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

1. "Old Hippie" and "Kids of the Baby Boom" are 1980's country music standards by the:_______________________.
[Choices: Oak Ridge Boys, Four Tops, Bellamy Brothers, Statler Brothers, Gatlin Brothers ]

2. Who turned down a pro basketball career in 1964 to attend Oxford?____________________________
[Choices: Joe Biden, Trent Lott, Bill Bradley, John McCain, Ted Kennedy ]

3. In "The Sand Pebbles", Steve McQueen plays an American engineer in China who falls for a:_______________________.
[Choices: Red Cross nurse, Russian spy, Vacuum cleaner saleslady, Missionary teacher, Chinese journalist ]

4. The Church allowed Roman Catholics to eat meat on Friday for the first time in:_________________.
[Choices: 1970, 1982, 1949, 1955, 1966 ]

5. In the late 1960's TV show "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", Bill Bixby played:________________________.
[Choices: Norman Tinker, Tom Corbett, Jerry Farmer, Tim Livingston, Jim Harris ]

6. When Eisenhower imposed economic sanctions against Cuba, what did Fidel Castro do?____________________________
[Choices: Asked the Pope to help, Went marlin fishing, Bombed Florida, Seized American property, Put Americans in jail ]

7. "Walk Like a Man" was a #1 hit in 1963 for The Four:___________________.
[Choices: Seasons, Lads, Preps, Tops, Aces ]

8. It was the first to offer jet service between New York and California in 1959:_________________________.
[Choices: Amtrak, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Trans-Texas Airlines, Coast-to-coast Airways ]

9. Which director-actor played "M" in the 1966 James Bond spoof "Casino Royale"?_______________________
[Choices: John Huston, Sydney Pollack, Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles ]

10. Which world leader died in 1975?____________________________
[Choices: Josef Stalin, Marshal Tito, Chiang Kai-shek, Juan Peron, Francisco Franco ]

11. This TV lieutenant spent four years pursuing Dr. Richard Kimble on "The Fugitive":_______________________.
[Choices: Philip Gerard, Max Greevey, Adam Greer, Bill Gannon, Ben Romero ]

12. This newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for publishing the Pentagon Papers in 1972:__________________________.
[Choices: Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post ]

13. Tom Jones sang the title tune of this movie:_____________________________.
[Choices: To Sir, With Love; Alfie; All That Jazz; New York, New York; What's New, Pussycat? ]

14. During the late 1960's, the intersection of Haight and Ashbury was the location for a:____________________________.
[Choices: Terrorist attack, Lobster Sit-in, Large hippie center, Famous assassination, Democratic convention ]

15. Who played Ginger on the 1960's sitcom "Gilligan's Island"?________________________
[Choices: Donna Reed, Mary Tyler Moore, Tina Louise, Hope Lange, Barbara Feldon ]






Answers:

1. Bellamy Brothers [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzdvQOXxRD4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5Lvr37bew ]

2. Bill Bradley [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bradley ]

3. Missionary teacher [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sand_Pebbles_(film) ]

4. 1966 [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_a ... lic_Church ]

5. Tom Corbett [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Court ... e's_Father ]

6. Seized US property [see the section "History, Eisenhower era" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... ainst_Cuba ]

7. Seasons [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzoIvwNqKpw ]

8. American Airlines [see https://thisdayintechhistory.com/01/25/ ... et-flight/ . The key word was "jet" in this Question; for other aviation firsts, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_flight ]

9. John Huston [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(1967_film) ]

10. Francisco Franco [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco ]

11. Philip Gerard [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugitive_(TV_series) ]

12. New York Times [see https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/02/arch ... -wins.html ]

13. What's New, Pussycat? [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_New_Pussycat? and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-ur_x-1Hg ]

14. Large hippie center [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight-Ashbury ]

15. Tina Louise [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Louise ]

The second link in the answer to Q13 should have read https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB-ur_x-1Hg