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Popeye
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It Happened One September
100

Visit the Kremlin, Red Square, and St. Basil’s Cathedral in this country

What is Russia?

100

When in Hawaii, use this word when greeting people.

What is aloha?

100

Popeye is known as this kind of man.

What is sailor?

100

This character is married to a woman named Lucy and is the bandleader at the Tropicana, a local New York City nightclub. His favorite song is “Babalu.”

Who is Ricky Ricardo? The show is I Love Lucy

100

On the first Monday in September, the United States celebrates this national holiday

What is Labor Day?

200

The ancient pyramids of Giza are in this country

What is Egypt?

200

In the southern U.S., this is the casual greeting when addressing multiple people.

What is “Hi, y’all”?

200

She is Popeye’s girlfriend.

Who is Olive Oyl?

200

Ralph (a bus driver), Ed (a sewer worker), Alice, and Trixie are the main characters in this sitcom

What is The Honeymooners?

200

On September 12, 1953, Jacqueline Bouvier married this future president

Who is John F. Kennedy?

300

When visiting Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you can watch these black-and-white-striped, horse-like animals roam.

What are zebras?

300

The simplest greeting in Spanish is a four-letter word beginning with a silent H

What is hola?

300

This food gives Popeye superhuman strength.

What is spinach?

300

He is Jack Benny’s butler and sidekick character on The Jack Benny Show, formerly of the Three Black Aces during the vaudeville years.

Who is Rochester (Van Jones)?

300

On Monday, September 21, 1970, this televised NFL event debuted on the ABC network

What is Monday Night Football?

400

In Venice, Italy, people travel through these instead of on roads.

What are canals?

400

At night, this is how you say goodbye in Spain and Mexico.

What is buenas noches?

400

He is Popeye’s rival.

Who is Bluto?

400

This sitcom tells the story of a ragtag group of prisoners of war (POWs) in a German POW camp during World War II, led by actor Bob Crane.

What is Hogan’s Heroes?

400

On September 6, 1847, Henry David Thoreau left this pond

What is Walden Pond?

500

It’s easy to float in this sea between Israel and Jordan because of its high salt content, and mud from the sea is used in beauty products.

What is the Dead Sea?

500

Edward R. Morrow began his sign-off on his news program See It Now with “Good night” and ended it with this.

What is “good luck”?

500

He is Popeye’s baby.

Who is Swee’pea? His full name is Scooner Seawell Georgia Washenting Christiffer Columbia Daniel Boom.

500

This is the first verse of this sitcom’s theme song: Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed, And then one day he was shootin’ at some food, And up through the ground come a bubblin’ crude

What is The Beverly Hillbillies?

500

On September 30, 1868, this author released the first volume of Little Women, her classic novel featuring the March sisters––Josephine, Meg, Beth, and Amy.

Who is Louisa May Alcott?