wild Wild West
c) Maverick
What is Gunsmoke?
The name of this big band song
a) Alexander’s Ragtime Band
b) In the Mood
c) The Bunny Hop
What is In the Mood?
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’
a) Oklahoma
b) Guys and Dolls
c) Annie
What is Oklahoma?
At the start of World War I, a grumpy Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When a missionary at one village dies, Charlie agrees to take the man’s stubborn sister, Rose, back to civilization, taking on the Germans at the same time.
a) A Bridge Too Far
b) Midway
c) The African Queen
What is The African Queen?
Set in middle-class America this show followed Richie Cunningham and his friends through life at Jefferson High in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He formed a close bond with a neighborhood greaser, the Fonz.
a) The Waltons
b) Brady Bunch
c) Happy Days
What is Happy Days?
Only one member of a Texas warden patrol survives an ambush. Thereafter he disguises himself with a black mask & travels with Tonto throughout Texas and the West. A silver mine supplies him with income, bullets, and the name of his horse.
a) Zorro
b) Lone Ranger
c) How the West was Won
What is the Lone Ranger?
The name of this big band song
a) It Don’t Mean a Thing
b) Mack the Knife
c) I’m With the Band
What is It Don’t Mean a Thing?
Ya Got Trouble, Right Here in River City
a) Hello Dolly
b) Music Man
c) Clowns
What is Music Man?
In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the US with a preventive strike on the naval base at Pearl Harbor. Although US intelligence intercepts Japanese communications hinting at the attack, they are unwilling to believe such a strike could ever occur on U.S. soil.
a) All Quiet on the Western Front
b) A Bridge Too Far
c) Tora, Tora, Tora
What is Tora, Tora, Tora?
Archie Bunker was a bigoted working-class family man who’s viewpoints clashed with nearly everyone else, especially his son-in-law “Meathead”. When his wife tried to add her opinion, Archie frequently told her to “Stifle it Edith.”
a) Three’s Company
b) Cheers
c) All in the Family
What is All in the Family?
This Frontier hero, played by Fess Parker, conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, Kentucky, running into both friendly and hostile Indians, just before and during the Revolutionary War. As the song goes…”From the coonskin cap on the top of ol’ _____, to the heel of his rawhide shoe…”
a) Daniel Boone
b) Wagon Train
c) Roy Rogers Show
What is Daniel Boone?
The name of this big band song
a) Sentimental Journey
b) Pennsylvania 6-5000
c) Take the A Train
What is Take the A Train?
There’s a Place For Us
a) West Side Story
b) Carousel
c) Phantom of the Opera
What is West Side Story?
A exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs a nightclub in Morocco during the early stages of WW2. The club has become a haven for refugees hoping to escape to America. When an old flame & her husband arrive, he has a tough decision to make.
a) Casablanca
b) The Maltese Falcon
c) High Noon
What is Casablanca?
Ralph Kramden is a New York bus driver, who dreams of a better life. He and Ed Norton, a sewer worker, try crackpot schemes to get rich. He sometimes tells his wife, “One of these days, Alice, one of these days…. POW! Right in the kisser!”
a) The Honeymooners
b) The Jeffersons
c) The Odd Couple
What is The Honeymooners?
Cantankerous Rooster Cogburn, John Wayne, is hired by a headstrong young girl to find the man who murdered her father. Things go from bad to worse when a Texas ranger, Glen Campbell, joins the party.
a) Unforgiven
b) Stagecoach
c) True Grit
What is True Grit?