BACK IN THE DAY
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
JUST FOR FUN
Movies & TV
100

What was the most popular form of home music before CDs?

Records (or vinyl)

100

What is the only U.S. state that borders exactly one other state?

Maine

100

What has hands but cannot clap?

A clock

100

What black-and-white TV show featured the character Sheriff Andy Taylor?

The Andy Griffith Show

200

What decade did color TV become common?

1960s

200

What element has the chemical symbol “Fe”?

Iron

200

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

The letter "M"

200

Who starred in Casablanca as Rick Blaine?

Humphrey Bogart

300

What was used before GPS to navigate while driving?

Maps

300

What instrument measures air pressure?

Barometer

300

What has a neck but no head, and two arms but no hands?

A shirt

300

What TV show was set on a rural farm and starred Eddie Albert?

Green Acres

400

What appliance replaced iceboxes?

Refrigerators 

400

What country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?

France

400

What weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

They weigh the same

400

What 1975 movie is famous for the line “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”?

Jaws

500

What did people use to look up phone numbers before the internet?

The phone book

500

What is the longest river in the United States?

The Missouri River

500

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

Footsteps

500

Who played Archie Bunker on All in the Family?

Carroll O’Connor