Help me with "where was Grama when...." trivia

[marshallandcartersmo]

I hope this will be a fun and interesting thread............

I'm throwing a 80th birthday party for my grandmother in a few months. There will be about 30 relatives at the party, and I'm looking for some activities. One of the games I've decided on is a trivia like game, "where was grama when...." I thought this will be a fun and interesting way to show how many interesting and wonderful things she's witnessed in her life. I'll have her fill in her answer sheet and give it to me before the rest of the family will see it---whoever gets the most answers correct will win a prize.

I'm thinking along the lines of when JFK was shot, when the space shuttle blew up.........etc. Go back as far as you can, 80 years worth!

thanks!

 

[Hedy]

9/11
D Day
Pearl Harbor
Stock Market crash of 1929

 

[Goofyluver]

WWII
Beatles Mania
The 70's.....

 

[eeyoreiscool]

To name a few...

WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War
60's Protests
MLK Assination
Watergate
Nixon resigning
Rosa Parks and the bus
Disney opening both in CA and FL
Neil Armstrong walking on the moon
Sputnik
First American in Space
Bay of Pigs
End of the Cold War
First TV's in houses
Personal Computers becoming popular
First Interstate highways being built
9/11
Olympic hostage situation

 

[Briarmom]

Disneyland opened

Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus

ETA: oops, posted at the same time as eeyoreiscool

 

[cdn ears]

I hope this will be a fun and interesting thread............

One of the games I've decided on is a trivia like game, "where was grama when...."
I'm thinking along the lines of when JFK was shot, when the space shuttle blew up.........etc. Go back as far as you can, 80 years worth!

thanks!

Maybe I'm missing the concept of this site but shouldn't you be going along the lines of :
When Walt was born / died?
When Mickey, Minnie, Donald,...... was created?
When Disneyland (and other parks) opened?
When Epcot, Disney MGM, Animal Kingdom opened?

Don't forget to post your final test!!!!!!!

 

[brasswillow]

First moon walk.
Woodstock
The statehood of Alaska/Hawaii

 

[laurie31]

The Great Depression
Color Televisions
Elvis
McCarthyism

WWII - ask her if she still has her ration books (my dad does!)

 

[LadyShiva]

When polyester was invented?
When XYZ family member wore these bell bottoms (show picture)?
When Cary Grant made his first movie?

If you have any funny pictures of her, then post them and say, "When this picture was made?" I have a picture of my grandmother in a hilarious, out of character for her younger days, Halloween costume.

Once my Gram hit 75, she stopped caring what others thought of her. She started showing how crazy she really was and what she really thought.... Wooo wee! The stories I could tell then!!!

If your grandmother is like that, too, that might be fun to reminisce about. Those moments really made me realize my Gram was an interesting woman, not just a fabulous cook who hugged really well. Definitely an eye-opening experience for me as a young girl.

Hope that helps!

 

[CourtasanSatine]

Disco
First telecast of The Oscars
Columbine
Princess Diana's death
The Beatles breakup

 

[Frantasmic]

Make it more personal.

When XYZ was born, when XYZ was married, etc.

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

Make it more personal.

When XYZ was born, when XYZ was married, etc.

GREAT idea!!

Love these responses so far. thanks!

 

[Zandy595]

Maybe I'm missing the concept of this site but shouldn't you be going along the lines of

On the Community Board people talk about pretty much anything, not just Disney related.



Fall of the Berlin Wall?
Maybe you could ask something about her families first television set.
MLK speech.

 

[rie'smom]

Here are a few things for 1927:
In 1927 (the year you were born)

Calvin Coolidge is president of the US

The first commercially successful "talkie" The Jazz Singer is released

Georges Lamaitre formulates the "big bang" theory following Hubble's theory of an expanding universe

Completion of the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris by Captain Charles Lindbergh

NBC becomes the first-ever radio network

Saudi Arabia gains independent from the United Kingdom

The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game

New York Yankees win the World Series

Ottawa Senators win the Stanley Cup

The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres

Earthquake in Lompoc, California

Great Mississippi Flood

Ain't She Sweet

Blue Skies

First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London

Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts after making 15 million cars

Pan American Airways is formed

Colour Television Scotland by John Logie Baird

Videophone USA

Quartz Timekeeping Switzerland by Hans Wilsdorf from England

Iron Lung By P Drinker and LA Shaw


Academy Awards
Best Production: Wings
Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel


January 30, 1927

Harlem Globetrotters Forms and Tours

June 14, 1927

George Washington Carver Receives Patent

Scientist, inventor, and educator George Washington Carver patented his process for producing paints and stains on this date.

October 10, 1927

The Play, Porgy Opens on Broadway

December 27, 1927

Showboat Opens

The musical Showboat opened on this date at the Ziefield Theatre in New York City. Jules Bledsoe played the role of Joe in the musical, replacing Paul Robeson.

Born in 1927

Erma Bombeck

Patti Page

Charlie Callas

Johnny Ray

January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer

February 7 - Juliette Greco singer, actress

February 10, 1927-Leontyne Price,opera singer



February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor

March 1 - Harry Belafonte actor, singer

March 20 - Cairbre (also known as Leo), Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer's lion mascot, born in Dublin Zoo

April 27, 1927-Coretta Scott King Born

May 13 - Herbert Ross, director

June 23 - Bob Fosse, director

July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, actress

July 6 - Janet Leigh, actress (d. 2004)

July 10, 1927-David Dinkins,mayor of New York City ,

September 16 - Peter Falk, actor

October 14 - Roger Moore, actor

October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor (d. 1999)

October 31 - Lee Grant, actress

Dr. Mildred Jefferson Born

Surgeon and first African American female graduate of Harvard Medical School Dr. Mildred Jefferson is born in this year.

 

[Amlee]

Something else is to have each attending family remember to do a remember when event. Something personal that they can remember your grandmother did.

Do you remember when we went out and did so and so?

 

[CT_Dad]

If you have any funny pictures of her, then post them and say, "When this picture was made?" I have a picture of my grandmother in a hilarious, out of character for her younger days, Halloween costume.

This is a good idea. If you have old pictures of her from throughout her life you could get copies made, then cut her out and put her into some famous scene like D-Day in Times Square, the Beatles playing Ed Sullivan, or the moon landing. It would be funny in a Forest Gump kind of way.

It might also be fun to compare her to other family members...like Grandma grew up with radio, her kids had TV, grandkids had VCRs, and kids today have DVDs and TiVo. Or you could compare famous movies or celebrities from different family members' times...like Grandma had Lillian Gish and the kids today have Britney Spears.

It might also be fun for young kids to show them pictures of everyday things from 1927 and see if they even know what they are. See how many of them would recognize an 80 year old phone or camera or refrigerator.

I think I need an 80 year old to plan a party for now.

 

[marshallandcartersmo]

Here are a few things for 1927:
In 1927 (the year you were born)

Calvin Coolidge is president of the US

The first commercially successful "talkie" The Jazz Singer is released

Georges Lamaitre formulates the "big bang" theory following Hubble's theory of an expanding universe

Completion of the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris by Captain Charles Lindbergh

NBC becomes the first-ever radio network

Saudi Arabia gains independent from the United Kingdom

The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game

New York Yankees win the World Series

Ottawa Senators win the Stanley Cup

The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres

Earthquake in Lompoc, California

Great Mississippi Flood

Ain't She Sweet

Blue Skies

First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London

Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing Ford Model Ts after making 15 million cars

Pan American Airways is formed

Colour Television Scotland by John Logie Baird

Videophone USA

Quartz Timekeeping Switzerland by Hans Wilsdorf from England

Iron Lung By P Drinker and LA Shaw


Academy Awards
Best Production: Wings
Best Artistic Quality: Sunrise
Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Way of All Flesh and the 1928 movie The Last Command
Best Actress: Janet Gaynor for Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, as well as the 1928 movie Street Angel


January 30, 1927

Harlem Globetrotters Forms and Tours

June 14, 1927

George Washington Carver Receives Patent

Scientist, inventor, and educator George Washington Carver patented his process for producing paints and stains on this date.

October 10, 1927

The Play, Porgy Opens on Broadway

December 27, 1927

Showboat Opens

The musical Showboat opened on this date at the Ziefield Theatre in New York City. Jules Bledsoe played the role of Joe in the musical, replacing Paul Robeson.

Born in 1927

Erma Bombeck

Patti Page

Charlie Callas

Johnny Ray

January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer

February 7 - Juliette Greco singer, actress

February 10, 1927-Leontyne Price,opera singer



February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor

March 1 - Harry Belafonte actor, singer

March 20 - Cairbre (also known as Leo), Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer's lion mascot, born in Dublin Zoo

April 27, 1927-Coretta Scott King Born

May 13 - Herbert Ross, director

June 23 - Bob Fosse, director

July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida, actress

July 6 - Janet Leigh, actress (d. 2004)

July 10, 1927-David Dinkins,mayor of New York City ,

September 16 - Peter Falk, actor

October 14 - Roger Moore, actor

October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor (d. 1999)

October 31 - Lee Grant, actress

Dr. Mildred Jefferson Born

Surgeon and first African American female graduate of Harvard Medical School Dr. Mildred Jefferson is born in this year.

Thanks so much for posting this!

Thanks everyone! Some great ideas!

 

[rie'smom]

You're welcome!