From Page to Screen
This Harper Lee novel about a lawyer defending an innocent man in the segregated South was turned into a 1962 movie.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
In the 1940s, Coca-Cola was sold for this fixed price per bottle for decades.
What is 5 cents?
This California national park is home to El Capitan, a famous granite monolith.
What is Yosemite National Park?
This treaty, signed in 1919, officially ended World War I but laid the groundwork for World War II.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This cereal brand featured the tagline “They’re grrreat!” with a tiger mascot.
What is Frosted Flakes?
This 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison was turned into a haunting film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998.
What is Beloved?
When Disneyland first opened in 1955, the price of admission was this low.
What is $1?
This U.S. fort in Charleston Harbor is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
On November 9, 1989, this symbol of the Cold War came tumbling down.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This slogan, “You’re in good hands,” has been used by this insurance company since 1950.
What is Allstate?
This sprawling 1985 novel by Larry McMurtry about retired Texas Rangers was adapted into an Emmy-winning TV miniseries in 1989.
What is Lonesome Dove?
The average price of a gallon of gas in 1965 was this low.
What is 31 cents?
This tallest peak in North America, located in Alaska, was officially renamed from Mount McKinley in 2015.
What is Denali?
In 1979, this nuclear accident in Pennsylvania became the worst in U.S. history.
What is Three Mile Island?
This candy bar, introduced in 1930, was named after the Mars family’s favorite horse.
What is Snickers?
This 1937 Steinbeck novella about two displaced ranch workers became a critically acclaimed 1992 film starring Gary Sinise and John Malkovich.
What is Of Mice and Men?
In the 1930s, this common breakfast item cost around 12 cents per dozen.
What are eggs?
This Chicago skyscraper, completed in 1973, was once the tallest building in the world and remains an iconic part of the city's skyline.
What is the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower)?
In 1971, this amendment to the U.S. Constitution lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This iconic razor brand’s slogan, “Look sharp, feel sharp,” became famous through its baseball sponsorships in the 1950s.
What is Gillette?
This children’s fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis, featuring the Pevensie siblings, was adapted into a film in 2005.
What is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
In 1938, this household appliance that revolutionized home cleaning cost around $47.
What is a vacuum cleaner?
Located in South Dakota, this monument's construction began in 1948 with the intention to honor this Native American leader but remains unfinished to this day.
This 1876 battle in Montana saw the defeat of General Custer and his men at the hands of Native American forces.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn (or Custer’s Last Stand)?
This cleaning product, with a bald, earring-wearing mascot, has been a household staple since its debut in 1958.
What is Mr. Clean?