New Scaratings

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

1. Steely Dan scored its very first hit single in 1973 with this tune:____________________.
[Choices: Do It Again, Deacon Blues, Peg, Kid Charlemagne, Born to be Wild ]

2. A 1980 book titled "The Official _______________ Handbook" was tied to a popular fashion look.
[Choices: Preppy, Leisure suit, Mod, Annie Hall, Unisex ]

3. Which 1960's cartoon series was set on Transylvania's Horror Hill?______________________
[Choices: Frankenstein Junior, The Groovie Goolies, The Funky Phantom, Milton the Monster, New Casper Cartoon Show ]

4. Which of these was *not* part of Communist Yugoslavia prior to Tito's 1980 death?__________________
[Choices: Montenegro, Turkmenistan, Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia ]

5. Which "Rock and Roll" song was a hit by Kay Starr in 1956?_________________
[Choices: Rock and Roll Music, I Love Rock and Roll, Rock and Roll Waltz, Heart of Rock & Roll, That's Rock and Roll ]

6. This magazine, known for its Norman Rockwell drawings, suspended publication in 1969:__________________.
[Choices: Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Popular Mechanics, Saturday Evening Post, LIFE ]

7. Ann Lake may or may not really have a daughter in the 1965 film "Bunny Lake is _______________".
[Choices: Not at Home, Dead, Missing, My Daughter, Real ]

8. Which leader narrowly escaped an assassination attempt while driving on a country road in 1961?___________________
[Choices: Dwight Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle, Willy Brandt ]

9. In "Brown Eyed Girl", Van Morrison reminisces about "Making love in the green grass _______________".
[Choices: Behind the stadium, On a golf course, On a farm, In the park, In a meadow ]

10. The U.S. Congress renamed this holiday "Veterans Day" in 1954:_____________________.
[Choices: Brotherhood Day, Goodwill Day, Truce Day, Armistice Day, Peace Day ]

11. What TV icon is on the sub as Lt. Connors in the 1961 film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"?__________________
[Choices: Joan Collins, Barbara Eden, Elizabeth Montgomery, Tina Louise, Susan Lucci ]

12. In 1960, this caused Nikita Khrushchev to cancel a summit meeting with Dwight Eisenhower:__________________.
[Choices: Afghanistan policy, Atomic bomb test, Cuban blockade, Bad poker beat, U2 spy plane ]

13. Howard Beale was a famous character in this 1976 movie:___________________.
[Choices: Rocky, Planet of the Apes, Mrs. Robinson, Network, Chinatown ]

14. Which company in 1957 introduced the first portable electric typewriter?_____________________
[Choices: Olivetti-Underwood, Wells Fargo, Smith Corona, Texaco, Brother ]

15. Sonny Bono wrote this 1964 hit song by The Searchers:______________________.
[Choices: Wooly Bully, Dancing in the Street, Come See about Me, House of the Rising Sun, Needles and Pins ]





Answers:

1. Do It Again [Patrick (MRRED, BLADOR) at Buster's Bar, Ottawa ON called this one; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlrOVZGTed4 ]

2. Preppy [Myfanwy (SPRAJO, GIJOE) called this first; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Offic ... y_Handbook ]

3. Milton the Monster [Dave (YELDOR, TULADI) got 1000 Points on each of 2 tablets, but the rest of us struck out; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_the_Monster ]

4. Turkmenistan [I called this first; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan ]

5. Rock and Roll Waltz [I (REACH, LESTER) pre-called this one; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=objCTSi_WMc ]

6. Saturday Evening Post [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell ]

7. Missing [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Lake_is_Missing ]

8. De Gaulle [I got 1000 Points as REACH, 996 as LESTER, but others missed this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bastien-Thiry (the article says it was in 1962, not 1961). The 1973 film "The Day of the Jackal" was based on this incident.]

9. Behind the stadium [Chris (CEEZED, KAYZED) got 1000 Points on each of 2 tablets, but the others struck out; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfmkgQRmmeE ]

10. Armistice Day [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day ]

11. Barbara Eden [I called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to ... of_the_Sea or Google "Barbara eden voyage to the bottom of the sea" for photos. ]

12. U2 spy plane [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident (May 1, 1960). I was in Grade 11 at the time, and could not believe that the President would lie, when he said "No, we don't fly spy planes over Russia", or words to that effect. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identific ... end_or_foe (IFF) to understand "One of the Soviet MiG-19 fighters pursuing Powers was also destroyed in the missile salvo and the pilot, Sergei Safronov, was killed. The MiG's IFF transponders were not yet switched to the new May codes because of the 1 May holiday" D'oh!!! So scarily similar to the plot in "Dr. Strangelove", where the Soviet Premier was keeping the automatic Doomsday Machine a secret until he could make a surprise announcement the following week; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove ]

13. Network [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film) ]

14. Smith Corona [Chris (CEEZED, KAYZED) and REACH got 1000 Points each on a good guess; others not so much. See the section "Mid-century" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Corona ]

15. Needles and Pins [I pre-called this one; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needles_and_Pins_(song) . Jackie De Shannon perhaps should also have been given credit for writing this song; her version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbM_Zmx9kA was #1 on the CHUM Chart in 1963 (CHUM was Toronto's pop music station). In 1964, it was a hit for The Searchers; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rLqPtZUWJI .]

The link for the answer to Q1 should have read https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlrOVZGTcd4 .