Broadway Musicals
The 1940s
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Organizations
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100

Mary Martin played Maria in this 1959 Broadway musical: Julie Andrews plays this role in the 1965 film

What is The Sound of Music?

100

This landmark sculpture depicting four presidents was completed in 1941

What is Mount Rushmore?

100

In the 1950s, drive-in restaurant servers came to your car using this mode of transportation

What are roller skates?

100

This BBB protects the public from unfair business practices

What is the Better Business Bureau?

100

To "86" something is to do this

What is to kill or end it?

200

A high-spirited, "unsinkable" young woman is the protagonist in this 1960 musical.

What is The Unsinkable Molly Brown?

200

This prestigious global film festival was launched in 1946

What is the Cannes Film Festival?

200

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These winter veggies resemble fat, white carrots

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What are parsnips?

200

This group was founded by the National American Woman Suffrage Association

What is the League of Women Voters?

200

This number is associated with bad luck

What is 13?

400

This 1960 musical is named for the first three notes on the musical scale or solfege.

What is Do Re Mi?

400

This pen replaced the fountain pen in 1945

What is the ballpoint pen?

400

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?

400

The organization FDR founded in 1938 to fight infantile paralysis now goes by this "numisamatic" name

What is the March of Dimes?

400

This is the biblical number for wholeness or perfection

What is three?

600

The 1963 Broadway musical Here's Love was based on this film about Santa Claus, released in 1947

What is Miracle on 34th Street?

600

This president won an unprecedented fourth term in 1944

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

600

America's most fundamental criminal law concept dating to ancient Rome, presumes this until proven otherwise

What is innocence?

600

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This organization partners with individuals in need of a home who can afford to repay small mortgages

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What is Habitat for Humanity?

600

This was 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit for a long time but newer research indicates the number is falling

What is humans average temperature?

800

This 1971 Andrew Lloyd Webber production was a rock musical concept album before it was a hit Broadway musical

What is Jesus Christ Superstar?

800

Forrest Mars Sr. partnered with Bruce Murrie in 1941 to create these candies for the military

What are M&Ms?

800

This is the northern hemisphere's largest island

What is Greenland?

800

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?

800

This number symbolizes infinity or infinite wisdom

What is eight?