Super Quiz: Americana

1. LITTLE ROCK — What comic-strip character’s girlfriend was named Tess Trueheart?

2. What is a “Saturday night special”?

3. Complete the title of the hymn: “Shall We Gather ———.”

4. Diez y Seis de Septiembre is the Mexican Day of Independence. Translate the phrase.

5. Who portrayed Tyrone Power’s character’s lover in the film Witness for the Prosecution?

6. What Broadway musical featured the songs “Bill” and “Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man of Mine”?

7. What is scrimshaw?

8. Who was the defendant in the so-called “Monkey Trial”?

9. What poem begins “There are strange things done in the midnight sun”?

Answers

1. Dick Tracy

2. A cheap handgun

3. At the River

4. Sept. 16

5. Marlene Dietrich

6. Show Boat

7. Carved or engraved whalebone or ivory

8. John T. Scopes

9. “The Cremation of Sam McGee”