1965 Trivia Contest KEY

Your table is a team. You are competing against the other teams to see how many answers you can get during this Round Table Session. How many of these things from 1965 can you name? You’re working as a team. Have ONE official answer sheet that you will turn in for the prize drawing.

  1. This Yankee played his 2000Th baseball game.____Mickey Mantle______
  2. The average cost of a gallon of gas was 31 cents. A new car cost $2,650. An average new home was $13,600. How much was an average cost for a loaf of bread? __31 cents______
  3. The Beatles released four albums that year. Name a Beatles song. ___Pick one
  4. A movie about a flying nanny premiered. What was her name? ___Mary Poppins______
  5. What 1965 movie featured a phrase that included, “the rain in Spain”? _My Fair Lady_
  6. What was the name of the family in The Sound of Music? ____Von Trapp_____
  7. Two movies had “cat” in their titles. One had a theme song sung by Tom Jones, and one starred Lee Marvin and Jane Fonda. Name both movies. What’s New Pussycat and Cat Ballou_____
  8. What actress starred in two of the movies named above? Julie Andrews

Top Billboard Songs

  1. We Five Sang: You Were __On My Mind______
  2. The Rolling Stones sang: I Can’t __Get no Satisfaction______
  3. Four Tops sang: I Can’t ___Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)______
  4. The Righteous Brothers worried that “You’ve Lost __That Lovin Feeling______”
  5. ChimChim _Cheree______won the best song at the Oscars.
  6. True/False. The Voting Rights Act targeted legislation that required literacy tests for racial and language minorities.
  7. The __Gateway Arch____ in St. Louis was completed at a height of 190 feet.
  8. This round pasta made it’s debut on May 16th. SpaghettiO’s
  9. On September 13th the Today Show made history for this. __entirely in color___
  10. Comedian _Dick Van Dyke__won the Emmy. He was famous for tripping as he came into his own living room.
  11. This “Stop In The Name of Love” group appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on October 10th. The Supremes______
  12. On November 8th, this soap opera premiered on TV. _Days of Our Lives______
  13. Burning these became a crime punishable by 5 years in prison and a $1,000 fine.Draft Card__
  14. _Willie Mays___set a record for the most number of home runs in one month (17).
  15. This former Governor of California’s ex-father-in-law created the Foster Grandparent Program. __Arnold Swartzenneger______
  16. The Beatles met with this famous American entertainer for the first and only time on August 27th. __Elvis Presley______
  17. I Got You Babe hit # 1 for ___Sonny and Cher______