16. “Bloom County” [Back]
17. “Dick Tracy” [Back]
18. “Pogo” [Back]
19. “Mother Goose and Grimm” [Back]
20. “Hi and Lois” [Back]
21. “Nancy” [Back]
22. “Cathy” [Back]
23. “Shoe” [Back]
24. “The Amazing Spider-Man” [Back]
25. “Sally Forth” [Back]
Make Me Laugh // Answers
1. Jeff Foxworthy [Back]
2. Robin Williams [Back]
3. Bob Hope (“Thanks for the memories . . .”) [Back]
4. Lucille Ball, star of I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Here’s Lucy [Back]
5. Chicago; Los Angeles overtook Chicago as number two in the 1990 census. [Back]
6. Will Rogers [Back]
7. Rodney Dangerfield, who died in 2004 [Back]
8. Jack Benny, who died in 1974—several years older than thirty-nine [Back]
9. Phyllis Diller [Back]
10. archy (the cockroach) and mehitabel (the cat) the columns were always written without capitals and punctuation [Back]
11. P. J. O’Rourke [Back]
12. Edgar Bergen [Back]
13. Charles Schulz, creator of “Peanuts” [Back]
14. Mark Twain; it happened as he predicted. [Back]
15. Ma and Pa Kettle, played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride [Back]
16. Ron White, of Blue Collar Comedy fame [Back]
17. Dave Barry [Back]
18. Flip Wilson [Back]
19. Columbus [Back]
20. Erma Bombeck; the books were If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? and Aunt Erma’s Cope Book. [Back]
Still More Great Americans on Film // Answers
1. Pocahontas [Back]
2. Muhammad Ali [Back]
3. Davy Crockett; it was one of the few movies in which Wayne’s character died. [Back]
4. The Buddy Holly Story [Back]
5. Stephen Foster [Back]
6. Al Jolson [Back]
7. P. T. Barnum; the movie was The Mighty Barnum. [Back]
8. Dizzy Dean [Back]
9. Sergeant York, concerning Alvin York [Back]
10. Al Capone [Back]
11. The Benny Goodman Story [Back]
12. Barbara Stanwyck [Back]
13. George Gershwin, played by actor Robert Alda (father of Alan Alda) [Back]
14. Robert Taylor [Back]
15. Buffalo Bill [Back]
16. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin [Back]
17. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean [Back]
18. Rod Steiger [Back]
19. Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill [Back]
20. Calamity Jane [Back]
21. The Pilgrims, who landed in 1620 at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts [Back]
22. Don Ameche; the movie was such a hit that for a while ameche was slang for telephone. [Back]
23. Ernie Pyle, who died before the war’s end [Back]
24. The Civil War; “Bloody Bill” Quantrill’s gang was a notorious band of Confederate guerrillas. [Back]
25. Jean Lafitte [Back]
26. Jean Harlow, in Harlow (1965) [Back]
27. Brigham Young [Back]
28. John Wilkes Booth, who shot Lincoln; poor Dr. Mudd had the misfortune to treat Booth’s wounded leg and help him (temporarily) escape. [Back]
29. Mickey Rooney [Back]
30. Henry Fonda [Back]
31. William Randolph Hearst [Back]
32. Howard Hughes [Back]
Kid Stuff: Theme Parks and Such // Answers
1. Disney World (in Florida) and Disneyland (in California) [Back]
2. The Mall of America, in Minnesota [Back]
3. Dollywood, named for Dolly Parton [Back]
4. Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (You can see why they prefer to call it EPCOT.) [Back]
5. From the Carolinas; the park is in North Carolina and very near the South Carolina border. It celebrates the two states’ past and present. [Back]
6. Sesame Place, named for TV’s Sesame Street [Back]
7. Atlanta, at Six Flags over Georgia [Back]
8. Disneyland [Back]
9. Six Flags Great Adventure [Back]
10. Paul Bunyan; the Paul Bunyan Amusement Center has a twenty-six-foot animated Paul and a fifteen-foot Babe, his blue ox. [Back]
11. The Pharos (lighthouse) of ancient Alexandria [Back]
12. Disney’s Animal Kingdom, in Orlando [Back]
13. Universal [Back]
14. Opryland, in (of course) Nashville, Tennessee [Back]
15. Busch Gardens Europe, near Williamsburg [Back]
16. Hersheypark, owned by (what else?) the Hershey chocolate company [Back]
17. Oklahoma City [Back]
18. Cypress Gardens, which closed in 2009 [Back]
19. The Holy Land Experience [Back]
20. Epcot [Back]
21. Arkansas [Back]
22. Six Flags over Texas, first of the Six Flags parks to open [Back]
23. Florida’s Walt Disney World [Back]
24. Six Flags Fiesta Texas, near San Antonio [Back]
25. Six Flags Great America, in Gurnee, Illinois, near Chicago [Back]
26. King’s Dominion, a few miles north of Richmond [Back]
27. Disney’s Hollywood Studios [Back]
28. Busch Gardens Williamsburg [Back]
29. Six Flags St. Louis (formerly Six Flags Mid-America) [Back]
30. Sea World Orlando [Back]
31. Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California [Back]
32. Kansas City, Missouri [Back]
33. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay [Back]
34. Knott’s Berry Farm, which began as a roadside jelly stand [Back]
35. Jaws [Back]
Leading Men (Again) // Answers
1. Tom Cruise [Back]
2. Michael Douglas [Back]
3. Henry Fonda [Back]
4. Clark Gable [Back]
5. Cary Grant [Back]
6. William Holden [Back]
7. Bob Hope [Back]
8. Jack Lemmon [Back]
9. Jerry Lewis [Back]
10. Steve McQueen [Back]
11. Frederic March [Back]
12. Lee Marvin [Back]
13. Al Jolson [Back]
14. Danny Kaye [Back]
15. Steve Martin [Back]
16. Al Pacino [Back]
17. Robert Duvall [Back]
18. Buster Keaton [Back]
19. Ronald Reagan [Back]
20. Robert Redford [Back]
21. Edward G. Robinson [Back]
22. George C. Scott [Back]
23. Howard Keel [Back]
24. Frank Sinatra [Back]
26. Alan Ladd [Back]
27. Victor Mature [Back]
28. James Stewart [Back]
29. Robert Taylor [Back]
30. Spencer Tracy [Back]
31. Michael J. Fox [Back]
32. Robert De Niro [Back]
33. Woody Allen [Back]
34. Rudolph Valentino [Back]
35. Jon Voight [Back]
36. Burt Reynolds [Back]
37. John Wayne [Back]
38. Bill Murray [Back]
39. Gene Wilder [Back]
40. Orson Welles [Back]
41. Don Ameche [Back]
Toys and Games and Other Playful Things // Answers
1. Barbie [Back]
2. Video [Back]
3. Monopoly [Back]
4. Candyland [Back]
5. Miniature golf [Back]
6. The pogo stick [Back]
7. Cabbage Patch Kids [Back]
8. Wham-O [Back]
9. The teddy bear, named for Theodore Roosevelt [Back]
10. Crayola Crayons [Back]
11. Silly Putty [Back]
12. Coonskin [Back]
13. Scrabble [Back]
14. Trivial Pursuit [Back]
15. The crossword [Back]
16. Lincoln [Back]
17. The Frisbee [Back]
18. Toy trains, electric and nonelectric [Back]
19. Teddy bears [Back]
20. Bingo [Back]
21. A picture of an Egyptian pharaoh was on one of the king face cards. [Back]
22. Mattel [Back]
23. Milton Bradley [Back]
24. Shirley Temple [Back]
25. Checkers [Back]
Queens of the Screen // Answers
1. Natalie Portman [Back]
2. Catherine Zeta-Jones [Back]
3. Meryl Streep [Back]
4. Renee Zellweger [Back]
5. Cher [Back]
6. Sally Field [Back]
7. Liza Minnelli [Back]
8. Michelle Pfeiffer [Back]
9. Sissy Spacek [Back]
10. Lauren Bacall [Back]
11. Lucille Ball [Back]
12. Anne Bancroft [Back]
13. Katharine Hepburn [Back]
14. Grace Kelly [Back]
15. Joan Crawford [Back]
16. Loretta Young [Back]
17. Jean Arthur [Back]
18. Diane Keaton [Back]
20. Bette Davis [Back]
21. Doris Day [Back]
22. Olivia De Havilland [Back]
23. Faye Dunaway [Back]
24. Nicole Kidman [Back]
25. Judy Garland [Back]
26. Jeanette MacDonald [Back]
27. Shirley MacLaine [Back]
28. Claudette Colbert [Back]
29. Susan Hayward [Back]
30. Susan Sarandon [Back]
31. Sandra Bullock [Back]
32. Carole Lombard [Back]
33. Myrna Loy [Back]
34. Annette Bening [Back]
35. Marilyn Monroe [Back]
36. Debbie Reynolds [Back]
37. Ginger Rogers [Back]
38. Barbara Stanwyck [Back]
39. Elizabeth Taylor [Back]
40. Shirley Temple [Back]
41. Lana Turner [Back]
42. Mae West [Back]
43. Natalie Wood [Back]
“They’re Playing My Song” // Answers
1. Garth Brooks [Back]
2. Elvis Presley [Back]
3. Alan Jackson [Back]
4. Jimmy Buffett [Back]
5. Janis Joplin [Back]
6. Peter, Paul, and Mary [Back]
7. Glen Campbell [Back]
8. The Beach Boys [Back]
9. Toby Keith [Back]
10. Simon and Garfunkel [Back]
11. Johnny Cash [Back]
12. Hank Williams [Back]
13. Nat King Cole [Back]
14. The Statler Brothers [Back]
15. The Andrews Sisters [Back]
16. Fred Astaire [Back]
17. Bing Crosby [Back]
18. Charlie Daniels [Back]
19. Carl Perkins [Back]
20. Jan and Dean [Back]
21. Roy Acuff [Back]
22. Tammy Wynette [Back]
23. Aerosmith [Back]
24. Bill Haley and the Comets [Back]
25. Alabama [Back]
26. The Doors [Back]
27. Lena Horne [Back]
28. James Taylor [Back]
29. Three Dog Night [Back]
30. Bobby Darin [Back]
31. John Denver [Back]
32. Frankie Avalon [Back]
33. The Supremes [Back]
34. Tiny Tim [Back]