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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. This entertainer planted a kiss on Archie Bunker in a 1972 episode of "All in the Family":_________________________.
[Choices: Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, Flip Wilson, Billy Dee Williams, Sammy Davis Jr. ]

2. This fad took the United States by storm in the mid-1970's:_____________________.
[Choices: Frisbees, Mood rings, Silly Putty, Smurfs, Hula hoops ]

3. The two correspondents on "60 Minutes" when it premiered in 1968 were Mike Wallace and:______________________.
[Choices: Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, Morley Safer, Milton Supman ]

4. In the 1966 film "Seconds", he plays a man with a lot of plastic surgery:_________________________.
[Choices: Tony Curtis, Warren Beatty, Rock Hudson, Robert Redford, Charlton Heston ]

5. Radcliffe student Jenny Cavilleri is dying of an incurable disease in this 1970 film:_____________________.
[Choices: Love Story, Death Wish, The Love Bug, Klute, Five Easy Pieces ]

6. This pigtailed resident of Fernwood, Ohio, was billed as a "typical American housewife":________________________.
[Choices: Jessica Tate, Janet Wood, Angie Falco, Ann Romano, Mary Hartman ]

7. In 1978, Miroslaw Hermaszewski became the first person from Poland to:______________________.
[Choices: Command NATO forces, Win a Nobel Prize, Win an Olympic medal, Win an Oscar, Fly into space ]

8. Grady Wilson was a main character's best friend on this 1970's sitcom:________________________.
[Choices: Diff'rent Strokes, Sanford and Son, Three's Company, The Odd Couple, Night Court ]

9. Which TV newsman acted as an intermediary between Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin in 1977?_________________________
[Choices: David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner, John Chancellor, Mike Wallace ]

10. Who directed the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet"?_____________________________
[Choices: John Huston, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli ]

11. You could have heard all these terms except _______________________ in 1957.
[Choices: Funky, Stonewalling, Factsheet, Meter Maid, Sputnik ]

12. All of these films were directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz except:____________________________.
[Choices: The Nun's Story, Suddenly Last Summer, Sleuth, Cleopatra, Guys and Dolls ]

13. In the 1960's, and erupting volcano formed the island of Surtsey off the coast of:______________________.
[Choices: Greece, Madagascar, Iceland, New Zealand, Kazakhstan ]

14. Which TV show featured a warlock named Dr. Bombay?___________________________
[Choices: I Dream of Jeannie, The Munsters, Eight is Enough, Star Trek, Bewitched ]

15. The favorite beverage of the jazz-loving beatniks of San Francisco was:______________________.
[Choices: Coffee, Cheap red wine, Mineral water, Malted milk, Herbal tea ]






Answers:

1. Sammy Davis Jr. [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_UBgkFHm8o ]

2. Mood rings [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_ring ]

3. Harry Reasoner [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes ]

4. Rock Hudson [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film) ]

5. Love Story [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Story_(1970_film) ]

6. Mary Hartman [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hart ... ry_Hartman ]

7. Fly into space [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslaw_Hermaszewski ]

8. Sanford and Son [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_and_Son ]

9. Walter Cronkite [see https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/internat ... -age-of-tv ]

10. Franco Zeffirelli [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and ... (1968_film) ]

11. Stonewalling [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewalling ]

12. The Nun's Story [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nun's_Story_(film) which was directed by Fred Zinnemann ]

13. Iceland [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surtsey ]

14. Bewitched [see https://bewitched.fandom.com/wiki/Dr._Bombay ]

15. Coffee [see https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beatnik and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik ]