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This was the worst economic downturn in U.S. history.
Answer: What is the Great Depression? It started in 1929 with the stock market crash and bank runs and lasted an entire decade. It was marked by 25 percent unemployment, soup kitchens, and shantytowns known as Hoovervilles.
This term of endearment is another name for father.
Answer: What is dad? We will also accept pop.
The bill that created the U.S. interstate highway system was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in this year.
Answer: What is 1956? The proper name of the interstate is the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. One purpose of the highway system was to be able to quickly evacuate target areas in case of nuclear attack
Historically, this soda’s main ingredient was sassafras.
Answer: What is root beer? It gained popularity during Prohibition and remained a popular mid-century soda. Today’s commercial root beers are flavored with artificial sassafras flavoring or sassafras extract.
This timeless film stars Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly and George Peppard as Paul Varjak in a cat-and-mouse romance.
Answer: What is Breakfast at Tiffany’s? Hepburn earned $750,000 for the film, making her the highest-paid actress for a movie at the time.
The Betsy Ross flag has the stars assembled in this geometric shape
Answer: What is a circle? It features 13 stars arranged in a circle in the corner of the flag where the 50 stars now reside.
Weather stations use this to detect weather patterns; one example is the Doppler.
Answer: What is radar? Weather radars send out radio waves that hit rain, snow, and ice and bounce back to the radar station
This New Year’s Day 1954 extravaganza was the first nationwide, color-television transmission in the United States.
Answer: What is the Tournament of Roses Parade? The parade is held in Pasadena, California
We grew up on this snack, packaged in small boxes featuring circus characters
Answer: What are animal crackers? Fun fact: In Nabisco’s Barnum’s Animal Crackers, the monkey is the only animal cracker that is wearing clothes
Free-spirited Corie (Jane Fonda) and stuffed-shirt Paul (Robert Redford) are newlyweds in this 1967 film.
Answer: What is Barefoot in the Park? After a glorious honeymoon at the famed Plaza Hotel, they navigate the reality of New York City life in a tiny fifth-floor walk-up apartment with an array of eccentric neighbors.
This is the highest Federal Reserve Note (dollar) in circulation.
What is $100? The last $500 note was printed in 1945. The last $2 note was printed in 2017, and approximately 1.7 billion remain in circulation.
This French word meaning “she” is also the name of a lifestyle magazine.
Answer: What is elle? Elle is a pronoun that also can mean “her” and “it,” depending on the noun it is replacing.
This music player uses bouncing laser light to read the music.
Answer: What is a CD? DVD players use the same technology to read the contents of DVDs.
She is known for her marvelous talent and as
Liza Minelli’s mother.
Answer: Who is Judy Garland? Garland will forever be remembered for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, a blast from the past that is a perennial must-watch movie.
This romantic thriller starring Audrey Hepburn as Regina Lampert and Cary Grant as Peter Joshua is set in Paris and adds a who-dunnit aspect with an astounding twist ending.
Answer: What is Charade? The opening scene finds Regina vacationing in the French Alps, shortly before returning to the apartment in Paris she shares with her husband. Only, the apartment has been emptied of all its belongings—including her husband.
If you need a little breathing room, maybe this least populous state is the place for you.
Answer: What is Wyoming? Around 600,000 people call Wyoming home. Most states have cities with at least that many residents.
You have this palindrome if you have more than one of these long, detailed, written or filmed accounts of heroic deeds.
Answer: What are sagas? The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and The Chronicles of Narnia are famous sagas.
In 1957, the Soviets launched this first artificial Earth satellite.
Answer: What is Sputnik 1? The Soviets were winning the space race until America put a man on the moon. Some call it a comeback rather than a win
He recorded the 1966 hit “Strangers in the Night.”
Answer: Who is Frank Sinatra? When the song reached No. 1 on the charts, it knocked the Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” from its lofty position
Doris Day and James Garner play Beverly and Dr. Gerald Boyer in this wacky rom-com about a married couple whose life is turned upside down when she becomes a spokesperson for a soap company.
Answer: What is The Thrill of It All? Chaos almost rips their marriage apart until an unlikely intervention occurs.
Abe Lincoln was born in this state.
Answer: What is Kentucky? Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was also born in Kentucky.
You have this palindrome if you did this, which means “gave glory to or treated someone as a god.”
Answer: What is deified? Roman emperors like Julius Caesar and Augustus were deified as a political and social tool for unity.
The United States launched its first satellite in this decade.
Answer: What are the 1950s? Explorer I was launched in 1958. It was designed by James Van Allen, for whom the Van Allen radiation belt is named
This company popularized the disposable diaper on a mass scale, especially in the United States.
Answer: What is Pampers (Proctor & Gamble)? One early brand of disposable diapers came from England in the 1930s. Called “Destroyable Babies Napkins,” they were used in hospitals but never marketed to the general public.
Rock Hudson and Doris Day star as Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton in this 1961 film about two rival advertising executives.
Answer: What is Lover Come Back? It’s no secret that advertising can be a dirty business, but sometimes the dirty tricks backfire, and that’s the core hilarity of this rom-com.