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15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of 5 Choices, with 3 Clues:

1. Following "Wooly Bully", this single was Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs' biggest U.S. hit:____________________.
[Choices: Ahab the Arab, Li'l Red Riding Hood, Beep Beep, Alley Oop, Tie Me Kangaroo Down ]

2. Barry Goldwater was defeated by __________________in the 1964 Presidential election.
[Choices: John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter ]

3. Eddie Hilgemeir's 1958 charge of answer feeding on this TV show led to a quiz show investigation:_________________.
[Choices: The $64,000 Question, You Bet Your Life, Dotto, Concentration, Beat the Clock ]

4. "Radical Chic" is a term coined by this writer:___________________.
[Choices: Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson, Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Tom Wolfe ]

5. Angela Lansbury received an Oscar nomination in the 1960's for this film:________________________.
[Choices: All Fall Down, Torn Curtain, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Manchurian Candidate, The Long Hot Summer]

6. A number of schools banned this social commentator's 1974 oral history "Working":____________________
[Choices: M. Scott Peck, Studs Terkel, Joseph Lash, Vance Packard, Noam Chomsky ]

7. What did Jan and Dean's "little old lady from Pasadena" grow in her flower garden?___________________
[Choices: Yellow daffodils, Pink carnations, Blue violets, Red roses, White gardenias ]

8. What best describes the hacky sack that became a big fad in the late 1970's?___________________
[Choices: Leather beanbag, Squishy nerf, Contoured pillow, Painted rock, Foam lunch bag ]

9. Maude Frickert was a character portrayed by what 1960's comedian?_____________________
[Choices: Red Skelton, Tim Conway, Flip Wilson, Jonathan Winters, Jackie Gleason ]

10. In 1974, this West German Chancellor resigned from office due to a spy scandal:____________________.
[Choices: Willy Brandt, Egon Krenz, Erich Honecker, David Hasselhoff, Helmut Kohl ]

11. Dustin Hoffman and _______________ sleep together then get acquainted in the 1969 film "John and Mary".
[Choices: Barbra Streisand, Katharine Ross, Natalie Wood, Mia Farrow, Goldie Hawn ]

12. In 1950, Jim Konstanty made headlines in the sport of:___________________.
[Choices: Golf, Tennis, Horse racing, Baseball, Hockey ]

13. The Frank Loesser song "A Bushel and a Peck" was introduced in this 1950 musical:_________________.
[Choices: The Pajama Game, The Phantom of the Opera, The King and I, Hair, Guys and Dolls ]

14. Which World War II leader once served as President of the U.S. Olympic Committee?____________________
[Choices: Chester Nimitz, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Omar Bradley ]

15. Which R&B singer had a hit with "It's Just a Matter of Time"?____________________
[Choices: Martha Reeves, Etta James, Ray Charles, Louis Jordan, Brook Benton ]





Answers:

1. Li'l Red Riding Hood [Andrew F (DR LUV, KAY) called this one at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNEYfIUDkh8 ]

2. Lyndon Johnson [I (REACH) pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Unit ... l_election ]

3. Dotto [We missed most of the Points on this one, as neither The $64,000 Question nor Twenty-One involved Eddie Hilgemeir; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_quiz_show_scandals , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotto and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One . Twenty-One featured Charles Van Doren, the son of a prominent Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and academic, who was given the answers ahead of time and acted to increase the drama. This became the basis for the 1994 movie "Quiz Show". The success of "Jeopardy!" shows that playing the game honestly is still popular and interesting, something that the Borg sites at ntn Trivia cannot possibly understand. ]

4. Tom Wolfe [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_chic ]

5. The Manchurian Candidate [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manch ... (1962_film) . We noted that Angela Lansbury was born in 1925, so she was around 37 years old when she played the mother of Lawrence Harvey who was around 34 at the time. Lansbury went on to fame in a TV show featuring a small Maine town with the very high murder rate of 1 a week.]

6. Studs Terkel [I pre-called this one; See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working:_ ... at_They_Do . I cannot see why this book would be banned, as it features normal working people who have a certain dignity and pride even if they are not part of the intellectual elite.]

7. White gardenias [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7f9hsFrKUY ]

8. Leather beanbag [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_sack ]

9. Jonathan Winters [I pre-called this one; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU2Jt9zjU-4 ]

10. Willy Brandt [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Brandt ]

11. Mia Farrow [I guessed this one for 935 Points; Dave (YELDOR, TULADI) got 827 & 793 Points; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Mary_(film) ]

12. Baseball [Dave (YELDOR, TULADI) and DR LUV got 1000 Points each on 3 tablets; I guessed wrong & got only 171. Perhaps Phil (BSLXPN) would have known this from his knowledge of baseball.]

13. Guys and Dolls [I pre-called this one; for Doris Day's version, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkVEQz8AsEw ]

14. Douglas MacArthur [I wrongly pre-called "Patton" because he placed 5th at the 1912 Summer Olympics in the modern pentathlon, and he might have taken the job after WWI; see the section "Early life" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_pentathlon (which combined fencing, 300 m freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and 4 km cross-country running). MacArthur's story is equally interesting: see the section "Army's youngest major general" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur and http://time.com/4366305/douglas-macarth ... -olympics/ .]

15. Brook Benton [I pre-called this one; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRTXFADdy30 for a video, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVpaXi5kuXA for audio with better sound quality.]

The link for the answer to Q12 is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Konstanty .

In the answer to Q3, the link for the quiz show Twenty-One should have read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-One_(game_show) .