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GLORY DAZE Game Questions & Answers, Tue. May 28, 2019
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Author:  REACH [ Thu May 30, 2019 8:49 pm ]
Post subject:  GLORY DAZE Game Questions & Answers, Tue. May 28, 2019
15 Questions, 1000 Points each, Points decrease rapidly from 4 to 20 seconds after appearance of Question & 5 Choices, and with 3 Clues:

1. Steve McQueen played this main character on "Wanted: Dead or Alive":____________________
[Choices: Matthew Rockford, Lucas McCain, Rowdy Yates, Dan Troop, Josh Randall ]

2. Nationalism soared when Sultan Sidi Muhammad II returned to ________________ in late 1955.
[Choices: Huber Heights, Angola, Morocco, Zaire, Ghana ]

3. This band's first hit was the 1965 single "Go Now":_____________________.
[Choices: The Yardbirds, The Merseybeats, The Moody Blues, Dave Clark Five, Pearl Jam ]

4. In 1954, William Golding published this famous tale of morality:_________________________.
[Choices: Lord of the Flies, Watership Down, Black Boy, Waiting for Godot, Lolita ]

5. Which 1970's movie character has a notorious fear of water?______________________
[Choices: Randle McMurphy, Chief Brody, Popeye Doyle, Rocky Balboa, Dirty Harry ]

6. U.S.-Canadian relations were strained in 1962 over the presence of U.S._______________________ in Canada.
[Choices: Hippie communities, Army bases, Business firms, Nuclear missiles, Drug networks ]

7. What country singer's first hit was 1953's "Honky Tonk Girl"?_____________________
[Choices: Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Connie Francis, Patsy Cline, Dottie West ]

8. In 1972, this baseball star won his second National League Most Valuable Player Award:_____________________.
[Choices: Reggie Jackson, Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench, Mike Schmidt, Roger Maris ]

9. What TV show had three rotating stars tied together by fictional Howard Publications?___________________
[Choices: The Name of the Game, Petrocelli, Room 222, Family Affair, The Rockford Files ]

10. This astronaut was the only one to fly missions in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs:_____________________.
[Choices: Deke Slayton, Don Knotts, Buzz Aldrin, James McDivitt, Walter Schirra ]

11. Girls in poodleskirts swooned to the 1959 single "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" by:____________________.
[Choices: Andy Williams, Paul Anka, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Darin, Frankie Avalon ]

12. The Iran hostage crisis began in 1979 and lasted for ___________ days.
[Choices: 444, 333, 222, 111, 555 ]

13. A rooftop killer hijacks a schoolbus at the end of this 1971 cop thriller:____________________.
[Choices: Serpico, The French Connection, Dirty Harry, Die Hard, Bullitt ]

14. Who appeared topless on the cover of "People" in 1974?______________________
[Choices: Gerald Ford, Bo Derek, Tom Selleck, Joan Collins, Dr. Ruth ]

15. Which "Pleasing" song is credited to Bobby Vinton?_______________________
[Choices: Please Come to Boston, Please Please Me, Please Don't Leave Me, Please Mr. Postman, Please Love Me Forever ]






Answers:

1. Josh Randall [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_De ... (TV_series) ]

2. Morocco [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Morocco and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_V_of_Morocco ]

3. Moody Blues [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYo0ZRpOgo ]

4. Lord of the Flies [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies . A shout-out to the great BLZBUB in Albuquerque NM; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub ]

5. Chief Brody [see https://www.shmoop.com/jaws/brody.html ]

6. Nuclear missiles [see the section "Foreign policy, Bilateral antipathy: the Kennedy administration" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Diefenbaker ]

7. Loretta Lynn [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lynn which says that "Honky Tonk Girl" was from 1960, not 1953 (the year Lynn got her guitar), and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgE-gwZDbb0 ]

8. Johnny Bench [I wrongly pre-called Joe Morgan, who was NL MVP in 1975 & 1976; Bench was NL MVP in 1970 & 1972. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bench and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Morgan ]

9. The Name of the Game [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_ ... (TV_series) ]

10. Walter Schirra [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra ]

11. Paul Anka [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvxagNIBVLU ]

12. 444 [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis ]

13. Dirty Harry [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry ]

14. Gerald Ford [Google "Gerald ford shirtless people magazine", and Click on image #1 which shows Gerald Ford in a swimming pool, on the cover of the April 1, 1974 issue. ]

15. Please Love Me Forever [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXCl3no_uSE ]
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