New Scaratings

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

1. According to "The Beverly Hillbillies" TV theme, Jed was "a poor mountaineer, barely:______________________"
[Choices: Kept his family fed, Had sense in his head, Remembered what he said, Had time to go to bed, Wore a shoe with tread ]

2. Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt planted a plaque signed by this President on the Moon:____________________.
[Choices: Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Abraham Lincoln ]

3. This musician designed the first solid-body electric guitar in 1941:__________________.
[Choices: Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Mose Allison, Les Paul, Phil Spector ]

4. Modesto Junior College set a 1959 record for this faddish activity:__________________.
[Choices: Pie throwing, Streaking, Panty raiding, Telephone booth cramming, Rope skipping ]

5. "The Sundowners", an acclaimed 1960 film, focuses on a family living in:____________________.
[Choices: Australia, Alaska, North Dakota, South Africa, Ireland ]

6. This term was given to the brief time in 1979 when political dissent was tolerated in China:____________________.
[Choices: Beijing Spring, Cultural Revolution, Long March, Great Leap Forward, Giant Flowering ]

7. Which star of rock 'n' roll released a gospel album in 1967 titled "How Great Thou Art"?____________________
[Choices: Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, Little Richard, David Bowie, Elvis Presley ]

8. What sport did 1960's superstars Roger Maris, Maury Wills and Denny McLain all play?___________________
[Choices: Baseball, Football, Hockey, Basketball, Cricket ]

9. Which TV Western centered around the Cannon family?_____________________
[Choices: Have Gun Will Travel, The Big Valley, Wild Wild West, The Rifleman, The High Chaparral ]

10. Which event did not happen in the 1960's?______________________
[Choices: Patty Hearst kidnapped, Beatles come to America, First Moon landing, Malcolm X assassinated, Cuban missile crisis ]

11. Which female country artist went "Crazy" on a 1961 recording?___________________
[Choices: Loretta Lynn, Jeannie Riley, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells ]

12. In 1964, designer Giorgio Sant' Angelo hit it big with a collection made with:___________________.
[Choices: Lycra, Polyester, Black leather, Paper, Rubber ]

13. All of these "American Graffiti" performers were in "More American Graffiti" except:__________________________.
[Choices: Charles Martin Smith, Ron Howard, Candy Clark, Cindy Williams, Richard Dreyfuss ]

14. "Every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence" was a claim in this 1969 book:_____________________.
[Choices: The Dilbert Rule, The Peter Principle, Catch-22, Murphy's Law, Adler's Adage ]

15. In 1973, Gladys Knight and the Pips sang about taking the "Midnight Train to _________________".
[Choices: Manitoba, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee ]






Answers:

1. Kept his family fed [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwzaxUF0k18 ]

2. Richard Nixon [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon ]

3. Les Paul [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul and for the 4x4 piece of pine lumber at the center of the guitar body, see http://www.epiphone.com/News/Features/2 ... World.aspx ]

4. Telephone booth cramming [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonebooth_stuffing and for a photo, see https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/phon ... -stuffing/ ]

5. Australia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sundowners_(1960_film) ]

6. Beijing Spring [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Spring ]

7. Elvis Presley [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Great ... sley_album) ]

8. Baseball [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Maris , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Wills and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_McLain ]

9. The High Chaparral [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Chaparral ]

10. Patty Hearst kidnapped [for the 1974 kidnapping, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst ]

11. Patsy Cline [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbnrdCS57d0 ]

12. Lycra [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_di_Sant'_Angelo and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Courreges ]

13. Richard Dreyfuss [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_American_Graffiti ]

14. Peter Principle [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle ]

15. Georgia [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdfZnWsps34 ]