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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. What was the name of the P.O.W. camp in which "Hogan's Heroes" was set?_________________________
[Choices: Lager 22, Dorfkamp 2, Stalag 17, Stalag 13, Gulag 15 ]

2. Who was shot down while flying over the Soviet Union in 1960?________________________
[Choices: Bob Geldorf, Bruno Hauptmann, Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, Francis Gary Powers ]

3. Angela Lansbury played Laurence Harvey's ____________________ in the 1962 film "The Manchurian Candidate".
[Choices: Daughter, Ex-wife, Mother, Sister, Girlfriend ]

4. What tennis star won three U.S. Open Men's Singles Titles in the 1970's?_________________________
[Choices: Bjorn Borg, Willie Stargell, Stefan Edberg, Jimmy Connors, Raymond Floyd ]

5. This famous battlefield was used as the title of a 1974 hit by ABBA:___________________________.
[Choices: Gettysburg, Waterloo, Gallipoli, Normandy, Bull Run ]

6. The phrase "What did the President know and when did he know it?" referred to:_________________________.
[Choices: Watergate, Bombing Cambodia, Drugs in the White House, The Iran hostage rescue, A missing H-bomb ]

7. What was Jethro's last name on TV's "The Beverly Hillbillies"?_________________________
[Choices: Bodine, Bumpkin, Hathaway, Clampett, Drysdale ]

8. In 1970, the United States launched an invasion against:_______________________.
[Choices: Canada, Grenada, Bangladesh, North Korea, Cambodia ]

9. Who played Mia Farrow's husband in the 1968 film "Rosemary's Baby"?__________________________
[Choices: Bruce Dern, Steve McQueen, Alan Arkin, John Cassavetes, Rock Hudson ]

10. In 1972, Michel Micombero ordered a crackdown that killed 150,000 Hutus in:________________________.
[Choices: Cameroon, Swaziland, Burundi, Lesotho, Honduras ]

11. Which group's first American single was a remake of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away"?________________________
[Choices: Rolling Stones, The Clash, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Bee Gees ]

12. Anthropologist Dian Fossey is known for her studies of this animal:___________________________.
[Choices: Tigers, Chimpanzees, Sharks, Gorillas, Lions ]

13. Who played Saunders the butler on the sitcom "Soap"?________________________
[Choices: Flip Wilson, Roscoe Lee Browne, Richard Moll, William Marshall, James Earl Jones ]

14. Which fast-food chain opened its first franchise store in 1967?__________________________
[Choices: Dairy Queen, McDonald's, Domino's Pizza, White Castle, A&W ]

15. The 1973 movie "American Graffiti" starred all of these performers except:___________________________.
[Choices: Harrison Ford, Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Suzanne Somers ]







Answers:

1. Stalag 13 [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan's_Heroes ]

2. Francis Gary Powers [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers ]

3. Mother [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manch ... (1962_film) ]

4. Jimmy Connors [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Connors (won U.S. Open in 1974, 1976, 1978) ]

5. Waterloo [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4 ]

6. Watergate [see https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/ ... e-question ]

7. Bodine [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beverly_Hillbillies ]

8. Cambodia [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_campaign ]

9. John Cassavetes [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary's_Baby_(film) ]

10. Burundi [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundian_genocides ]

11. Rolling Stones [see the section "The Rolling Stones version" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Fade_Away_(song) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6RWnGQ3XqQ ]

12. Gorillas [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey ]

13. Roscoe Lee Browne [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_(TV_series) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Lee_Browne ]

14. Domino's Pizza [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino's_Pizza ]

15. Henry Winkler [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graffiti ]