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Strange Cargo (with Joan Crawford), It Happened One Night, and Gone With the Wind.
Who is Clark Gable?
100
This primetime soap took its name from a fictional small town, whose families included the Harringtons. Some of the plots involved Rodney Harrington, the oldest son, choosing between bad girl Betty Anderson or fragile Allison MacKenzie. (1964-1969)
What is Peyton Place?
100
Broke the Watergate Scandal that brought down the Nixon Administration in 1973-74. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman played its reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, in the movie All The President's Men (1976). Meryl Streep plays the paper's owner (Martha Graham) in a recent Hollywood movie and Tom Hanks plays its editor (Ben Bradlee).
What is the Washington Post?
100
This company sells branded and private label products for personal care as well as commercial and household cleaning. It was founded in 1906.
What is Fuller Brush Company?
100
The most famous living piano player in the world, according to Ranker.com.
Who is Elton John?
200
Through the course of his career he appeared in many critically acclaimed films, including 12 Angry Men and The Ox-Bow Incident. His roles in the 1940's The Grapes of Wrath and 1981's On Golden Pond earned him Academy Award nominations and he won for the latter).
Who is Henry Fonda?
200
The rich Collins family of Collinsport, Maine is tormented by strange occurrences. (1966-71)
What is Dark Shadows?
200
This paper was founded in 1855 by the publisher Charles E. Leonard, the husband of suffragist Cynthia Leonard and father of Lillian Russell.
What is the Clinton Herald?
200
This company had a sales model using adolescent salespeople that, while perhaps considered naive today, served them well for decades. The child would send in for the seed packs, sell them, send back all the money, and earn a nice prize, like a badminton set, or a pocket calculator. But between 1975 and 1981, 400,000 children sent away for seed packages and never sent any money back. Because why should they? They could just keep the money, and The Company could go pound salt. So, in 1981, the company went out of business, bilked out of existence by the earliest tides of a cynical, grungy Generation X.
What is The American Seed Company?
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The biological concept or theory that is attributed to Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
What is evolution?
300
Walter Huston, Frank McGlynn, Henry Fonda, Sam Waterston, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Benjamin Walker all played this historic American.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
A sort of sequel to the 1955 movie staring William Holden and Jennifer Jones, who plays a widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin. (1967-1973)
What is Love is a Many Splendored Thing?
300
Known by this famous phrase: "All the news that's fit to print." (First used October 25, 1896)
What is the New York Times?
300
During the early 1950s, this product line's sales and popularity exploded, thanks in large part to lavish and outlandishly themed parties. It was known—at a time when women came back from working during World War II only to be told to "go back to the kitchen"—as a method of empowering women, and giving them a toehold in the postwar business world.
What is Tupperware?
300
The theory of relativity.
What is E = mc2?
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This leading man's aunt was a legendary cabaret singer and movie star. She died from lung cancer, at age 74, in 2002. Her nephew was even a pallbearer at her funeral, in Maysville, Ky., her childhood home. Sep 27, 2014.
Who is George Clooney?
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This popular soap premiered in 1968, centering on the lives of the citizens of the fictional town of Llanview, PA. Concentrating on the wealthy Lord family, and the middle-class Woleks and Rileys, the show was one of the first daytime dramas to depict people from all sorts of backgrounds. (1968-2013)
What is "One Life to Live?"
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Newspaper with the largest circulation in the U.S.
What is the Wall Street Journal?
400
A leading door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales company.
What is Kirby? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/221872719115555866/
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Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 26,300 sq mi, the Aral Sea has been shrinking since at least 1850, although with some interruptions, due to this natural phenomenon.
What is evaporation? Shrinking has accelerated since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.
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A leading man who later married his leading lady from Orson Welles' The Long, Hot Summer (1958).
Who is Paul Newman? He was married to Jackie Witte when the film was shot. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paul-newman-and-joanne-woodward-marry
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The trials and tribulations of two feuding families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, both oil rich families in Denver, Colorado. (1981-1989)
What is Dynasty?
500
There are precious few times in this comic strip's history that real people are mentioned, yet Watterson was able to make meaningful points about topics as varied as philosophy, culture, and growing up. The 3,000-strip journey of a boy and his stuffed tiger stands not only as a tremendous comic strip, but as a tremendous piece of art. (1985-1995)
What is Calvin and Hobbes?
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This in-home cosmetic company was the sixth largest multi-level marketing company in the world in 2015, with a wholesale volume of US$3.7 billion.
What is Mary Kay?
500
Alessandro Volta (1745-1825), James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Thomas Edison (1847-1931) and Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)
Who are pioneers in the field of electricity?