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OLDIES:
1. Ain't That a Shame
Boone also covered Little
Richard's Tutti Fruitti and Gene Vincent's Be Bop-a-Lula
2. Sun Records
Then RCA
3. Blackboard Jungle
4. Angel
5. Tutti Fruitti
6. Four o'clock
7. MacHeath
"Just a jackknife has MacHeath,
dear. And he keeps it out of sight"
8. Charlie Brown
9. Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel
Heartbreak Hotel
was his second biggest hit and Love Me Tender was sixth.
10. New Orleans, Louisiana
"And we caught the bloody British
in the town of New Orleans "
11. One eye - one horn!
12. Great Balls of Fire
"You broke my will,
oh what a thrill. Goodness gracious great balls of fire"
13. Mr. Sandman
14. Why Do Fools Fall in Love
15. Blueberry Hill
TELEVISION
1. Hamilton
Burger
Paul Drake was the P.I. and Arthur Tragg was the cop
2. Neil
3. Richard Crenna
Bob Denver played on Dobie Gillis and Dick Van Patten on I Remember Mama.
4.Justine Carrelli
Both the other women were
popular Regulars!
5. Don Diego de la Vega
6. Lucy MacGillicuddy
7. Topo Gigio
J. Fred Muggs was Dave Garroway's buddy
and Lamb Chop was Sheri Lewis' hand puppet
8. Steve Allen
Then Jack Paar, followed by Johnny
Carson
9. 1929
Amazing, eh?
10. Kitten
Kathy was played by Lauren Chapin
11. West Virginia
12. Clarabell
Eventually the role was played by Lew
Anderson
13. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
14. Danny Thomas
Bob Cummings was on many series,
including Love That Bob. Leo G. Carroll was Topper.
15. Dave Garroway
Lawrence Spivak hosted Meet the
Press, while Chet Huntley was an anchor for NBC.
HISTORY 1950-55
1. Boston
2. Gen. Douglas MacArthur
In his farewell speech to
Congress in 1951
3. J.D. Salinger
Herman Wouk wrote the Caine Mutiny
and Faulkner will win the Noble Prize for his many works.
4. Guiding Light
5. A cocker spaniel dog
Named Checkers! This was in
response to the accusation that Nixon had a secret fund. He said all he had accepted was the gift of the dog.
6. Summit
Mt. Everest
7. The ``double helix'' of DNA
Jonas Salk gets the
credit for the polio vaccine. Researchers at Sony came up with the transistor.
8. School segregation
The Court said, "Separate educational
facilities are inherently unequal."
9. American Motors
10. Burger King
C'mon. The "hold the pickle" stuff
should have given it away!
11. Boxing
She made herself an expert on boxing exclusively
for this show.
12. In God We Trust
13. Montgomery,
Alabama
14. She began her column at the Los
Angeles Times
Nope, it was the Chicago Sun-Times
15. The Wild Ones
Dean's third movie was Rebel Without
a Cause.
SPORTS
1. Ezzard Charles
Both Robinson and LaMotta were middleweights.
2. Willie Mays
Stan Musial played for St. Louis and Gil Hodges for
Brooklyn
3. Dick Buttons
He is the first man to do a triple
jump in competition. Jenkins and Heiss both won in 1960.
4. Bob Mathias
Rafer Johnson won in 1960 and Toomey
in 1968.
5. Joe DiMaggio
6. Milwaukee
Braves
7. 4 minute mile
8. New York
Yankees
Ending their 5 consecutive World Series winning streak
9. Win a major tennis tournament
The French Open.
The following year she would win both the US Open and Wimbledon.
10. Jackie Robinson
11. Cleveland
Browns
12. Arnold
Palmer
He'll win again in '60, '62 and '64. Sam Snead was a good choice, he won 3 times and Hogan two.
13. 3Com Park
Pro Player is in Miami and Qualcomm in San Diego
14. Daytona 500
They're the Pettys and Lee won the
first ever 500 in 1959.
15. Houston
Astros
The Astros weren't formed until '62. But Brooklyn moved to LA and the NY Giants to San Francisco.
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ARTISTS
1. Alan Freed
2. Little Richard
Fortunately, he learned
to combine his ministry with Rock and we got him back.
3. Annette Funicello
They were seeing each
other at the time.
4. Simon and Garfunkel
5. 65
Scary, eh?
6. Teenagers
7. Don and Phil
8. Waylon Jennings
9. Jiles P. Richardson
Roy
Harold Scherer Jr. was Rock Hudson and Marion Michael Morrison
was John Wayne!
10. Motown
11. 77 Sunset Strip
12. The plane was named American Pie.
This
is a myth. The plane just had serial numbers.
13. Sandra Dee
At this point Natalie Wood
is married to Robert Wagner.
14. Jerry Lee Lewis
For which he was roundly
criticized.
15. Monotones
CELEBRITIES
1. Richard Burton
She didn't marry Burton
until 1964. Oh, and don't forget Nicky Hilton, he was her first husband. ('50-'51) or Michael Todd, he was her third. ('57-58)
2. Edie Adams
Debbie Reynolds was married to Eddie
Fisher and Jayne Meadows to Steve Allen.
3. 74 years old
Scary, eh?
4. 69 years old
Feeling old yet?
5. Lucy and new baby
Jack Webb was a good answer;
he was on the second one. David and Ricky appeared about 6 weeks later.
6. Willie Mays
7. The Lennon Sisters
From the Lawrence Welk Show! The McGuires were Christine, Dorothy and Phyllis. The Andrews were LaVerne,
Maxine, and Patty.
8. Carlo Ponti
9. Pepsi Cola
10. Milton Berle
11. Mississippi
12. Marlon Brando
From A Streetcar Named Desire
13. Amsterdam, Holland
14. Doris Kappelhoff
Which is Doris Day's real name!
15. Lana Turner
Ole Blue Eyes was also married to
Nancy Barbato, his first, and Barbara Marx, his last.
HISTORY 1956-59
1. Adlai Stevenson
Estes Keefauver was Stevenson's vice
presidential candidate
2. High and the Mighty
3. Julie Andrews
Audrey Hepburn played the role in the
movie.
4. Laika
5. Great Britian
6. 3 years
7. I Could Have Danced All Night
Which is from My Fair
Lady
8. Oscar Hammerstein
9. 3¢ to 4¢
10. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
11. Perry Como
For his hit single, Catch A Falling Star.
12. Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu (Volare)
13. Neil Armstrong
Who will be picked with the second
group in 1962.
14. India
15. Antarctica
You couldn't
get 12 nations to agree to share anything except a frozen tundra nobody wants anyway.
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