Broadway Musicals
Mary Martin played Maria in this 1959 Broadway musical; Julie Andrews plays the role in the 1965 film.
What is The Sound of Music?
This landmark sculpture depicting four presidents was completed in 1941.
What is Mount Rushmore?
In the 1950s, drive-in restaurant servers came to your car using this mode of transportation.
What are roller skates?
This BBB protects the public from unfair business practices.
What is Better Business Bureau?
To “86” something is to do this.
What is to kill or end it?
The dog days occur during this season.
What is summer?
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on this day of significance in the Christian faith.
What is Good Friday?
A high-spirited, “unsinkable” young woman is the protagonist in this 1960 musical
What is The Unsinkable Molly Brown?
This prestigious global film festival was launched in 1946.
What is Cannes Film Festival?
These winter veggies resemble fat, white carrots.
What are parsnips?
This group was founded by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
What is League of Women Voters?
This number is associated with bad luck.
What 13?
Someone who shares a living space with another person in a college dorm is called this.
What is roomate?
This 1960 musical is named for the first three notes on the musical scale, or solfege.
What is Do Re Mi?
This pen replaced the fountain pen in 1945.
What is a ballpoint pen?
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?
The organization FDR founded in 1938 to fight infantile paralysis now goes by this “numisamatic” name.
What is the March of Dimes?
This is the biblical number for wholeness or perfection.
What is 3?
Wear this detachable waistband with a tuxedo.
What is cummerbund?
The 1963 Broadway musical Here’s Love was based on this film about Santa Claus, released in 1947
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
This president won an unprecedented fourth term in 1944.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
America’s most fundamental criminal law concept, dating to ancient Rome, presumes this until proven otherwise
What is innocence?
This organization partners with individuals in need of a home who can afford to repay small mortgages
What is Habitat for Humanity?
This was 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit for a long time, but newer research indicates the number is falling.
What is humans' average temperature?
This is the name for the rules that govern all aspects of written and oral communication, such as correct subject-verb agreement.
What is grammar?
This 1971 Andrew Lloyd Webber production was a rock musical concept album before it was a hit Broadway musical.
What is Jesus Christ Superstar?
Forrest Mars Sr. partnered with Bruce Murrie in 1941 to create these candies for the military.
What are M&Ms?
This is the northern hemisphere’s largest island.
What is Greenland?
This faith-based international relief organization, currently led by Franklin Graham, is often the first on the ground after a natural disaster.
What is Samaritans Purse?
This number symbolizes infinity or infinite wisdom.
What is 8?
This bird holds the distinction of being the only bird that can fly backward.
What is hummingbird?
This 1975 jazz musical, based on reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins’ 1926 play, is named for the city in which it is set
What is Chicago?
Iva Toguri d’Aquino went by this wartime pseudonym
What is Tokyo Rose?
You can use this uncooked food to light a candle if you can’t reach the wick.
What is spaghetti?
This international organization’s scientists protect marine life and ecosystems and more than 125 million acres of land.
What is Nature's Conservancy?
This biblical number is associated with trials or challenges.
What is 40?
Mixing this smelly cleaning fluid with bleach is dangerous
What is ammonia?