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

1. In 1970, this group had their first hit with "Come and Get It":_________________________.
[Choices: Golden Earring, Deep Purple, America, CCR, Badfinger ]

2. Orval Faubus, Governor of _________________________, tried to keep nine black students from entering Central High.
[Choices: Arkansas, Maine, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama ]

3. Two musicians are on the lam after witnessing the Valentine's Day Massacre in this 1959 movie:_________________________.
[Choices: The Five Pennies, Some Like It Hot, A Hole in the Head, Room at the Top, Pillow Talk ]

4. The U.S. boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow in opposition to the Soviet invasion of:______________________.
[Choices: Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Hungary, Bermuda, Pakistan ]

5. "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" was a 1985 album by this solo artist:_________________________.
[Choices: Patti Smith, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Sting, Jerry Garcia ]

6. In 1977, blue jean sales in the U.S. went over the _________ million mark.
[Choices: 800, 999, 200, 500, 100 ]

7. This 1960's TV show exclusively featured top names in pop music:_________________________.
[Choices: Shindig, Twenty-One, Toast of the Town, Your Show of Shows, Playhouse 90 ]

8. When Pope Paul VI died in 1978, he was shortly followed by John Paul I of this country:_____________________.
[Choices: Poland, Jamaica, Spain, Italy, Hungary ]

9. These were all hit songs in 1959 except:____________________________.
[Choices: Venus, Mack the Knife, There Goes My Baby, I Got You Babe, Sixteen Candles ]

10. The U.S.S. Pueblo was seized by ____________________ patrol boats in January 1967.
[Choices: Saudi Arabian, Kenyan, North Korean, Soviet, Iraqi ]

11. Clint Eastwood starred in and directed all of these films except:__________________________.
[Choices: The Outlaw Josie Wales, Pale Rider, Unforgiven, A Fistful of Dollars, High Plains Drifter ]

12. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that aliens could be deported if they were:_________________________.
[Choices: In the Communist Party, Democrats, From Russia, Felons, Spies ]

13. In 1964, Peter Noone had his first hit single with this group:________________________.
[Choices: Herman's Hermits, The McCoys, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Righteous Brothers, The Monkees ]

14. The character of Jonathan E. is a popular athlete in this 1975 Norman Jewison film:_______________________.
[Choices: Taxi Driver, Death Race 2000, Marathon Man, Rollerball, Tommy ]

15. What was the name of the butler on TV's "The Nanny"?________________________
[Choices: Brighton, Niles, Benson, Peter, Maxwell ]






Answers:

1. Badfinger [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_ ... inger_song) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOnbeNAxdU ]

2. Arkansas [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Faubus ]

3. Some Like It Hot [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hot ]

4. Afghanistan [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summ ... cs_boycott ]

5. Sting [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream ... ue_Turtles ]

6. 500 [see http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Blue-Jeans.html ]

7. Shindig [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shindig! ]

8. Italy [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I ]

9. I Got You, Babe [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BERd61bDY7k from 1965 ]

10. North Korean [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2) ]

11. A Fistful of Dollars [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars (directed by Sergio Leone ) ]

12. In the Communist Party [This Question seems to have conflated two separate issues; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist ... ct_of_1954 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor ]

13. Herman's Hermits [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman's_Hermits ]

14. Rollerball [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film) ]

15. Niles [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nanny ]