March 26, 2024: Questions
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Here’s today’s list. If you want to know how you did before the key goes up tomorrow, email your answers to contact@troyale.co
1. Though it was founded two decades earlier, the Republican Party didn’t adopt the elephant as their enduring symbol until shortly after it was used to represent them in an 1875 Thomas Nast political cartoon – published in Harper’s Weekly - satirizing the rumors that what then-sitting president was planning to seek re-election for an unprecedented third term?
2. For the live recording of her legendary 1961 performance at Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, what beloved Golden Age actress and singer became, on May 29, 1962, the first woman to ever win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year?
3. Based on the alleged experiences of 20th century paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, what Warner Brothers-owned and distributed ‘Universe’ is, with $2.1 billion earned at the box office as of 2024, the highest grossing horror film franchise of all time?
4. Officially known as the GOPPPL, the first ever fantasy football league was originally created, at a New York City hotel in 1963, by the minority owner of what iconic NFL franchise, based in California from 1960-2020?
5. Owned by the Campbell’s Soup Company since 1962, what beloved Pepperidge Farm snack food was originally developed, in 1958, as, essentially, a birthday gift for the wife of their Swiss-born creator Oscar J. Kambly?
6. Opened to the public in June of 1959, the very first Disneyland roller coaster – which still sits, in our era, on the border between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland - was both modeled on and named for what imposing 14,692-foot-tall Alpine mountain?
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