One Sentence Summary of TV of the 60s
Be careful what you wish for, she just might come true.
What is I Dream of Jeannie?
This object is hit in badminton.
What is a shuttlecock?
This 1964 book features a nanny who flies with an umbrella and makes medicine taste like cherries.
What is Mary Poppins?
This famous Seventies producer wrote the tell all book, You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again.
Who is Julia Phillips?
This was the name of the Pilgrims' ship.
What is the Mayflower?
According to the song, when Peter Cottontail comes hoppin’ down the bunny trail, hippity-hoppity, this springtime holiday is on its way.
What is Easter?
This group is known for the 1964 Motown hit My Girl.
Who are the Temptations?
Dolly was born in this state on January 19, 1946.
What is Tennessee?
Even monsters can be affectionate.
What is The Addams Family?"
This is how many rings are on the Olympic flag.
What is five?
This global phenomenon by Khaled Hosseini follows two boys, Amir and Hassan, in war-torn Afghanistan.
What is The Kite Runner?
This star of Harold and Maude didn't know how to drive a car.
Who is Ruth Gordon?
This historic documents begins with the words "We the People."
What is The U.S. Constitution?
This informal term for a rabbit is used for a gentle ski slope suitable for beginners.
What is a bunny (hill)?
This singer earned the nickname the "Queen of Motown?"
Who is Diana Ross?
This is the number of Grammy Awards Dolly won in her lifetime.
What is 11?
She also had a total of 55 Grammy Award Nominations
A fictional band becomes fact.
What is The Monkees?
This winter sport uses a broom to sweep ice in front of a sliding stone.
What is curling?
This dystopian novel imagines a future where books are burned to suppress knowledge.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
This is what H.G. Wells just invented at the beginning of the film Time After Time.
What is a time machine?
This is how many amendments make up the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
Gala, Fuji, Honeycrisp, and McIntosh are all popular varieties of this.
What are apples?
They wrote many of Motown's hits during the 60s.
Who are Holland-Dozier-Holland?
This is the name of Dolly's literacy program, which mails one book per month to each enrolled child from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten.
What is Dolly Parton's Imagination Library?
Being shipwrecked is bad - especially with people you don't like.
What is Gilligan's Island?
This country is considered the birthplace of modern skiing.
What is Norway?
Sparked by the Industrial Revolution, this Victorian novelist portrayed child labor and urban poverty with vivid realism.
Who is Charles Dickens?
This industry drives the plot of the 1975 film Nashville.
What is the music industry?
He served as commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
May the Fourth be with you” is the official tagline of the galaxy-wide holiday celebrated the first week of May in honor of this sci-fi franchise.
What is Stat Wars?
He was the youngest member of the Jackson 5 original lineup in the 60s.
Who is Michael?
In 1967, Dolly was invited to be a part of this televsion program.
What is the Porter Wagoner Show?
Be prepared to be creeped with this grab bag.
What is The Twilight Zone?
This winter sport features the “Axel” jump.
What is figure skating?
This philosopher tutored Alexander the Great and founded the Lyceum.
Who is Aristotle?
This war was at the center of the plot in the film The Deer Hunter.
What is the Vietnam War?
This crop became the economic foundation of the Virginia colony.
What is tobacco?
To better fit in with the city's natural Southwestern colors, this fast-food chain uses turquoise in place of its traditional "golden arches" yellow in Sedona, Arizona.
What is McDonald's?
This song was Mary Wells' biggest hit.
What is My Guy?
This was the name of Dolly's longtime husband. who sadly passed away last year.
What is Carl Dean?
They were married for 59 years!
A modern Robin Hood who shoots a gun and drives a Volvo.
What is The Saint?
This sports movie tells the true story of a high school basketball team from Indiana.
What is Hoosiers?
This author famously described the blank page as “the white bull that stares you down."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
He directed the 1979 film Manhattan.
Who is Woody Allen?
This person was the first European to land in North America.
Who is Leif Erickson?
This two-word activity, often associated with Catholicism, can also refer to a desperate, last minute American football pass that attempts to save the game. Both instances involve invoking the name of Jesus’ mother.
What is a Hail Mary?
This singer's harmonica and piano skills can be heard on the 1962 song Fingertips.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
Dolly composed this song, which was made famous by Whitney Houston in her role in the movie The Bodyguard.
What is I Will Always Love You?
His wife is a witch - no, seriously, she's a witch.
What is Bewitched?
Which sport uses a bow and arrows to hit targets?
What is archery?
This work by John Milton inspired Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.
What is Paradise Lost?
This actor from the film Patton famously refused to accept his Academy Award for the role.
Who is George C. Scott?
This was the first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
Established in 1607.
By letter count, “May” is the shortest month of the year. Coming in at a record nine letters, this is the longest month of the year.
What is September?
This group recorded Stop! In the Name of Love.
Who are The Supremes?
This is how many songs Dolly composed in her lifetime.
What is 3,000 (or more)?
Why would a rag and bone man's son want to better himself?
What is Steptoe and Son?
This country hosted the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924.
What is France?
This 19th-century novelist used the pen name Currer Bell to disguise her gender?
Who is Charlotte Bronte?
This is the sort of boat that the main characters in the 1972 film Deliverance ride down a river
What is a canoe?
This is what historians call the period in the 1730s and 1740s when colonists began embracing secular rationalism over religion.
What is The Great Awakening?
The answer is under your desk: vandalism and littering led Singapore to ban the import and sale of this chewy confectionary in 1992.
What is gum?
Who are the Four Tops?
This is the name of Dolly's first feature film which was released in 1980 and she played a secretary. She also wrote a song of the same name.
What is 9 to 5?
This little boy is just a little boy, not an animal.
What is Leave it to Beaver?
This martial arts movie follows a teenager trained by Mr. Miyagi.
What is The Karate Kid?
This novel questioned British rule and cultural misunderstanding, set in colonial India as it began to shift toward independence.
What is A Passage to India by E.M. Forster?
This is the blues artist that Johnny Hooker is named after in The Sting.
Who is John Lee Hooker?
This is what colonists were protesting during the Boston Tea Party.
What is taxation without representation?
Specifically the Tea Act imposed by the British Parliament.
Relax, breathe, and tell me: a Japanese sect of Mahayana Buddhism shares this Z-word name with a state of calm attentiveness.
What is Zen?
This Temptations song contains this lyric: "You'll find a heart that you've always been looking for, how could anybody ask for much more..."
What is Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours by Stevie Wonder?
In November 2020, Dolly produced and starred in this Netflix musical film.
What is Christmas on the Square?
SUCH A GOOD MOVIE!!!! 10/10
Somehow this team always managed to complete their assignments.
What is Mission: Impossible?
He is known as the fastest man in the world after winning multiple Olympic gold medals.
Who is Usain Bolt?
This form of performance poetry gained popularity in 1980s Chicago clubs.
What is slam poetry?
Besides Diane Keaton, this other well-known actress appeared in the film Manhattan.
Who is Meryl Streep?
This was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848.
What is gold?
This sparked the California Gold Rush
You get a book! You get a book! You get a book! For 15 years, starting in 1996, this daytime talk show megastar’s book club recommended a total of 70 books leading to total sales of over 55 million copies.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This Motown artist left their respective group to pursue a solo career FIRST?
Who is Diana Ross?
This is where Dolly met her longtime husband.
What is outside a laundromat?