Questions

1. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don’t know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind?

2. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on what show?

3. Finish this phrase: “Get your kicks, …”

4. Finish this phrase: “The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to …”

5. Finish this phrase: “In the jungle, the mighty jungle, …”

6. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we ‘danced’ under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called what?

7. Nestle’s makes the very best what?

8. Satchmo was America’s ‘Ambassador of Goodwill.’ Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was what?

9. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking?

10. Red Skeleton’s hobo character was named what? And Red always ended his television show by saying, ‘Good Night, and …’?

11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their what?

12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by?

13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, ‘the day the music died.’ This was a tribute to what?

14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called what?

15. One of the big fads of the late 50’s and 60’s was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the what?

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Answers

1. A silver bullet

2. The Ed Sullivan Show

3. On Route 66

4. Protect the innocent.

5. The Lion Sleeps Tonight

6. The limbo

7. Chocolate

8. Louis Armstrong

9. The Timex watch

10. Freddy, The Freeloader and ‘Good Night and God Bless.’

11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)

12. Beetle or Bug

13. Buddy Holly

14. Sputnik

15. Hoola-hoop

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