New Scaratings

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

1. Phoenix House, which opened in New York City in 1967, became a model for other:________________________.
[Choices: Women's safe houses, Orphanages, Reform schools, Drug rehab centers, Homeless shelters ]

2. Which band made "Sugar, Sugar" into a #1 hit in the United States?_________________________
[Choices: The Isley Brothers, The Rascals, The Archies, The Monkees, Vanilla Fudge ]

3. At the age of only 35, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964:__________________________.
[Choices: Willy Brandt, Robert F. Kennedy, Linus Pauling, Benjamin Spock, Martin Luther King Jr. ]

4. Which 1960's Disney movie features Federal agents?_______________________
[Choices: Freaky Friday, That Darn Cat, Escape to Witch Mountain, Absent-Minded Professor, The Love Bug ]

5. All of these events occurred in 1972 except:_______________________________.
[Choices: First heart transplant, Draft phased out, Jackie Robinson died, U.S. still in Vietnam, Watergate break-in ]

6. Which game show asked you to choose among Curtains One, Two and Three?_________________________
[Choices: Hollywood Squares, The Price is Right, Let's Make a Deal, The Dating Game, Truth or Consequences ]

7. What writer declined the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature?__________________________
[Choices: Milan Kundera, Henry Kissinger, Dylan Thomas, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean-Paul Sartre ]

8. He had a 1970 hit with "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife":___________________________.
[Choices: Charlie Rich, Bobby Sherman, Conway Twitty, Marty Robbins, Frank Sinatra ]

9. What chemical giant created Artificial Turf in 1964?________________________
[Choices: Sherwin-Williams, Monsanto, Dow, Corning, General Mills ]

10. Which U.S. President signed the "G.I. Bill of Rights"?_________________________
[Choices: Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy ]

11. Who played the title Duchess in the 1976 comedy "The Dutchess and the Dirtwater Fox"?__________________________
[Choices: Debra Winger, Lily Tomlin, Goldie Hawn, Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton ]

12. Four black men sparked protests in 1960 after a sit-in at a white _____________________ in Greensboro, N.C.
[Choices: Bus stop, Library, Lunch counter, Ballpark, Church ]

13. Which Glory Days figure stated, "The father's responsibility is as great as the mother's"?__________________________
[Choices: Hunter S. Thompson, Erich Segal, Theodore Geisel, Benjamin Spock, Casey Stengel ]

14. His rendition of "Poor Little Fool" holds a special honor on the Billboard Hot 100 chart:_________________________.
[Choices: Perry Como, Sonny James, Pat Boone, David Seville, Ricky Nelson ]

15. What President was in charge when America celebrated its Bicentennial?______________________
[Choices: Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson ]






Answers:

1. Drug rehab center [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_House ]

2. The Archies [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o ]

3. Martin Luther King Jr. [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr. ]

4. That Darn Cat [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Darn_Cat! ]

5. First heart transplant [in 1967; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard ]

6. Let's Make a Deal [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Make_a_Deal ]

7. Jean-Paul Sartre [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre ]

8. Marty Robbins [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUuB9ZKi4Ek ]

9. Monsanto [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_turf ]

10. Harry Truman [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill ]

11. Goldie Hawn [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duche ... twater_Fox ]

12. Lunch counter [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins ]

13. Benjamin Spock [see https://healthland.time.com/2011/07/14/ ... parenting/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock ]

14. Ricky Nelson [see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R12H8QWnwvE ]

15. Gerald Ford [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford ]