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The Next “When Swing Was King” Activity Packet

This time around we have another 40 Multiple Choice questions for you (with answers provided afterward) as well as a few “points to ponder” that we hope you will enjoy. For next time, we are preparing a couple of pop culture-themed crossword puzzles for you to try.

Despite the quarantine, Claire and I are keeping busy. For instance, we are engaged in a lot of correspondence, learning how to use Zoom for video conversations (amazing technology), home projects, and creating these activity pages for you. We are also doing a lot of reading, some writing, and I’m working on a sermon I’ll be giving at Emmanuel Church this Sunday morning. I will actually be preaching to an empty church sanctuary while some tech guys will “live stream” the video over the internet. Unusual times we’re living in, huh?

But, I’m sure, like many of you, we are earnestly praying for America and the world, asking the Lord to deliver us from the virus (and the fears associated with it), to get our economy back to some degree of efficiency, and yet to learn those crucial spiritual lessons He has for us in this crisis.

We miss you all. But we do hope these pages we’re sending over bring a little relief from the tedium of these quarantine days. Keep looking up!

Points to Ponder

“There are three signs of old age: loss of memory and…Well, I forget the other two.” ()

“Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.” ()

“It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.” (Ella Fitzgerald) Multiple Choice Questions

1) Clem Kaddidlehopper, Sheriff 6) Who in this list were NOT regulars Deadeye, Cauliflower McPugg, and on The Show? the Mean Widdle Kid were all A) The Lennon Sisters characters created by what comic B) Norma Zimmer genius? C) Doc Severinsen A) Sid Caesar D) Myron Floren B) Red Skelton C) Joey Bishop 7) Referring to the attack on Pearl D) Flip Wilson Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that it would be a 2) What product used the tagline, day that would "live in ______." “A little dab'll do ya?” A) horror A) Jack Daniels B) infamy B) Pepsodent C) our hearts forever C) Listerine D) history D) Brylcreem 8) LaVerne, Patty, and Maxene are 3) Which one of these World War II better known as: commanders represented the U.S. A) The Lennon Sisters Navy? B) a) Douglas MacArthur C) The McGuire Sisters b) D) Patty and the Patty-Cakes c) Chester Nimitz d) George Patton 9) What early TV star is associated with the shows House Party, People 4) The famous “Who’s on First?” Are Funny, and Kids Say the Darndest comedy routine was created by: Things? A) Abbott & Costello A) Art Linkletter B) Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck B) Wink Martindale C) The Three Stooges C) D) D) Allen Funt

5) The “Twist” dance craze was due 10) Who did John F. Kennedy defeat primarily to a singer whose real name in the U.S. Presidential election in was Ernest Evans. But we know him 1960? as: A) A) Fat Domino B) B) C) Thomas Dewey C) Donald O'Connor D) Hubert Humphrey D) Chubby Checker 11) Jackie Robinson was the first 16) Which of the following was NOT black player signed to play in Major a movie? League Baseball’s National League? A) My Favorite Brunette Who was the first in the American B) Going My Way League? C) Bells of St. Mary’s A) Willie Mays D) High Society B) Willie McCovey C) Satchel Paige 17) Which famous American D) Larry Doby penitentiary closed in 1963? A) Folsom Prison 12) Which of the following was NOT B) Alcatraz a TV newscaster? C) San Quentin A) Chet Huntley D) Leavenworth B) David Brinkley C) Jack Paar 18) What do Jane Cairns, Margaret D) Walter Cronkite Allen, Lana Turner, Betty Kern, Ava Gardner, Kathleen Winsor, Doris 13) What actor was a star in Dowling, and Evelyn Keyes all have and Little House on the Prairie? in common? A) A) They all were winners of Academy B) Awards as Best Supporting Actress. C) Pernell Roberts B) They were all wives of bandleader D) Artie Shaw. C) They were all winners of the Miss 14) What singer was managed by contest. Colonel Tom Parker? D) They all portrayed girl detective A) Nancy Drew in the movies. B) C) Patsy Cline 19) Neil Armstrong was the first man D) Elvis Presley to set foot on the moon. Who followed him down the lunar module 15) What became the 50th U.S. state ladder soon afterwards? in August 1959? A) Gus Grissom A) Hawaii B) B) New Mexico C) Buzz Aldrin C) Puerto Rico D) Wally Schirra D) Alaska

20) The singer who recorded “Sixteen 25) In 1955, which popular fast food Tons” was: chain first opened? A) Jimmy Dean A) McDonald's B) Hank Williams B) Taco Bell C) Jerry Lee Lewis C) Kentucky Fried Chicken D) Tennessee Ernie Ford D) Dunkin Donuts

21) What general was Supreme 26) During what year did Commander over the Allied forces in first open in Southern California? Europe? A) 1939 A) George Marshall B) 1955 B) Douglas MacArthur C) 1964 C) Dwight D. Eisenhower C) 1971 D) George S. Patton 27) The gorgeous Edie Adams was 22) What actor starred in the epic the wife of : films The Ten Commandments, Ben- A) Steve McQueen Hur, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes? B) A) Robert Redford C) Jack Webb B) D) Ernie Kovacs C) Stephen Boyd D) 28) What actor was NOT frequently featured in monster movies? 23) Which Pope was the first to visit A) Bela Lugosi the United States in 1965? B) Boris Karloff A) Pope Paul VI C) Spencer Tracy B) Pope John D) Lon Chaney, Jr. C) Pope Pius X D) Pope John Paul II 29) Which of those listed below was not an important World War II battle 24) Which of these early TV fought in the South Pacific? programs was NOT a game show? A) Malta A) The $64,000 Question B) Coral Sea B) Sky King C) Midway C) What’s My Line? D) Leyte Gulf D) To Tell the Truth

30) In 1964, became 35) What “lucky” aviator first flew the first black actor to win the solo over the Atlantic Ocean? Academy Award for best actor. The A) Amelia Earhart film he won the award for was: B) Wily Post A) In the Heat of the Night C) Charles Lindbergh B) Lilies of the Field d) Orville Wright C) Song of the South D) Shakespeare's 36) Elvis Presley’s mansion in Memphis is called: 31) The R.C. in R.C. Cola stood for: A) Graceland A) Red Cap B) Heartbreak Hotel B) Royal Crown C) Old Dominion C) Registered Cola D) Shangri-La D) Raystar Company 37) The star of the TV series 32) What did the V. in V.E. The Honeymooners was: and V.J. stand for? A) Ernie Kovacs A) Vacuum B) Red Skelton B) Veronica C) Dick Van Dyke C) Victory D) Jackie Gleason D) Vegetables 38) What was the theme song of Roy 33) What company introduced “T.V. Rogers and Dale Evans? Dinners” back in 1954? A) “Buttons and Bows” A) Swanson B) “Happy Trails” B) NBC C) “A Cowboy’s Serenade” C) Safeway D) “Don’t Fence Me In” D) Krogers 39) Which New York Yankee was 34) The highest score ever in baseball’s “home run king” in 1961? professional basketball was 100 A) Mickey Mantle points set by this man in 1962: B) Yogi Berra A) Bob Cousy C) Joe Dimaggio B) Jerry West D) Roger Maris C) Wilt Chamberlain D) Oscar Robertson 40) Of which automobile did Dinah Shore sing, “See the U.S.A. in your

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Quiz Answers: 22) D -- Charlton Heston 23) A -- Pope Paul VI 1) B -- Red Skelton 24) B -- Sky King 2) D -- Brylcreem 3) C -- Chester Nimitz 25) A -- McDonald’s 26) B -- 1955 4) A -- Abbot & Costello 27) D -- Ernie Kovacs 5) D -- Chubby Checker 6) C -- Doc Severinsen 28) C -- Spencer Tracy 29) A -- Malta 7) B -- infamy 30) B -- Lilies of the Field 8) B -- The Andrews Sisters 9) A -- Art Linkletter 31) B -- Royal Crown 32) C -- Victory 10) A -- Richard Nixon 33) A -- Swanson 11) D -- Larry Doby 12) C -- Jack Paar 34) C -- Wilt Chamberlain 35) C -- Charles Lindbergh 13) B -- Michael Landon 36) A -- Graceland 14) D -- Elvis Presley 15) A -- Hawaii 37) D -- Jackie Gleason 38) B -- “Happy Trails” 16) A -- My Favorite Brunette 39) D -- Roger Maris 17) B -- Alcatraz 18) B -- Artie’s wives 40) “See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet!” 19) C -- Buzz Aldrin 20) D -- Tennessee Ernie Ford 21) C -- Dwight Eisenhower