Golden Age of Hollywood
Which actress won an Oscar for playing a blind and deaf woman in The Miracle Worker (1962)?
A) Patty Duke
B) Anne Bancroft
C) Shirley MacLaine
D) Elizabeth Taylor
B) Anne Bancroft
Which landmark was originally a gift from France to the United States in 1886?
A) Lincoln Memorial
B) Statue of Liberty
C) Washington Monument
D) Jefferson Memorial
B) Statue of Liberty
Which artist recorded the first million-selling rock & roll single, “Rock Around the Clock”?
A) Chuck Berry
B) Elvis Presley
C) Bill Haley & His Comets
D) Little Richard
C) Bill Haley & His Comets
Which U.S. president was the first to appear on television?
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Harry S. Truman
C) Dwight D. Eisenhower
D) Herbert Hoover
D) Herbert Hoover
(He appeared on TV during an experimental broadcast in 1927.)
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
A) Dwight D. Eisenhower
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Lyndon B. Johnson
D) Richard Nixon
B) John F. Kennedy
Which actress famously said, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night”?
A) Katharine Hepburn
B) Bette Davis
C) Joan Crawford
D) Ingrid Bergman
B) Bette Davis
Which structure spans the San Francisco Bay and was once the longest suspension bridge in the world?
A) Brooklyn Bridge
B) Golden Gate Bridge
C) Chesapeake Bay Bridge
D) Mackinac Bridge
B) Golden Gate Bridge
Which singer’s signature song was “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)”?
A) Doris Day
B) Peggy Lee
C) Rosemary Clooney
D) Patti Page
A) Doris Day
Which president signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935?
A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) Harry S. Truman
D) Calvin Coolidge
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Winston Churchill
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Harry Truman
B) Winston Churchill
Which 1941 film, often cited as the greatest of all time, used groundbreaking techniques like deep focus and nonlinear storytelling?
A) The Grapes of Wrath
B) Citizen Kane
C) The Philadelphia Story
D) Rebecca
B) Citizen Kane
Which U.S. landmark features the inscription “Four score and seven years ago…”?
A) Gettysburg Battlefield
B) Lincoln Memorial
C) Independence Hall
D) Mount Vernon
B) Lincoln Memorial
Which jazz musician was nicknamed “Satchmo”?
A) Duke Ellington
B) Louis Armstrong
C) Charlie Parker
D) Miles Davis
B) Louis Armstrong
Who was the only U.S. president to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
A) John Quincy Adams
B) William Howard Taft
C) James Madison
D) Andrew Jackson
B) William Howard Taft
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
A) Eleanor Roosevelt
B) Gloria Steinem
C) Margaret Mead
D) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
D) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Which film marked the first collaboration between director John Ford and actor John Wayne, launching Wayne’s career as a leading man?
A) Stagecoach
B) The Searchers
C) Fort Apache
D) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
A) Stagecoach
Which Native American site in Arizona features cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Puebloans?
A) Mesa Verde
B) Chaco Canyon
C) Canyon de Chelly
D) Montezuma Castle
C) Canyon de Chelly
Which 1960s group had hits with “The Sound of Silence” and “Mrs. Robinson”?
A) The Byrds
B) Simon & Garfunkel
C) The Mamas & the Papas
D) Peter, Paul and Mary
B) Simon & Garfunkel
Which president was known for his “Whip Inflation Now” campaign in the 1970s?
A) Richard Nixon
B) Gerald Ford
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Ronald Reagan
B) Gerald Ford
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
A) Marilyn Monroe
B) Oprah Winfrey
C) Amelia Earhart
D) Katharine Hepburn
A) Marilyn Monroe
Which director was known for choreographing elaborate musical numbers in films like Singin’ in the Rain and An American in Paris?
A) Vincente Minnelli
B) Busby Berkeley
C) Gene Kelly
D) Stanley Donen
D) Stanley Donen
Which U.S. landmark was originally built as a fortification during the War of 1812 and later inspired the national anthem?
A) Fort Sumter
B) Fort McHenry
C) Fort Ticonderoga
D) Fort Knox
B) Fort McHenry
Which classical crossover singer was known as “The Voice of the Century” and sang “Ave Maria” and “O Sole Mio”?
A) Luciano Pavarotti
B) Mario Lanza
C) Enrico Caruso
D) Andrea Bocelli
C) Enrico Caruso
Which president lost the popular vote but won the presidency through the Electoral College in the 19th century?
A) Rutherford B. Hayes
B) James K. Polk
C) Grover Cleveland
D) William McKinley
A) Rutherford B. Hayes
(He won the 1876 election despite losing the popular vote.)
“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”
A) Voltaire
B) Oscar Wilde
C) H.L. Mencken
D) Karl Marx
A) Voltaire