Literature
History
Food and Drink
Animation
To Kill A Mockingbird
100
I think I can, I think I can name this children's book written by Watty Piper in 1930.
What is The Little Engine That Could?
100
In 1930, Clyde W. Tombaugh "discovered" this planet... that is until it was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006.
What is Pluto?
100
Hostess introduced this snack cake in 1930m often said to never go bad and to be able to remain edible even after a nuclear incident.
What are twinkies?
100
Although not a bird or a plane, this superhero did premier in Action Comics in 1938.
Who is Superman?
100
This is the real-life person who inspired the character Scout.
Who is Harper Lee?
200
In 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien introduced us to Middle Earth with this, Mr. Humnicky's favorite, book about the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Thorin, and company.
Bonus: This is the other title that the story goes by.
What is The Hobbit?
Bonus: What is There and Back Again?
200
This aviator... NOT aviatress!... disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
200
What is mac and cheese?
200
In 1939, Detective Comics featured this caped crusader.
Who is The Bat-Man?
200
This is the real-life person said to have inspired the character Dill.
Who is Truman Capote?
300
In 1937, John Steinbeck released this novella about George and Lennie, two farmhands with a best laid plan to save for a farm of their own.
What is Of Mice and Men?
300
Although he began his career on the Boston Red Sox, this "Sultan of Swat" is remembered for his time with the New York Yankees and hitting 714 home runs.
Who was Babe Ruth?
300
In 1936 Nestle became the first chocolate company to introduce this questionably chocolate confection.
What is white chocolate?
300
This was the first animated film to be released by Walt Disney in 1937.
What was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
300
These are the group of Black boys who were wrongfully convicted and served as inspiration for the character Tom Robinson.
Who are the Scottsboro Boys?
400
Although Agatha Christie invented the character in the 1920s, in 1934 the Belgium private detective Hercule Poirot returns in this novel to solve a murder mystery while traveling from Istanbul to London.
What is Murder on the Orient Express?
400
This man won four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany... he made the world question why the Nazis seemed to believe their race superior if he could beat them.
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
In 1938, Ruth Jones Graves Wakefield invented this cookie at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts.
What is chocolate chip?
400
This creepy and kooky family began their lives as a reoccurring comic strip in The New Yorker in 1938... snap! snap!
Who are the Addams Family?
400
During the trial, Scout notices that the Black townsfolk are drinking Nehi instead of this soft drink that refused to market to Black people.
What is Coca-Cola?
500
Aldous Huxley wrote this novel largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by the story's protagonist.
What is Brave New World?
500
This is the rigid airship that could fly across the Atlantic Ocean in under two days, a trip that normally took boats a week... tragically, the hydrogen that provided its lift combusted in New Jersey leading to 36 deaths and a public distrust for this type of aircraft
What is the Hindenburg?
500
In 1930, Clarence Birdseye revolutionized the food industry by introducing this packaging option.
What id frozen foods?
500
Debuting in a Betty Boop cartoon in 1933, Popeye the Sailor is "strong to the 'finch',/ 'cause [he] eats" this.
What is spinach?
500
This is the 32nd President of the United States of America who Scout alludes to being in office during the events of the book.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?