New Scaratings

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

1. In the classic legal drama "Perry Mason", what is the name of Perry's secretary?_______________________
[Choices: Margaret Metz, Della Street, Henrietta Jones, Lucy Hatcher, Jennifer Marlowe ]

2. Which comic-strip character had affections for Veronica Lodge?_________________________
[Choices: Richie Rich, Beetle Bailey, Archie Andrews, Bart Simpson, Charlie Brown ]

3. This 1968 Western stars Dean Martin and James Stewart as outlaw brothers:_______________________.
[Choices: Bandolero!, Bad Company, Silverado, Cat Ballou, The Wild Bunch ]

4. This pet program of John F. Kennedy was intended to spur development in Latin American nations:___________________________.
[Choices: The New Deal, The Great Society, Alliance for Progress, Marshall Plan, War on Poverty ]

5. Which singing group had a big hit in 1969 with their medley from "Hair"?______________________________
[Choices: The Supremes, The Mamas and the Papas, The Four Tops, The Spinners, The 5th Dimension ]

6. Who replaced Nikita Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union in 1964?__________________________
[Choices: Anatoly Karpov, Mikhael Gorbachev, Soupy Sales, Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph Stalin ]

7. Who played the father, Mike Brady, on the 1970's hit sitcom "The Brady Bunch"?______________________
[Choices: Vince Edwards, Robert Reed, Ken Berry, David Cassidy, Carl Sagan ]

8. Who took the heavyweight championship title from Sonny Liston in 1964?_______________________
[Choices: Arnold Stang, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier ]

9. In the film "The Eagle has Landed", Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and others plot to kidnap:___________________________.
[Choices: King George VI, Winston Churchill, General Patton's son, Ernest Hemingway, Mohandas Gandhi ]

10. [The battery on my camcorder ran out, so I missed the Choices of 1950's bestsellers except :___________________________.
I did write down the correct answer, from 1967, however (see Answers for link)]

11. Jorma Kaukonen and Paul Kantner were guitarists for this famous band of the 1960's:________________________________.
[Choices: The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Dave Clark Five, The Byrds ]

12. The V-2 was the first self-contained missile. Who designed it?_____________________________
[Choices: Allessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, Henry Ford, Robert Goddard, Wernher von Braun ]

13. Crusader Rabbit was the brainchild of this TV animator:________________________.
[Choices: Bill Hanna, Charles Schulz, Walt Disney, Max Fleischer, Jay Ward ]

14. In 1976, he was posthumously made the first six-star U.S. General:________________________________.
[Choices: Ulysses Grant, George Patton, Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, George Washington ]

15. Dustin Hoffman plays lowlife Ratso Rizzo in this poignant Oscar-winning movie:_____________________________.
[Choices: Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Rain Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon ]






Answers:

1. Della Street [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_Street ]

2. Archie Andrews [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Lodge ]

3. Bandolero! [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandolero! ]

4. Alliance for Progress [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Progress ]

5. The 5th Dimension [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius/ ... unshine_In and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPK7ZF6jfJE ]

6. Leonid Brezhnev [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev ]

7. Robert Reed [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reed ]

8. Muhammad Ali [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Liston and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali ]

9. Winston Churchill [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eagle ... nded_(film) ]

10. Topaz [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_(novel) from 1967 was the only Choice not from the 1950's ]

11. Jefferson Airplane [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Airplane and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kantner . For some reason locked in my memory banks, I associate the group with the red/pink 5-cent and 6-cent U.S. airmail stamps from the late 1940's featuring a DC-4 ; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U ... ail_stamps from 1946-1949. The only image I have found in a Google search for a connection is the cover art for the DVD "Fly Jefferson Airplane" at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427256/ ]

12. Wernher von Braun [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket ]

13. Jay Ward [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader_Rabbit and for Episode 1, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3hHQvkUhJo ]

14. George Washington [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-star_rank ]

15. Midnight Cowboy [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Cowboy ]