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 the Better Business Bureau?
This number is associated with bad luck.
What is 13?
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 the Cannes Film Festival?
These winter veggies resemble fat, white carrots.
What are parsnips?
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 three?
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 the 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?
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?
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?
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 Samaritan’s Purse?
This number symbolizes infinity or infinite wisdom.
What is eight?
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?
Forrest Mars Sr. partnered with Bruce Murrie in 1941 to create these candies for the military.
What are M&M’s?
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 the Nature Conservancy?
This biblical number is associated with trials or challenges.
What is 40?