26. Milton Berle; he was not on the air for thirty years. [Back]
27. Hee Haw [Back]
28. The TV picture tube [Back]
29. Roseanne Barr, who had plenty of success with Roseanne [Back]
30. Bishop Fulton Sheen [Back]
31. Pat Robertson [Back]
32. Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy [Back]
33. David Brinkley, of Huntley-Brinkley fame [Back]
Great Americans on Film // Answers
1. George W. Bush; the title was W. [Back]
2. Truman Capote, in the movie Truman [Back]
3. Howard Hughes [Back]
4. George S. Patton; Scott was Patton. [Back]
5. Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash [Back]
6. Ray Charles, in the movie Ray [Back]
7. Jeff Bridges (son of Lloyd) [Back]
8. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde [Back]
9. Lon Chaney, who died in 1930 after making one sound movie [Back]
10. Kevin Costner, who did not play Kennedy himself [Back]
11. Nick Nolte [Back]
12. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) [Back]
13. Helen Keller; the movie was The Miracle Worker. [Back]
14. Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner [Back]
15. “Stonewall” Jackson [Back]
16. Warren Beatty [Back]
17. Julia Child, in the movie Julie and Julia [Back]
18. Norma Rae [Back]
19. Loretta Lynn [Back]
20. Florenz Ziegfeld; the movie was The Great Ziegfeld. [Back]
21. Pat Boone [Back]
22. Evel Knievel [Back]
23. David Carradine [Back]
24. Raging Bull [Back]
25. Spencer Tracy [Back]
26. Babe Ruth, in The Babe [Back]
27. Mickey Rooney [Back]
28. Ronald Reagan, who played George Gipp [Back]
29. Born Again (1978), the story of Charles Colson [Back]
30. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [Back]
31. Calamity Jane [Back]
32. Christopher Columbus; his wife, Florence Eldridge, played Queen Isabella. [Back]
33. Davy Crockett; later, on TV, he played Daniel Boone. [Back]
34. Bing Crosby [Back]
Leading Men (On Screen, That Is) // Answers
1. Harrison Ford [Back]
2. Tom Hanks [Back]
3. Humphrey Bogart [Back]
4. Jim Carrey [Back]
5. Tony Curtis [Back]
6. Fred Astaire [Back]
7. Gene Hackman [Back]
8. Charlton Heston [Back]
9. Dustin Hoffman [Back]
10. Sylvester Stallone [Back]
11. Ray Milland [Back]
12. Robert Mitchum [Back]
13. Gene Autry [Back]
14. Paul Newman [Back]
15. Jack Nicholson [Back]
16. Donald O’Connor [Back]
17. Robin Williams [Back]
18. Gregory Peck [Back]
19. Warren Beatty [Back]
20. Wallace Beery [Back]
21. Ernest Borgnine [Back]
22. Marlon Brando [Back]
23. Yul Brynner [Back]
24. James Cagney [Back]
25. Lionel Barrymore [Back]
26. Nick Nolte [Back]
27. Paul Muni [Back]
28. William Powell [Back]
29. Tyrone Power [Back]
30. Elvis Presley [Back]
31. Lon Chaney [Back]
32. Charlie Chaplin [Back]
33. Montgomery Clift [Back]
34. Gary Cooper [Back]
35. Nicholas Cage [Back]
36. Bing Crosby [Back]
37. Kirk Douglas [Back]
38. Clint Eastwood [Back]
39. Nelson Eddy [Back]
40. W. C. Fields [Back]
Cartoons, Moving and Nonmoving // Answers
1. “Peanuts” [Back]
2. Finding Nemo [Back]
3. “Garfield” [Back]
4. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released on videotape in 1993 [Back]
5. Mighty Mouse [Back]
6. “Pogo,” by Walt Kelly [Back]
7. Bill Clinton [Back]
8. The Incredible Hulk (In the TV series he was David Banner.) [Back]
9. “Pearls Before Swine,” by Stephan Pastis [Back]
10. “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” [Back]
11. Mickey Mouse; Walt pinched his nose when doing the Mickey voice. [Back]
12. Little Orphan Annie’s [Back]
13. The elephant and donkey symbols for the Republicans and Democrats [Back]
14. New York [Back]
15. Mel Blanc, who did the voices for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and many others [Back]
16. The Reuben Awards, named for cartoonist Reuben “Rube” Goldberg [Back]
17. “The Far Side” [Back]
18. Woody Woodpecker [Back]
19. Spider-Man [Back]
20. “L’il Abner,” by Al Capp [Back]
21. “Beetle Bailey”; Beetle’s sister was Lois Flagston of “Hi and Lois.” [Back]
22. “The Family Circus,” which Keane had wanted to name “Family Circle,” until the magazine of that name protested [Back]
23. Dennis the Menace; the set also included Archie, Beetle Bailey, Garfield, and Calvin and Hobbes. [Back]
24. Underdog [Back]
25. “Mutt and Jeff” [Back]
26. Popeye, who eventually dominated the strip and became an animated cartoon character [Back]
Out Here in Radio Land // Answers
1. Wolfman Jack [Back]
2. Grand Ole Opry; Hay was spoofing the preceding program, a broadcast of grand opera. [Back]
3. Michael Savage, host of The Savage Nation [Back]
5. Internet radio [Back]
6. Howard Stern [Back]
7. New York [Back]
8. Dick Clark, of course [Back]
9. Dennis Miller [Back]
10. Sears; the WLS stood for “World’s Largest Store.” [Back]
11. Rush Limbaugh [Back]
12. FM radio [Back]
13. Clarence Thomas [Back]
14. Transcriptions; as CDs came into vogue, transcriptions became a thing of the past. [Back]
15. Dr. Demento, famous for playing novelty songs [Back]
16. Baby Snooks [Back]
17. Kasey Kasem, who also provided voices for cartoon characters such as Shaggy in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! [Back]
18. Amos and Andy, two supposedly black men played (on radio) by two whites [Back]
More Great Americans on Film // Answers
1. Richard Nixon [Back]
2. Dances with Wolves [Back]
3. Lou Gehrig [Back]
4. The Doors [Back]
5. Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan [Back]
6. Wild Bill Hickok; the movie also featured the characters Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill. [Back]
7. Alan Freed, who coined (or at least popularized) the term rock and roll [Back]
8. James Cagney [Back]
9. Apollo 13 [Back]
10. The James brothers and the Younger brothers [Back]
11. Douglas MacArthur [Back]
12. Mickey Rooney [Back]
13. Warren Beatty [Back]
14. Wyatt Earp [Back]
15. Bob Hope [Back]
16. Cole Porter [Back]
17. Joan Crawford, played in the movie by Faye Dunaway [Back]
18. Dropping the A-bomb on Japan [Back]
19. Sam Houston [Back]
20. Charles Lindbergh [Back]
21. Raymond Massey [Back]
22. The Right Stuff [Back]
23. St. Louis Blues [Back]
24. Eliot Ness [Back]
25. Dustin Hoffman [Back]
26. Thomas Edison; the film is Edison the Man. [Back]
27. A Man Called Pe
ter, the story of Peter Marshall [Back]
28. Frederic March [Back]
29. 1776 [Back]
30. John Philip Sousa [Back]
31. Will Rogers; Will Jr. played him in The Story of Will Rogers. [Back]
32. F. Scott Fitzgerald [Back]
33. Jesse James; the two actors played brothers Jesse and Frank James. [Back]
34. Debbie Reynolds [Back]
America on Stage // Answers
1. Oklahoma! [Back]
2. The Hatfields and the McCoys [Back]
3. Broadway, the theater district [Back]
4. North Carolina, on Roanoke Island, site of the Lost Colony [Back]
5. Kentucky, near the spot where Foster wrote the song “My Old Kentucky Home” [Back]
6. 1776 [Back]
8. The Mormons; the pageant takes place on the grounds of the Mesa Temple. [Back]
9. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons [Back]
10. The Salem witch trials [Back]
11. The Shirelles [Back]
12. Gypsy Rose Lee [Back]
13. Eugene O’Neill, the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, author of Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, and other classic dramas [Back]
14. The Tonys, awarded for Broadway plays [Back]
15. Native Americans [Back]
16. Tecumseh [Back]
17. Assassins [Back]
18. North Carolina; it’s in Griffith’s hometown, Mount Airy. [Back]
19. The Miracle Worker [Back]
20. Jesus; the drama is The Great Passion Play. [Back]
21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Back]
22. New York, back when it was called New Amsterdam; oddly, the play makes Stuyvesant a sympathetic character. [Back]
23. Lincoln; the play is the perennially popular Abe Lincoln in Illinois. [Back]
24. Davy Crockett; the play is at Davy Crockett State Park. “Gentleman from the Cane” was Crockett’s nickname when he served in Congress. “Cane” meant “the backwoods.” [Back]
25. Ohio, in the town of New Philadelphia, near the play’s setting [Back]
26. Titanic [Back]
27. North Carolina, which has numerous productions every summer, including The Lost Colony, Horn in the West, The Sword of Peace, Worthy Is the Lamb, Unto These Hills, and several others [Back]
28. The Music Man [Back]
29. Elvis Presley; oddly, the play’s plot is based (loosely) on Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night. [Back]
30. Utah; it is held in the town of Salina. [Back]
31. The sinking of the Titanic [Back]
TV Record Holders // Answers
1. The Super Bowl [Back]
2. M*A*S*H [Back]
3. Gone with the Wind [Back]
4. The Fugitive [Back]
5. The Ed Sullivan Show [Back]
6. Bonanza [Back]
7. Lassie [Back]
8. Red Skelton [Back]
9. Cheers [Back]
10. I Love Lucy, naturally [Back]
11. The Andy Griffith Show [Back]
12. Dallas; this was the episode when America learned who shot J. R. Ewing. [Back]
13. Lawrence Welk’s [Back]
14. Dragnet [Back]
The Fabulous Funnies // Answers
1. “Beetle Bailey” [Back]
2. “Hagar the Horrible” [Back]
3. “Blondie” [Back]
4. “The Family Circus” [Back]
5. “Snuffy Smith” [Back]
6. “Dennis the Menace” [Back]
7. “Little Orphan Annie” [Back]
8. “Li’l Abner” [Back]
9. “The Wizard of Id” [Back]
10. “Peanuts” [Back]
11. “For Better or for Worse” [Back]
12. “Calvin and Hobbes” [Back]
13. “Foxtrot” [Back]
14. “Garfield” [Back]
15. “Tumbleweeds” [Back]